TD 1.19-20
Mischa Hooker / Cicero
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- Aligned by Mischa Hooker
Latin
English
sed haec quidem quae dixi , cor , cerebrum , animam , ignem volgo , reliqua fere singuli . ut multo ante veteres , proxime autem Aristoxenus , musicus idemque philosophus , ipsius corporis intentionem quandam , velut in cantu et fidibus quae harmonia dicitur : sic ex corporis totius natura et figura varios motus cieri tamquam in cantu sonos . Xenocrates animi figuram et quasi corpus negavit esse ullum , numerum dixit esse , cuius vis , ut iam ante Pythagorae visum erat , in natura maxuma esset . eius doctor Plato triplicem finxit animum , cuius principatum , id est rationem , in capite sicut in arce posuit , et duas partes parere voluit , iram et cupiditatem , quas locis disclusit : iram in pectore , cupiditatem subter praecordia locavit .
Now
the
views
I
have
mentioned
,
that
the
soul
is
heart
,
brain
,
life
or
fire
are
those
ordinarily
held
:
the
remaining
views
are
as
a
rule
peculiar
to
individual
thinkers
,
just
as
philosophers
of
old
held
individual
views
long
ago
,
but
nearest
in
date
to
our
time
there
was
Aristoxenus
,
musician
as
well
as
philosopher
,
who
held
the
soul
to
be
a
special
tuning-up
of
the
natural
body
analogous
to
that
which
is
called
harmony
in
vocal
and
instrumental
music
;
answering
to
the
nature
and
conformation
of
the
whole
body
,
vibrations
of
different
kinds
are
produced
just
as
sounds
are
in
vocal
music
:
this
thinker
has
not
gone
outside
the
limits
of
his
own
art
,
but
all
the
same
he
has
made
a
contribution
of
value
,
the
proper
meaning
of
which
had
long
before
been
plainly
stated
by
Plato
.
Xenocrates
denied
that
the
soul
had
form
or
any
substance
,
but
said
that
it
was
number
,
and
the
power
of
number
,
as
had
been
held
by
Pythagoras
long
before
,
was
the
highest
in
nature
.
His
teacher
Plato
imagined
the
soul
to
be
of
three-fold
nature
;
the
sovereign
part
,
that
is
reason
,
he
placed
in
the
head
as
the
citadel
,
and
the
other
two
parts
,
anger
and
desire
,
he
wished
to
be
subservient
,
and
these
he
fixed
in
their
places
,
anger
in
the
breast
and
desire
below
the
diaphragm
.