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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.69.41–I.49.69.43
Ancient Greek
p. 157469.41
Ἐπὰν γὰρ μὴ οὕτως μένῃ, ὦ τέκνον, ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἔσχεν ἐξ ἀρχῆς μέτροις, ἀλλ᾽ ἤτοι πλεονάσῃ ταῦτα, οὐκ ἐνεργείᾳ λέγω ⟨τῇ⟩ κατὰ περιοχήν οὐδὲ τῇ κατ᾽ αὔξησιν γινομένῃ μεταβολῇ τοῦ γένους καὶ τῶν σωμάτων, ἀλλὰ τῇ ὡς προέφαμεν συστατικῇ τῶν στοιχείων κράσει, ὥστε τὸ μὲν θερμὸν ἐπὶ πλέον αὐξηθῆναι ἢ ἐπὶ πλέον ἐλαττωθῆναι, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ὁμοίως, ⟨τὸ⟩ τηνικαῦτα [οὕτως] νοσεῖ τὸ ζῷον.
69.42
Ἐπὰν γὰρ οὕτως διατεθῇ τό τε θερμὸν καὶ τὸ ἀερῶδες, ἃ δὴ σύσκηνά ἐστι τῆς ψυχῆς, τότε ἐν ἀλληγορίαις καὶ ἐκστάσεσι γίγνεται τὸ ζῷον· πεπύκνωται γὰρ τὰ στοιχεῖα, δι᾽ ὧν διαφθείρεται τὰ σώματα.
69.43
Αὐτὸ μὲν γὰρ τὸ γεῶδές ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ σώματος πῆξις, τὸ δὲ ὑγρὸν ἡ ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν εἰς συμπαγίαν περίχυσις, τὸ δὲ ἀερῶδές ἐστι τὸ ἐν ἡμῖν κινητικόν, καὶ τούτων πάντων διεγερτικὸν τὸ πῦρ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 157569.41 · Alteration of the blend and illness
“For when it no longer remains within the measures it had at first, my child, but these increase, I mean not through ⟨the⟩ activity affecting extent, nor through the change of kind and bodies that occurs with growth, but through the constitutive blend of the elements, as we said before, so that heat increases too much or diminishes too much, and the other elements likewise, ⟨at⟩ that time [in this way] the creature becomes ill.”1902
69.42 · Disturbance of soul and body
“When the hot and airy elements, which share the soul’s dwelling, are affected in this way, the creature falls into confused utterances and states of derangement; for the elements have become dense, and through them bodies are damaged.”1903
69.43 · The work of each element
“The earthy element itself is the body’s consolidation; the moist is the fluid spread within it to hold it together; the airy is the source of movement in us; and fire awakens all these.”1904
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