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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordPous is a foot.
- In StobaeusThe Timaeus narrative explains changing numbers of feet through a creature’s earthward inclination and its previous neglect of reason.
- In this edition“Foot” preserves the concrete bodily support; compounds should retain their numerical contrast.
- A place to beginThe multiplication and loss of feet express increasing attachment to earth.
- English renderings
- foot
Meaning
Pous is a foot. Compounds describe creatures with four feet, many feet, or none.
Use in the book
The Timaeus narrative explains changing numbers of feet through a creature’s earthward inclination and its previous neglect of reason. Feet serve as supports connecting bodily form with a psychic history. The passage presents an explanatory myth rather than an observed evolutionary sequence.
Places to read
- I.47.1.7The multiplication and loss of feet express increasing attachment to earth.
Translation in this edition
“Foot” preserves the concrete bodily support; compounds should retain their numerical contrast.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 300. The Greek shifts from a singular divine maker to an unnamed plural subject, which the translation renders as the gods.