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(1) "Of those who declared that the first principle is one, moving and indefinite, Anaximander... said that the indefinite was the first principle and element of things that are, and he was the first to call the first principle indefinite [apeiron]. He says that the first principle is neither water nor any other of the things called elements, but some other nature which is indefinite, out of which come to be all the heavens and the worlds in them. The things that are perish into the things out of which they come to be, "according to necessity, for they pay the penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice in accordance with the ordering of time", as he says in rather poetical language."

-- Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics (24.13-21)


Can anyone make any sense of what this means? Particularly around the part where it starts with "The things that are perish into the things out of which they come to be" and ends with "he says in rather poetical language."

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