# De aeternitate mundi 144

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 144. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/144

τὸν αὐτὸν οὖν τρόπον, εἰ μὲν συλλήβδην ἁπαξάπαντα τὰ στοιχεῖα ὑφ’ ἕνα καιρὸν ἠφανίζετο, φάσκειν ἐνδέχεσθαι τὸν κόσμον φθορὰν ἦν ἀναγκαῖον· εἰ δ’ ἕκαστον ἰδίᾳ πρὸς τὴν τοῦ γείτονος μεταβάλλει φύσιν, ἀθανατίζεται μᾶλλον ἢ φθείρεται κατὰ τὸ φιλοσοφηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ τραγικοῦ „θνῄσκει δ’ οὐδὲν τῶν γιγνομένων, διακρινόμενον δ’ ἄλλο πρὸς ἄλλο μορφὴν ἑτέραν ἀπέδειξεν.“

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Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, ed. Siegfried Reiter, Leopold Cohn. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0018.tlg029.local001/.