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Sed plurimi contra nituntur animosque quasi capite
damnatos1 morte multant, neque aliud est quicquam
cur incredibilis is animorum videatur aeternitas, nisi
quod nequeunt qualis animus sit vacans corpore intellegere et cogitatione2 comprehendere.3 quasi vero
intellegant, qualis sit4 in ipso corpore, quae conformatio, quae magnitudo, qui locus; ut,5 si iam possent
in homine vivo6 cerni omnia quae nunc tecta sunt,
casurusne in conspectum videatur animus, an tanta [p. 243]
sit eius tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem?
1 dampnatos GK
2 intelligere et cog. V sed igere in r., et in mg. Vc
3 neque aliud ... 23 conpraehendere H
4 conp. VH Quasi vero intellegant qualis animus sit vacans corpore intellegere et cogitatione cophendere R sed ipse haec delevit ac denuo scripsit: Quasi eqs.
5 ut cf. p. 439, 6 div. 2,129 aut Lb.
6 vivo Bentl. uno
Tusculanae Disputationes. M. Tullius Cicero. M. Pohlenz. Leipzig. Teubner. 1918.
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