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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.65.9–I.49.65.10
Ancient Greek
p. 151265.9
Πρὸς δὴ ταῦτα δοκοῦντα τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις οἱ μὲν τὴν κατ᾽ ἀριθμὸν ἰσότητα ἢ πολλαπλασίωσιν, οἱ δὲ τὸ ἀντιπάσχειν τὰ αὐτὰ ἅπερ οἱ δράσαντες προηδίκησαν, οἱ δὲ τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν τῆς κακίας, οἱ δὲ ἄλλο τι τοιοῦτον ὑποτίθενται ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς τὸ λυσιτελοῦν, καὶ περὶ ταύτας τὰς αἱρέσεις ἑλίσσονται οἱ πολλοὶ Πλατωνικοὶ καὶ Πυθαγόρειοι.
65.10
Καὶ μὴν τῆς γε καθάρσεως ἀφαίρεσις τῶν ἀλλοτρίων, ἀπόδοσις τῆς οἰκείας οὐσίας, τελειότης, ἀποπλήρωσις, αὐτάρκεια, ἄνοδος ἐπὶ τὴν γεννησαμένην αἰτίαν, συναφὴ πρὸς τὰ ὅλα τῶν μερῶν, δόσις ἀπὸ τῶν ὅλων εἰς τὰ μεριστὰ δυνάμεως καὶ ζωῆς καὶ ἐνεργείας καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα νοείσθω ὡς πάντων χρησιμώτατα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 151365.9 · Competing accounts of punishment
In relation to these views of the older thinkers, some posit numerical equality or multiplication as the benefit derived from punishment; others, suffering in return the very wrongs that the perpetrators previously inflicted; others, release from vice; and others, something else of that kind. Most Platonists and Pythagoreans revolve around these positions.1816
65.10 · The fullest benefits of purification
As for purification, let the following be understood as its most beneficial results: removal of what is foreign, restoration of one’s proper essence, perfection, fulfillment, self-sufficiency, ascent to the cause that brought one forth, conjunction of the parts with the wholes, and the bestowal of power, life, and activity from the wholes upon particular things, together with other results of this kind.1817
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