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Book I Chapter 1 · I.1.29b.6
Ancient Greek
p. 7029b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ (ϛʹ)
Πλάτων δὲ τὸ ἕν, τὸ μονοφυές, τὸ μοναδικόν, τὸ ὄντως ὄν, τἀγαθόν. Πάντα δὲ τὰ τοιαῦτα τῶν ὀνομάτων εἰς τὸν νοῦν σπεύδει. Νοῦς οὖν ὁ θεός, χωριστὸν εἶδος, τὸ δὲ χωριστὸν ἀκουέσθω τὸ ἀμιγὲς πάσης ὕλης καὶ μηδενὶ τῶν σωματικῶν συμπεπλεγμένον, μηδὲ τῷ παθητῷ τῆς φύσεως συμπαθές. Τούτου δὲ πατρὸς καὶ ποιητοῦ τὰ ἄλλα θεῖα ἔκγονα νοητὰ μέν, ὅ τε νοητὸς λεγόμενος κόσμος ⟨καὶ αἱ ἰδέαι⟩, παραδείγματα δ’ ἐστὶ τοῦ ὁρατοῦ κόσμου, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἐναιθέριοί τινες δυνάμεις, (λόγοι δ’ εἰσὶν ἀσώματοι,) καὶ ⟨ἔμπυροι καὶ⟩ ἐναέριοι καὶ ἔνυδροι, αἰσθητὸς δὲ [τοῦ πρώτου θεοῦ ἔκγονα] ἥλιος, σελήνη, ἀστέρες, γῆ καὶ ὁ περιέχων πάντα κόσμος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 1
p. 7129b ⟨Aëtius⟩ (6)
Plato identifies God with the One, the single-natured, the unitary, what truly is, and the good. All such names point toward mind. God, then, is mind, a separate form; “separate” is to be understood as unmixed with any matter, entangled with nothing bodily, and sharing none of the affections of mutable nature.
The other divine offspring of this father and maker are intelligible: the so-called intelligible cosmos ⟨and the Forms⟩, which are patterns of the visible cosmos. Besides these there are certain powers in the aether (they are incorporeal rational principles), and powers ⟨in fire and⟩ in air and water. Perceptible, however, are [offspring of the first god] the sun, moon, stars, earth, and the cosmos that encompasses all.72
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