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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.3.6–I.26.4.2
Ancient Greek
p. 6263 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 6
Ἀναξαγόρας, ὡς φησι Θεόφραστος, καὶ τῶν ὑποκάτω τῆς σελήνης ἔσθ᾽ ὅτε σωμάτων ἐπιπροσθούντων.
Χρύσιππος ἐκλείπειν τὴν σελήνην τῆς γῆς αὐτῇ ἐπιπροσθούσης καὶ εἰς σκιὰν αὐτῆς ἐμπίπτουσαν.
4 Περὶ ἐμφάσεως
Περὶ δὲ ἐμφάσεως αὐτῆς.
4 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Τῶν Πυθαγορείων τινὲς μέν, ὧν ἐστι Φιλόλαος, τὸ γεωφανὲς αὐτῆς εἶναι διὰ τὸ περιοικεῖσθαι τὴν σελήνην, καθάπερ τὴν παρ᾽ ἡμῖν γῆν, ζῴοις καὶ φυτοῖς μείζοσι καὶ καλλίοσιν. Εἶναι γὰρ πεντεκαιδεκαπλάσια τὰ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῆς ζῷα τῇ δυνάμει, μηδὲν περιττωματικὸν ἀποκρίνοντα, καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν τοσαύτην τῷ μήκει.
4 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Ἄλλοι δὲ τὴν ἐν τῇ σελήνῃ ἔμφασιν ἀνάκλασιν εἶναι τῆς πέραν τοῦ διακεκαυμένου κύκλου τῆς οἰκουμένης ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν θαλάττης.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6273 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaxagoras and Chrysippus
Anaxagoras, as Theophrastus says, held that at times eclipse also occurs when bodies below the moon obstruct it.810
Chrysippus held that the moon is eclipsed when the earth obstructs it and it falls into the earth’s shadow.
4 On its visible appearance
On its visible appearance.
4 ⟨Aëtius⟩: An inhabited moon
Some Pythagoreans, including Philolaus, held that the moon looks earthy because it is inhabited all around, like our own earth, by animals and plants that are larger and finer. Its animals have fifteen times the power of ours and discharge no waste; its day is also fifteen times as long.811
4 ⟨Aëtius⟩: A reflection of the sea
Others held that the appearance seen in the moon is a reflection of the sea lying beyond the torrid belt of the earth we inhabit.812
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