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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.64.6–I.49.64.8
Ancient Greek
p. 149664.6
Καὶ τὰς ἀεὶ ἀφικνουμένας ὥσπερ ἐκ πολλῆς πορείας φαίνεσθαι ἥκειν, καὶ ἀσμένας εἰς τὸν λειμῶνα ἀπιούσας οἷον ἐν πανηγύρει κατασκηνοῦσθαι, καὶ ἀσπάζεσθαί τε ἀλλήλας ὅσαι γνώριμαι, καὶ πυνθάνεσθαι τάς τε ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἡκούσας παρὰ τῶν ἑτέρων τὰ ἐκεῖ ⟨καὶ⟩ τὰς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὰ παρ᾽ ἐκείναις.
64.7
Διηγεῖσθαι δὲ ἀλλήλαις τὰς μὲν ὀδυρομένας τε καὶ κλαίουσας, ἀναμιμνῃσκομένας ὅσα τε καὶ οἷα πάθοιεν καὶ ἴδοιεν ἐν τῇ ὑπὸ γῆς πορείᾳ (εἶναι δὲ τὴν πορείαν χιλίετιν), τὰς δ᾽ αὖ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εὐπαθείας διηγεῖσθαι καὶ θέας ἀμηχάνους τὸ κάλλος.
64.8
Τὰ μὲν οὖν πολλά, ὦ Γλαύκων, πολλοῦ χρόνου διηγήσασθαι· τὸ δ᾽ οὖν κεφάλαιον ἔφη τόδε εἶναι, ὅσα πώποτέ τινα ἠδίκησαν καὶ ὅσους ἕκαστος, ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων δίκην δεδωκέναι ἐν μέρει, ὑπὲρ ἑκάστου δεκάκις· τοῦτο δὲ εἶναι κατὰ ἑκατονταετηρίδα ἑκάστην, ὡς βίου ὄντος τοσούτου τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου, ἵνα δεκαπλάσιον τὶ ἔκτισμα τοῦ ἀδικήματος ἐκτίνοιεν·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 149764.6 · Meeting in the meadow
Each arriving company seemed to have returned from a long journey. They gladly went into the meadow and made camp as though at a festival gathering. Those who knew one another exchanged greetings. The souls arriving from the earth asked the others about what happened above, ⟨and⟩ those from heaven asked about what had happened below.1795
64.7 · Two accounts of the journey
They told one another their stories. Some lamented and wept as they remembered all the terrible things they had suffered and seen on their journey beneath the earth, a journey lasting a thousand years. Those from heaven, in turn, described their blessed experiences and sights of unimaginable beauty.1796
64.8 · Tenfold repayment
To recount the greater part, Glaucon, would take a long time. But he said that the chief point was this: for every wrong they had ever done anyone, and for every person each had wronged, they had paid the penalty in turn, ten times for each offense. Each repayment occupied a hundred years, on the assumption that this was the length of a human life, so that they would pay a tenfold recompense for the wrong.1797
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