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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.53.5–I.49.53.7
Ancient Greek
p. 137853.5
Τὰς τοίνυν ἐκτὸς μνήμης μετέχειν τῶν αὐταῖς βεβιωμένων· τὰς δὲ τὸν ποταμὸν ὑπερβαινούσας ἐπιλανθάνεσθαι τῶν λογισμῶν τῶν περὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα μεθείσας. Διὸ καὶ τῶν ἀδίκων ἐκτὸς εἶναι τὰ κολαστήρια διὰ τοῦ λογισμοῦ καὶ τῆς μνήμης τῶν βεβιωμένων τὰς κολάσεις ἐχόντων.
53.6
Φαντασίας γὰρ λαμβάνειν τῶν δεινῶν ὅσα ἐν τῷ βίῳ δεδράκασι καὶ κολάζεσθαι, τῆς ἁμαρτίας παρεστώσης αὐτοῖς κατὰ λογισμὸν καὶ τιμωρούσης διὰ τῶν ἀφωρισμένων ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις κολάσεων, ὅθεν τὰς μέν τινας τῶν ψυχῶν λίθους βαστάζειν δοκούσας καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ θλίβεσθαι τιμωρεῖσθαι, τὰς δὲ δίψης καὶ λιμοῦ αἰωνίου φαντασίας λαμβανούσας, τὰς δ᾽ ἄλλου τινὸς ὧν ἐν τῷ θνητῷ βίῳ ἐπεφρίκεσαν.
53.7
Εἶναι γὰρ καὶ κριτὴν ἐκτὸς τοῦ ποταμοῦ διατρίβοντα, Μίνω, ὃν κατ᾽ ἀξίαν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων κολάζειν, τοῖς μὲν τὸν ἔξω τοῦ ποταμοῦ τόπον ἀφορίσαντα ἐπὶ τὴν δίκην, τοῖς δὲ περάσαι τὸν ποταμὸν ἐπιτρέψαντα, ὃς ἀνάπαυσις ἦν ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν ἀνηνύτων κακῶν διὰ τὴν λήθην.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 137953.5 · Memory on the outer bank
The souls outside retain memory of the lives they have lived; those crossing the river forget, having relinquished their thoughts about human affairs. For this reason the places of punishment for the unjust are outside: their punishments come through thought and the memory of their lives.1657
53.6 · Punishment through fearful images
For they receive images of the terrible deeds they committed in life and are punished: their wrongdoing stands before them in thought and exacts punishment through the penalties assigned to their wrongs. Thus some souls imagine that they carry stones and are punished by being crushed; others receive images of everlasting thirst and hunger; others of something else they shuddered at in mortal life.1658
53.7 · Minos and release from suffering
For there is also a judge dwelling outside the river, Minos, who punishes in proportion to the offenses. To some he assigns the region outside the river for their penalty; others he permits to cross the river, which, through forgetfulness, provides souls with rest from their unending woes.1659
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