# Stobaei Hermetica 23.33

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/23.33

ὅτε γάρ, ὦ [θαυμαστὲ] παῖ μεγαλόδοξε, ἔμελλον ἐγκατακλείεσθαι τοῖς σώμασιν, αἱ μὲν [γὰρ] αὐτῶν αὐτὸ μόνον ὠδύροντο καὶ ἐστέναζον, ⟨⟨αἱ δὲ ⟨καὶ ἀντε⟩πάλαιον,⟩⟩ [καὶ] ὅνπερ τρόπον τῶν [γεγονότων] θηρίων τὰ ἐλευθέρ⟨ι⟩α δό[υ]λοις πονηρῶν [μελήσει] τῆς συνήθους [καὶ φίλης] ἀποσπώμενα ἐρημίας ⟨ἐπιχειρεῖ⟩ μάχεσθαι [καὶ στασιάζειν] [καὶ οὐχ ὁμονοεῖν] πρὸς τοὺς κρατήσαντας αὐτῶν [καὶ στασιάζειν] [ἀλλὰ καί, ἐὰν τύχῃ περιγενόμενα, θανάτῳ παρα⟨δί⟩δω[σου]σι τοῪς αὐτοῖς ἐπιβάλλοντας]. [[αἱ δὲ παλαιῶν]] [ἔτριζον δίκην ἀσπίδων.]

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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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