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Headword:
*(omoiome/reia
Adler number: omicron,310
Translated headword: similarity of parts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Anaxagoras the philosopher "used to say that the moon had habitations and ridges and chasms. [Also that] that the similarities of parts were first principles; for just as we say that gold consists of shavings, so the universe is built up out of small bodies with similar parts."[1]
Greek Original:*(omoiome/reia. *)anacago/ras o( filo/sofos e)/lege th\n selh/nhn oi)kh/seis e)/xein kai\ lo/fous kai\ fa/raggas. a)rxa\s de\ ta\s o(moiomerei/as: kaqa/per ga\r e)k tw=n yhgma/twn le/gomen to\n xruso\n sunesta/nai, ou(/tws e)k tw=n o(moiomerw=n mikrw=n swma/twn to\ pa=n sugkekri/sqai.
Notes:
The headword noun, nominative singular, occurs in the accusative plural in the quotation given.
[1]
Diogenes Laertius 2.8. On
Anaxagoras, see generally
alpha 1981.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 July 2003@00:50:50.
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