# Stobaei Hermetica 23.5

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/23.5

τοῦτο δ᾽ [ἄν], ὦ τέκνον ἀξιοθαύμαστον Ὧρε, οὐκ ἂν ⟨ἦν⟩ ἐπὶ θνητ῀ιΗ σπορᾷ, ⟨εἰ μὴ⟩ ἐγεγόνει [οὐδὲ γὰρ ἦν οὐδέπω] ψυχὴ[ς δὲ τὴν] συμπάθειαν ἔχουσα[ς] τοῖς οὐρανοῦ μυστηρίοις. τ⟨οι⟩οῦτο⟨ς⟩ δὲ ἦν ὁ πάντα ⟨γ⟩νοὺς Ἑρμῆς· ὃς καὶ εἶδε τὰ σύμπαντα, καὶ ἰδὼν κατενόησε, καὶ κατανοήσας ἴσχυσε δηλῶσαι [τε καὶ δεῖξαι]. ⟨...·⟩ καὶ γὰρ ἃ ἐνόησεν ἐχάραξε, καὶ χαράξας ἔκρυψε⟨ν⟩ ⟨⟨ἀσφαλῶς⟩⟩, τὰ πλεῖστα σιγήσας [[ἀσφαλῶς]] [ἢ λαλήσας], ἵνα ζητῇ ταῦτα πᾶς αἰὼν ὁ μεταγενέστερος κόσμου.

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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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