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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.1f–I.26.1i.1
Ancient Greek
p. 6161f ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἐμπεδοκλῆς ἀέρα συνεστραμμένον νεφοειδῆ, πεπηγότα ὑπὸ πυρός, ὥστε σύμμικτον. Δισκοειδῆ δὲ τῷ σχήματι.
Τινὲς δὲ κυλινδροειδῆ.
1g ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Πλάτων ἐκ πλείονος τοῦ πυρὸς εἶναι τὴν σελήνην.
1h ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἀριστοτέλης σελήνην ἐν μεθορίοις ἀέρος τεταγμένην καὶ τῆς πέμπτης οὐσίας μετέχουσαν ἐν μηνὶ περιέρχεσθαι τὸν ἴδιον κύκλον. Ἐλάττονα δὲ τῆς γῆς εἶναι τῷ μεγέθει.
1i ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
Ζήνων τὴν σελήνην ἔφησεν ἄστρον νοερὸν καὶ φρόνιμον, πύρινον δὲ πυρὸς τεχνικοῦ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6171f ⟨Aëtius⟩: Empedocles and other shapes
Empedocles held that it is air compressed into a cloud-like mass and solidified by fire, so that it is a mixture. Its shape is disk-like.
Others held that it is cylindrical.795
1g ⟨Aëtius⟩: Plato
Plato held that the moon consists predominantly of fire.
1h ⟨Aëtius⟩: Aristotle
Aristotle held that the moon, stationed at the boundaries of the air and sharing in the fifth substance, completes its own circuit in a month. It is smaller in size than the earth.796
1i ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Zeno
Zeno said that the moon is an intelligent and wise heavenly body, fiery with a craftsmanlike fire.797
Socrates
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