It Is Not I Who Have Lost

It Is Not I Who Have Lost The Athenians, But The Athenians Who Have Lost Me.

The Greeks Do Not Think Correctly About Coming-to-be And Passing-away; For No Thing Comes To Be Or Passes Away, But Is Mixed Together And Dissociated From The Things That Are. And Thus They Would Be Correct To Call Coming-to-be Mixing-together And Passing-away Dissociating

Wrongly Do The Greeks Suppose That Aught Begins Or Ceases To Be; For Nothing Comes Into Being Or Is Destroyed; But All Is An Aggregation Or Secretion Of Preexisting Things; So That All Becoming Might More Correctly Be Called Becoming Mixed, And All Corruption, Becoming Separate.

And Since The Portions Of The Great And The Small Are Equal In Number, So Too All Things Would Be In Everything. Nor Is It Possible That They Should Exist Apart, But All Things Have A Portion Of Everything.

The Forces Of Rotation Caused Red Hot Masses Of Stones To Be Torn Away From The Earth And To Be Thrown Into The Ether, And This Is The Origin Of The Stars.