# De aeternitate mundi 4

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/4

λέγεται τοίνυν ὁ κόσμος καθ’ ἓν μὲν [πρῶτον] σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἄστρων κατὰ περιοχὴν καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτῆς ζῴων καὶ φυτῶν, καθ’ ἕτερον δὲ μόνος οὐρανός, εἰς ὃν ἀπιδὼν Ἀναξαγόρας πρὸς τὸν πυθόμενον, ἧς ἕνεκα αἰτίας ταλαιπωρεῖται διανυκτερεύων ὕπαιθρος, ἀπεκρίνατο ’τοῦ τὸν κόσμον θεάσασθαι,’ τὰς χορείας καὶ περιφορὰς τῶν ἀστέρων αἰνιττόμενος, κατὰ δὲ τρίτον, ὡς δοκεῖ τοῖς Στωικοῖς, διῆκον ἄχρι τῆς ἐκπυρώσεως, οὐσία τις ἢ διακεκοσμημένη ἢ ἀδιακόσμητος, οὗ τῆς κινήσεώς φασιν εἶναι τὸν χρόνον διάστημα. νῦν δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ σκέψις περὶ κόσμου τοῦ κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον σημαινόμενον, ὃς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς ζῴων συνέστηκε.

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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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