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Book I Chapter 1 · I.1.36d
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p. 8836 Ἀριστοτέλους πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον (δʹ)
αἵ τε καρπὸν ὀπώρας ἡδύν, ἄλλως δὲ δυσθησαύριστον φέρουσαι,
ὄχναι καὶ ῥοιαὶ καὶ μηλέαι ἀγλαόκαρποι,τῶν τε ζῴων τά τε ἄγρια καὶ ἥμερα, τά τ’ ἐν ἀέρι καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ ⟨ἐν⟩ ὕδατι βοσκόμενα γίνεται τε καὶ ἀκμάζει καὶ φθείρεται τῷ τοῦ θεοῦ πειθόμενα θεσμῷ. Πᾶν γὰρ ἑρπετὸν πληγῇ νέμεται, ὥς φησιν Ἡράκλειτος.
Εἷς δὲ ὢν πολυώνυμός ἐστι, κατονομαζόμενος τοῖς πάθεσι πᾶσιν, ἅπερ αὐτὸς νεοχμοῖ. Καλοῦμεν γὰρ αὐτὸν καὶ Ζῆνα καὶ Δία, παραλλήλως χρώμενοι τοῖς ὀνόμασιν, ὡς ἂν εἰ λέγοιμεν, δι’ ὃν ζῶμεν. Κρόνου δὲ παῖς καὶ Χρόνου λέγεται, διήκων ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀτέρμονος εἰς ἕτερον αἰῶνα, ἀστραπαῖός τε καὶ βρονταῖος ⟨καὶ αἴθριος⟩ καὶ αἰθέριος, κεραύνιός τε καὶ ὑέτιος ἀπὸ τῶν ὑετῶν τε καὶ κεραυνῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων καλεῖται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 1
p. 8936 Aristotle, from the letter to Alexander (4)
and those that bear sweet seasonal fruit which is otherwise hard to store,
“pear trees, pomegranates, and apple trees with splendid fruit,”
and animals, wild and tame, those that feed in air, on earth, and ⟨in⟩ water—all come into being, flourish, and perish in obedience to God’s ordinance. For, as Heraclitus says, “Every creeping thing is driven by a blow.”88
Though one, he has many names, receiving them from all the changes he himself brings about. We call him both Zēna and Dia, using the names together as though saying “through whom we live.” He is called the child of Kronos and of Chronos, passing from one boundless age into another. He is called god of lightning and thunder, ⟨and of clear skies⟩ and of aether, of the thunderbolt and of rain, from rains, thunderbolts, and the other phenomena.89
Socrates
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