Ἀνάμνησις

Recollection is a finding of a figment.¹ Having started from the soul it goes over the living body. For after recollecting that some fear was produced in us we become pale, and after recollecting the voyage we feel sea-sick. But how do we say that the movement started from the soul in recollecting? Surely not that the soul is recollecting the movement; rather, what we mean is that it occurs as if in the sense-perceptions. For the movement, after being originated from the sensible things, crossed over as far as the place in which the discerning and sensible power [is]: namely, the breath. And so, in the case of recollection or in the case of sense-perception, we say that the beginning of the recollecting movement also has been produced over again from breath, where the soul [is]. For that in which sense-perception terminates, thence the beginning of recollection occurs. In fact recollection, when it was produced in breath, is a finding of figment. For figments arise in breath, where the sensible soul is seated as well. So, from those residues present in breath, where the soul is, the soul had those residues -- which we call "figments" -- from the sensible apprehensions. From these the start of recalling movement arises. Therefore, when the soul attains by intuition again a figment that it had before, that is, an impression² that was born before in breath, it recalls and perceives such a figment³ through the sense organ. And so [the soul] puts together the body with the sense organ.