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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.43.1–I.49.43.2
Ancient Greek
p. 123043.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ· περὶ θανάτου.
Ἐπειδὰν μετὰ τὸν τῇδε βίον ἡ τελευτὴ συμπίπτῃ, τί ποτε συμβαῖνόν ἐστι; Πότερον ὥσπερ ἐν τῇ γενέσει προϋπῆρχεν ἢ συνυφίστατο ἢ ὑστέρα πως ἐπεγίγνετο τοῖς σώμασιν ἡ ψυχὴ κατὰ τὰς διαφόρους αἱρέσεις, οὕτω καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀποθνῄσκειν προφθείρεται τοῦ σώματος ἢ συναπόλλυται αὐτῷ ἢ καὶ διαμένει καθ᾽ ἑαυτὴν μετὰ τὴν ἐνθένδε ἔξοδον; Τὸ μὲν οὖν πᾶν κεφάλαιον τοιοῦτον·
43.2
μέρη δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ κατὰ τὰ εἴδη διαίρεσις δέχεται πολλὰς τοιαύτας ἀμφισβητήσεις· ἆρά γε πνιγμῷ τῶν ἀρτηριῶν ἀποκλειομένων τοῦ δέχεσθαι τὸ ἐκτὸς πνεῦμα, ἢ ἐκλυομένου τοῦ τόνου καὶ παρειμένου, ἢ τοῦ θερμοῦ ἐναποσβεννυμένου πως εἰς τὰ εἴσω τὰ ζῶντα πρότερον εἰσαῦθις ἀποθνῄσκει; Ἀλλ᾽ εἰ οὕτως γίγνεται ὁ θάνατος, προαναιρεῖται ἢ συναναιρεῖται ἡ ψυχὴ τῷ σώματι, καθάπερ Κουρνοῦτος οἴεται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 123143.1 · On death: the central question
In the same work: on death.
When death comes after life here, what is it that happens? Just as, according to the different schools, soul pre-existed bodies at their coming-to-be, came into existence along with them, or somehow arose in them afterward, does it likewise, in dying, perish before the body, perish together with it, or remain on its own after its departure from here? Such, then, is the question as a whole;1503
43.2 · Bodily processes and Cornutus
its parts and division into kinds admit many disputes of this sort. Do things that previously lived then die through suffocation, when the air passages are prevented from receiving the breath outside; through the dissolution and slackening of tension; or through heat somehow being extinguished within? But if death occurs in this way, soul is destroyed before the body or together with it, as Cornutus thinks.1504
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