# Stobaei Hermetica 23.29

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/23.29

Ἐγὼ δέ, εἶπεν Ἑρμῆς, [καὶ] ⟨συνετὴν⟩ ποιήσω τὴν ⟨τῶν⟩ ἀνθρώπων φύσιν [ἔφη], καὶ σοφίαν αὐτοῖς [καὶ σωφροσύνην καὶ πειθὼ] καὶ ἀλήθειαν ⟨π⟩αραθήσω· καὶ οὐ παύσομαι [τῇ εὑρέσει συνών] [ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ὑπὸ ζῳδίων τῶν ἐμῶν γινομένων ἀνθρώπων] εἰσαεὶ τὸν θνητῶν βίον ὠφελ[ησ]ῶ⟨ν⟩, [ζῴδια γὰρ [[τὰ]] ἐμοὶ ἀνέθηκεν ὁ πατὴρ καὶ δημιουργὸς ⟨⟨τὰ⟩⟩ ἔμφρονα [γε] καὶ νοερά,] καὶ τότε πλέον, ὅταν Ή ἐπικειμένη αὐτοῖς τῶν ἀστέρων κίνησις σύμφωνον ἔχῃ τὴν ἑνὸς ἑκάστου φυσικὴν ἐνέργειαν. ἔχαιρεν [ὁ θεὸς] ὁ δεσπότης [κόσμου] ταῦτα ἀκούσας, καὶ προσέταξε γίγνεσθαι φῦλον τὸ ἀνθρώπων.]

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Anonymous, Stobaei Hermetica, ed. Walter Scott. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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