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Book I Chapter 60 · I.60.1.12–I.60.1.14
Ancient Greek
p. 17081.12
καταλαμβάνοντες δὲ οὐκ ἄλλην ἐπεμβάλλοντες ἀνετάραξαν κίνησιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀρχὴν βραδυτέρας φορᾶς [καὶ] κατὰ ⟨τὴν⟩ τοῦ θάττονος, ἀποληγούσης δὲ ὁμοιότητα προσάψαντες μίαν ἐξ ὀξείας καὶ βαρείας συνεκεράσαντο πάθην·
1.13
ὅθεν ἡδονὴν μὲν τοῖς ἄφροσιν, εὐφροσύνην δὲ τοῖς ἔμφροσι διὰ τὴν τῆς θείας ἁρμονίας κίνησιν ἐν θνηταῖς γενομένην φοραῖς παρέσχον.
1.14
Καὶ δὴ καὶ τὰ τῶν ὑδάτων πάντα ῥεύματα, ἔτι τε τὰ τῶν κεραυνῶν πτώματα καὶ τὰ θαυμαζόμενα ἠλέκτρων περὶ τῆς ἕλξεως καὶ τῶν Ἡρακλείων λίθων, πάντων τούτων ὁλκὴ μὲν οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδενί ποτε·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 60
p. 17091.12 · A single experience from high and low
“On catching them, they do not disturb them by imposing a different movement. Instead, they join on the beginning of a slower movement [and] in accordance with ⟨the⟩ likeness of the faster one as it dies away, and blend a single experience from high and low sound.”2078
1.13 · Pleasure and intelligent delight
“Hence they provide pleasure to those without understanding, but gladness to those with understanding, through the movement of divine harmony arising in mortal motions.”2079
1.14 · Water, lightning, amber, and magnets
“Moreover, all flows of water, the falls of thunderbolts, and the wonders associated with the attraction of amber and Heraclean stones: in none of these is there ever any pulling force.”2080
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