Section 47
CHAPTER XLVIII — WHENCE THE STARS RECEIVE THEIR LIGHT.
'METRODORUS: the fixed stars are all illumined by the Sun.
'Heracleitus and the Stoics: the stars are fed from the exhalation of the Earth.
'Aristotle: the heavenly bodies have no need of nourishment; for they are not perishable but eternal.
'Plato: there is a common nourishment of the whole world and of the stars from themselves.'