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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.68.7–I.49.68.9
Ancient Greek
p. 153268.7
Τὸ τοίνυν ἐξ ἑνὸς καὶ οὐκ ἐξ ἄλλου ἀδύνατον ἑτέρῳ ἀναμιγῆναι· ὅθεν δεῖ καὶ τὴν πρὸς τὸ σῶμα αὐτῆς σύνοδον ἁρμονίαν θεοῦ ὑπὸ ἀνάγκης γενομένην εἶναι.
68.8
Ὅτι δὲ οὔτε εἰς ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν τόπον χυδαίως, οὔτε εἰκῇ καὶ ὡς ἔτυχεν, ἀλλὰ ἑκάστη ἐπὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀναπέμπεται χώραν, φανερὸν καὶ ἐξ ὧν ἔτι ἐν τῷ σώματι οὖσα καὶ τῷ πλάσματι πάσχει [γὰρ] παρὰ τὴν ἰδίαν φύσιν πεπαχυμμένη.
68.9
Ἀλλὰ καὶ πρόσχες, ὦ περιπόθητε Ὧρε, τῷ λεγομένῳ ὁμοιώματι. Φέρε γὰρ εἰς ἓν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ συσχετήριον ἐγκεκλεῖσθαι ἀνθρώπους τε καὶ ἀετοὺς καὶ περιστερὰς καὶ κύκνους καὶ ἱέρακας καὶ χελιδόνας καὶ στρουθοὺς καὶ μυίας καὶ ὄφεις καὶ λέοντας καὶ παρδάλεις καὶ λύκους καὶ κύνας καὶ λαγωοὺς καὶ βόας καὶ ποίμνια καὶ τινα τῶν τῆς κοινότητος ἐχομένων ζῴων, οἱονεὶ φώκας καὶ ἐνύδρεις καὶ χελώνας καὶ τοὺς ἡμετέρους κροκοδείλους·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 153368.7 · Its union with the body
“What comes from one source and not from another cannot be mingled with something different. Its conjunction with the body must therefore be an arrangement made by the god under necessity.”1843
68.8 · Each soul returns to its own region
“That souls are not sent up indiscriminately to one and the same place, nor at random and as chance directs, but each to its own region, is evident even from what a soul experiences [for] while still in the body and its molded form, thickened contrary to its own nature.”1844
68.9 · An enclosure containing many creatures
“Attend also, dearly loved Horus, to the comparison I am about to give. Imagine human beings, eagles, doves, swans, hawks, swallows, sparrows, flies, snakes, lions, leopards, wolves, dogs, hares, oxen, and sheep shut in one and the same enclosure, together with some creatures that share both environments, such as seals, otters, turtles, and our crocodiles.”1845
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