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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.33.3–I.49.33.4
Ancient Greek
p. 116433.3
Ταύτῃ τοίνυν αἱ δυνάμεις αὐτῆς τῆς ψυχῆς καθ᾽ αὐτὴν ἢ τοῦ ἔχοντος τοῦ κοινοῦ μετὰ τοῦ σώματος θεωρουμένου ζῴου, καθ᾽ οὓς μὲν ἡ ψυχὴ διττὴν ζωὴν ζῇ, καθ᾽ αὐτήν τε καὶ μετὰ τοῦ σώματος, ἄλλως μὲν πάρεισι τῇ ψυχῇ, ἄλλως δὲ τῷ κοινῷ ζῴῳ, ⟨ὡς⟩ κατὰ Πλάτωνα καὶ Πυθαγόραν·
33.4
καθ᾽ οὓς δὲ μία ζωὴ τῆς ψυχῆς ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ συνθέτου, συγκεκραμένης τῆς ψυχῆς τῷ σώματι, ὡς οἱ Στωικοὶ λέγουσιν, ἢ δούσης ὅλην τὴν ἑαυτῆς ζωὴν εἰς τὸ κοινὸν ζῷον, ὡς οἱ Περιπατητικοὶ διισχυρίζονται, κατὰ τούτους εἷς ἐστιν ὁ τρόπος τῆς παρουσίας αὐτῶν ὁ ἐν τῷ μετέχεσθαι ἢ ἐν τῷ κεκρᾶσθαι τῷ ὅλῳ ζῴῳ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 116533.3 · Soul’s own life and embodied life
Consider, then, the powers of soul itself in its own right, or those of the creature that possesses it, the living being considered jointly with body. According to those who hold that soul lives a twofold life, both in itself and with body, the powers are present in one way to soul and in another to the combined living being, ⟨as⟩ in the accounts of Plato and Pythagoras;1434
33.4 · Powers in a single composite life
but according to those who hold that soul has a single life, the life of the composite, there is one mode in which the powers are present. This may be because soul is blended with body, as the Stoics say, or because it gives its entire life to the combined living being, as the Peripatetics insist. On these accounts the powers are present by being participated in, or by being blended with the whole living being.1435
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