{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1545.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1545.tlg001.local001","title":"De universi natura","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De universi natura [Sp.], ed. R. Harder, Ocellus Lucanus [Neue philologische Untersuchungen vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmann, 1926]: 11–25. Cod: 3,957: Phil.","citationShort":"De universi natura [Sp.], ed. R. Harder, Ocellus Lucanus [Neue philologische Untersuchungen vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmann, 1926]: 11–25."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"De universi natura. De universi natura [Sp.], ed. R. Harder, Ocellus Lucanus [Neue philologische Untersuchungen vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmann, 1926]: 11–25.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1545.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Τάδε συνέγραψεν Ὄκελλος ὁ Λευκανὸς περὶ τῆς τοῦ παντὸς φύ- σεως, τὰ μὲν τεκμηρίοις σαφέσι παρ' αὐτῆς τῆς φύσεως ἐκμαθών, τὰ δὲ καὶ δόξῃ μετὰ λόγου τὸ εἰκὸς ἀπὸ τῆς νοήσεως στοχαζόμενος. Δοκεῖ γάρ μοι τὸ πᾶν ἀνώλεθρον εἶναι καὶ ἀγένητον· ἀεί τε γὰρ ἦν καὶ ἔσται· εἰ γὰρ ἔγχρονον, οὐκ ἂν ἔτι ἦν· οὕτως οὖν ἀνώ- λεθρόν τε καὶ ἀγένητον τὸ πᾶν. οὔτε γὰρ εἰ γενόμενόν τις αὐτὸ δοξάζοι, εὕροιτο ἂν 〈ἐξ ὅτου γέ- νοιτο, οὔτε εἰ φθαρτόν, εὕροιτο ἂν〉 εἰς ὃ φθαρείη καὶ διαλυθείη· ἐξ ὅτου τε καὶ γέγονεν, ἐκεῖνο πρῶτον τοῦ παντός ἐστιν, εἰς ὅ τε πάλιν φθαρήσεται, ἐκεῖνο ἔσχατον τοῦ παντὸς ἔσται. τὸ δέ γε πᾶν γινόμενον σὺν πᾶσι γίνεται καὶ [τὸ] φθειρόμενον σὺν πᾶσι φθείρεται· καὶ τοῦτό γε δὴ ἀδύνατον· ἄναρχον ἄρα καὶ ἀτελεύτητον τὸ πᾶν. οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλως ἔχει ἢ οὕτως. Πᾶν τε τὸ γενέσεως ἀρχὴν εἰληφός, καὶ διαλύσεως ὀφεῖλον κοινωνῆσαι, δύο ἐπιδέχεται μεταβολάς· μίαν μὲν τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ μείονος ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/#tlg1545-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/#tlg1545-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/#tlg1545-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/#tlg1545-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Section 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/#tlg1545-tlg001-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1545.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1545/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}