# De aeternitate mundi 29

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 29. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/29

ἄνθρωποι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν τεττάρων στοιχείων, ἃ δὴ ὅλα τοῦ παντός ἐστιν οὐρανοῦ, γῆς, ὕδατος, ἀέρος τε καὶ πυρός, βραχέα τὰ μέρη δανεισάμενοι συνεκράθημεν· τὰ δ’ ἀνακραθέντα τῆς κατὰ φύσιν θέσεως ἐστέρηται, θερμότητος μὲν τῆς ἀνωφοίτου κατωσθείσης, τῆς δὲ γεώδους καὶ βάρος ἐχούσης οὐσίας ἐπελαφρισθείσης καὶ τὸν ἄνω τόπον ἀντιλαβούσης,

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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.
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