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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.8.6
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Λέγε δὴ καὶ σύ μοι, ἔφη, οὕτω περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου. Οὐκ ἐναντίον μὲν φῂς τῷ ζῆν τὸ τεθνάναι εἶναι; - Ἔγωγε. - Γίγνεσθαι δὲ ἐξ ἀλλήλων; - Ναί. - Ἐξ οὖν τοῦ ζῶντος τί τὸ γιγνόμενον; - Τὸ τεθνηκός, ἔφη. - ⟨Τί δέ, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ἐκ τοῦ τεθνεῶτος; - Ἀναγκαῖον, ἔφη, ὁμολογεῖν,⟩ ὅτι τὸ ζῶν. - Ἐκ τῶν τεθνεώτων ἄρα, ὦ Κέβης, τὰ ζῶντά τε καὶ οἱ ζῶντες γίγνονται; - Φαίνεται, ἔφη. - Εἰσὶν ἄρα, ἔφη, αἱ ψυχαὶ ἡμῶν ἐν Ἅιδου. - Ἔοικεν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 10118.6 · From the living to the dead and back
“Now you tell me in the same way,” he said, “about life and death. Do you not say that being dead is opposite to living?” “I do.”
“And that they arise from one another?” “Yes.”
“Then what arises from what is living?” “What is dead,” he said.
⟨“And what,” he said, “arises from what is dead?” “One must admit,” he said,⟩ “that it is what is living.”
“Then living things and living people arise from the dead, Cebes?” “It appears so,” he said.
“Then our souls exist in Hades,” he said. “So it seems.”1290
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