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Book I Chapter 60 · I.60.1.15–I.60.1.16
Ancient Greek
p. 17101.15
τὸ δὲ κενὸν εἶναι μηδὲν περιωθεῖν τε αὐτὰ ταῦτα εἰς ἄλληλα, [τὰ] τὸ δὲ διακρινόμενα καὶ συγκρινόμενα πρὸς τὴν αὑτῶν διαμειβόμενα ἕδραν ἕκαστα ἰέναι πάντα, τούτοις τοῖς παθήμασι πρὸς ἄλληλα συμπλεχθεῖσι τεθαυματουργημένα τῷ κατὰ τρόπον φανήσεται ζητοῦντι.
1.16
Καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς (ὅθεν ὁ λόγος ὥρμησε) κατὰ ταὐτὰ καὶ διὰ τούτων γέγονεν, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν εἴρηται, τέμνοντος μὲν τὰ σῖτα τοῦ πυρός, αἰωρουμένου δὲ ἐντὸς τῷ πνεύματι συνεπομένου, τὰς φλέβας δ᾽ ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας τῇ συναιωρήσει πληροῦντος τῷ τὰ τετμημένα αὐτόθεν ἐπαντλεῖν καὶ διὰ ταῦτα δὴ καθ᾽ ὅλον τὸ σῶμα πᾶσι τοῖς ζῴοις τὰ τῆς τροφῆς νάματα οὕτως ἐπίρρυτα γεγονέναι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 60
p. 17111.15 · How the apparent marvels arise
“The absence of any void, their driving one another around, and [the] fact that, as they separate and combine, all of them exchange places and travel each to its own seat: through these processes interwoven with one another, the apparent marvels will prove to have been produced, to anyone who investigates properly.”2081
1.16 · Breathing and the distribution of nourishment
“Breathing too, from which our account began, has come about in the same manner and through these processes, as was said earlier. Fire cuts up the food and, swinging within, follows the breath; through this shared oscillation it fills the vessels from the belly by drawing up the cut particles from there. For these reasons, streams of nourishment have thus come to flow throughout the whole body in every animal.”2082
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