α4373Ἄτομα
atoms
[Meaning things that are] most/very subtle. Those things that cannot be cut because of their utmost subtlety. The Greeks also called bodies "atomic" and partless due to their imperviousness or extreme smallness, since…
Ἄτομα· λεπτότατα. τὰ μὴ δυνάμενα διὰ τὴν ἄκραν λεπτότητα τέμνεσθαι. ὅτι ἄτομα ὠνόμασαν οἱ Ἕλληνες καὶ ἀμερῆ σώματα διὰ τὸ ἀπαθὲς ἢ σμικρὸν ἄγαν, ἅτε μὴ τομὴν ἢ διαίρεσιν δέξασθαι…