 Anaxagoras (writing in the mid-5th c.) claims, “The Greeks [i.e., ordinary people] do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating” (DK59B17/LM25D15). What seem to be generated objects (human beings, plants, animals, the moon, the stars) are instead temporary mixtures of ingredients (such as earth, air, fire, water, hair, flesh, blood, dense, dark, rare, bright, and so on). Recent treatments of Anaxagoras (Marmodoro 2015, 2017) have suggested that the ingredients are primarily powers that manifest themselves in the mixtures  produced.[7]  The original state was universal mixture: “All things were together, unlimited both in amount and in smallness, for the small, too, was unlimited. And because all things were together, nothing was evident” (DK59B1/LM25D9). This mixture is set into rotary motion by the operation of Mind (Nous – DK59B12/LM25D27, DKB13/LM25DD29b, DK59B14/LM25D28; see discussions in Laks 1993, Lesher 1995, Menn 1995, Curd 2007), a separate cosmic entity that does not share in such mixture. As the rotation spreads out through the unlimited mass of indistinguishably intermingled ingredients, the rotation causes a winnowing or separating effect, and the cosmos as we know it emerges from the mixture. Moreover, not only were all things together, they are even now all together, in a different way, despite the differentiations now achieved. Everything is in everything (DK59B5, B6, B11/LM25D16, D25, D26), in some proportions, however small or great – this is a move to prevent even the appearance of coming-to-be from what-is-not. 