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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.54.3–I.49.54.4
Ancient Greek
p. 139654.3
Τούτων δὲ ἐκλελοιπότων καὶ ἡ κόλασις τῆς ψυχῆς πέπαυται, νοερᾶς μόνον οὔσης περὶ αὐτὴν καταστάσεως καὶ παρὰ τῷ φρονίμῳ θεῷ διατριβούσης.
54.4
Πρὸς δὲ τὰ εἰρημένα ἴσως ἄν τις ἀπορήσειε, πῶς, εἰ μὴ ἀλλήλας ἀγνοοῦσιν, ἔφη·
ταὶ δὲ σκιαὶ ἀΐσσουσι.Πρὸς ὃ ῥητέον, ὅτι σκιαὶ ἀΐσσουσι πρὸς τούτους [πρὸς] ὧν καὶ τὴν μνήμην ἀφῄρηνται. Πρὸς οὖν τὰ θνητά εἰσι σκιαὶ διὰ τὴν ἀσωματίαν καὶ ἀμνημοσύνην αὐτῶν, ὥς που καὶ πρὸς τὴν παχύτητα τοῦ σώματος ἡ ψυχὴ παραβαλλομένη καπνῷ ὡμοίωται·
ψυχὴ δ᾽ ἠΰτε καπνὸς ᾤχετο τετριγυῖα.Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 139754.3 · The cessation of punishment
When these have disappeared, the soul’s punishment too has ceased. Only an intellectual condition remains about it, and it dwells beside the wise god.1677
54.4 · Shadows in relation to the living
Someone might perhaps raise a difficulty about what has been said: if they are not ignorant of one another, why did he say:
The others flit as shadows?
The answer is that they flit as shadows in relation to those [toward] of whom they have also been deprived of memory. In relation to mortal things, then, they are shadows because of their incorporeality and their lack of memory of those things. In the same way, when compared with the body’s density, the soul is likened to smoke:
The soul, like smoke, went away with a shrill cry.1678
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