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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordBathos is depth.
- In StobaeusThe Stoic dimensional account gives alternative senses rather than one universal definition.
- In this editionUse “depth,” retaining the source’s explanation of direction.
- A place to beginDepth is described as inward or front-to-back extent.
- English renderings
- depth
Meaning
Bathos is depth. It can mean inward extent, a front-to-back dimension, or extension downward under a particular directional convention.
Use in the book
The Stoic dimensional account gives alternative senses rather than one universal definition. The discussion of the world’s center then denies height and depth to the cosmos in the particular sense of fixed upward and downward extents. This denial does not remove the world’s spatial magnitude.
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Translation in this edition
Use “depth,” retaining the source’s explanation of direction. “Thickness” can obscure the explicit contrast with height.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 143–144, 147–148. The difficult printed “inward extent” is retained; “smallest extent” is an apparatus alternative.