“…32 However the dif-29 G. R. F. Ferrari 2003, 89. 30 a detailed presentation of the functions, or parts, of the soul, in parallel with the corresponding social groups of the city, can be found in Vegetti 1998d, calabi 1998b, Gastaldi 1998c, and campese 1998b this more or less accentuated divergence is noted, for example, by Lisi 2006 andFronterotta 2006b, who tend to relate the doctrine of the tripartition of the soul to the more fundamental one of its bipartition, conceived, however, as deriving from the relation between a single psychic, rational, and immortal principle and the mortal body, with its emotional and irrational sphere. to have recourse in a tripartite psychological model, better adapted to illustrating the analogy with the city, which is replaced in Book X by a more appropriate conception of the soul, once the "political" need has been satisfied.…”