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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.32.5–I.49.32.6
Ancient Greek
p. 115032.5
Μετὰ δὴ ταῦτα τοὺς εἰς μαθηματικὴν οὐσίαν ἐντιθέντας τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς καταλέγω διευκρινημένως. Ἔστι δὴ γένος ἕν τι αὐτῆς τὸ σχῆμα, πέρας ὂν διαστάσεως, καὶ αὐτὴ ⟨ἡ⟩ διάστασις. Ἐν αὐτοῖς μὲν οὖν τούτοις Σεβῆρος ὁ Πλατωνικὸς αὐτὴν ἀφωρίσατο, ἐν ἰδέᾳ δὲ τοῦ πάντῃ διαστατοῦ Σπεύσιππος· ἐν αἰτίᾳ δὲ ἤτοι ἑνώσει τούτων ἄλλος ἄν τις καθαρώτερον αὐτὴν προστήσαιτο τελεώτατα.
32.6
Πάλιν τοίνυν ὁ ἀριθμὸς ἐν ἑτέρῳ γένει κεῖται. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτον ἁπλῶς μὲν οὕτως ἔνιοι τῶν Πυθαγορείων τῇ ψυχῇ συναρμόζουσιν· ὡς δ᾽ αὐτοκίνητον Ξενοκράτης, ὡς δὲ ⟨ἐν⟩ λόγοις περιέχουσιν Μοδέρατος ὁ Πυθαγόρειος, ὡς δὲ κριτικὸν κοσμουργοῦ θεοῦ ὄργανον Ἵππασος, ὁ ἀκουσματικὸς τῶν Πυθαγορείων·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 115132.5 · Geometrical definitions
Next I set out distinctly those who place the substance of soul within mathematical substance. One kind of this is figure, the limit of extension, together with ⟨the⟩ extension itself. Severus the Platonist defined soul in terms of these very things, while Speusippus placed it in the form of that which is extended in every direction. Someone else might posit it more purely and most completely in their cause, that is, their unification.1418
32.6 · Number and its different interpretations
Number, in turn, belongs to another class. Some Pythagoreans connect number with soul simply as it is; Xenocrates does so as self-moving number; Moderatus the Pythagorean, as number ⟨in⟩ encompassing rational principles; and Hippasus, the “hearer” among the Pythagoreans, as a discriminating instrument of the god who fashions the cosmos;1419
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