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[518a] I said, “would remember that there are two distinct disturbances of the eyes arising from two causes, according as the shift is from light to darkness or from darkness to light,1 and, believing that the same thing happens to the soul too, whenever he saw a soul perturbed and unable to discern something, he would not laugh2 unthinkingly, but would observe whether coming from a brighter life its vision was obscured by the unfamiliar darkness, or

1 Aristotle, De an. 422 a 20 f. says the over-bright is ἀόρατον but otherwise than the dark.

2 Cf. Theaet. 175 D-E.

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