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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.54.5–I.49.54.6
Ancient Greek
p. 139854.5
Εἰ δὴ τοῖς οἰκείοις ἐντυγχάνοντες οὔτε ὁρῶσιν αὐτοὺς οὔτε προσδιαλέγονται, ἀνενέργητοι δέ εἰσιν αἰσθητικὴν ἐνέργειαν, πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐοικότες εἶεν ⟨ἂν⟩ ταῖς σκιαῖς· ἡ γοῦν Ἀντίκλεια
ἡ δ᾽ ἀκέουσ᾽ ἧσται σχεδὸν αἵματος, οὐδὲ ὃν υἱὸν ἔτλη ἐσάντα ἰδεῖν οὐδὲ προτιμυθήσασθαι.54.6
Τὸ δ᾽ αἷμα, ὡς ἔφημεν, ὁλκὸν Ὅμηρος ἡγεῖται τῆς φανταστικῆς καὶ μνημονικῆς ψυχῆς, ἧς καὶ ὁ λογισμός, συναγερμὸς ὢν μνήμης διὰ φαντασιῶν εἰς τὰ καθόλου κρίματα κεφαλαιουμένης. Ἄλλο δ᾽ ἦν τὸ διανοητικόν, εἰς ὃ ἀνατρέχει ⟨ἡ⟩ ψυχὴ ἔσω τοῦ Ἀχέροντος γενομένη, ὃν Κωκυτός πληροῖ καὶ Πυριφλεγέθων, ἐκ πέτρας ῥέοντες καὶ Στυγείων φόβων ἀπόρροιαι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 139954.5 · Anticlea before drinking the blood
If, then, on meeting their own people, they neither see them nor converse with them, but are inactive in respect of sensory activity, they ⟨would⟩ resemble shadows in relation to those people. Anticlea, for example:
She sits silent near the blood, and did not dare to look her own son in the face or speak to him.1679
54.6 · Blood, reasoning, and intellect
Blood, as we said, Homer regards as attracting the imaginative and remembering soul. Reasoning too belongs to this soul, being a gathering of memory that is summed up through images into universal judgments. The intellectual faculty was something different: ⟨the⟩ soul returns to it once inside Acheron, which Cocytus and Pyriphlegethon fill, flowing from a rock and being outflows of Stygian terrors.1680
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