Note 57 — Chapter I · SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY IN GREECE, BEFORE AND IN THE TIME OF SOKRATES.
Reading edition
Xenophanes Frag. p. 161 seq., ed. Karsten. Compare Lucretius, v. 458.
“per rara foramina, terræ Partibus erumpens primus se sustulit æther Ignifer et multos secum levis abstulit ignis .... Sic igitur tum se levis ac diffusilis æther Corpore concreto circumdatus undique flexit: .... Hunc exordia sunt solis lunæque secuta.”