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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.44.17–I.49.44.18
Ancient Greek
p. 125444.17
ἐπειδήπερ τὸ ἐκ τῆς κινήσεως τοῦ θεοῦ ἐξατμιζόμενον ἄνθος οὐκ ἦν ἑαυτῷ ὅμοιον, ἀλλὰ μεῖζον καὶ πληρέστερον ἦν τοῦ δευτέρου τὸ πρῶτον καὶ τῷ παντὶ καθαρώτερον, τὸ δεύτερον δὲ ἱκανῶς μὲν ἦν τοῦ πρώτου [τὸ] δεύτερον, πολλῷ δὲ τοῦ τρίτου [τὸ] μεῖζον. Καὶ οὕτως ἄχρι βαθμῶν ἑξήκοντα ὁ πᾶς ἀπήρτιστο ἀριθμός, πλὴν ὅτι γε πάσας ἀϊδίους εἶναι νομοθετήσας ἔταξεν, ὡς ἂν ἐκ μιᾶς οὐσίας, ἧς μόνος αὐτὸς εἴδη τελειοῖ.
44.18
Ταῖς δὲ καὶ τμήματα καὶ ταμιεῖα ἐν μεταρσίῳ διέταξε τῆς ἄνω φύσεως [οὐρανοῦ], ὅπως τόν τε κύλινδρον περιστροβῶσι τάξει τινὶ καὶ οἰκονομίᾳ καθηκούσῃ καὶ τὸν πατέρα τέρπωσιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 125544.17 · Sixty degrees and a common immortality
since the bloom rising as vapor through the god’s stirring was not uniform: the first was greater and fuller than the second and altogether purer, while the second was decidedly [the] second in rank to the first, but far [the] greater than the third. In this way the total number was completed down to sixty degrees, except that he decreed and ordained them all to be everlasting, as coming from one substance, whose forms he alone brings to perfection.1528
44.18 · The souls’ appointed regions
He also assigned them divisions and chambers in the lofty region of the nature above [of heaven], so that they might keep the cylinder revolving in a certain order and with fitting administration, and give delight to their father.1529
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