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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordEnklisis is inclination or slanting.
- In StobaeusThe account distinguishes straight and circular locomotion as simple paths and the inclined path as mixed.
- In this edition“Oblique motion” is clearest here; “inclination” preserves the noun more generally.
- A place to beginOblique motion is classified as a mixed path.
- English renderings
- inclination; oblique motion; tilt
Meaning
Enklisis is inclination or slanting. In the selected classification it names a mixed, oblique course.
Use in the book
The account distinguishes straight and circular locomotion as simple paths and the inclined path as mixed. It then classifies elemental movement relative to the center. Enklisis belongs to this geometrical arrangement and is not the Epicurean atomic swerve called parenklisis.
Places to read
- I.19.1.6Oblique motion is classified as a mixed path.
Translation in this edition
“Oblique motion” is clearest here; “inclination” preserves the noun more generally.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 163. The term follows the printed correction. The fifth elemental body moves around the center in the subsequent classification.