EXCERPTS BY STOB^US. 107 



V. 



HERMES TO THE SON (Stobccus, Pliysica, 162 ; Meineke, i. 42 ; 

 Patrit., p. 38). 



EIGHTLY hast tliou spoken to me all things, Father ! 

 but further remind me what things are those according to 

 Providence and what according to Necessity, likewise also 

 according to Fate. 1 



I said that there were in us, O Tat ! three species of 

 incorporeals, and the one indeed is something Intelligible. 

 This then indeed is colourless, figureless (a), incorporeal, 

 out of the first and intelligible Essence. But there are 

 also in us, opposite to this, configurations () which that 

 receives (c). That therefore moved by the Intelligible 

 Essence for any reason (d), and received, immediately is 

 changed into another species of motion, and this is image 

 of the intelligence (e) of the Creator, . . . but third 

 species of incorporeals is that which is occitrrent (/) 

 about the bodies ; place, time, motion, figure (g), appear- 

 ance, magnitude, form ; and of these there are two differ- 

 ences. For some of them are properly qualities (h\ but 

 others of the body; those indeed properly qualities, are 

 the figure, the colour, the form (i\ the place, the time, 

 the motion ; but those proper of the body are the figured 

 figure, and the coloured colour, and there are also the 

 shaped out shape (&), and the appearance, and the mag- 

 nitude; these are uonparticipate with those. The In- 



(a) oi<r%Yift<iTi<TTO!t. (6) a^^uocrorriTSS. (c) V 



(d) irpog rivet, hoyoy. (e) effia'h.ov rov voyjftstTOs. (/) 



(g) ffxvijuot. (Ji) fiia$ Koicc. (i) ei 



1 Plato sometimes indeed speaks of the Matter, sometimes of the 

 bearing (a-^kaiv) of the Maker towards the Matter; and some things 

 indeed he refers to Providence and some to Necessity. He says then 

 in the Tirnseus : " Being mingled then the genesis of this the World 

 was generated, by the conjunction (avjra,a^ug) of Necessity and Mind, 

 but Mind ruling over Necessity." (See Stobseus, Physica, 160; 

 Meineke i. 42). 



