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Plato, Epinomis 981b

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Plato, Epinomis 981b Ancient Greek Plato, Epinomis
ζῷον μὲν δὴ τὸ τοιοῦτον καλεῖται δικαιότατα; ναί. στερεὰ δὲ σώματα λέγεσθαι χρὴ κατὰ τὸν εἰκότα λόγον πέντε, ἐξ ὧν κάλλιστα καὶ ἄριστά τις ἂν πλάττοι, τὸ δὲ ἄλλο γένος ἅπαν ἔχει μορφὴν μίαν· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἀσώματον ὅτι τʼ ἄλλο γίγνοιτʼ ἂν καὶ χρῶμα οὐδὲν οὐδαμῶς οὐδέποτʼ ἔχον, πλὴν τὸ θειότατον ὄντως ψυχῆς γένος. τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶ σχεδὸν ᾧ μόνῳ πλάττειν καὶ δημιουργεῖν προσήκει,
And such a thing is most justly called a living creature? Yes. On the most likely account there are to be reckoned five solid bodies, from which one might fashion things fairest and best; but all the rest of creation has a single shape, for there is nothing that could come to be without a body and never possessing any color at all, except only that really most divine creature, the soul. And this alone, one may say, has the business of fashioning and manufacturing,
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Plato, Epinomis 981b — Perseus Digital Library — canonical-greekLit (Tufts University) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg035.perseus-grc2:981b