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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.25a.13–I.49.26
Ancient Greek
p. 111225a.13
Μεριστὸν οὖν τὸ ζῷον, εἰς τὴν ἐπίνοιαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ σώματος παραλαμβανομένου, ἀφ᾽ οὗ αἱ ζωτικαὶ ἐνέργειαι κατὰ ψυχῆς ἔνδοσιν δεχόμεναι τὴν εἰς μέρη τῶν διαφόρων ἐνεργειῶν κατάταξιν καὶ τῇ ψυχῇ τὸ μέρη ἔχειν προσανέθεσαν. Καὶ μήποτε διττῶς ἐπινοουμένης τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ ἐχούσης τὴν ζωήν, τήν τε καθ᾽ αὑτὴν καὶ τὴν κατὰ σχέσιν, ἐν τῇ κατὰ σχέσιν ζωῇ ὑφίσταται τὰ μέρη. Ὡς γὰρ πυρῷ σπαρέντι ἐν τῇ πρὸς τὴν γένεσιν σχέσει ὑφίσταται τὰ μέρη, τοῦ στάχυος τοῦ ὅλου οὐκ ὄντος μεριστοῦ ἐν δὲ μεριστῷ θεωρουμένου, ἀφ᾽ οὗ πάλιν ἐπάνεισιν εἰς τὸ ἀμέριστον, οὕτω καὶ ψυχῇ ἀμερίστῳ οὔσῃ ἐν τῇ σπορᾷ παρυφίσταται τὰ μέρη.
26 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ.
* * συμβαλλόμενον ἑξῆς ⟨ἂν⟩ εἴη ἐπισκέψασθαι πρὸς τὸ γνῶναι τίνες διὰ τὴν ψυχὴν ζῷα προβέβληνται ὡς δι᾽ αὐτήν, καὶ τίνες διὰ τὴν μετ᾽ αὐτήν, καὶ τίνες διὰ τὸ ζῷον. Οὕτως γὰρ καὶ αἱ ὑποστάσεις πρόδηλοι καὶ τίνες αἱ ἀνάγκαι εἰς τὴν καθ᾽ αὑτὴν ἐπάνοδον ἔσονται τῶν ἐν μέρει τοῦ σώματος μέρη ψυχῆς κατακλειόντων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 111325a.13 · Life in itself and life in relation
The living creature is therefore divisible, since body too is included in its conception. From this, the vital activities, imparted by soul and receiving their distribution as different activities among parts, have attributed the possession of parts to soul as well. Perhaps, then, since soul is conceived in two ways and possesses life both in itself and in relation, the parts subsist in its relational life. For when a grain of wheat is sown, its parts come to subsist in its relation to generation: the whole ear is not divisible but is contemplated in what is divisible, from which it returns again to the indivisible. So too, although soul is indivisible, parts arise alongside it in its sowing.1381
26 · A damaged fragment on the sources of life
In the same work.
. . . . . It ⟨would⟩ next be helpful to examine, in order to know, which have been brought forth as living creatures through soul, as through soul itself, and which through the one that comes after it, and which through the living creature. For in this way the modes of subsistence will be evident, and it will be clear what necessities require those who confine parts of soul within a part of the body to return to soul in itself.1382
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