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Book I Chapter 47 · I.47.14.1–I.47.14.2
Ancient Greek
p. 94214.1 · ⟨Ἐν ταὐτῷ⟩
⟨Ἐν ταὐτῷ.⟩
Καὶ μὴν τό γε ἕτερον εἶδος τῶν ἡδονῶν, ὃ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς εἶναι ἔφαμεν, διὰ μνήμης πᾶν ἐστι γεγονός.
Πῶς;
Μνήμην, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὅ τι ποτ᾽ ἐστί, πρότερον ἀναληπτέον· καὶ κινδυνεύει πάλιν ἔτι πρότερον αἴσθησιν μνήμης, εἰ μέλλει ταῦθ᾽ ἡμῖν κατὰ τρόπον φανερά πῃ γενήσεσθαι.
Πῶς φῄς;
14.2
Θὲς τῶν περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἡμῶν ἑκάστοτε παθημάτων τὰ μὲν ἐν τῷ σώματι κατασβεννύμενα πρὶν ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχὴν διεξελθεῖν, ἀπαθῆ ἐκείνην ἐάσαντα, τὰ δὲ δι᾽ ἀμφοῖν ἰόντα καί τινα ὥσπερ σεισμὸν ἐντιθέντα ἴδιόν τε καὶ κοινὸν ἑκατέρῳ.
Κείσθω.
Τὰ μὲν μὴ δι᾽ ἀμφοῖν ἰόντα ἐὰν τὴν ψυχὴν ἡμῶν ⟨φῶμεν⟩ λανθάνειν, τὰ δὲ δι᾽ ἀμφοῖν μὴ λανθάνειν, ἆρ᾽ ὀρθότατα ἐροῦμεν;
Πῶς γὰρ οὔ;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 47
p. 94314.1 · ⟨In the same work⟩: memory and sensation
⟨In the same work.⟩
“Moreover, the other kind of pleasure, which we said belongs to the soul itself, has all come about through memory.”
“How?”
“We must first take up what memory actually is, it seems; and probably sensation must be taken up even before memory, if these matters are to become suitably clear to us in some way.”
“What do you mean?”1211
14.2 · Affections that do and do not reach the soul
“Suppose that, among the affections that occur in our body, some die out within the body before passing through to the soul and leave it unaffected; others pass through both and produce something like a shaking, at once peculiar to each and shared by both.”
“Let that be supposed.”
“If we ⟨say⟩ that the affections not passing through both escape our soul’s notice, while those passing through both do not, shall we be speaking quite correctly?”
“Of course.”1212
Socrates
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