# Declamationes 2.11

Marcus Antonius Polemon, Declamationes, Chapter 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/marcus-antonius-polemon/declamationes/2.11

πολὺν μὲν οὖν χρόνον ἐν τῷ σώματι διεκαρτέρησεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἐρίζουσα πρὸς τὴν φύσιν καὶ εἰς τὴν ἀδύνατον ἀνθρώποις ἀθανασίαν ἐβιάζετο· ἐπεὶ δὲ ἄνθρωπος Καλλίμαχος ἦν καὶ θνητὸς ἦν καὶ τοῦ σώματος ἀπελθεῖν ναγκάζετο τῷ πλήθει τῶν τραυμάτων, ἀπέθανε μέν, οὐκ ἔπεσε δέ, ἀλλʼ ἐξιοῦσα ἡ ψυχὴ βεβαίως τῷ σώματι μένειν καὶ καρτερεῖν ἐνετείλατο καὶ μάχεσθαι τὴν δυνατὴν τοῖς ἀψύχοις μάχην. τὸ δὲ ἐπείσθη καὶ βεβαίως ἔμεινεν ὥσπερ ἐρριζωμένον [καὶ] διὰ τοῦ πολέμου τοιοῦτο οἷον αὐτὸ ἐξιοῦσα ἔστησεν ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ πολὺν χρόνον τοὺς βαρβάρους ἐξηπάτησεν· οὐδεὶς γὰρ ᾤετο τεθνάναι τὸν ἑστηκότα.

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Marcus Antonius Polemon, Declamationes, ed. Hugo Hinck. 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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