Beginning and first
And so that we may understand more clearly, we shall take another thing. If several logs should lie near one another, we shall find the beginning in all of them — for each log, even to the last, has its own beginning — but only the one lying first has the first. And the first, being first according to position, has also its own beginning. Those that follow, having fallen out of the first, each have their own beginning.
Greek
Καὶ [ἵν]α σαφ[έστερον σ]υνῶμε[ν], [ἕτ]ερόν [τι λη]ψ[ό]μεθα· εἰ ξύλα [πλεί]ονα κέοιτο πλησίον ἀλ[λήλω]ν, ἐπὶ μὲν πάντων τὴ[ν] ἀρχὴν εὑρήσομεν – ἔχει γὰρ ἕκαστον ξύλον μέχρι καὶ τοῦ τελευταίου ἀρχὴν ἰδίαν –, ἓν δὲ μόνον τὸ πρῶτον κείμενον ἔχει τὸ πρῶτον. Καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον κατὰ τὴν θέσιν πρῶτον ὂν ἔχει|| καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀρχήν, τὰ δὲ ἑξῆς ἐκπεσόντα τοῦ πρώτου ἔχει ἕκαστον ἀρχὴν τὴν αὐτοῦ.