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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.64.1–I.49.64.2
Ancient Greek
p. 149264.1
Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας ιʹ.
Ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μέντοι σοί, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, Ἀλκίνου γε ἀπόλογον ἐρῶ, ἀλλ᾽ ἀλκίμου μὲν ἀνδρός, Ἠρὸς τοῦ Ἀρμενίου, τὸ γένος Παμφύλου· ὅς ποτε ἐν πολέμῳ τελευτήσας, ἀναιρεθέντων δεκαταίων τῶν νεκρῶν ἤδη διεφθαρμένων, ὑγιὴς μὲν ἀνηρέθη, κομισθεὶς δ᾽ οἴκαδε, μέλλων θάπτεσθαι, δωδεκαταῖος ἐπὶ τῇ πυρᾷ κείμενος ἀνεβίω, ἀναβιοὺς δ᾽ ἔλεγεν ἃ ἐκεῖ ἴδοι.
64.2
Ἔφη δέ· ἐπειδὴ οὗ ἐκβῆναι τὴν ψυχήν, πορεύεσθαι μετὰ πολλῶν καὶ ἀφικνεῖσθαι σφᾶς εἰς τόπον τινὰ δαιμόνιον, ἐν ᾧ τῆς τε γῆς δύο εἶναι χάσματα ἐχομένω ἀλλήλοιν καὶ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ αὖ ἐν τῷ ἄνω ἄλλα κατ᾽ ἀντικρύ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 149364.1 · Plato: Er returns to life
Plato, Republic, Book X.
“Yet I shall not tell you a tale of Alcinous,” I said, “but one of a valiant man, Er son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth. He once died in war. When the bodies were gathered on the tenth day, already decaying, his was taken up intact. He was brought home for burial, and on the twelfth day, as he lay on the funeral pyre, he returned to life. Having revived, he told what he had seen in the other world.”1790
64.2 · The four openings
He said that when his soul left him, it journeyed with many others, and they reached a certain supernatural place. There were two openings in the earth beside one another, and two others in the heaven above, directly opposite them.1791
Socrates
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