# De aeternitate mundi 86

Philo Judaeus, De aeternitate mundi, Section 86. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philo-judaeus/de-aeternitate-mundi/86

τὸν δὲ λόγον ἀκριβέστερον ὧδε διερευνητέον· πυρὸς τριττὸν εἶδος· τὸ μὲν ἄνθραξ, τὸ δὲ φλόξ, τὸ δὲ αὐγή. ἄνθραξ μὲν οὖν ἐστι πῦρ ἐν οὐσίᾳ γεώδει, ὃ τρόπον ἕξεως πνευματικῆς πεφώλευκε καὶ ἐλλοχᾷ δι’ ὅλης ἄχρι περάτων τεταμένον· φλὸξ δέ ἐστιν ὅπερ ἐκ τροφῆς αἴρεται μετεωριζόμενον· αὐγὴ δὲ τὸ ἀποστελλόμενον ἐκ φλογός, συνεργὸν ὀφθαλμοῖς εἰς τὴν τῶν ὁρατῶν ἀντίληψιν. μέσην δὲ χώραν αὐγῆς τε καὶ ἄνθρακος εἴληχε φλόξ· σβεσθεῖσα μὲν γὰρ εἰς ἄνθρακα τελευτᾷ, ζωπυρουμένη δ’ ἔχει φέγγος, ὃ τὴν καυστικὴν ἀφῃρημένον δύναμιν ἀστράπτει.

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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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