Corpus, qualitas

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corpus, qualitas.

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• αʹ Cicero, Academica 1.6:

sed quod ex utroque id iam corpus et quasi qualitatem quandam nominabant—dabitis enim profecto ut in rebus inusitatis, quod Graeci ipsi faciunt a quibus haec iam diu tractantur, utamur verbis interdum inauditis.

But what was made from both [matter and energy] they then called a body and, as it were, a certain ‘quality’—you will of course grant that we may sometimes use words yet unheard for unusual things, as the Greeks themselves do, who have been handling these things for some time now.

• βʹ Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.4:

Namque e principiis quae Graeci στοιχεῖα appellant, ut omnia corpora sunt composita, id est e calore et umore, terreno et aere, et ita mixtionibus naturali temperatura figurantur omnium animalium in mundo generatim qualitates.

Indeed, as all bodies are composed of the elements, which the Greeks call στοιχεῖα—that is, from heat and moisture, earth and air—so also all sorts of animals in the world are formed after their kind by being mixed according to their natural proportions.