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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.16.2
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Τί οὖν; τὸ μὴ δεχόμενον τὴν τοῦ ἀρτίου ἰδέαν, τί νῦν δὴ ὀνομάζομεν; - Ἀνάρτιον, ἔφη. - Τὸ δὲ δίκαιον μὴ δεχόμενον καὶ ὃ ἂν μουσικὸν μὴ δέχηται; - Ἄμουσον, ἔφη, τὸ δὲ ἄδικον. - Εἶεν· ὃ δ᾽ ἂν θάνατον μὴ δέχηται, τί καλοῦμεν; - Ἀθάνατον, ἔφη. - Οὐκοῦν ψυχὴ οὐ δέχεται θάνατον; - Οὔ. - Ἀθάνατον ἄρα ψυχή; - Ἀθάνατον. - Εἶεν, ἔφη· τοῦτο μὲν δὴ ἀποδεδεῖχθαι φῶμεν· ἢ πῶς δοκεῖ; - Καὶ μάλα γε ἱκανῶς, ὦ Σώκρατες.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 106916.2 · What does not admit death
“What, then, do we now call what does not admit the form of the even?”
“Uneven,” he said.
“And what does not admit the just, and what does not admit the musical?”
“Unmusical,” he said, “and the other unjust.”
“Very well. And what do we call what does not admit death?”
“Immortal,” he said.
“Then soul does not admit death?”
“No.”
“Then soul is immortal?”
“Immortal.”
“Very well,” he said. “Shall we say that this, at least, has been demonstrated? Or how does it seem to you?”
“Quite adequately indeed, Socrates.”1337
Socrates
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