Here I am translating a very difficult text from the Greek with the help of Joseph Combès' translation into French (a language I don't really know), so use this with great caution!
[Third Hypothesis (Parm. 155e4-157b5]
[Question 2] Secondly, in what way does Parmenides define it as being one and many, but not one and not many, and being part (metechon) of time?
[Response 2] (...) Besides, Parmenides also predicated "to be a participant of time", attributing to the soul an existence (hupostasin) from the sublunar gods, so that(?) it takes the principle of its descents and ascents from there. Indeed, the hieratics (hieratikoi) and theologians (theologoi) recognize that our soul is affected by the same as these gods, since it descends and ascends as it dies and lives again, as it is produced (paragetai) from such gods. (...)
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