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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.45.7–I.49.45.8
Ancient Greek
p. 132445.7
Ὅταν οὖν οἱ κατάγοντες αὐτὴν ἄγγελοι καὶ δαίμονες, τέκνον Ὧρε, πολεμικοὶ ὦσι, τούτων περικρατεῖν τῆς γνώμης ἡ ψυχὴ ἔχει ἡ ἐπιλαθομένη τῶν ἑαυτῆς ἔργων, μᾶλλον δὲ μεμνημένη τούτων μέχρι τῶν τῆς ἑτέρας συνοδίας προσγεγονότων·
45.8
ὅταν δὲ εἰρηνικοί, τότε καὶ αὐτὴ τὸν ἴδιον δρόμον εἰρηνοποιεῖται· ὅταν δὲ δικαστικοί, τότε καὶ αὐτὴ δικάζει· ὅταν δὲ μουσικοί, τότε καὶ αὐτὴ ᾄδει· ὅταν δὲ φιλαλήθεις, τότε καὶ αὐτὴ φιλοσοφεῖ. Ὡς γὰρ ἐξ ἀνάγκης αἱ ψυχαὶ αὗται τῆς τῶν καταγόντων περικρατοῦσι γνώμης, πίπτουσαι γὰρ εἰς τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα τῆς μὲν ἰδίας φύσεως ἐπιλαθόμεναι καὶ παρόσον μακρὰν αὐτῆς ἀπέστησαν, μέμνηνται δὲ τῆς τῶν κατακλεισάντων αὐτὰς διαθέσεως.”
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 132545.7 · The influence of a warlike escort
When, then, the angels and daimons bringing her down are warlike, my child Horus, the soul holds fast to their disposition, having forgotten her own deeds, or rather remembering them only as far as what has accrued from the other company;1600
45.8 · Peace, justice, music, and philosophy
when they are peaceful, she too makes her own course peaceful; when they are judicial, she too judges; when they are musical, she too sings; when they love truth, she too pursues philosophy. For these souls cling, as though of necessity, to the disposition of those who bring them down. Falling into humanity, they forget their own nature, insofar as they have departed far from it, but remember the disposition of those who have confined them.”1601
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