to show that the soul is so compounded; therefore no reason to
believe that it will so decay. Notice the imperfects _esset ... haberet ...
posset_ accommodated to the tense of _persuasi_ above, although the other
subjunctives in the sentence are not; cf. n. on 42 _efficeret_. -- NEQUE
... DISSIMILE: in modern phraseology the whole of this clause would be
briefly expressed thus, -- 'and was homogeneous'. -- POSSET: _quod si_
='whereas if', the subject of _posset_ being _animus_, and _dividi_ being
understood. -- MAGNO ARGUMENTO: [Greek: hikanon tekmerion] in Pl. Phaed. 72
A. Belief in the immortality of the soul naturally follows the acceptance
of the doctrine of pre-existence. -- HOMINES SCIRE etc.: See Plato, Phaedo,
72 E-73 B. The notion that the souls of men existed before the bodies with
which they are connected has been held in all ages and has often found
expression in literature. The English poets have not infrequently alluded
to it. See Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality from the
Recollections of Early Childhood, 'Our birth is but a sleep and a
forgetting' etc.; also, in Tennyson's Two Voices the passage beginning, --

'Yet how should I for certain hold,
Because my memory is so cold,
That I first was in human mould?'

REMINISCI ET RECORDARI: a double translation of Plato's [Greek:
anamimneskesthai], quite in Cicero's fashion; the former word implies a
momentary act, the latter one of some duration. -- HAEC PLATONIS FERE: 'so
far Plato'.

79. APUD XENOPHONTEM: Cyropaedia, 8, 7, 17; for _apud_ cf. 30; when Cic.
says that a passage is 'in' a certain author (not naming the book) he uses
_apud_, not _in_. -- MAIOR: 'the elder'; cf. 59 _Cyrum minorem_. -- NOLITE
ARBITRARI: a common periphrasis. A. 269, _a_, 2; G. 264, II.; H. 489, I. --
DUM ERAM: the imperfect with _dum_ is not common; see Roby, 1458, _c_; A.
276, _e_, n.; G. 572, 571; H. 519, I., 467, 4 with n.

P. 33. -- 80. NEC ... TENEREMUS: the souls of the dead continue to exert an
influence on the living, or else their fame would not remain; a weak
argument. -- MIHI ... POTUIT: cf. 82 _nemo ... persuadebit_. -- VIVERE ...
EMORI: adversative asyndeton. -- INSIPIENTEM: in Xen. [Greek: aphron],
_i.e._ without power of thinking. -- SED: 'but rather that ...'. -- HOMINIS
NATURA: a periphrasis for _homo_; cf. Fin. 5, 33 _intellegant, si quando
naturam hominis dicam, hominem dicere me; nihil enim hoc differt_. -- NIHIL
... SOMNUM: poets and a