Αὔξη
increase
Translated by William Hutton26 Mar 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
'To be nourished' and 'to be increased' are spoken of in the following ways. Those things that are nourished in each of their parts are also increased. But the things that seem to be increased as a result of addition are not increased in each of their parts, since 'increase' is not used to describe such cases but 'addition'. For if on top of a heap of grain I put another grain, the addition has happened not in all the parts of the heap, but on the one where the addition happened.2
This is also said in the case of stones; just as if someone were to say that the fire is increased when more wood is added. Thus also are metals increased when the liquid substance of which they consist solidifies from without, even when this changes to the same substance from the whole by means of the natural power in the earth.3
Thus 'to be increased' is employed in the case of things that have souls and have parts.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Αὔξη· ἡ βλάστησις. τρέφεσθαι καὶ αὔξεσθαι λέγεται ἐκεῖνα, τὰ κατὰ πᾶν μόριον τρεφόμενα καὶ αὐξόμενα. τὰ δὲ κατὰ πρόσθεσιν αὔξεσθαι δοκοῦντα οὐ κατὰ πᾶν μόριον ἑαυτῶν αὔξονται, διὸ οὐδὲ αὔξησις ἐπ' ἐκείνων λέγεται, ἀλλὰ πρόσθεσις. ἐὰν γὰρ ἐπὶ σωρὸν σίτου προσθήσω ἕτερον σῖτον, οὐ δι' ὅλων τῶν μορίων τοῦ σωροῦ ἡ πρόσθεσις γέγονεν, ἀλλ' ἐφ' ἑνός, καθ' ὃ ἡ πρόσθεσις ἐγένετο. λέγεται δὲ τοῦτο καὶ ἐπὶ λίθων· ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ καὶ τὸ πῦρ αὔξεσθαι λέγοι τις ξύλων πλειόνων προστιθεμένων. οὕτω καὶ τὰ μέταλλα αὔξεται, ὑγρᾶς οὐσίας ἔξωθεν περιπαγείσης, ἐξ ἧς συνεστήκασι, καὶ ταύτης μεταβαλλούσης ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν οὐσίαν ὑπὸ τῆς ἐν τῇ γῇ φυσικῆς δυνάμεως ἐκ τοῦ παντός. ὥστε ἐπὶ τῶν ἐμψύχων καὶ ἐχόντων μόρια λέγεται τὸ αὔξεσθαι.
Betacode
*au)/ch: h( bla/sthsis. tre/fesqai kai\ au)/cesqai le/getai e)kei=na, ta\ kata\ pa=n mo/rion trefo/mena kai\ au)co/mena. ta\ de\ kata\ pro/sqesin au)/cesqai dokou=nta ou) kata\ pa=n mo/rion e(autw=n au)/contai, dio\ ou)de\ au)/chsis e)p' e)kei/nwn le/getai, a)lla\ pro/sqesis. e)a\n ga\r e)pi\ swro\n si/tou prosqh/sw e(/teron si=ton, ou) di' o(/lwn tw=n mori/wn tou= swrou= h( pro/sqesis ge/gonen, a)ll' e)f' e(no/s, kaq' o(\ h( pro/sqesis e)ge/neto. le/getai de\ tou=to kai\ e)pi\ li/qwn: w(/sper a)\n ei) kai\ to\ pu=r au)/cesqai le/goi tis cu/lwn pleio/nwn prostiqeme/nwn. ou(/tw kai\ ta\ me/talla au)/cetai, u(gra=s ou)si/as e)/cwqen peripagei/shs, e)c h(=s sunesth/kasi, kai\ tau/ths metaballou/shs e)pi\ th\n au)th\n ou)si/an u(po\ th=s e)n th=| gh=| fusikh=s duna/mews e)k tou= panto/s. w(/ste e)pi\ tw=n e)myu/xwn kai\ e)xo/ntwn mo/ria le/getai to\ au)/cesqai.
Notes (3)
- For this headword see already alpha 4451
- 1cf. Hesychius s.v.
au)=cis . ↩ - 2John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 234.11-16 Hayduck. ↩
- 3ib. 275.21-25. ↩
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Revision history6 revisions · last 20 Dec 2015
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- coding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- x-ref; tweaking — David Whitehead
- expanded refs; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- added notes — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton