Plato, who professes to have embraced this belief from Pindar and the ancient poets, that we are to undergo infinite vicissitudes of mutation, for which the soul is prepared, having neither punishment nor reward in the other world but what is temporal, as its life here is but temporal, concludes that it has a singular knowledge of the affairs of heaven, of hell, of the world, through all which it has passed, repassed, and made stay in several voyages, are matters for her memory.
Platonek, baitio Pindaro eta aitzineko poesiatik ukan duela arima prestatzen den aldakuntzezko mugagabeko gertaldien sinesmen hau, beste munduan neke eta sari denborazkorik besterik ez izanik, honetan haren bizia denborazkoaz baizik ez baita, hartan ondoriatzen du zeruko, infernuko eta hemengo berrien jakintza berezi bat, zeren handik iragan, itzuli eta egon baita bidaia anitzetan: hori haren oroimenaren gaia da.