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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.29.1–I.49.29.2
Ancient Greek
p. 113029.1 · Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας ιʹ
Πλάτωνος Πολιτείας ιʹ.
Οὐκοῦν ὁπότε μηδ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἑνὸς ἀπόλλυται κακοῦ, μήτε οἰκείου μήτε ἀλλοτρίου, δῆλον ὅτι ἀνάγκη αὐτὸ ἀεὶ ὂν εἶναι· εἰ δ᾽ ἀεὶ ὄν, ἀθάνατον. - Ἀνάγκη, ἔφη. - Τοῦτο μὲν τοίνυν, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, οὕτως ἐχέτω.
29.2
Εἰ δ᾽ ἔχει, ἐννοεῖς ὅτι ἀεὶ ἂν εἶεν αἱ αὐταί. Οὔτε γὰρ ἄν που ἐλάττους γένοιντο μηδεμιᾶς ἀπολλυμένης, οὔτε αὖ πλείους· εἰ γὰρ ὁτιοῦν τῶν ἀθανάτων πλέον γίγνοιτο, οἶσθ᾽ ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ θνητοῦ ἂν γίγνοιτο καὶ πάντα ἂν εἴη τελευτῶντα ἀθάνατα. - Ἀληθῆ λέγεις.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 113129.1 · Plato: what no evil destroys
From Plato’s Republic, Book X.
“Then, when it is destroyed by no evil at all, whether its own or another’s, it clearly must exist always; and if it exists always, it is immortal.”
“Necessarily,” he said.
“Then let that stand so,” I said.1400
29.2 · The number of souls
“And if it does, you realize that the souls would always be the same. They could not become fewer, since none is destroyed, nor again more numerous. For if anything immortal increased in number, you know that it would arise from what is mortal, and in the end everything would be immortal.”
“What you say is true.”1401
Socrates
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