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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.1.16–I.41.1.17
Ancient Greek
p. 8281.16
Διαλυτοῦ σώματος δύο χρόνοι· ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς σπορᾶς μέχρι τῆς γενέσεως καὶ ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς γενέσεως μέχρι τοῦ θανάτου· τοῦ ἀιδίου σώματος χρόνος ἐκ τῆς γενέσεως μόνος.
Τὰ διαλυτὰ σώματα αὔξεται καὶ μειοῦται.
Ἡ διαλυτὴ ὕλη εἰς τὰ ἐναντία ἐναλλοιοῦται [φθορὰν καὶ γένεσιν]· ἡ δὲ ἀίδιος ἢ εἰς αὑτὴν ἢ εἰς τὰ ὅμοια.
1.17
Γένεσις ἀνθρώπου φθορᾶς, φθορὰ ἀνθρώπου γενέσεως ἀρχή.
Τὸ ἀπογιγνόμενον ⟨καὶ ἐπιγίγνεται, τὸ ἐπιγιγνόμενον⟩ καὶ ἀπογίγνεται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8291.16 · The periods and changes of bodies
A body that can dissolve has two periods: from sowing to birth, and from birth to death. An everlasting body has only the period beginning from its coming-to-be.
Bodies that can dissolve grow and diminish.
Matter that can dissolve changes into its opposites [destruction and generation]; everlasting matter changes either into itself or into similar things.1073
1.17 · Generation and disappearance
Human generation is the beginning of destruction; human destruction is the beginning of generation.
What passes away ⟨also comes into being; what comes into being⟩ also passes away.1074
Socrates
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