The Importance of Continued Quantities

If then there is that which is continued that which touches and that which is successive as was before defined. If this be the case it is impossible that anything continuous should be composed from indivisibles since a line is a continued quantity but a point is indivisible. Neither will a point be successive to a point or the now to the now so as that a length of time will consist from these four things are successive between which there is nothing of the same kind. For neither are the extremities of points one nor do the extreme subsist together for there is no extremity of that which is without parts. It is also evident that everything which is continued is divisible into things always