A Treatise on the Soul
Tertullian
Chapter 15
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Chapter XV.—The Soul’s Vitality and Intelligence. Its Character and Seat in Man.
In the first place, (we must determine) whether
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A Treatise on the Soul
Tertullian
In the first place, (we must determine) whether
“Namque homini sanguis circumcordialis est sensus.”
“Man has his (supreme) sensation in the blood around his heart.”
Even Protagoras likewise, and Apollodorus, and Chrysippus, entertain this same view, so that (our friend) Asclepiades may go in quest of his goats bleating without a heart, and hunt his flies without their heads; and let all those (worthies), too, who have predetermined the character of the human soul from the condition of brute animals, be quite sure that it is themselves rather who are alive in a heartless and brainless state.
Sapientialis.
Consecratum.
Wisd. i. 6.
Prov. xxiv. 12.
Ps. cxxxix. 23.
Matt. ix. 4.
Ps. li. 12.
Rom. x. 10.
1 John iii. 20.
Matt. v. 28.
In eo thesauro.
Not Suidas’ philosopher of that name, but a renowned physician mentioned by Galen and Pliny (Oehler).
Lorica.
The Egyptian hierophants.
The original, as given in Stobæus, Eclog. i. p. 1026, is this hexameter: Αἶμα γὰρ ἀνθρώποις περικάρδιόν ἐστι νόημα.
Or probably that Praxagoras the physician who is often mentioned by Athenæus and by Pliny (Pamel.).