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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.58.6–I.49.58.7
Ancient Greek
p. 142658.6
Ἡ μὲν οὖν κοσμία τε καὶ φρόνιμος ψυχὴ ἕπεταί τε καὶ οὐκ ἀγνοεῖ τὰ παρόντα· ἡ δ᾽ ἐπιθυμητικῶς τοῦ σώματος ἔχουσα, ὅπερ ἐν τῷ ἔμπροσθεν εἶπον, περὶ ἐκεῖνο πολὺν χρόνον ἐπτοημένη καὶ περὶ τὸν ὁρατὸν τόπον, ἄλλα ἀντιτείνασα καὶ πολλὰ παθοῦσα, βίᾳ καὶ μόλις ὑπὸ τοῦ προστεταγμένου δαίμονος οἴχεται ἀγομένη.
58.7
Ἀφικομένην δὲ ὅθι περ ἄλλαι, τὴν μὲν ἀκάθαρτον καὶ τι πεποιηκυῖαν τοιοῦτον, ἢ φόνων ἀδίκων ἡμμένην ἢ ἄλλ᾽ ἄττα τοιαῦτα εἰργασμένην, ἃ τούτων ἀδελφά τε καὶ ἀδελφῶν ψυχῶν ἔργα τυγχάνει ὄντα, ταύτην μὲν ἅπας φεύγει τε καὶ ὑποκρύπτεται καὶ οὔτε ξυνέμπορος οὔτε ἡγεμὼν ἐθέλει γίγνεσθαι·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 142758.6 · A willing soul and a resistant soul
“The orderly and wise soul follows and understands its present circumstances. But the soul that desires the body, as I said earlier, remains for a long time in a flutter around it and around the visible region. After resisting in other ways and suffering much, it is led away by force and with difficulty by the appointed daimon.”1710
58.7 · The polluted soul is shunned
“When it arrives where the other souls are, everyone flees and hides from the impure soul that has done some such deed: either it has engaged in unjust killings, or it has committed other acts of that sort, akin to these and the works of kindred souls. No one is willing to become its fellow traveler or guide.”1711
Socrates
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