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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.62.1–I.49.62.3
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p. 148062.1
Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου.
Πρῶτον μὲν [οὖν] αἴσθησιν ἀναγκαῖον εἴη μίαν πᾶσιν ἐκ βιαίων παθημάτων σύμφυτον γίγνεσθαι, δεύτερον δὲ ἡδονῇ καὶ λύπῃ μεμιγμένον ἔρωτα, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις φόβον τε καὶ θυμὸν ὅσα τε ἑπόμενα αὐτοῖς καὶ ὁπόσα ἐναντίως πέφυκε διεστηκότα·
62.2
Ὧν εἰ μὲν κρατήσοιεν, δίκῃ βιώσοιντο, κρατηθέντες δὲ ἀδικίᾳ. Καὶ ὁ μὲν εὖ τὸν προσήκοντα χρόνον βιούς, πάλιν εἰς τὴν τοῦ ξυννόμου πορευθεὶς οἴκησιν ἄστρου, βίον εὐδαίμονα ἕξοι·
62.3
Σφαλεὶς δὲ τούτων εἰς γυναικὸς φύσιν ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ γενέσει μεταβάλοι· μὴ παυόμενός τε ἐν τούτοις ἔτι κακίας τρόπον ὃν κακύνοιτο κατὰ τὴν ὁμοιότητα τῆς τοῦ τρόπου γενέσεως εἴς τινα τοιαύτην ἀεὶ μεταβάλλοι θήρειον φύσιν,
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 148162.1 · Plato: sensation and the passions
Plato, from the Timaeus.
“First, [then,] it would be necessary for sensation to arise naturally in them all as one common faculty from forceful impressions; second, desire mingled with pleasure and pain; and, in addition, fear and anger, whatever follows upon them, and whatever by nature stands opposed to them.”1776
62.2 · Mastery and the return to a star
“If they mastered these things, they would live justly; if mastered by them, unjustly. The one who lived well for the appointed span would return to the dwelling of the star assigned as his companion and would have a happy life.”1777
62.3 · The sequence of further births
“But if he failed in these things, he would change into a woman’s nature at his second birth. If even then he did not cease from wickedness, he would continually change into some corresponding bestial nature, according to the likeness between the kind of wickedness he practiced and the kind of birth it produced.”1778
Socrates
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