# Stobaei Hermetica 23.4

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/23.4

καὶ ἔως ⟨μὲν⟩ ὁ τῶν συμπάντων οὐκ ἐβούλετο τεχνίτης ⟨γνωσθῆναι⟩, ἀγνωσία κατεῖχε τὰ ξύμπαντα· ὅτε δὲ ἔκρινεν αὑτὸν ὅστις ἐστὶ δηλῶσαι, ἔρωτα[ς] ἐνεφ[ο]ύσΗσε θε⟨ί⟩οις ⟨τισὶν ἀνθρώποις⟩, καὶ αὐΓὴν ἧ⟨ς⟩ εἶχον ἐν στέρνοις πλείονα ταῖς τούτων ἐχαρίσατο διανοίαις, ἵνα ⟨⟨θεὸΝ⟩⟩ ⟨⟨τόΝ ἔτι ἄγνωστοΝ⟩⟩ πρῶτον μὲν ζητεῖν θελήσωσιν, εἶτα ⟨δὲ καὶ⟩ [ἐπιθυμήσωσιν] εὑρεῖν [εἶτα καὶ κατορθῶσαι] δυνηθῶσι.

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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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