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Theophrastus · Fragments §22b.1

Axioms of Place and the Assumption of Immobility

Passage 11 of 196 · Greek

Summary

Points out that both Theophrastus and Eudemus assume beforehand the immobility of place in their axioms concerning place.

§22b.1Fr. 22b Ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι καὶ Θ. καὶ Εὔδημος ἐν τοῖς περὶ τόπου ἀξιώμασι καὶ τὸ ἀκίνητον εἶναι τὸν τόπον προλαμβάνουσι.
Fr. 22b It must be known that both Theophrastus and Eudemus, in their axioms concerning place, also assume beforehand that place is immobile.

Notes

  1. §22b.1Ἰστέον — Impersonal use of the verbal adjective, meaning "it must be known," taking the ὅτι clause.
  2. §22b.1τὸ ἀκίνητον εἶναι τὸν τόπον — An accusative-with-infinitive construction substantivized by the neuter article τό, where τὸν τόπον acts as the subject of the infinitive εἶναι, and ἀκίνητον is the complement.

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