Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, R. D. Hicks (Translator), 3.1.44

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Earth in her bosom here hides Plato’s body, but his soul hath its immortal station with the blest, Ariston’s son, whom every good man, even if he dwell afar off, honours because he discerned the divine life.

And a third of later date²:

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Eagle, why fly you o’er this tomb? Say, is your gaze fixed upon the starry house of one of the immortals?

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I am the image of the soul of Plato, which has soared to Olympus, while his earth-born body rests in Attic soil.

Vitae philosophorum. Diogenes Laertius. R. D. Hicks (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1925.

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers (English) (Diogenes Laertius. Hicks, R. D., editor. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925.)

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[44] ἕτερον δέ·

γαῖα μὲν ἐν κόλπῳ κρύπτει τόδε σῶμα Πλάτωνος,

ψυχὴ δʼ ἀθάνατον τάξιν ἔχει μακάρων

υἱοῦ Ἀρίστωνος, τόν τις καὶ τηλόθι ναίων

τιμᾷ ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς θεῖον ἰδόντα βίον.

καὶ ἄλλο νεώτερον·

αἰετέ, τίπτε βέβηκας ὑπὲρ τάφον; ἦ τινος, εἰπέ,

ἀστερόεντα θεῶν οἶκον ἀποσκοπέεις;

—ψυχῆς εἰμι Πλάτωνος ἀποπταμένης ἐς Ὄλυμπον

εἰκών, σῶμα δὲ 〈γῆ〉 γηγενὲς Ἀτθὶς ἔχει.

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Lives of Eminent Philosophers

1. Anth. Pal. vii. 61.

2. Anth. Pal. vii. 62.

Diogenes Laertius Vitae philosophorum 3.1.44

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