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Headword:
*diako/smhsis
Adler number: delta,595
Translated headword: orderly arrangement
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the disposition of the universe. "The earth is in the middle, corresponding to a center; after which [is] the water, shaped like a sphere, with the same shape[1] as the earth, so that the earth is in water; and after the water [is] air in the shape of a sphere; and the circles in the heavens are five."[2]
Greek Original:*diako/smhsis: tou= panto\s h( dia/qesis. me/sh h( gh= ke/ntrou lo/gon e)/xousa, meq' h(\n to\ u(/dwr sfairoeide/s, e)/xon to\ au)to\ sxh=ma th=| gh=|, w(/ste th\n gh=n e)n u(/dati ei)=nai: meta\ to\ u(/dwr de\ a)e/ra e)sfairwme/non. ku/klous de\ ei)=nai e)n tw=| ou)ranw=| e#.
Notes:
The headword -- a single noun in the Greek -- is used by
Diogenes Laertius (below) before the quotation given. Both it and the quotation are in the accusative case, transposed here to nominative.
[1] Or "center."
[2] The view of
Zeno and the Stoics, according to
Diogenes Laertius 7.155 (where the five circles are the arctic, summer tropic, circle of the equinox, winter tropic, and antarctic).
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 4 July 2003@14:35:12.
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