Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Papyras Classics

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Chapter XXII. What Is the Figure or Shape of the Sun

Anaximenes affirms that in its dilatation it resembles a leaf. Heraclitus, that it hath the shape of a boat, and is somewhat crooked. The Stoics, that it is spherical, and it is of the same figure with the world and the stars. Epicurus, that the recited dogmas may be defended.