 In the available testimonies (Priscian in particular: see the assessment in Huby 1993), the soul is constantly associated with the notion of “life”. The latter is approached here not so much as an essential psychic property (as had been the case in the Phaedo), as in terms of the corporeal “life-principles” (zōai, most often in the plural) that the soul is said to project outside of itself in order to get a hold on the external world: 