The Stone
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a stone · a great stone wrapped in swaddling clothes · red-hot stone · stone · the stone
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Memorabilia (Greek)
Again, when he pronounced the sun to be a red-hot stone, he ignored the fact that a stone in fire neither glows nor can resist it long, whereas the sun shines with unequalled brilliance for ever.
in the texts
On the murder of Herodes
The stone which, according to the prosecution's theory, the defendant used to strike Herodes on the head on the shore.
Their story is that it was on the shore that Herodes was killed, and that I, who did not leave the boat at all, struck him upon the head with a stone.
Nicomachean Ethics
An illustrative physical object used to show that natural properties cannot be changed by habituation.
For instance, it is the nature of a stone to move downwards, and it cannot be trained to move upwards, even though you should try to train it to do so by throwing it up into the air ten thousand times;
Theogony
The stone given to Cronos by Earth in place of the infant Zeus, later disgorged and set up by Zeus at Pytho as a sign to mortals.
but to the mightily ruling son of Heaven, the earlier king of the gods, she gave a great stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.
After that, the strength and glorious limbs of the prince increased quickly, and as the years rolled on, great Cronos the wily was beguiled by the deep suggestions of Earth, and brought up again his offspring, vanquished by the arts and might of his own son, and he vomited up first the stone which he had swallowed last.
Memorabilia
Material object used in Anaxagoras' rejected explanation of the sun.
Again, when he pronounced the sun to be a red-hot stone, he ignored the fact that a stone in fire neither glows nor can resist it long, whereas the sun shines with unequalled brilliance for ever.