The Rapid Change of Things and Their Dispersal

Notes

1. §6.4.1μεταβαλεῖ — A third-person singular future active/intransitive verb, agreeing with the neuter plural subject Πάντα τὰ ὑποκείμενα, in accordance with the standard rule of Greek grammar that a neuter plural subject takes a singular verb.
2. §6.4.1εἴπερ ἥνωται ἡ οὐσία — This conditional clause is inserted between ἤτοι ("either") and ἤ ("or"), primarily qualifying the first option, ἐκθυμιαθήσεται ("will be vaporized"). It reflects a cosmological dilemma of the time: if the substance of the universe is unified (as in Stoic pantheism), everything will return to the one through vaporization; if not (as in atomism), it will be dispersed.