# De aeternitate mundi 5

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/5

λέγεται μέντοι καὶ φθορὰ ἥ τε πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον μεταβολὴ [λέγεται δὲ] καὶ ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ὄντος ἀναίρεσις παντελής, ἣν καὶ ἀνύπαρκτον ἀναγκαῖον λέγειν· ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος οὐδὲν γίνεται, οὐδ’ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν φθείρεται· „ἔκ τε γὰρ οὐδάμ’ ἐόντος ἀμήχανόν ἐστι γενέσθαι [τι] καί τ’ ἐὸν ἐξαπολέσθαι ἀνήνυστον καὶ ἄπυστον.“ καὶ ὁ τραγικός· „θνῄσκει δ’ οὐδὲν τῶν γιγνομένων, διακρινόμενον δ’ ἄλλο πρὸς ἄλλο μορφὴν ἑτέραν ἀπέδειξεν." οὐδέν γε οὕτως ἐστὶν εὔηθες ὡς τὸ ἀπορεῖν,

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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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