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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.28.3–I.49.28.4
Ancient Greek
p. 112628.3
Καὶ τρία λαβὼν αὐτὰ ὄντα συνεκεράσατο εἰς μίαν πάντα ἰδέαν, τὴν θατέρου φύσιν δύσμικτον οὖσαν εἰς ταὐτὸν ξυναρμόττων βίᾳ. Μιγνὺς δὲ μετὰ τῆς οὐσίας καὶ ἐκ τριῶν ποιησάμενος ἕν, πάλιν ὅλον τοῦτο μοίρας ὅσας προσῆκε διένειμεν, ἑκάστην δὲ ἔκ τε ταὐτοῦ καὶ θατέρου καὶ τῆς οὐσίας μεμιγμένην. -
28.4
Καὶ τὸ μὲν δὴ σῶμα ὁρατὸν οὐρανοῦ γέγονεν, αὐτὴ δὲ ἀόρατος μέν, λογισμοῦ δὲ μετέχουσα καὶ ἁρμονίας ψυχή, τῶν νοητῶν ἀεί τε ὄντων ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀρίστου ἀρίστη γενομένη τῶν γεννηθέντων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 112728.3 · A single mixture, divided into portions
Taking these three, he blended them all into a single form, forcibly fitting the nature of the different, which was hard to mix, into the same. Mixing them with being and making one out of three, he then divided this whole into as many portions as were fitting, each blended from the same, the different, and being. -1396
28.4 · The invisible soul of heaven
The body of heaven has come to be visible, while soul itself is invisible, yet shares in reasoning and harmony. Brought into being by the best of intelligible and everlasting beings, it is the best of things that have been generated.1397
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