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(
h
ē
lios
), sun: the only celestial fire which is visible to the same people from dawn to [b] dusk; the daylight star; the largest eternal living creature.

(
chronos
), time: the motion of the sun, the measure of its course.

(
h
ē
mera
), day: the journey of the sun, from rising to setting; the light opposed to the night.

(
he
ō
s
), dawn: the beginning of the day; first light of the sun.

(
mes
ē
mbria
), midday: the time at which the shadows of bodies are all at their shortest.

(
deil
ē
), sunset: the end of the day.

(
nux
), night: the darkness opposed to day; the absence of the sun.

(
tuch
ē
), luck: passage from the unclear to the unclear; spontaneous cause of a supernatural event. [c]

(
g
ē
ras
), old age: deterioration of a living thing due to the passage of time.

(
pneuma
), wind: movement of air in the region of the earth.

(
a
ē
r
), air: the element to which every spatial motion is natural.

(
ouranos
), sky: the body which surrounds all perceptible things except the uppermost air itself.

(
psuch
ē
), soul: that which moves itself; the cause of vital processes in living creatures.

(
dunamis
), ability: that which produces results on account of itself.