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Headword:
Anamma
Adler number: alpha,1956
Translated headword: fireball, ignited mass
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "The fiery bodies and the other stars are nourished: the sun, which is a sluggish[1] ignited mass, from the great sea; the moon from fresh waters, becoming compounded with air and being near the earth."
Greek Original:Anamma: trephesthai de ta empura kai ta alla astra, ton men hêlion ek megalês thalattês, nôthron onta anamma: tên de selênên ek potimôn hudatôn, aeromigê tunchanousan kai prosgeion ousan.
Notes:
Part of the long quotation from
Diogenes Laertius (7.143-146), on Stoic cosmology, which is
pi 149.
[1] So the transmitted text,
nwqro/n, both here and at
pi 149; but the true reading, in D.L., is
noero/n, "intelligent".
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 May 2001@10:01:31.
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