Aristotle, Physics VI.9: Zeno’s four arguments and the arrow (Greek, Teubner 1879)
Source: Internet Archive
aristotelisphysi00aris; local OCR excerpt.txt, lines 9284–9489 of the archive’s_djvu.txt, retrieved 2026-09-08. Metadata: Aristotelis Physica, Teubner edition dated 1879 in the archive record; the editor is to be read from the title page. Book VI, chapter 9, Bekker 239b5–240b7. Perseus’s Greek text returned HTTP 503 on every attempt on 2026-09-08. Extraction: archive.org OCR of polytonic Greek; accents and some letters are damaged but the text is searchable. Rights: public domain.
Source digest
Aristotle lists Zeno’s four arguments against motion and diagnoses the third, the flying arrow at rest, as resting on the assumption that time is composed of nows. The dichotomy and the Achilles are said to have the same solution. For this project, this is the temporal form of the cut question: whether adjacent instants carry equal or unequal states, the counterpart of Democritus’s adjacent sections, and the passage the idea entry I003 connects to the finite-speed bridge.
Passage anchors
- Archive line 9286: “Ζήνων δὲ παραλογίζεται”, the opening of the chapter.
- Archive line 9339: “ἡ ὀϊστὸς φερομένη ἕστηκεν”, the arrow, followed by the diagnosis that time is taken to be composed of nows.
- The excerpt ends before chapter 10 on the partless, archive line 9490.
Coverage and limits
Reading level passage for 239b5–33 on OCR Greek;
metadata for the rest of the chapter. The Greek needs the
scan for accents.