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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.8.4–I.49.8.5
Ancient Greek
p. 10088.4
Τί οὖν; ἔφη, τῷ ζῆν ἐστί τι ἐναντίον, ὥσπερ τῷ ἐγρηγορέναι τὸ καθεύδειν; - Πάνυ μὲν οὖν, ἔφη. - Τί; - Τὸ τεθνάναι, ἔφη. - Οὐκοῦν ἐξ ἀλλήλων τε γίγνεται ταῦτα, εἴπερ ἐναντία ἐστί, καὶ αἱ γενέσεις εἰσὶν αὐτοῖν μεταξὺ δύο δυοῖν ὄντων; - Πῶς γὰρ οὔ;
8.5
Τὴν μὲν τοίνυν ἑτέραν συζυγίαν ὧν νῦν δὴ ἔλεγον ἐγώ σοι, ἔφη, ἐρῶ, ὁ Σωκράτης, καὶ αὐτὴν καὶ τὰς γενέσεις· σὺ δέ μοι τὴν ἑτέραν. Λέγω δὲ τὸ μὲν καθεύδειν, τὸ δὲ ἐγρηγορέναι, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ καθεύδειν τὸ ἐγρηγορέναι γίγνεσθαι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἐγρηγορέναι τὸ καθεύδειν καὶ τὰς γενέσεις αὐτῶν τὴν μὲν καταδαρθάνειν εἶναι, τὴν δὲ ἀνεγείρεσθαι. Ἱκανῶς σοι ἔφην ἢ οὔ; - Πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 10098.4 · Living and being dead
“What then?” he said. “Does living have an opposite, as sleeping is opposite to being awake?”
“Certainly,” he said.
“What is it?”
“Being dead,” he said.
“Then these arise from one another, if they are opposites, and there are two processes of becoming between them, since they are two?”
“Of course.”1288
8.5 · The comparison with sleep and waking
“I will describe one of the two pairs I was just speaking of,” said Socrates, “both the pair itself and the processes of becoming; you describe the other to me. I mean sleeping and being awake: being awake arises from sleeping, and sleeping from being awake. Of their processes of becoming, one is falling asleep and the other waking up. Have I explained it sufficiently to you, or not?”
“Certainly.”1289
Socrates
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