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Book I Chapter 52 · I.52.20.10–I.52.21.1
Ancient Greek
p. 165220.10
Εἰ δέ τις τούτων ἔργῳ σκοπούμενος βάσανον λαμβάνοι, τὸ τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης καὶ θείας φύσεως ἠγνοηκὼς ἂν εἴη διάφορον, ὅτι θεὸς μὲν τὰ πολλὰ εἰς ἓν [μὲν] συγκεραννύναι καὶ πάλιν ἐξ ἑνὸς εἰς πολλὰ διαλύειν ἱκανῶς ἐπιστάμενος ἅμα καὶ δυνατός, ἀνθρώπων δὲ οὐδεὶς οὐδέτερα τούτων ἱκανὸς οὔτ᾽ ἐστὶ νῦν, οὔτ᾽ εἰσαῦθίς ποτ᾽ ἔσται.
21.1
Ἀριστομβρότου Περὶ ὄψιος.
Ὄψις καὶ φάος καὶ ἀὴρ φυσικὰν ἔχει σύγκρασίν τε καὶ συγγένειαν ποτ᾽ ἄλλαλα * * λαμπρῶς ὁρῇ· καὶ ἀὴρ πᾶς τῷ λαμπρῷ διορῆται. συμβέβακε δὲ καὶ τὰν ὄψιν καὶ τὸν ἀέρα εἶμεν * * ἀλλὰ τὰν μὲν ὄψιν μέλαιναν καὶ ὑγράν, τὸν δὲ ἀέρα μέλανα καὶ ἀραιόν·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 52
p. 165320.10 · Divine and human capacities
“But if someone sought to test these matters by investigating them in practice, he would have failed to understand the difference between human and divine nature: a god both knows adequately and has the power to blend the many into one [indeed] and again dissolve the one into many; but no human being is capable of either of these, either now or at any time hereafter.”2012
21.1 · Sight, light, and air
Aristombrotus, On Sight.
“Sight, light, and air have a natural commingling and kinship with one another * * sees clearly; and all air is seen through by means of brightness. Both sight and air happen to be * * but the eye is dark and moist, the air dark and rarefied.”2013
Socrates
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