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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.13.7
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Τί δέ; οὐχ οὕτως ἁρμονία πέφυκεν εἶναι ἑκάστη ἁρμονία, ὡς ἂν ἁρμοσθῇ; - Οὐ μανθάνω, ἔφη. - Ἢ οὐχί, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ἐὰν μὲν μᾶλλον ἁρμοσθῇ καὶ ἐπὶ πλέον, εἴπερ ἐνδέχεται τοῦτο γίγνεσθαι, μᾶλλόν τε ἂν ἁρμονία εἴη καὶ πλείων· εἰ δ᾽ ἧττόν τε καὶ ἐπὶ ἔλαττον, ἧττόν τε καὶ ἐλάττων; - Πάνυ γε. - Ἦ οὖν ἐστι τοῦτο περὶ ψυχήν, ὥστε κατὰ τὸ σμικρότατον μᾶλλον ἑτέραν ἑτέρας ψυχὴν ἐπὶ πλέον καὶ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ ἔλαττον καὶ ἧττον αὐτὸ τοῦτ᾽ εἶναι, ψυχήν; - Οὐδ᾽ ὁπωστιοῦν, ἔφη.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 104513.7 · Degrees of harmony and of soul
“What, then? Is not each harmony naturally a harmony according to the way it is attuned?”
“I do not understand,” he said.
“If it is attuned more fully and to a greater degree,” he said, “assuming this can happen, would it not be more of a harmony and a greater one; and if less fully and to a smaller degree, less of a harmony and a smaller one?”
“Certainly.”
“Does this also apply to soul: can one soul be, even in the slightest degree, more or less than another in this very respect, being a soul?”
“Not in any way,” he said.1317
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