Chapter 7 Aétius et le problème des sources de Théodoretâ¯: à propos de GAC 4.12
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It is a remarkable fact that the doxa on Hippasus and Heraclitus at Theodoret GAC 4.12 was placed by Diels in Aëtius 1.5 (On the whole as one). The best place, however, would have been in fact 1.3 (On the principles, what they are), but ps.Plutarch and Stobaeus give us another text on the same philosophers that is obviously different. Given that Dielsâ solution is not satisfactory, the other possibilities are (1) that this lemma is a relic of a ghost chapter âOn the whole (Ïὸ Ïᾶν)â which has to be seen as competing with 1.3, as Elter argued long ago with respect to a lemma on Xenocrates in Stobaeusâ¯; (2) that it comes from another source not mentioned by Theodoretâ¯; or (3) that if Aëtius is the source of Theodoret, he cannot be the direct source of ps.Plutarch and Stobaeus. The paper confronts these issues, beginning with the fact that this brief text of Theodoret seems to be linked to a fragment of Theophrastus given by Simplicius.