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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.3.3–I.26.3.5
Ancient Greek
p. 6243 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Τῶν δὲ νεωτέρων εἰσί τινες οἷς ἔδοξε κατ᾽ ἐπινέμησιν φλογὸς κατὰ μικρὸν ἐξαπτομένης τεταγμένως, ἕως ⟨ἂν⟩ τὴν τελείαν πανσέληνον ἀποδῷ, καὶ πάλιν ἀναλόγως μειουμένης μέχρι τῆς συνόδου καθ᾽ ἣν τελείως σβέννυται.
3 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 4
Ξενοφάνης καὶ τὴν μηνιαίαν ἀπόκρυψιν κατὰ σβέσιν.
3 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 5
Θαλῆς, Ἀναξαγόρας, Πλάτων, οἱ Στωικοὶ τοῖς μαθηματικοῖς συμφώνως τὰς μὲν μηνιαίους ἀποκρύψεις συνοδεύουσαν αὐτὴν ἡλίῳ καὶ περιλαμπομένην ποιεῖσθαι, τὰς δ᾽ ἐκλείψεις εἰς τὸ σκίασμα τῆς γῆς ἐμπίπτουσαν, μεταξὺ [μὲν] ἀμφοτέρων τῶν ἀστέρων γενομένης, μᾶλλον δὲ τῆς σελήνης ἀντιφραττομένης.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6253 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Fire spreading and dying out
Some of the more recent thinkers held that it happens through the spreading of a flame, kindled little by little in an orderly way until it produces the completely full moon, then correspondingly diminishing until conjunction, when it is entirely extinguished.808
3 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Xenophanes
Xenophanes held that the monthly disappearance too occurs through extinction.
3 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Conjunction and the earth’s shadow
Thales, Anaxagoras, Plato, and the Stoics, in agreement with the mathematical astronomers, held that the moon undergoes its monthly disappearances when it is in conjunction with the sun and bathed in its light. Eclipses occur when it falls into the earth’s shadow, the earth having come between the two heavenly bodies; or rather, when the moon is blocked off.809
Socrates
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