# Fragmenta 14

Democritus, Fragmenta, Fragment 300_14. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/democritus/fragmenta/14

14. SENEC. ep. 90, 32 Democritus inquit [Poseidonios] invenisse dicitur fornicem, ut lapidum curvatura paulatim inclinatorum medio saxo alligaretur. hoc dicam falsum esse; necesse est enim ante Democritum et pontes et portas fuisse, quarum fere summa curvantur. excidit porro vobis eundem Democritum invenisse, quemadmodum ebur molliretur, quemadmodum decoctus calculus in smaragdum converteretur, qua hodieque coctura inventi lapides 〈in〉 hoc utiles colorantur.

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Democritus, Fragmenta, ed. Hermann Diels. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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