Stobaeus, Volume I

Name: Stobaeus, Volume I
Author: John Stobaeus

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Stobaeus, Volume IBook I Chapter 60 · I.60.1.3–I.60.1.5

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Book I Chapter 60 · I.60.1.3–I.60.1.5

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1.3

I.60.1.3

Διὸ δὴ τῶν μὲν στηθῶν καὶ τοῦ πνεύμονος ἔξω μεθὲν τὸ πνεῦμα πάλιν ὑπὸ τοῦ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἀέρος, εἴσω διὰ μανοῦ τῶν σαρκικῶν δυομένου καὶ περιελαυνομένου, γίγνεται πλῆρες·

1.4

I.60.1.4

αὖθις δὲ ἀποτρεπόμενος ὁ ἀὴρ καὶ διὰ τοῦ σώματος ἔξωθεν ἰὼν εἴσω τὴν ἀναπνοὴν περιωθεῖ κατὰ τὴν στόματος καὶ τὴν τῶν μυκτήρων δίοδον.

1.5

I.60.1.5

Τὴν δ᾽ αἰτίαν τῆς ἀρχῆς αὐτῶν θετέον τήνδε. Πᾶν ζῷον αὑτοῦ τὰ ἐντὸς περὶ τὸ αἷμα καὶ τὰς φλέβας θερμότατα ἔχει, οἷον ἐν αὐτῷ πηγήν τινα ἐνοῦσαν πυρός·

Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 60

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1.3 · Refilling the chest and lung

I.60.1.3

“Thus the region of the chest and lung, having let the breath out, is filled again by the air around the body, which penetrates inward through the porous parts of the flesh and is driven around.”²⁰⁶⁹

1.4 · The return movement of air

I.60.1.4

“Then, turning back and passing through the body from outside, the air drives the breath inward through the passage of the mouth and the nostrils.”²⁰⁷⁰

1.5 · The source of bodily heat

I.60.1.5

“We must give the following cause of their beginning. Every animal has its hottest parts within itself, around the blood and the vessels, as though there were a spring of fire inside it.”²⁰⁷¹

2069.The printed construction lacks an explicit noun for the region that releases the breath and becomes full. The English supplies region to make the relation intelligible; the Greek is unchanged. The apparatus records to tōn stēthōn in Plato where this printing has tōn stēthōn. The account assumes that air can pass through the flesh.

2070.This printing has exōthen, from outside, where the apparatus records exō, outward, in Plato. The printed direction is retained even though it makes the reversal less easy to follow. Anapnoē here denotes the breath driven inward; the surrounding account distinguishes this from the outward phase.

2071.Their beginning refers to the motions just described. The spring or source of fire supplies the heat that will account for their alternation. Phlebes here are vessels associated with the blood. The comparison does not identify a discrete anatomical organ as the spring.

About This Reading Edition

Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.

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The Greek follows Curt Wachsmuth’s 1884 Volume I, checked against the supplied scan. Gaps, lost-chapter headings, and uncertain attributions remain visible. Chapter 2 includes a labeled proposed reconstruction. The appendix outlines Books I–IV; the full texts of Books II–IV are outside this volume. Reader pages preserve the companion PDF’s numbering.

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