Agathemerus 1.2
Chiara Palladino / Agathemerus - Diller
- Created on 2018-04-09 13:29:12
- Modified on 2018-04-09 13:54:53
- Translated by Aubrey Diller
- Aligned by Chiara Palladino
Ἑλληνική Transliterate
English
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.opp-grc6:1.2
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0090.tlg001.opp-eng1:1.2
Οἱ μὲν οὖν παλαιοὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἔγραφον στρογγύλην , μέσην δ’ ἡγεῖσθαι τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ ταύτης Δελφούς · τὸν ὀμφαλὸν γὰρ ἔχειν τῆς γῆς . πρῶτος δὲ Δημόκριτος πολύπειρος ἀνὴρ συνεῖδεν ὅτι προμήκης ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ ἡμιόλιον τὸ μῆκος τοῦ πλάτους ἔχουσα . συνῄνεσε τούτῳ καὶ Δικαίαρχος ὁ περιπατητικός . Εὔδοξος δὲ τὸ μῆκος διπλοῦν τοῦ πλάτους , ὁ δὲ Ἐρατοσθένης πλεῖον τοῦ διπλοῦ , Κράτης δὲ ὡς ἡμικύκλιον , Ἵππαρχος δὲ τραπεζοειδῆ , ἄλλοι [ δὲ ] οὐροειδῆ , Ποσειδώνιος δ’ ὁ Στωϊκὸς σφενδονοειδῆ καὶ μεσόπλατον ἀπὸ νότου εἰς βορρᾶν , στενὴν πρὸς ἕω καὶ δύσιν , τὰ πρὸς εὖρον δ’ ὁμοίως πλατύτερα [ τὰ ] πρὸς τὴν Ἰνδικήν .
The
ancients
drew
the
earth
round
,
and
regarded
Hellas
as
the
center
and
Delphi
as
the
center
of
Hellas
,
since
it
had
the
navel
of
the
earth
.
Democritus
,
a
man
of
much
experience
,
first
perceived
that
the
earth
was
oblong
,
with
the
length
half
again
the
breadth
.
Dicaearchus
the
Peripatetic
agreed
with
him
.
Eudoxus
made
the
length
double
the
breadth
,
Eratosthenes
more
than
double
,
Crates
semicircular
,
Hipparchus
trapezoid
,
others
.
.
.
,
Posidonius
the
Stoic
sling-shaped
and
wide
in
the
middle
from
south
to
north
,
narrow
to
the
east
and
west
,
wider
,
however
,
to
the
southeast
,
toward
India
.