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... divine origins from the world - soul and is thus immortal ( 41c - e ) ; that those who follow reason and subdue the passions in a life of virtue achieve immortality ( 42b ) ; that music creates a harmonious motion in the soul , thus ...
... divine origins from the world - soul and is thus immortal ( 41c - e ) ; that those who follow reason and subdue the passions in a life of virtue achieve immortality ( 42b ) ; that music creates a harmonious motion in the soul , thus ...
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... divine studies " have imitated the sound ( 18.1-4 ) ; thus it is something man is intended to contemplate , just as Socrates used to contemplate the sun . Scipio is chastised for continuing to contemplate earthly things when the harmony ...
... divine studies " have imitated the sound ( 18.1-4 ) ; thus it is something man is intended to contemplate , just as Socrates used to contemplate the sun . Scipio is chastised for continuing to contemplate earthly things when the harmony ...
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... divine world - soul that is god . scito : See on habeto ( 13.2 ) . est deus : The qui - clauses are subjects of est . tam ... quam ... ut ... sic : The correlatives ( tam / quam , sic / ut ) create parallelism : with quam understand ...
... divine world - soul that is god . scito : See on habeto ( 13.2 ) . est deus : The qui - clauses are subjects of est . tam ... quam ... ut ... sic : The correlatives ( tam / quam , sic / ut ) create parallelism : with quam understand ...
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ablative absolute adjective adverb Aemilius Paulus Aeneid alte spectare animi animus antecedent asyndeton atque autem Burkert caelum Carthage Cicero coetum cognomen complexus complexus...collacrimavit connecting relative consul cuius dative deorum deus dialogue dicitur divine domum Dream of Scipio earth earthly eius eminebit foras enim Ennius ex quo genitive Gracchan grandfather Greek habeto hanc heaven heavenly hominum hunc illum immortal indirect statement inquit ipsum Laelius locum Macrobius Masinissa mihi modifies motus multam Myth of Er natura nihil nominative noun Numantia Numidia numquam omnia orbit participle patria person singular Phaedo planets Plato's political potest predicate principium publica quae quam quibus quid quin quod relative clause Roman Rome Scipio Aemilianus Scipio Africanus scitis Somnium Scipionis somno soul spheres Stoic subjunctive sunt tamen templum terra terris Tiberius Gracchus tibi Timaeus translated Tusculan Disputations universe verb Vergil vero vides virtue vobis world-soul Zetzel