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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.36.4–I.49.36.5
Ancient Greek
p. 117836.4
Οὐκοῦν ὥσπερ ζωὴ κατ᾽ αὐτὸν ἦν διττή, ἡ μὲν χωριστὴ τοῦ σώματος, ἡ δὲ κοινὴ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ, οὕτω καὶ ἐνεργήματα ⟨τὰ⟩ μὲν ἴδια ἔσται τῆς ψυχῆς, τὰ δὲ κοινὰ καὶ τοῦ ἔχοντος. Καὶ τούτων τὰ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς ψυχῆς προκατάρχοντα, τὰ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν τοῦ σώματος παθημάτων ἐγειρόμενα, τὰ δὲ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἐπίσης ἀνακινούμενα· πάντα δὲ ὡς ἀπ᾽ αἰτίας τῆς ψυχῆς ὡρμημένα.
36.5
Ὥσπερ δὴ καὶ τῆς κατὰ τὴν ναῦν φορᾶς κοινῆς οὔσης πρὸς τὸν κυβερνήτην καὶ τὸν ἄνεμον, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα τοιαῦτά ἐστιν, ὡς ἄνευ αὐτῶν μὴ γίνεσθαι τὴν κίνησιν, ὁ δὲ κυβερνήτης καὶ ὁ ἄνεμος τὴν κυριωτάτην αἰτίαν περιέχουσιν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς τῆς φορᾶς, οὕτως ἄρα καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτή τε ὅλῳ χρῆται τῷ σώματι καὶ τὰ ἔργα μεταχειρίζεται, ὡς ὄργανον ἢ ὄχημα τὸ σῶμα περιέχουσα·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 117936.4 · Two lives and their operations
Accordingly, just as life for him was twofold, one life separate from the body and the other shared with it, so too, among operations, ⟨some⟩ will belong to soul alone, while others will be shared also by that which possesses it. Of these, some originate first from soul; others are awakened by the body’s affections; and others are stirred equally by both. Yet all have their impulse from soul as their cause.1451
36.5 · The helmsman, the wind, and the ship
When the movement of a ship depends jointly on the helmsman and the wind, the other factors are such that motion cannot occur without them; but the helmsman and the wind contain within themselves its principal cause. So too soul itself both uses the entire body and carries out its functions, encompassing the body as an instrument or vehicle;1452
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