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Book I Chapter 48 · I.48.8.2–I.48.8.3
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p. 9748.2
Ἤδη τοίνυν [περὶ τοῦ νοῦ] πολλοὶ μὲν Περιπατητικοὶ τὸν ἐκ σπέρματος καὶ [τὸν] ἀπὸ τῆς φύσεως ἄλλον νοῦν ὑποθέμενοι, ὡς αὐτίκα μάλα ἀποβλαστάνοντα ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης γενέσεως, καὶ χωριστὸν καὶ θύραθεν ἐπικαλούμενον ἕτερον παραγίγνεσθαι λέγουσιν ὀψιαίτατα, ἐπειδὰν τελειωθῇ μὲν ὁ κατὰ δύναμιν νοῦς, ἐπιτηδείως δὲ μετέχῃ τῆς κατ᾽ ἐνέργειαν νοήσεως.
8.3
Πολλοὶ δὲ αὐτῶν τῶν Πλατωνικῶν καὶ τὸν νοῦν τῇ ψυχῇ ἅμα τῇ πρώτῃ εἰσόδῳ αὐτῆς εἰς τὸ σῶμα συνεισάγουσιν, οὐδὲ εἶναι ὅλως ἑτέραν μὲν αὐτήν, ἕτερον δὲ αὐτῆς τὸν νοῦν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 48
p. 9758.2 · Two intellects in Peripatetic accounts
Now, then, [concerning intellect,] many Peripatetics posit one intellect arising from seed and from nature, as sprouting immediately from the first generation. They say that another, separable and summoned from outside, arrives very late, when the potential intellect has reached completion and is suitably disposed to participate in actual thinking.1245
8.3 · Intellect entering with the soul
Many of the Platonists themselves also bring intellect in together with soul at its first entrance into the body, and hold that soul and intellect are not distinct from one another at all.1246
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