EXCERPTS FROM STOBJEUS. 117 



other according to cognate familiarity (a). Since then the 

 body required place (for it were impracticable that Body 

 be subsistent without place) and is changed by nature; 

 it is impossible that there be change without time and the 

 motion according to nature, nor that there be such a sub- 

 sistence of body without Harmony. Because then of Body 

 is the place ; for receiving the changes of the body, it does 

 not suffer the thing changed to be destroyed. But changed 

 from other it falls apart to other, and is deprived of the 

 condition (Z>) indeed, but not of the being Body ; but being 

 changed to other it has the condition of the other; for the 

 body that was body continues Body, but the quality of 

 disposition (c) does not continue ; the Body then according 

 to disposition is changed. Incorporeal then the place, the 

 time, and the natural motion. But each of these pos- 

 sesses its peculiar property; but property of the Place is 

 receptivity (d), of Time interval and number, of Nature 

 motion, of Harmony friendship, of Body change ; but pro- 

 perty of Soul the Intelligence according to Essence. 



XII. 



OF HERMES FROM THE THINGS TO TAT. 

 (Stobceus, Physica, 726 ; Meineke, i. 198). 



Tat. Rightly hast thou explained these things, O 

 Father! but further teach me these. For thou saidest 

 somewhere that the Science and the Art are the energy of 

 the rational (e) ; but now thou sayest the irrational ani- 

 mals are and are called irrational through deprivation of 

 the rational ; it is plain there is necessity according to this 

 the account, that the irrational animals do not partake of 

 science (/), neither of art, through the being deprived of 

 the rational. 



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(d) irotpoiboxv). (e) rov Aoy/xot/. (/) f 



