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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordSynkrima is what has been combined, a compound or aggregate.
- In StobaeusThe lunar report uses the word for the moon’s composition, described as not pure because of admixture.
- In this edition“Composition” suits the lunar description; “aggregate” emphasizes constituent plurality.
- A place to beginThe moon’s composition is treated as impure in distinct reported accounts.
- English renderings
- compound; aggregate; composition
Meaning
Synkrima is what has been combined, a compound or aggregate. It is the result rather than the act of synkrisis.
Use in the book
The lunar report uses the word for the moon’s composition, described as not pure because of admixture. Its different school attributions propose different reasons for the impurity. The noun identifies a constituted whole without deciding by itself whether its constituents interpenetrate or lie beside one another.
Places to read
- I.26.4.5The moon’s composition is treated as impure in distinct reported accounts.
Translation in this edition
“Composition” suits the lunar description; “aggregate” emphasizes constituent plurality.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 222. The Aristotelian clause contains the difficult aerōmata, provisionally formations of air; no conjectural replacement is treated as certain.