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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.16.1
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p. 106616.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ.
Ἀποκρίνου δή, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ᾧ ἄν τι ἐγγένηται σώματι, ζῶν ἔσται; - ᾯ ἂν ψυχή, ἔφη. - Οὐκοῦν ἀεὶ τοῦτο οὕτως ἔχει; - Πῶς γὰρ οὐχί, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς. - Ἡ ψυχὴ ἄρα ὅ τι ἂν αὐτὴ κατάσχῃ, ἀεὶ ἥξει ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνο φέρουσα ζωήν; - Ἥκει μέντοι, ἔφη. - Πότερον δ᾽ ἔστι τι ζωῇ ἐναντίον ἢ οὐδέν; - Ἔστιν, ἔφη. - Τί; - Θάνατος. - Οὐκοῦν ψυχὴ τὸ ἐναντίον ᾧ αὐτὴ ἐπιφέρει ἀεὶ οὐ μήποτε δέξεται, ὡς ἐκ τῶν πρόσθεν ὡμολόγηται; - Καὶ μάλα σφόδρα, ἔφη ὁ Κέβης.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 106716.1 · Plato: soul brings life
In the same work.
“Answer me, then,” he said. “What must enter a body for it to be alive?”
“Soul,” he said.
“And is this always so?”
“Of course,” he said.
“Then whatever the soul itself takes possession of, it will always come to it bringing life?”
“It does indeed,” he said.
“Is there something contrary to life, or nothing?”
“There is,” he said.
“What?”
“Death.”
“Then soul will never admit the contrary of what it always brings with it, as has been agreed from what went before?”
“Most certainly,” said Cebes.1336
Socrates
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