The faculty of memory is the cause Text, αἴτιον. R.
2930, ἀγγεῖον. and storehouse of remembrance and
recollection. For memory is a fantasy φαντασία. that is left behind of some sensation
and thought καὶ
νοήσεως is wanting in
some mss., nor is it found in Nemesius, who
borrowed his description from Origen. manifesting
itself in action; or the preservation Text,
σωτηρία.
Variant, σωρεία, a heaping up,
“coacervatio.” Faber has “confirmatio,”
which is nearer σωτηρία,
conservatio, which is found in Nemesius, &c. of a sensation and thought Nemes.,
ch. 13.. For the soul comprehends objects
of sense through the organs of sense, that is to say, it perceives, and
thence arises a notion: and similarly it comprehends the objects
of thought through the mind, and thence arises a thought. It is
then the preservation of the types of these notions and thoughts that
is spoken of as memory.