Or as Anaximenes of old believed, let us leave neither the cold nor the hot in the category of substance, but [hold them to be] common attributes of matter which come as the results of its changes. For he declares that the contracted state of matter and the condensed state is cold, whereas what is fine and 'loose' (calling it this way with this very word) is hot. As a result he said that it is not claimed unreasonably that a person releases both hot and cold from his mouth. For the breath becomes cold when compressed and condensed by the lips, and when the mouth is relaxed, the escaping air becomes warm because of rareness.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Or as Anaximenes of old believed, let us leave neither the cold nor the hot in the category of substance, but [hold them to be] common attributes of matter which come as the results of its changes. For he declares that the contracted state of matter and the condensed state is cold, whereas what is fine and 'loose' (calling it this way with this very word) is hot. As a result he said that it is not claimed unreasonably that a person releases both hot and cold from his mouth. For the breath becomes cold when compressed and condensed by the lips, and when the mouth is relaxed, the escaping air becomes warm because of rareness." in the context of "Plutarch, The Principle of Cold 7 947F = DK 13B1, tr. Richard McKirahan, p. 50" to mean that wisdom is timeless.