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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.5.3–I.26.6.1
Ancient Greek
p. 6345 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Ἐμπεδοκλῆς τοῦ ὕψους τοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν ἀνάτασις, πλείονα εἶναι τὴν κατὰ τὸ πλάτος διάστασιν, κατὰ τοῦτο τοῦ οὐρανοῦ μᾶλλον ἀναπεπταμένου διὰ τὸ ᾠῷ παραπλησίως τὸν κόσμον κεῖσθαι.
5 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 4
Βόηθος δὲ πρὸς τὴν φαντασίαν δέχεται τὸ ἀναπεπταμένον, οὐ κατὰ τὴν ὑπόστασιν.
6 (2) Σημεῖα σελήνης
Σημεῖα σελήνης.
Ἐκ τῶν Ἀράτου Φαινομένων.
6 Ἀράτου · στ. 778-782
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6355 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Empedocles’ broad heaven
Empedocles held that the distance across heaven is greater than the height from earth to heaven, that is, its upward extent from us. Heaven is more widely spread in that direction because the world is arranged in a shape resembling an egg.820
5 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Boethus
Boethus, however, accepts this greater breadth as an appearance, not as an actual condition.
6 (2) Signs from the moon
Signs from the moon.
From Aratus’ Phaenomena.821
6 Aratus, lines 778-782
First observe the moon on either side, at her horns: evening’s radiance paints her differently at different times, and changing shapes give horns to the moon as soon as she waxes, one on the third day, another on the fourth; from these you may learn about the month now begun.822
Socrates
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