# Stobaei Hermetica 23.64

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/23.64

καὶ ἐκ τούτου εἶπεν Ὧρος· Ὦ τεκοῦσα, πῶς οὖν τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπόρροιαν ἔχειν εὐτύχησεν ἡ γῆ; —καὶ εἶπεν Ἶσις· Παραιτοῦμαι [[γένεσιν ἱστορεῖν]] [[οὐ γὰρ θεμιτὸν]] σῆς σπορᾶς καταλέγειν ἀρχήν, ὦ μεγαλοσθενὲς Ὧρε· ⟨⟨οὐ γὰρ θεμιτὸν⟩⟩ [ὡς μήποτε ὕστερον εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀθανάτων ⟨δι⟩έλθῃ γένεσις] θεῶν ⟨⟨γένεσιν ἱστορεῖν⟩⟩· πλὴν ὅτι γε ὁ μόναρχος θεός, ὁ τῶν συμπάντων [κοσμοποιητὴς καὶ] τεχνίτης, τ῀ιΗ ⟨γῇ⟩ τὸν μέγιστόν σου πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐχαρίσατο πατέρα Ὄσιριν καὶ τὴν μεγίστην θεὰν Ἶσιν, ἵνα τῶν πάντων δεομένῳ ⟨τῷ⟩ κόσμῳ βοηθοὶ γένωνται.

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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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