moon is the nearest to the earth; and between the two are the orbits of the other stars.
All the stars are set on fire by the rapidity of their own motion; and the sun is set on fire by the stars; the moon has only a slight quantity of fire; the sun and the moon are eclipsed in …6 in consequence of the inclination of the earth towards the south. In the north it always snows, and those districts are cold, and are often frozen.
The sun is eclipsed but seldom; but the moon frequently, because her orbits are unequal.
Leucippus admits also, that the production of worlds, their increase, their diminution, and their destruction, depend on a certain necessity, the character of which he does not precisely explain.
# LIFE OF DEMOCRITUS.
I. Democritus was the son of Hegesistratus, but as some say, of Athenocrites, and, according to other accounts, of Damasippus. He was a native of Abdera, or, as it is stated by some