Parmenidean Fragments, 11

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Burnet translation

11how the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the sky that is common to all, and the Milky Way, and the outermost Olympos, and the burning might of the stars arose.

Greek text: Diels edition

11πῶς γαῖα καὶ ἥλιος ἠδὲ σελήνη

αἰθήρ τε ξυνὸς γάλα τ᾽ οὐράνιον καὶ ὄλυμπος

ἔσχατος ἠδ᾽ ἄστρων θερμὸν μένος ὡρμήθησαν

γίγνεσθαι.