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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.16.7–I.49.16.8
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p. 107416.7
Ὁ δέ γε θεός, οἶμαι, ἔφη ὁ Σωκράτης, καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ τῆς ζωῆς εἶδος καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο ἀθάνατόν ἐστι, παρὰ πάντων ἂν ὁμολογηθείη μηδέποτε ἀπόλλυσθαι. - Παρὰ πάντων μέντοι νὴ Δί᾽, ἔφη, ἀνθρώπων τέ γε καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον, ὡς ἐγᾦμαι, παρὰ θεῶν. - Ὁπότε δὴ τὸ ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀδιάφθορόν ἐστιν, ἄλλο τι ψυχὴ ἢ εἰ ἀθάνατος τυγχάνει οὖσα, καὶ ἀνώλεθρος ἂν εἴη; - Πολλὴ ἀνάγκη.
16.8
Ἐπιόντος ἄρα θανάτου ἐπὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸ μὲν θνητόν, ὡς ἔοικεν, αὐτοῦ ἀποθνῄσκει, τὸ δ᾽ ἀθάνατον σῶον καὶ ἀδιάφθορον οἴχεται ἀπιόν, ὑπεκχωρῆσαν τῷ θανάτῳ. - Φαίνεται. - Παντὸς μᾶλλον ἄρα, ἔφη, ὦ Κέβης, ἔσονται ἡμῶν αἱ ψυχαὶ ἐν Ἅιδου.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 107516.7 · God and the form of life
“God, I suppose,” said Socrates, “and the form of life itself, and anything else that is immortal, would be acknowledged by everyone never to perish.”
“By everyone indeed, by Zeus,” he said, “by human beings, certainly, and still more, I suppose, by gods.”
“Since, then, what is immortal is also imperishable, surely soul too, if it is immortal, would also be indestructible?”
“Entirely necessarily.”1342
16.8 · The soul’s departure
“Then when death approaches a human being, it seems that what is mortal in that person dies, while what is immortal goes away intact and imperishable, having withdrawn before death.”
“So it appears.”
“Then most certainly, Cebes,” he said, “our souls will be in Hades.”1343
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