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On the Eternity of the World

Philo of Alexandria · Notas, a partir da 1

[1]: This is similar to Lucretius’s doctrine- Nil igitur fieri de nihilo posse putandum est.

[2]: From the Chrysippus of Euripides.

[3]: This is similar to Lucretius’s doctrine- Nil igitur fieri de nihilo posse putandum est.

[4]: From the Chrysippus of Euripides.

[5]: Timaeus, p. 40.

[6]: Timaeus, p. 40.

[7]: There is probably some corruption in the text here,

[8]: Hesiod, Theogon 116.

[9]: Χύσις, as if chaos were derived from Χέω, " to pour."

[10]: There is probably some corruption in the text here,

[11]: Hesiod, Theogon 116.

[12]: Χύσις, as if chaos were derived from Χέω, " to pour."

[13]: Timaeus, p. 32.

[14]: A fragment from the Chrysippus of Euripides.

[15]: Timaeus, p. 32.

[16]: A fragment from the Chrysippus of Euripides.

[17]: Homer, Odyssey vi. 107, where the lines quoted are applied to Latona among her nymphs.

[18]: Timaeus, p. 33.

[19]: Homer, Odyssey vi. 107, where the lines quoted are applied to Latona among her nymphs.

[20]: Timaeus, p. 33.

[21]: From the Myrmidons of AEschylus. The passage is evidently the original of the stanza in Waller’s Ode to a Lady " That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high."

[22]: From the Myrmidons of AEschylus. The passage is evidently the original of the stanza in Waller’s Ode to a Lady " That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high."

[23]: There is supposed to be a very large hiatus here.

[24]: Philo is playing here on the two meanings of the word κόσμος, which signifies both "order " and " the world."

[25]: Philo is playing here on the two meanings of the word κόσμος, which signifies both "order " and " the world."

[26]: πάντα δωρουμένην.

[27]: There is supposed to be a very large hiatus here.

[28]: There seems a line or two lost here.

[29]: There seems a line or two lost here.

[30]: The Greek word is ἀναφανει̃σα, from which Άναφὴ is derived.

[31]: Δήλη, from which Δη̄̃λος is derived.

[32]: GRC: Following Cohn, this passage has been moved up.

[33]: This is part of an ode now lost.

[34]: The Greek word is άναφανει̃σα, from which 'Αναφὴ is derived.

[35]: Δήλη, from which Δη̄̃λος is derived.

[36]: This is part of an ode now lost.

[37]: Homer, II. vi. 147.

[38]: Homer, II. vi. 147.

[39]: This is alluded to by Virgil— Haec loca vi quondam, et vastâ convulsa ruinâ Tantum aevi longinqua valet mutare vetustas, Dissiluisse ferunt, quum protenus utraque tellus Una foret: venit medio vi pontus, et undis Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit, arvaque et urbes Litore diductas angusto interluit aestu.—Aen. iii. 419. Or, as it is translated by Dryden, The Italian shore And fair Sicilia’s coast were one before An earthquake caused the flaw; the roaring tides The passage broke that land from land divides, And where the lands retired the rushing ocean rides Distinguished by the straits on either hand Now rising cities in long order stand, And fruitful fields; so much can time invade The mouldering work that beauteous nature made.

[40]: Ῥήγιον, from ρ́ήγνυμι, " to break."

[41]: This is alluded to by Virgil- Haec loca vi quondam, et vastâ convulsa ruinâ Tantum aevi longinqua valet mutare vetustas, Dissiluisse ferunt, quum protenus utraque tellus Una foret: venit medio vi pontus, et undis Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit, arvaque et urbes Litore diductas angusto interluit aestu.-Æn. iii. 419. Or, as it is translated by Dryden, " The Italian shore And fair Sicilia’s coast were one before An earthquake caused the flaw; the roaring tides The passage broke that land from land divides, And where the lands retired the'rushing ocean rides Distinguished by the straits on either hand Now rising cities in long order stand, And fruitful fields; so much can time invade The mouldering work that beauteous nature made."

[42]: Ῥήγιον, from ῥήγνυμι, " to break."