GLOSSARY OF GREEK TERMS
an inhalation (ἀνάπνευσις) from the air ; (b) ἡ νοερά, λογική, VI. 14, 32; ix. 8; xi. 1; xii. 30; ψυχη = τὸ ἡγεμονικόν, I. 16 ad fin.; IV. 41; V. 26; IX. 3, 27, 34; an emanation from God, xii. 26; imprisoned in the body, in. 7 ; cp. Int. p. xiv. The natural soul is called ῥομβός a vortex or cur rent, n. 17, 1; the rational soul a sphere, xi. 12; its attri- butes, XI. 1, 2. There is a Soul of the Universe, XII. 30, 32, an of God, V. 34, the two being really the same
ψύχωσις It was a view of the Stoics that the embryo in the womb had only the φυσικὴ ψυχὴ of plants, and that the νοερὰ ψυχὴ came gradually to the child after birth by contact with the (cold) air, xii. 24. It was by the respiration of the atmospheric πνεῦμα that the child received the πνευμάτιον, VI. 15; X. 7
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