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Stephanus 40c
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ὅσοι οἰόμεθα κακὸν εἶναι τὸ τεθνάναι. μέγα μοι τεκμήριον τούτου γέγονεν· οὐ γὰρ ἔσθʼ ὅπως οὐκ ἠναντιώθη ἄν μοι τὸ εἰωθὸς σημεῖον, εἰ μή τι ἔμελλον ἐγὼ ἀγαθὸν πράξειν.ἐννοήσωμεν δὲ καὶ τῇδε ὡς πολλὴ ἐλπίς ἐστιν ἀγαθὸν αὐτὸ εἶναι. δυοῖν γὰρ θάτερόν ἐστιν τὸ τεθνάναι· ἢ γὰρ οἷον μηδὲν εἶναι μηδὲ αἴσθησιν μηδεμίαν μηδενὸς ἔχειν τὸν τεθνεῶτα, ἢ κατὰ τὰ λεγόμενα μεταβολή τις τυγχάνει οὖσα καὶ μετοίκησις τῇ ψυχῇ τοῦ τόπου τοῦ ἐνθένδε εἰς ἄλλον τόπον. καὶ εἴτε δὴ μηδεμία αἴσθησίς ἐστιν ἀλλʼ
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Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the complete Ancient Greek text across all 125 Stephanus sections for fidelity, philosophical precision, Socratic voice, legal clarity, and structure.
that being dead is an evil. I have received powerful evidence of this: my accustomed sign could not possibly have failed to oppose me unless I was about to meet with something good.Let us also consider in this way how great a hope there is that death is a good thing. For being dead is one of two things: either the dead person is nothing, and has no perception of anything at all, or, as the stories say, it is some sort of change and a migration of the soul from this place here to another place. And if there is no perception, but death is
Mouseia
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from all 125 Ancient Greek Stephanus sections.
death to be an evil are thinking correctly. I have received powerful evidence of this: my customary sign would certainly have opposed me if I had not been about to accomplish something good.
Let us also consider in the following way how much reason there is to hope that death is a good thing. Death is one of two things. Either the dead person is nothing and has no perception of anything at all, or, as people say, death is some kind of change and a relocation of the soul from this place to another. And if there is no perception, but death is