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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.1i.2–I.26.1l.2
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p. 6181i ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 2
Κλεάνθης πυροειδῆ τὴν σελήνην, πιλοειδῆ δὲ τῷ σχήματι.
1k ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ποσειδώνιος δὲ καὶ οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν Στωικῶν μικτὴν ἐκ πυρὸς καὶ ἀέρος. Μείζονα δὲ τῆς γῆς, ὡς καὶ τὸν ἥλιον. Σφαιροειδῆ δὲ τῷ σχήματι· σχηματίζεσθαι δὲ αὐτὴν πολλαχῶς, καὶ γὰρ πανσέληνον γινομένην καὶ διχότομον καὶ ἀμφίκυρτον καὶ μηνοειδῆ.
1l ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
Χρύσιππος τὸ ἀθροισθὲν ἔξαμμα μετὰ τὸν ἥλιον νοερὸν ἐκ τοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν ποτίμων ὑδάτων ἀναθυμιάματος· διὸ καὶ τούτοις τρέφεσθαι. Σφαιροειδῆ δὲ εἶναι.
1l ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 2
Μῆνα δὲ καλεῖσθαι τὴν τοῦ δρόμου αὐτῆς περίοδον. Μείς δ᾽ ἐστί, φησί, τὸ φαινόμενον τῆς σελήνης πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἢ σελήνη μέρος ἔχουσα φαινόμενον πρὸς ἡμᾶς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6191i ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Cleanthes
Cleanthes held that the moon is fire-like, but shaped like a felt cap.798
1k ⟨Aëtius⟩: Posidonius and the Stoics
Posidonius and most of the Stoics held that the moon is a mixture of fire and air. It is larger than the earth, as is the sun. Its shape is spherical, but it takes on many appearances: full, half, gibbous, and crescent.799
1l ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Chrysippus
Chrysippus held that the moon is an intelligent fiery mass gathered, next after the sun, from the exhalation arising from fresh waters; hence it is also nourished by them. It is spherical.800
1l ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Month and visible moon
A month is the name given to the completion of its course. A “visible moon,” he says, is the part of the moon appearing to us, or the moon with a part of it appearing to us.801
Socrates
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