Ἄτομα
atoms
Translated by Marcelo Boeri13 Aug 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning things that are] most/very subtle.1
Those things that cannot be cut because of their utmost subtlety.2
The Greeks also called bodies "atomic" and partless3 due to their imperviousness or extreme smallness, since they are unable to admit cut or division. Thus they call the most subtle and smallest bodies, [the ones] which, thrown in through its enlightenings, the sun in itself shows swaying upwards and downwards.4
Those things that cannot be cut because of their utmost subtlety.2
The Greeks also called bodies "atomic" and partless3 due to their imperviousness or extreme smallness, since they are unable to admit cut or division. Thus they call the most subtle and smallest bodies, [the ones] which, thrown in through its enlightenings, the sun in itself shows swaying upwards and downwards.4