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Book I Chapter 25 · I.25.1c–I.25.1f
Ancient Greek
p. 5821c ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἀναξίμανδρος κύκλον εἶναι ὀκτωκαιεικοσαπλασίονα τῆς γῆς, ἁρματείῳ τροχῷ παραπλήσιον, ἔχοντα κοίλην περιφέρειαν, πλήρη πυρός, κατά μέρος ἐκφαίνουσαν διὰ στομίου τὸ πῦρ ὥσπερ διὰ πρηστῆρος. Καὶ τὸν μὲν ἥλιον ἴσον εἶναι τῇ γῇ· τὸν δὲ κύκλον ἀφ᾽ οὗ τὴν ἐκπνοὴν ἔχει καὶ ὑφ᾽ οὗ περιφέρεται εἶναι τοῦ προειρημένου μεγέθους. Γίγνεσθαι δὲ τὴν ἔκλειψιν τοῦ στομίου τῆς τοῦ πυρὸς ἐκπνοῆς ἀποκλειομένου.
1d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἀναξιμένης πύρινον ὑπάρχειν τὸν ἥλιον ἀπεφήνατο. Ὑπὸ πεπυκνωμένου δὲ ἀέρος καὶ ἀντιτύπου ἐξωθούμενα τὰ ἄστρα τὰς τροπὰς ποιεῖσθαι. Πλατὺν δ᾽ εἶναι τῷ σχήματι.
1e ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Παρμενίδης καὶ Μητρόδωρος πύρινον ὑπάρχειν τὸν ἥλιον.
1f ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἀντιφῶν πῦρ ἐπινεμόμενον μὲν τὸν περὶ τὴν γῆν ὑγρὸν ἀέρα, ἀνατολὰς δὲ καὶ δύσεις ποιούμενον, τῷ τὸν μὲν ἐπικαιόμενον αἰεὶ προλείπειν, τοῦ δ᾽ ὑπονοτιζομένου πάλιν ἀντέχεσθαι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 25
p. 5831c ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaximander’s fiery wheel
Anaximander held that there is a circle twenty-eight times the size of the earth, resembling a chariot wheel. Its rim is hollow and full of fire, which it reveals at one point through an opening, as through a bellows nozzle.746 The sun itself is equal in size to the earth; the circle from which its fiery breath comes, and by which it is carried around, has the size already stated. An eclipse occurs when the opening through which the fire breathes out is closed.
1d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaximenes
Anaximenes declared that the sun is fiery. The heavenly bodies make their turnings when pushed away by air that has become dense and resistant. The sun is flat in shape.747
1e ⟨Aëtius⟩: Parmenides and Metrodorus
Parmenides and Metrodorus held that the sun is fiery.
1f ⟨Aëtius⟩: Antiphon
Antiphon held that the sun is fire feeding upon the moist air around the earth. It rises and sets as it continually leaves behind the air being burned and takes hold again of air becoming moist.748
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