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divinum : ‘such as belongs to a god’. Heind.’s correction divinae is unnecessary.
signis sideribusque: a pleonastic expression ‘star-clusters (s¢dus) (stella) which constitute a sign’, cf. n. on § 22.
Strato : (Krische 349—358, Cudworth 1 144—153). He succeeded Th. as head of the Lyceum B.c. 287, and changed the theism of Aristotle into a system variously described as pantheistic or atheistic. Cudworth calls him ‘the first asserter of hylozoic atheism’, and says that while ‘nature according to Democritus was the fortuitous motion of matter, Strato’s nature was an inward plastic life in the several parts of matter, whereby they could arti- ficially frame themselves to the best advantage according to their several capabilities without any conscious or reflexive knowledge’; a view which appears closely to resemble the ordinary notion of Evolutionism., Cic. says of him that he is omnino semovendus from the true Peripatetics, as he abandoned ethics, and departed very widely from his predecessors in physics, to which branch he confined himself; again, Ac. 11 121 Strato negat opera deorum se uti ad fabricandum mundum. Quaecunque sint docet omnia efecta esse natura... naturalibus fiert ponderibus et motibus, but notwith- standing he was an opponent of the atomic philosophy. Similar views are advocated by the Academic Cotta W. D. 111 27.
minuendi : some edd. insert after this ¢mmutandi, a correction of 7m- mittendi which occurs in one or two Mss, but it is probable that this is merely due to a careless repetition of the preceding word.
careat—figura : of course from the Epicurean point of view, cf. n. on species § 34; but, as Strato, according to Plutarch adv. Col. c. 14, denied that the world was a living creature, careat sensu is probably correct in this case. Strato’s deus seems to have been much the same as Prof. Tyn- dal’s Matter ‘containing the promise and the potency of all existence’.
ch. xiv § 36. The absence of any allusion to the previous criticism of the Stoic philosophy in $$ 18—24, just as in the parallel case of the Platonic philosophy § 30, is an instance of the carelessness which charac- terizes the composition of the whole treatise, and particularly of the present (historical) section.
Zeno: (Krische 358—404, Brandis in Dict. of Biog.). He is quoted NV. D. 11 57 (definition of nature), 20 (arguments to prove the rationality of the world), also in 1 70, 11 63, 111 18, 22, 63.
naturalem legem. Heraclitus was the first who expressly identified the law of nature with the word and will of God; cf. Fr. 91 Bywater, éuvov €oTe maou 70 cppoveew" Ev vow héyovras ioxupiferOar yp Te Evvg Tartar, Ok@OTEP VOU® TOALS Kal TOAD icxupoTépas. Tpépovrar yap martes of dvOpe- TElLol VOmoL VIO Evds TOU Oeiov" KpaTéet yap ToaovTOV SKogov eOehet Kal eLapKees mace kai weptyivera. fr. 92 rod Adyou & eovtos Evvov, Cwovaw oi moAXol ws inv Exovtes ppovnow. fr. 65 &v 7d copdy potvoy AéyerOar otk €Oedee Kai edehet, Znvos ovvoya. This view, popularized by the Stoics, was passed on by them to the Roman jurists and so to their modern successors. Thus
126 BOOK I CH. XIV § 36.