prudens et fortis ad singulas virtutes quodammodo se habens. From the
same letter, 23, we gather that Cleanthes explained ambulatio as
spiritus a principali usque in pedes permissus, Chrysippus as
principale itself.
[266] See p. 92, 2, the extract from Sen. Ep. 117.
[267] Plut. Com. Not. 45, 5, p. 1084: Χρυσίππου μνημονεύοντες ἐν τῷ
πρώτῳ τῶν φυσικῶν ζητημάτων οὕτω προσάγοντος· οὐχ ἡ μὲν νὺξ σῶμά ἐστιν,
ἡ δ’ ἑσπέρα καὶ ὁ ὀρθὸς καὶ τὸ μέσον τῆς νυκτὸς σώματα οὐκ ἔστιν· οὐδὲ
ἡ μὲν ἡμέρα σῶμά ἐστιν, οὐχὶ δὲ καὶ ἡ νουμηνία σῶμα, καὶ ἡ δεκάτη, καὶ
πεντεκαιδεκάτη καὶ ἡ τριακὰς καὶ ὁ μὴν σῶμά ἐστι καὶ τὸ θέρος καὶ τὸ
φθινόπωρον καὶ ὁ ἐνιαυτός.
[268] Diog. 151: χειμῶνα μὲν εἶναί φασι τὸν ὑπὲρ γῆς ἄερα κατεψυγμένον
διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἡλίου πρόσω ἄφοδον, ἔαρ δὲ τὴν εὐκρασίαν τοῦ ἀέρος κατὰ τὴν
πρὸς ἡμᾶς πορείαν, θέρος δὲ τὸν ὑπὲρ γῆς ἀέρα καταθαλπόμενον, κ.τ.λ.
Stob. Ecl. i. 260: Chrysippus defines ἔαρ ἔτους ὥραν κεκραμένην ἐκ
χειμῶνας ἀπολήγοντος καὶ θέρους ἀρχομένου ... θέρος δὲ ὥραν τὴν μάλιστ’
ἀφ’ ἡλίου διακεκαυμένην· μετόπωρον δὲ ὥραν ἔτους τὴν μετὰ θέρος μὲν πρὸ
χειμῶνος δὲ κεκραμένην· χειμῶνα δὲ ὥραν ἔτους τὴν μάλιστα κατεψυγμένην,
ἢ τὴν τῷ περὶ γῆν ἀέρι κατεψυγμένην. Ibid.: According to Empedocles and
the Stoics, the cause of winter is the preponderance of air, the cause
of summer the preponderance of fire. Ibid. 556: μεὶς δ’ ἐστὶ, φησὶ
[Χρύσιππος] τὸ φαινόμενον τῆς σελήνης πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἢ σελήνη μέρος ἔχουσα
φαινόμενον πρὸς ἡμᾶς. Cleomedes, Meteora, 112, distinguishes four
meanings of μήν. In the two first it means something material; in the
others, as a definition of time, something immaterial.
[269] Diog. vii. 140; Stob. Ecl. i. 392; Sext. Math. x. 218 and 237;
viii. 11; vii. 38; Pyrrh. ii. 81; iii. 52. See p. 92, 2.
[270] See p. 94, 1.
[271] See p. 66, 1.
[272] See p. 93; 132, 1.
[273] See p. 84, 4.
[274] See p. 105, 3.
[275] Let a piece of red-hot iron be taken, every part of which is
heavy, hard, hot, &c. Not one of these attributes can be confounded
with another, or with the iron itself, but each one runs through the
whole iron. Now, if each attribute is due to the presence of some
material producing it, there is no avoiding the conclusion that there
must exist in the iron, and in each part of it, as many various
materials as there are attributes, without any one of them losing its
own identity.
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