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Page 83
... souls should be recognized as eternal ? For everything that receives its motion from external impulse is inani- mate , while soul stirs with its own movement , which comes from within . For this is the nature and power characteristic of ...
... souls should be recognized as eternal ? For everything that receives its motion from external impulse is inani- mate , while soul stirs with its own movement , which comes from within . For this is the nature and power characteristic of ...
Page 199
... soul and mind . Those principles receive from elsewhere what they pass on to others . If ever they cease to acquire gifts they also cease to confer them , and eventually they waste away and perish . That being , how- ever , which acts ...
... soul and mind . Those principles receive from elsewhere what they pass on to others . If ever they cease to acquire gifts they also cease to confer them , and eventually they waste away and perish . That being , how- ever , which acts ...
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... soul will so dominate its body that human concerns will be trampled contemp- tuously , concerns which the soul will correctly reckon to be all imper- tinent and irrelevant to the great and lofty man . The soul will make the body its own ...
... soul will so dominate its body that human concerns will be trampled contemp- tuously , concerns which the soul will correctly reckon to be all imper- tinent and irrelevant to the great and lofty man . The soul will make the body its own ...
Contents
List of Illustrations | xiii |
INTRODUCTION | xxii |
The Dream of Scipio | xxv |
Copyright | |
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Aemilianus Africanus alia alii animi appears atque autem body BOEV Caius called Cicero commentary complete consul death deest divine dreams earth edition eius enim entire esse esset etiam everything follows give Greeks haec heaven homines hominum human illa illis illo illud inter ipse ipsi Italy Latin lives Macrobius mihi mind modo nature neque never nihil nobis omnes omnia once original person philosophers Plautus potest present publica quae quam quibus quid quidem quis quod reference rerum Roman Scipio Scipionis Senate sibi Sleep Socrates Somn Somnium soul sources speak stars sunt tamen terra things tibi true universe vero Vigilia vita Vives Vivis vobis whole