Passage

Plotinus, Enneads 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 594)

grc plotinus enneads

Ἀποθνήισκει οὖν, ὡς ψυχὴ ἂν θάνοι, καὶ ὁ θάνατος αὐτῆι καὶ ἔτι ἐν τῶι σώματι βεβαπτισμένηι ἐν ὕληι ἐστὶ καταδῦναι καὶ πλησθῆναι αὐτῆς καὶ ἐξελθούσηι ἐκεῖ κεῖσθαι, ἕως ἀναδράμηι καὶ ἀφέληι πως τὴν ὄψιν ἐκ τοῦ βορβόρου καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ἐν Ἅιδου ἐλθόντα ἐπικαταδαρθεῖν.

Provenance

Stable ID plotinus:enneads:1.8:s594
Source Plotinus Enneads lemmatised primary text — DIORISIS edition (Vatri & McGillivray, Alan Turing Institute), Bibliotheca Augustana base text · cc-by-sa-3.0-us
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