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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordEpiphaneia is a surface, considered separately from the solid body it bounds or from a line.
- In StobaeusIn Chrysippus’s reported account, the surface belongs among things resembling bodies that admit division without limit.
- In this edition“Surface” preserves the category; do not automatically replace it with “plane,” which adds a geometrical specification.
- A place to beginThe surface is one of the continua divisible without limit.
- English renderings
- surface
Meaning
Epiphaneia is a surface, considered separately from the solid body it bounds or from a line. A surface need not be a plane surface in every use.
Use in the book
In Chrysippus’s reported account, the surface belongs among things resembling bodies that admit division without limit. The account distinguishes such divisibility from an infinite completed composition. Its place in the list helps prevent treating every continuous magnitude as a body with three dimensions.
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Translation in this edition
“Surface” preserves the category; do not automatically replace it with “plane,” which adds a geometrical specification.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 141–142. The passage’s inclusion of place, void, and time shows that the list is broader than visible surfaces alone.