# in Aristotelis Meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium 12

Joannes Philoponus, in Aristotelis Meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium, IOANNIS PHILOPONI IN METEOROLOGICORUM. Ancient Greek.

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Τὸ δὲ δὴ μεταξὺ τῆς γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων ἄστρων 30 πότερον ἕν τι νομιστέον εἶναι σῶμα τὴν φύσιν ἢ πλείω, καὶ εἰ πλείω, πόσα, καὶ μέχρι ποῦ διώρισται τοῖς τόποις; Δήλου φανέντος, φησί, τοῦ ὄγκου τῆς γῆς μετὰ τοῦ συναπειλημμένου ὕδατος, τὸ ἐντεῦθεν μέχρι τῶν ἐσχάτων ἄστρων διάστημα ζητοῦμεν, τίνων 35 πεπλήρωται σωμάτων. ἐσχάτων δὲ ἄστρων ὁ μὲν Ἀλέξανδρος ἀκούει τῶν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐσχάτων, τουτέστι τῆς σεληνιακῆς σφαίρας. τοῦτο δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀληθές· καὶ περὶ αὐτῶν γὰρ τῶν οὐρανίων ἐζήτησεν, εἴτε ὅλα συνέστηκεν 79r ἐκ πυρὸς εἴτε τὰ ἄστρα μόνα. ἐσχάτων οὖν ἄστρων ἀκουστέον τὸ μέχρι τῆς κυρτῆς ἐπιφανείας τῆς ἀπλανοῦς. τὸ δὲ καὶ μέχρι ποῦ διώρισται τοῖς τόποις φησίν, ὡς εἰ πλείω εἴη, ζητητέον μέχρι τίνος 5 ἕκαστον αὐτῶν τοῖς τόποις διώρισται.

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John Philoponus, in Aristotelis Meteorologicorum librum primum commentarium, ed. Michael Hayduck. 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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