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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.36.6–I.49.36.7
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p. 118036.6
ἔχει δὲ καὶ καθ᾽ αὐτὴν οἰκείας κινήσεις, ὅσαι τοῦ συνθέτου ζῴου ἀπολελυμέναι αὐταὶ καθ᾽ αὐτὰς [ἀπόλυτοι] τὰς κατ᾽ οὐσίαν ζωὰς τῆς ψυχῆς ἐνεργοῦσιν, οἷαί δή εἰσιν αἱ τῶν ἐνθουσιασμῶν καὶ τῶν ἀΰλων νοήσεων καὶ συλλήβδην ἐκείνων, καθ᾽ ἃς τοῖς θεοῖς συναπτόμεθα.
36.7
Οὐ μὴν ἔτι γε τούτοις συγχωροῦσιν οἱ σῶμα τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπολαμβάνοντες, οἷον οἱ Στωικοὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πλείονες· οὐδ᾽ ὅσοι συγκεκρᾶσθαι αὐτὴν εἰς τὴν γένεσιν οἴονται, ὥσπερ οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν φυσικῶν· οὐδὲ ὅσοι βλάστημα αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῶν σωμάτων ποιοῦσιν ἐν ἁρμονίας εἴδει οὖσαν. Πάντες γὰρ οὗτοι σωματοειδεῖς τὰς κινήσεις αὐτῇ ἀποδιδόασιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 118136.6 · Motions proper to soul itself
but it also possesses motions proper to itself: those which, released from the composite living being, by themselves [unbound] put into activity the lives belonging to soul’s substance. Such are the motions of divine inspiration and of immaterial acts of understanding, and, in general, those through which we are joined to the gods.1453
36.7 · Accounts that make soul bodily
Those who suppose soul to be a body, such as the Stoics and many others, no longer agree with these claims. Nor do those who think it blended into the realm of becoming, as most natural philosophers do; nor those who make it an outgrowth of bodies, existing in the form of a harmony. All these thinkers attribute motions of a bodily character to it.1454
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