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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.33.5–I.49.33.6
Ancient Greek
p. 116633.5
Πῶς οὖν διακρίνονται; Κατὰ μὲν τοὺς Στωικοὺς ἔνια μὲν διαφορότητι ⟨τῶν⟩ ὑποκειμένων σωμάτων· πνεύματα γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ φασιν οὗτοι διατείνειν ἄλλα κατ᾽ ἄλλα, τὰ μὲν εἰς ὀφθαλμούς, τὰ δὲ εἰς ὦτα, τὰ δὲ εἰς ἄλλα αἰσθητήρια· ἔνια δὲ ἰδιότητι ποιότητος περὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ὑποκείμενον· ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ μῆλον ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ σώματι τὴν γλυκύτητα ἔχει καὶ τὴν εὐωδίαν, οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν ἐν ταὐτῷ φαντασίαν, συγκατάθεσιν, ὁρμήν, λόγον συνείληφε.
33.6
Κατὰ δὲ τοὺς Ἀριστοτελικοὺς καὶ πάντας ὅσοι ἀμέριστον τὴν ψυχὴν διανοοῦνται κατὰ μὲν τὴν οὐσίαν αἱ δυνάμεις, κατὰ δὲ εἴδη ὧν δύνανται ποιεῖν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 116733.5 · Different organs and different qualities
How, then, are they distinguished? According to the Stoics, some are distinguished by the difference of ⟨the⟩ underlying bodies. They say that currents of vital breath extend from the ruling center in different directions: some to the eyes, others to the ears, and others to the remaining sense organs. Others are distinguished by a specific quality in the same underlying subject. Just as an apple has sweetness and fragrance in the same body, so the ruling center comprises presentation, assent, impulse, and reason in the same subject.1436
33.6 · Distinction by what the powers can do
According to the Aristotelians and all who conceive soul as indivisible, the powers are undivided in substance, but distinguished according to the kinds of things they can do.1437
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