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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.40.2–I.49.40.3
Ancient Greek
p. 121440.2
Καὶ αἱ μὲν τῶν θεῶν θεῖα σώματα, νοῦν μιμούμενα, ἐπιστρέφουσι πρὸς τὴν ἑαυτῶν νοερὰν οὐσίαν· αἱ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων θείων γενῶν, ὡς ἕκασται ἐτάχθησαν, οὕτω κατευθύνουσιν ἑαυτῶν τὰ ὀχήματα. Ἔτι γε μὴν αἱ καθαραὶ ψυχαὶ καὶ τέλειαι καθαρῶς εἰσοικίζονται εἰς τὰ σώματα ἄνευ παθημάτων καὶ τῆς στερήσεως τοῦ νοεῖν· αἱ δ᾽ ἐναντίαι ἐναντίως.
40.3
Ἀττικῷ ⟨δὲ⟩ καὶ ⟨ἄλλοις τισὶ⟩ Πλατωνικοῖς οὐ συνδοκεῖ, καθ᾽ ἕνα δὲ τρόπον συντεύξεως τὰς ὅλας ψυχὰς τοῖς σώμασι συνάγουσιν, ὡσαύτως ἀεὶ μὲν καὶ ἐπὶ πάσης ἐνσωματώσεως τῶν ψυχῶν προϋποτιθέντες τὴν ἄλογον καὶ πλημμελῆ καὶ ἔνυλον ψυχήν, ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ κατακοσμουμένῃ τὴν κοινωνίαν τῆς λογικῆς ἐπεισάγοντες.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 121540.2 · Divine vehicles and pure souls
The souls of gods turn divine bodies, which imitate intellect, toward their own intellectual substance. The souls of the other divine kinds direct their own vehicles in accordance with the rank assigned to each. Pure and complete souls, moreover, enter bodies purely, without affections and without being deprived of understanding; souls of the opposite character do the opposite.1488
40.3 · Atticus and a single mode of union
Atticus, ⟨however,⟩ and ⟨certain other⟩ Platonists do not agree. They bring all souls into conjunction with bodies through one mode of union, always and in every embodiment alike presupposing an irrational, discordant soul immersed in matter, and subsequently introducing into it, as it is ordered, the association of rational soul.1489
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