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one on another in the seasonal changes of the year, it follows that the 

 words of Anaximander cannot be used to support the interpretation 

 of his aTreipov-apxr] as a metaphysical world-ground in which the sin 

 of individual existence is punished by the reabsorption of the concrete 

 objects of experience. For this see Oti Anaxiviander, p. 225, n. 3, and 

 m^' review of James Adam, TJie Vitality of Platonism and Other Essays, 

 Amer. Journ. of Philol., Vol. 33 (1912), p. 93 sq. 



V^ 13, 34. [Plut.] Strom. 2, (^-qal de to e/c tov aidlov ■ybvLjj.ov Oepjiov 

 re Kal xpvxpov Kara ttjv yevecnp rovSe rod KOdjxov diroKpLdrjvaL Kai nva 

 e/c TOVTOv (f)\oyds acjialpav TrepiclivrjvaL t(2 wepi ttjv yrjv aepL cbs tQ 

 bkvbp(jO (()Xol6p . rjcxTLVos airoppayelarjs Kal ets TLvas airoKKeiadelcrris 

 kvkXovs VTToaTTJvai TOV tiXlov Kai Trjv aekrjvrjv Kal tovs acTTepas. 



The words to . . . x^vxpov have been much discussed and variously 

 interpreted. Zeller, I** 220, n. 1, pronounces the text corrupt and 

 suggests (t)7]crl 8' e/c tov aidlov to jovlixov depjxbv re Kal ^vxpbv, rejecting 

 Neuhauser's obviously correct proposal to take the genitives deppov 

 and xl/vxpov as depending on ybvLp.ov. Burnet, Early Greek Philo- 

 sophy'^, p. GO, retaining the traditional text, renders, "Something 

 capable of begetting hot and cold was separated off from the eternal." 

 If we were dealing with a poet we might take such liberties, but we 

 may safely dismiss the interpretation as impossible for prose. Diels 

 gives no definite indication of his understanding of the words, but 

 claims ybvLpiOv as possibly belonging to Anaximander, certainly to 

 Theophrastus, referring in support of his contention to Porphyr. De 

 Abstin. 2. 5. The text of Porphyry, however, throws no light on ours, 

 and there is good reason to doubt whether we may attribute the word 

 to Theophrastus. In all probability we are dealing with a Stoic 

 source, however related to Tlieophrastus; for ybvL/jiov seems to be 

 a congener to the X670S (jTrepp.aTLKbs of the Stoics. Cp. Marc. Aurel. 

 9. 1.4, Xe7Co 5e to xp^cr^at tovtols eTiarjs t7}v KOLvr]v cjyvaLV avrl tov avp,- 

 [^aip€ii> eiriarjs KaTO. to e^fjs toIs jLVOfxevots Kal eTnyLVOpLhoLS bpp,fj tlvl 

 apxaia Trjs irpovoias, Kad' fjv clto tlvos apxv^ ojpprjaev eirl Trjvde Trjv 

 diaKbaprjacu, avWai3ovaa. Ttvas \byovs tuiv eaopeuwu Kal dvvapeLs youlpovs 

 d4)opiaaaa viroaraffeuiv re Kai peTa[:io\Q)V Kal bcabox^iv tolovtuv. It 

 seems fairly certain that to . . . ybvipov 6epp.ov re Kal \pvxpov is the 

 Stoic airoios v\r] which contains 8vvdpeL the hot and the cold of the 

 cosmos. We thus find masked in Stoic phraseology the 06<ns doptcrros 

 of Theophrastus. This ybvipov deppov re Kal \pvxpov is, at least in 

 extent, not identical with the aireipov itself, but was "separated off" 

 from it at the origin of our cosmos. It must, therefore, be that por- 



