§46.1Fr. 46
Καὶ ταῦτά φησιν ὁ Θ. παραπλησίως τῷ Ἀναξιμάνδρῳ λέγειν τὸν Ἀναξαγόραν· ἐκεῖνος γάρ φησιν ἐν τῇ διακρίσει τοῦ ἀπειρου τὰ συγγενῆ φέρεσθαι πρὸς ἄλληλα καὶ ὅτι μὲν ἐν τῷ παντὶ χρυσὸς ἐνῆν γίνεσθαι χρυσὸν, ὅτι δὲ γῆ γῆν, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον ὡς οὐ γινομένων ἀλλ᾽ ὑπαρχόντων πρότερον·
Fr. 46 And Theophrastus says that Anaxagoras speaks of these things in a manner similar to Anaximander; for he says that in the separation of the unlimited, the kindred things are carried toward one another, and that what was gold in the whole became gold, and what was earth became earth, and likewise each of the others, on the ground that they do not come into being but existed previously.
τῆς δὲ κινήσεως καὶ τῆς γενέσεως αἴτιον ἐπεστησε τὸν νοῦν ὁ Ἀναξαγόρας ὑφ᾽ οὗ διακρινόμενα τούς τε κόσμους καὶ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων φύσιν ἐγέννησε.
And as the cause of motion and generation, Anaxagoras appointed Mind, by which, being separated, it generated the worlds and the nature of the other things.
Καὶ οὕτω μὲν οὖν, φησὶ, λαμθανόντων δόξειεν ἂν ποιεῖν τὰς μὲν ὑλικὰς ἀρχὰς ἀπείρους, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, τὴν δὲ τῆς κινήσεως καὶ τῆς γενέσεως αἰτίαν μίαν.
And if one takes it in this way, he says, he would seem to make the material principles infinite, as has been said, but the cause of motion and generation one.
Εἰ δέ τις τὴν μίξιν τῶν ἁπάντων ὑπολάθοι μίαν εἶναι φύσιν ἀόριστον καὶ κατ᾽ εἶδος καὶ κατὰ μέγεθος ὃπερ ἂν δόξειε βούλεσθαι λέγειν, συμθαίνει δύο τὰς ἀρχὰς αὐτὸν λέγειν τήν τε τοῦ ἀπείρου φύσιν καὶ τὸν νοῦν, ὥστε πάντως φαίνεται τὰ σωματικὰ στοιχεῖα παραπλησίες ποιῶν Ἀναξιμάνδρῳ.
But if one should suppose the mixture of all things to be a single nature, indefinite both in form and in size—which indeed he would seem to wish to say—it turns out that he speaks of two principles, the nature of the unlimited and Mind, so that in any case he appears to make the bodily elements in a manner similar to Anaximander.