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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordHypodochē names reception or what receives.
- In StobaeusIn the Hermetic account of development in the womb, harmony fits the movement of growth to receive the life of thought.
- In this edition“Receptacle” expresses receptivity without deciding that the thing described is a container with fixed spatial boundaries.
- A place to beginThe movement of growth is fitted as a receptacle for thinking life.
- English renderings
- receptacle; receiving condition
Meaning
Hypodochē names reception or what receives. Its local object must be identified before importing a familiar cosmological interpretation.
Use in the book
In the Hermetic account of development in the womb, harmony fits the movement of growth to receive the life of thought. The receptacle here belongs to the transition from growing life to a life capable of thinking. The surrounding pronouns are uncertain, so the passage should not be made into a more exact physiology than its wording permits.
Places to read
- I.41.7.4The movement of growth is fitted as a receptacle for thinking life.
Translation in this edition
“Receptacle” expresses receptivity without deciding that the thing described is a container with fixed spatial boundaries.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 290. The referent of “this” and the following grammatical subject remain uncertain. This occurrence is not the Timaeus’s cosmological receptacle.