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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.62.4
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p. 148262.4
Ἀλλάττων τε οὐ πρότερον πόνων λήξοι, πρὶν τῇ ταὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμοίου περιόδῳ τῇ ἐν αὐτῷ ξυνεπισπόμενος τὸν πολὺν ὄχλον καὶ ὕστερον προσφύντα ἐκ πυρὸς καὶ ὕδατος καὶ ἀέρος καὶ γῆς θορυβώδη καὶ ἄλογον ὄντα λόγῳ κρατήσας, εἰς τὸ τῆς πρώτης καὶ ἀρίστης ἀφίκοιτο εἶδος ἕξεως.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 148362.4 · Reason restores the original condition
“And in passing through these changes he would not cease from his troubles until, following the revolution of the same and similar within him, he mastered by reason the great throng that had subsequently grown upon him from fire, water, air, and earth, noisy and irrational as it was, and reached the form of his first and best condition.”1779
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