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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordDiastatos describes extension or dimensionality.
- In StobaeusThe report presents three-dimensional extension as one definition of body and resistant bulk as another.
- In this edition“Having three dimensions” reads naturally where the Greek says “extended in three ways.” Keep the listed dimensions visible.
- A place to beginBody is defined first through three dimensions and then through resistant bulk.
- English renderings
- extended; dimensioned
Meaning
Diastatos describes extension or dimensionality. In the definition of body, it is qualified as threefold and specified through breadth, depth, and length.
Use in the book
The report presents three-dimensional extension as one definition of body and resistant bulk as another. Their juxtaposition matters: dimensionality and resistance are distinct explanatory features. The definition does not make every mathematical description of extension an independently existing physical body.
Places to read
- I.14.1a.1Body is defined first through three dimensions and then through resistant bulk.
Translation in this edition
“Having three dimensions” reads naturally where the Greek says “extended in three ways.” Keep the listed dimensions visible.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 140. The qualification “so far as depends on itself” belongs to the definition through resistance, not to the preceding list of dimensions.