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Book I Chapter 41 · I.41.1.6–I.41.1.7
Ancient Greek
p. 8201.6
Κἂν μὲν νικηθῇ τὰ δύο μέρη, μεμένηκεν ἑαυτῶν ἔρημα καὶ τοῦ ἄρχοντος· ἐὰν δὲ τὸ ἓν ἡττηθῇ, ὑπὸ τῶν δύο ἄγεται καὶ φέρεται τιμωρούμενον τῇ ἐνθάδε διαίτῃ. Οὗτός ἐστιν, ὦ τέκνον, ὁ τῆς ἐκεῖσε ὁδοῦ ἀγών· δεῖ γάρ σε, ὦ τέκνον, πρῶτον τὸ σῶμα πρὸ τοῦ τέλους ἐγκαταλεῖψαι καὶ νικῆσαι τὸν ἐναγώνιον βίον καὶ νικήσαντα οὕτως ἀνελθεῖν.
1.7
Νῦν δέ, ὦ τέκνον, ⟨ἐν⟩ κεφαλαίοις τὰ ὄντα διεξελεύσομαι· νοήσεις γὰρ τὰ λεγόμενα μεμνημένος ὧν ἤκουσας.
Πάντα τὰ ὄντα κινεῖται· μόνον τὸ μὴ ὂν ἀκίνητον.
Πᾶν σῶμα μεταβλητόν, οὐ πᾶν σῶμα διαλυτόν· [ἔνια τῶν σωμάτων διαλυτά].
Οὐ πᾶν ζῷον θνητόν, οὐ πᾶν ζῷον ἀθάνατον.
Τὸ διαλυτὸν φθαρτόν, τὸ μένον ἀμετάβλητον, ⟨τὸ ἀμετάβλητον⟩ ἀίδιον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 41
p. 8211.6 · Victory and ascent
If the two parts are defeated, they remain bereft of themselves and of their ruler; but if the one is defeated, it is swept along by the two, punished by its life here.1062 This, my child, is the contest on the road that leads there. For you must first leave the body behind before the end, my child, and prevail over the life of struggle; having prevailed, then ascend.1063
1.7 · Summaries: motion and dissolution
Now, my child, I shall go through the things that exist ⟨in⟩ summary statements. You will understand what is said by remembering what you have heard.
Everything that exists moves; only what does not exist is motionless.
Every body can change; not every body can dissolve. [Some bodies can dissolve.]
Not every living being is mortal; not every living being is immortal.
What can dissolve can perish; what remains is unchanging; ⟨what is unchanging⟩ is everlasting.1064
Socrates
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