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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.57.5–I.49.57.6
Ancient Greek
p. 141457.5
Ἀλλὰ διειλημμένην γε οἶμαι ὑπὸ τοῦ σωματοειδοῦς, ὃ αὐτῇ ἡ ὁμιλία τε καὶ συνουσία τοῦ σώματος διὰ τὸ ἀεὶ ξυνεῖναι καὶ διὰ τὴν πολλὴν μελέτην ἐνεποίησε ξύμφυτον;
Πάνυ γε.
57.6
Ἐμβριθὲς δέ γε, ὦ φίλε, τοῦτο οἴεσθαι χρὴ εἶναι καὶ βαρὺ καὶ γεῶδες καὶ ὁρατόν· ὃ δὴ καὶ ἔχουσα ἡ τοιαύτη ψυχὴ βαρύνεταί τε καὶ ἕλκεται πάλιν εἰς τὸν ὁρατὸν τόπον, φόβῳ τοῦ ἀειδοῦς τε καὶ Ἅιδου, ὥσπερ λέγεται, περὶ τὰ μνήματά τε καὶ τοὺς τάφους κυλινδουμένη, περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὤφθη [καὶ] ἄττα ψυχῶν σκιοειδῆ φάσματα, οἷα περιέχονται αἱ τοιαῦται ψυχαὶ εἴδωλα, αἱ μὴ καθαρῶς ἀπολυθεῖσαι ἀλλὰ τοῦ ὁρατοῦ μετέχουσαι· διὸ καὶ ὁρῶνται.
Εἰκός γε, ὦ Σώκρατες.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 141557.5 · Bodily character becomes ingrained
“Rather, I think, it will be permeated by what is bodily, which its association and intercourse with the body have made ingrained in it through constant companionship and much practice?”
“Certainly.”1696
57.6 · Apparitions around graves
“We must suppose this bodily character, my friend, to be weighty, heavy, earthy, and visible. Possessing it, such a soul is weighed down and drawn back into the visible region through fear of the invisible and of Hades. As the story goes, it rolls about among memorials and graves, around which certain shadowlike apparitions of souls have [also] been seen: images of the kind in which such souls are wrapped, souls released without purity and still sharing in the visible. That is why they are seen.”
“That is likely, Socrates.”1697
Socrates
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