# Stobaei Hermetica 3.21

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/3.21

⎡Ἡ αὐτὴ ἂν εἴη αἴσθησις ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος⎤, ὦ πάτερ; —Πῶς νοεῖς, ὦ παῖ, ψυχῆς αἴσθησιν; οὐχ ἡ μὲν ψυχὴ ἀσώματος, ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις σῶμα;—⟨...⟩ ⎡ἂν εἴη, ὦ πάτερ, ἡ αἴσθησις ἡ ἐν σώματι οὖσα τυγχάνει.⎤—Ἐὰν ἀσώματοΝ αὐτὴν θῶμεν, ὦ τέκνον, ὁμοίαν τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτὴν ἀποφανοῦμεν ἢ ταῖς ἐνεργείαις· ταῦτα γὰρ ἀσώματα ὄντα φαμὲν ἐν σώμασιν ⟨εἶναι⟩. ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις οὔτε ἐνέργειά ἐστιν οὔτε ψυχή, ⎡οὔτε ἀσώματόν τι ἄλλο παρὰ τὰ προειρημένα⎤· οὐκ ἂν οὖν εἴη ἀσώματον. εἰ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀσώματον, σῶμα ἂν εἴη. [τῶν γὰρ ὄντων Δεῖ τὰ μὲν σώματα εἶναι, τὰ δὲ ἀσωματα.]

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Anonymous, Stobaei Hermetica, ed. Walter Scott. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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