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"Lysis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soul. The Delian legend of the Hyperboreans may be thought to point in this direction. However that may be, the main purpose of the religious observances practised by the Orphics and Pythagoreans alike was to secure by means of 'purifications' (καθαρμοι {katharmoi}) the ransom (λυσις {lysis}) of the soul, which was regarded as a fallen god, from the punishment of imprisonment in successive bodies. There is no reason to suppose that Pythagoras displayed any particular originality in this part of his teaching. It all depends on the doctrine of transmigration or rebirth ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... pisteuein soi phusei (nomizein) philein tauta pantas...}; and for the "belief" propounded with so much humorous emphasis, see Adam Smith, "Moral Sentiments." Hartman, "An. Xen." 180, cf. Plat. "Lysis." ...
— The Economist • Xenophon |
Words linked to "Lysis" : recuperation, autolysis, disintegration, haemolysis, convalescence, recovery, biochemistry, bacteriolysis, haematolysis, hematolysis, karyolysis, osteolysis, thrombolysis, radiolysis, self-digestion, necrolysis, cytolysis, dissolution, hemolysis |
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