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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordHypsos is height.
- In StobaeusThe report denies that the world has height or depth in this directional sense, because it is constituted about its own center equally in every direction.
- In this edition“Height” should be accompanied by its stated directional definition when the argument depends on it.
- A place to beginThe center-based constitution of the cosmos qualifies the applicability of height.
- English renderings
- height; upward extent
Meaning
Hypsos is height. In the selected discussion it is explicitly defined as extension from below upward.
Use in the book
The report denies that the world has height or depth in this directional sense, because it is constituted about its own center equally in every direction. The qualification is essential. A denial of a fixed cosmic top is not a denial that the world has dimensions or that local observers distinguish above and below.
Places to read
- I.15.6e.2The center-based constitution of the cosmos qualifies the applicability of height.
Translation in this edition
“Height” should be accompanied by its stated directional definition when the argument depends on it.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 147–148. The final relation to the center is compressed in Greek; the English preserves its symmetrical sense without adding a measured radius.