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immortal
Philosophers assign the [word] "immortal" to animate things, but the [word] "imperishable" to inanimate ones. "Plato, when maintaining that the soul is immortal, assigns an equivocal term to immortal things. [This is]…
Ἀθάνατος· τὸ ἀθάνατος ἐπὶ ἐμψύχων, τὸ δὲ ἄφθιτος ἐπὶ ἀψύχων φιλόσοφοι τάττουσιν. ὅτι ὁ Πλάτων ἀθάνατον εἶναι λέγων τὴν ψυχὴν ἀθανάτοις ὁμώνυμον εἶναι ἐπιφέρει. διότι τὸ μὲν κυρίως…