Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 369

ἀλλὰ χωριζόμενον μὲν τούτων τῶν διαστάσεων τὸ σῶμα οὐκ ἔνεστιν ἐπινοεῖν· ὅπου γὰρ μήτε μῆ- κός ἐστι μήτε πλάτος μήτε βάθος, ἐκεῖ οὐδὲ σῶμα νοεῖν οἷόν τε ἐστίν. εἰ δὲ ὁ ἀθροισμὸς τούτων σῶμα καθέστηκεν, ἐπεὶ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἀσώματόν ἐστι, τὸ δὲ ἐξ ἀσωμάτων συγκείμενον πάντως ἐστὶν ἀσώματον, δεήσει καὶ τὴν κοινὴν αὐτῶν σύνοδον μὴ σῶμα ἀλλ’ ἀσώματον ὑπάρχειν·

But body cannot be conceived as separated from these dimensions. For where there is neither length, breadth, nor depth, no body can be conceived either. But if the aggregate of these is body, then since each of them is incorporeal, and what is composed of incorporeals is necessarily incorporeal, their joint conjunction too will have to be not corporeal but incorporeal.

Mais on ne peut concevoir le corps séparé de ces dimensions. Là où il n’existe ni longueur, ni largeur, ni profondeur, il n’est pas non plus possible de concevoir un corps. Mais si l’agrégat de ces dimensions constitue le corps, puisque chacune est incorporelle et que ce qui est composé d’incorporels est nécessairement incorporel, il faudra que leur réunion commune soit non pas un corps, mais un incorporel.