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Book I Chapter 9 · I.9.14–I.9.15
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p. 28014 Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Οὕτω πᾶν πάντως γε καλὸν ἕνεκα ἀρετῆς χαρίζεσθαι. οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τῆς οὐρανίας θεοῦ ἔρως καὶ οὐράνιος καὶ πολλοῦ ἄξιος καὶ πόλει καὶ ἰδιώταις, πολλὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ἀναγκάζων ποιεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀρετὴν τόν τε ἐρῶντα αὐτὸν αὑτοῦ καὶ τὸν ἐρώμενον· οἱ δ’ ἕτεροι πάντες τῆς ἑτέρας, τῆς πανδήμου.
15 Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Τὸ μὲν γὰρ διπλοῦν εἶναι τὸν Ἔρωτα δοκεῖ μοι καλῶς διελέσθαι· ὅτι δὲ οὐ μόνον ἐστὶν ἐπὶ ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρὸς τοὺς καλούς, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις, τοῖς τε σώμασι τῶν πάντων ζῴων καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῇ γῇ φυομένοις καὶ ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς οὖσι, καθεωρακέναι μοι δοκῶ ἐκ τῆς ἰατρικῆς, τῆς ἡμετέρας τέχνης, ὡς μέγας καὶ θαυμαστὸς καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν ὁ θεὸς τείνει καὶ κατὰ τἀνθρώπινα καὶ κατὰ τὰ θεῖα πράγματα· ἄρξομαι δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἰατρικῆς λέγων, ἵνα πρεσβεύωμεν τὴν τέχνην. Ἡ γὰρ φύσις τῶν σωμάτων τὸν διπλοῦν ἔρωτα τοῦτον ἔχει· τὸ γὰρ ὑγιὲς τοῦ σώματος καὶ τὸ νοσοῦν ὁμολογοῦμεν ὡς ἕτερόν τε καὶ ἀνόμοιόν ἐστι, τὸ δὲ ἀνόμοιον ἀνομοίων ἐπιθυμεῖ καὶ ἐρᾷ. Ἄλλος μὲν οὖν ὁ ἐπὶ τῷ ὑγιεινῷ ἔρως, ἄλλος δὲ ὁ ἐπὶ τῷ νοσώδει.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 9
p. 28114 In the same work (185b-c)
In this way, to grant every favor for the sake of virtue is certainly noble. This is the love belonging to the Heavenly goddess: it too is Heavenly, and of great worth both to a city and to private persons. It compels lover and beloved alike to take great care over their own virtue. All other loves belong to the other goddess, the Common one.316
15 In the same work (186a-b)
I think he was right to distinguish Love as twofold. But Love is present not only in human souls in their attraction to beautiful people: it has many other objects and exists in other things too, in the bodies of all animals, in plants growing in the earth, and, one might say, in everything that exists. I believe I have learned from medicine, our own art, how great and wonderful the god is, and how he extends over everything in both human and divine affairs. I shall begin with medicine, to give our art its due honor. The nature of bodies contains this twofold love: we agree that what is healthy in the body differs from and is unlike what is diseased, and unlike things desire and love unlike objects. Thus the love present in what is healthy is one kind, and that in what is diseased another.317
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