Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 91
together and [so] produced the nature of fluids. And since this [nature]
was disposed to flow, it moved down into the hollow places and those
able to receive it and contain it; that, or the water all by itself hollowed
out the existing places by settling [there].
So the most important parts of the cosmos were produced in this way.
Sextus M 7.267 (310 U) [1-93]
Epicurus and his followers thought they were able to indicate the
conception of man ostensively, saying: "man is this sort of form together
with possession of life."Aetius 4.4.6 = Dox. Gr. p. 390 (312 U) [1-94]
Democritus and Epicurus say the soul has two parts, one which is
rational and is situated in the chest area, and the other which is non-
rational and is spread throughout the entire compound of the body.Aetius 4.3.11 = Dox.Gr. p. 388-389 (315 U) [1-95]
Epicurus [says that the soul is] a blend of four things, a certain kind
of fiery stuff, a certain kind of airy stuff, a certain kind of breathlike
stuff and a fourth something which is nameless. (This was the power of
sense-perception for him.) Of these, the breath provides motion, the air
rest, the hot the apparent heat of the body, and the nameless element
the [power of] sense-perception in us. For sense-perception is in none
of the named elements.Aetius 4.8.10 = Dox.Gr. p. 395 (317 U) [1-96]
Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus [say that] sense-perception and
thought occur when images approach from the outside. For we apply
neither [sense-perception nor thought] to anything in the absence of an
image striking from the outside.Aetius 4.13.1 = Dox.Gr. p. 403 (318 U) [1-97]
Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus thought that the visual experi-
ence occurred by means of the reception of images.