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Book I Chapter 25 · I.25.heading–I.25.1b
Ancient Greek
p. 580Κεφάλαιον ΚΕʹ
Περὶ οὐσίας ἡλίου καὶ μεγέθους σχήματός τε καὶ τροπῶν καὶ ἐκλείψεως καὶ σημείων καὶ κινήσεως.
1a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ξενοφάνης ἐκ νεφῶν πεπυρωμένων εἶναι τὸν ἥλιον. Ἔκλειψιν δὲ γίνεσθαι κατὰ σβέσιν· ἕτερον δὲ πάλιν ταῖς ἀνατολαῖς γίνεσθαι. Παριστόρηκε δὲ καὶ ἔκλειψιν ἡλίου ἐφ᾽ ὅλον μῆνα καὶ πάλιν ἐντελῆ, ὥστε τὴν ἡμέραν νύκτα φανῆναι.
1b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Θεόφραστος ἐν τοῖς Φυσικοῖς γέγραφεν, ἐκ πυριδίων μὲν τῶν συναθροιζομένων ⟨ἐκ⟩ τῆς ὑγρᾶς ἀναθυμιάσεως, συναθροιζόντων δὲ τὸν ἥλιον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 25
p. 581Chapter 25: The Sun
On the sun’s substance, size, shape, turnings, eclipse, signs, and motion.743
1a ⟨Aëtius⟩: Xenophanes
Xenophanes held that the sun consists of clouds set ablaze. An eclipse occurs when it is extinguished; another sun comes into being again at sunrise. He also recorded an eclipse of the sun lasting a whole month, and another that was complete, so that day appeared as night.744
1b ⟨Aëtius⟩: Theophrastus’ report
Theophrastus wrote in his Physical Studies that the sun consists of small particles of fire which gather together ⟨from⟩ moist exhalation and, by their gathering, make up the sun.745
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