Diotimos Library · Greek Antiquity Collection · Bilingual Edition
Swipe or use the arrow keys.
Facing Pages · Branch 308 of 879
Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.heading–I.26.1c
Ancient Greek
p. 612Κεφάλαιον ΚϚʹ
Περὶ σελήνης οὐσίας καὶ μεγέθους καὶ σχήματος ⟨φωτισμῶν τε καὶ περὶ ἐκλείψεως καὶ ἐμφάσεως καὶ περὶ ἀποστημάτων καὶ σημείων⟩.
1a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Ἀναξίμανδρος κύκλον εἶναι ἐννεακαιδεκαπλάσιον τῆς γῆς, ὅμοιον ἁρματείῳ ⟨τροχῷ⟩, κοίλην ἔχοντα τὴν ἁψῖδα καὶ πυρὸς πλήρη, καθάπερ τὸν τοῦ ἡλίου, κείμενον λοξόν, ὡς κἀκεῖνον, ἔχοντα μίαν ἐκπνοήν, οἷον πρηστῆρος αὐλόν· ἐκλείπειν δὲ κατὰ τὰς τροπὰς τοῦ τροχοῦ.
1a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Ἀναξιμένης πυρίνην τὴν σελήνην.
1b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Παρμενίδης πυρίνην. Ἴσην δὲ τῷ ἡλίῳ, καὶ γὰρ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ φωτίζεται.
1c ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἡράκλειτος σκαφοειδῆ τῷ σχήματι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 613Chapter 26: The Moon
On the moon’s substance, size, and shape, ⟨its illumination, eclipse, appearance, distances, and signs⟩.789
1a ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaximander
Anaximander held that there is a circle nineteen times the size of the earth, resembling a chariot ⟨wheel⟩, with a hollow rim full of fire, like the sun’s circle. Like that circle, it lies obliquely, with a single outlet, like the tube of a bellows. An eclipse occurs through the wheel’s turnings.790
1a ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaximenes
Anaximenes held that the moon is fiery.
1b ⟨Aëtius⟩: Parmenides
Parmenides held that it is fiery, and equal in size to the sun, for it is illuminated by the sun.791
1c ⟨Aëtius⟩: Heraclitus
Heraclitus held that its shape is that of a bowl.
Socrates
Reading Stobaeus, Volume I · Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.heading–I.26.1c
Ask about a concept, passage, contradiction, or connection.
Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.
Historical Text and Translation
The Greek follows Curt Wachsmuth’s 1884 Volume I, checked against the supplied scan. Gaps, lost-chapter headings, and uncertain attributions remain visible. Chapter 2 includes a labeled proposed reconstruction. The appendix outlines Books I–IV; the full texts of Books II–IV are outside this volume. Reader pages preserve the companion PDF’s numbering.
About Diotimos Editions
Diotimos Editions prepared this independent English translation directly from the Greek. Prose and verse retain their distinct forms, with mixed passages preserving their quoted verse. Every passage is paired with its Greek and identified by the edition’s reference number. All 2,117 notes remain linked to their passages, with continuous numbering across the introduction and text.
Rights
Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 printing are in the public domain. The independent English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions. The complete supplied edition is available as PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown. The PDF retains the fixed page locations used by the companion lexicon.