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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.69.39–I.49.69.40
Ancient Greek
p. 157269.39
Καὶ πρὸς μὲν τὴν τοῦ ἑκάστου στοιχείου μοῖραν καὶ τῆς μοίρας τὴν περιοχήν καὶ τὰ σώματα ἡλικιάζεται· καὶ πρὸς τὴν ὀλιγομετρίαν τὰ λοιπὰ ζῷα μεμετροποίηται, πρὸς ἐνέργειαν τὴν ἑκάστῳ τῶν στοιχείων οὐσιομετρίαν.
69.40
Καὶ ἔτι, ὦ παῖ περιπόθητε, λέγω, ὅτι ἐκ ταύτης οὕτω συστάσεως ἡ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην σύνοδον γενομένη κρᾶσις καὶ ὁ ἐκ ταύτης ἀναθυμιώμενος ἀτμὸς ἐφ᾽ ὅσον τὴν ἰδίαν τηρήσουσιν ἰδιότητα, ὥστε τὸ μὲν θερμὸν ἕτερον μὴ λαβεῖν θερμόν, μηδὲ τὸ ἀερῶδες πνεῦμα ἕτερον, μηδὲ τὸ ὑγρὸν ἑτέραν ὑγρασίαν, μηδὲ τὸ γεῶδες ἑτέραν πυκνότητα, τὸ τηνικαῦτα τὸ ζῷον ὑγιαίνει.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 157369.39 · Quantity and bodily development
“Bodies too develop in age and size according to the portion of each element and the extent of that portion; the other living creatures have been fashioned to measure according to the smallness of their proportions, with regard to the activity corresponding to the measure of substance in each element.”1900
69.40 · Health and the original blend
“Further, much-loved child, I say that, from a constitution formed in this way, so long as the blend produced at the first conjunction and the vapor exhaled from it preserve their own character, the creature is healthy: the hot element must receive no further heat, the airy no additional breath, the moist no additional moisture, and the earthy no additional density.”1901
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