Note 123 — Chapter I · GASSENDI
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On this point Gassendi in his correspondence diverged into humour with a translation of duo quaedam epigrammata ex Anthologia: I quote the second:
‘Ex Atomis Epicurus ait consistere Mundum, Alcime, quippe putans his nihil esse minus. At si novisset Diophantum, constituisset Ex ipso potius, qui minor est Atomis. Aut alia ex Atomis texens, ipsas potuisset Ex Diophanto Atomos composuisse prius.’ (VI. 160.)