Loss = change. A therapeutic identity: TERMἀποβολή (loss) is nothing but μεταβολή (change). And in this change TERM"the nature of the Whole" (ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις) DOGMA"delights" (χαίρει) — nothing is lost into non-being, everything passes over (cf. 4.36 "everything is a seed"; 9.19). To draw the sting of loss is to see in it not a subtraction but a change of form.

Theodicy by reductio. Then the argument: DOGMA"by which all comes to be well" (πάντα καλῶς γίνεται), uniformly from eternity into infinity. And the rhetorical blow: "will you say that all comes to be badly and always will, and that among so many gods no power was found to right it — and the cosmos stands condemned to unceasing evils?" The absurdity of the conclusion proves the premise: the cosmos is ordered by a good Logos, and to murmur at change is to charge the gods with impotence. The governing discipline is desire.