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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato

“For some say that the body is the grave (sema) of the soul which may be thought to be buried in our present life”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Cratylus, Stephanus 400c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Socrates reports the Orphic reading of soma (body) as tomb or prison of the soul, one of several etymologies he offers without endorsing.

Citation: "For some say that the body is the grave (sema) of the soul which may be thought to be buried in our present life" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 400c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q7)

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