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" For this meaning of d^iiaaTos cf. Plato, Tim. 61 a. The 

 action of the wev/jLa is represented as resembling that of the 

 breath in the lungs ; when the breath contracts it lacks force 

 and the lungs collapse, when it expands it thrusts outwards 

 and exercises force. 



'' Namely, expansion. 

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