metempsychosis

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κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν τὴν μήτε πλουσίους ἄγαν μήτε πένητας ἔχουσαν πολίτας → the best democracy is that in which the citizens are neither very rich nor very poor (Thales/Plutarch)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mĕtempsȳchōsis: is, f., = μετεμψύχωσις,
I the transit of the soul, its transmigration from one body to another, a doctrine of the Pythagoreans, Porphyr. ad Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 52.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

mĕtempsȳchōsis, is, f. (μετεμψύχωσις), métempsychose : Tert. Anim. 34 ; Pomp. Porphyr. Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 51.