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112 CHAPTER <strong>10</strong><br />
Waters, in <strong>the</strong> pre-eternal Chaos <strong>of</strong> Indeterminacy (analogous to <strong>the</strong><br />
crossing, ford (applefiÚÔ˜) <strong>of</strong> a river), maybe earth itself as it emerges <strong>and</strong><br />
assumes form from <strong>the</strong> waters (by condensation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> slime <strong>of</strong> primordial<br />
liquidity). Finally, <strong>the</strong> plastic, formative principle is called £¤ÙȘ (She who<br />
sets <strong>and</strong> determines), equivalent in all likelihood with ArÛ· (<strong>the</strong> fate<br />
(ÌÔÖÚ·, lot, part) <strong>and</strong> portion <strong>of</strong> destiny belonging to each thing). Alcman’s<br />
cosmogony is preserved in a scholium on a poem <strong>of</strong> his (possibly a maidensong),<br />
5 Fr. 2 col. iii Davies:<br />
(v. 3)... âÎ ‰b Ùá apple[Ú¤ÛÁ˘˜ fiÚÔ˜ Ù¤Î̈Ú<br />
(v. 7)ó˜ ÁaÚ õÚÍ·ÙÔ ì ≈ÏË Î·Ù·Û΢[·ÛıÉÓ·È<br />
âÁ¤ÓÂÙÔ applefiÚÔ˜ ÙȘ ÔîÔÓÂd àÚ¯‹Ø Ï[¤ÁÂÈ<br />
ÔsÓ ï \AÏÎÌaÓ ÙcÓ ≈ÏËÓ apple¿Ó[ÙˆÓ ÙÂÙ·-<br />
Ú·Á̤ÓËÓ Î·d àapplefiËÙÔÓØ ÂrÙ· [ÁÂÓ¤-<br />
Ûı·È ÙÈÓ¿ ÊËÛÈÓ ÙeÓ Î·Ù·Û΢¿[˙ÔÓÙ·<br />
apple¿ÓÙ·, ÂrÙ· ÁÂÓ¤Ûı·È [applefi]ÚÔÓ, ÙÔÜ [‰b applefi-<br />
ÚÔ˘ apple·ÚÂÏıfiÓÙÔ˜ âapple·ÎÔÏÔ˘ıÉ[Û·È] Ù¤-<br />
Î̈ÚØ Î·d öÛÙÈÓ ï ÌbÓ applefiÚÔ˜ ÔxÔÓ àÚ¯‹, Ùe ‰b Ù¤-<br />
ÎÌˆÚ ÔîÔÓÂd Ù¤ÏÔ˜, Ùɘ £¤ÙȉԘ ÁÂÓÔ-<br />
̤Ó˘ àÚ¯c ηd Ù¤[Ï]Ô[˜ Ù·Ü]Ù· apple¿ÓÙˆÓ â-<br />
Á¤ÓÂ[Ù]Ô, ηd Ùa ÌbÓ apple¿ÓÙ· [ïÌÔ]›·Ó ö¯ÂÈ<br />
ÙcÓ Ê‡ÛÈÓ ÙFÉ ÙÔÜ ¯·ÏÎÔÜ ≈ÏFË, ì ‰b<br />
£¤ÙȘ Ù[FÉ] ÙÔÜ Ù¯ӛÙÔ˘, ï ‰b applefiÚÔ˜ ηd Ùe Ù¤-<br />
ÎÌˆÚ ÙFÉ àÚ¯FÉ Î·d Ùˇá Ù¤ÏÂÈ, appleÚ¤ÛÁ[˘˜<br />
‰b àÓÙd ÙÔÜ appleÚÂÛ‚‡Ù˘.<br />
Cf. Fr. 1. 13-4:<br />
Ù¤ÎÌˆÚ (or ÂÖÚ·Ú) ArÛ· apple¿ÓÙˆÓ<br />
ηd fiÚÔ˜] ÁÂÚ·ÈÙ¿ÙÔÈ<br />
ÛÈáÓ]<br />
complemented by Blass; but Poros is <strong>of</strong> course mentioned in <strong>the</strong> passage<br />
since <strong>the</strong> Scholiast ad loc. (p. 31 Davies) observes: ¬ÙÈ ÙeÓ fiÚÔÓ ÂúÚËÎÂ<br />
ÙeÓ ·éÙeÓ Ùˇá ñapplee ÙÔÜ ^HÛÈfi‰Ô˘ ÌÂÌ˘ıÔÏÔÁËÌ¤Óˇˆ X¿ÂÈ. Poros, however,<br />
corresponds not to Chaos but ra<strong>the</strong>r to Hesiod’s Earth, <strong>and</strong> in any case to a<br />
passage/channel crossing, ford inside Chaos. The Chaos is reflected ra<strong>the</strong>r<br />
on <strong>the</strong> πάντα <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scholiast above, which he interprets as matter. This<br />
sounds like a prefiguration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Anaxagorean apple¿ÓÙ· ïÌÔÜ appleÚ¿ÁÌ·Ù·. So<br />
that we have in <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>the</strong> chaotic mass <strong>of</strong> indefiniteness (àappleÂÈÚ›·,
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