and so too that the whole holds the parts.-(4) That which hinders a thing from moving or acting according to its own impulse is said to hold it, as pillars hold the incumbent weights, and as the poets make Atlas hold the heavens, implying that otherwise they would collapse on the earth, as some of the natural philosophers also say.
adibidez, zutabeek beren gaineko pisuak dauzkate eta, modu berean, 20) olerkariek Atlasi ortzia "edukiarazten" diote, bestela hau lur gainera eroriko litzateke, fisiologo batzuek baieztatzen duten bezala.