The sun is a fiery stone.
Τὸν ἥλιον λίθον διάπυρον εἶναι.
Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.7.7 (Socrates on Anaxagoras’s teaching about the sun)
Anaxagoras
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Mind ordered all things.
Πάντα διεκόσμησε νοῦς.
DK59 B12, preserved by Simplicius, In Physica 156.13–157.4 (Diels)
For appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Ὄψις γὰρ τῶν ἀδήλων τὰ φαινόμενα
Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 7.140
He declared the sun to be a mass of red-hot metal and to be larger than the Peloponnesus.
Οὗτος ἔλεγε τὸν ἥλιον μύδρον εἶναι διάπυρον καὶ μείζω τῆς Πελοποννήσου
DL 2.8
All things were together; then came Mind and set them in order.
Πάντα χρήματα ἦν ὁμοῦ· εἶτα νοῦς ἐλθὼν αὐτὰ διεκόσμησε.
DL 2.6