{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0732.tlg012.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg012.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg012.local002","title":"Quaestiones","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Alexander of Aphrodisias","authorityName":"ALEXANDER Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","editors":["Ivo Bruns"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Alexandri Aphrodisiensis praeter commentaria scripta minora","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1892","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Tufts University Harvard University A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies Project (http://www.graeco-arabic-studies.org/home.html) Digitization and Correction","citationShort":"Tufts University Harvard University A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies Project (http://www.graeco-arabic-studies.org/home.html) Digitization and Correction"},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://www.archive.org/stream/p1supplementumar02akaduoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Alexander Of Aphrodisias. Quaestiones. ed. Ivo Bruns. Tufts University Harvard University A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies Project (http://www.graeco-arabic-studies.org/home.html) Digitization and Correction. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg012.local002","excerpt":"Τὸ χρῶμα ὡρίσατο Ἀριστοτέλης πέρας τοῦ ὡρισμένου διαφανοῦς ᾗ διαφανές. τοῦ γὰρ σώματος καθόσον μὲν σῶμα πέρας ἐπιφάνεια, καθόσον δὲ διαφανὲς χρῶμα. διὸ καὶ ἅμα ἐστὶ τὸ χρῶμα τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ. ἐπεὶ γὰρ παντὸς σώματος ὡς σώματος πέρας ἐπιφάνεια, καὶ τὸ διαφανὲς δὲ σῶμά ἐστι, καὶ τούτου πέρας ὡς σώματος ἡ ἐπιφάνεια. ἔστι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὡς διαφανοῦς πέρας τὸ χρῶμα, καὶ ἅμα ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ τὰ πέρατα ἄμφω, εἴ γε πέρατα οὐκ ὄντα τὰ αὐτὰ ἀλλήλοις. πᾶν μὲν γὰρ χρῶμα ἐν ἐπιφανείᾳ γε καὶ σὺν ἐπιφανείᾳ, οὐ μὴν πᾶσα ἐπιφάνεια σὺν χρώματι, ὅτι μηδὲ πᾶν σῶμα διαφανὲς ὡρισμένον. τοῦ γὰρ διαφανοῦς σώματος τὸ μὲν ὡρισμένον, τὸ δ᾿ ἀόριστον. τὸ μὲν οὗν ἀόριστον διαφανές (ὁποῖά ἐστιν ὅ τε ἀὴρ καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ), ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ἐπιφάνειαν οἰκείαν τε καὶ ὡρισμένην ἔχει (ὁρίζεται γὰρ τὰ ὑγρά τε καὶ ἀόριστα σώματα τοῖς περιέχουσιν), οὕτως οὐδ᾿ οἰκεῖον ἔχει χρῶμα, ἀλλ᾿ ἔστιν τῶν ἀλλοτρίων χρωμάτων διάκονόν τε καὶ δεκτικὸν ὥσπερ…","divisions":[{"label":"Quaestio 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg012.local002/#tlg0732-tlg012-local002-1"},{"label":"Quaestio 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg012.local002/#tlg0732-tlg012-local002-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg012.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0732.tlg012.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732/tlg012/local002.json.gz"}}