# Stobaei Hermetica 23.7

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/23.7

Ἑρμῆς μὲν οὖν ⎡ἀπελογεῖτο τῷ περιέχοντι ὡς⎤ οὐδὲ τῷ παιδὶ παρέδωκεν ὁλοτελῆ ⟨τὴν⟩ θεωρίαν, διὰ τὸ ἔτι τῆς ἡλικίας Νεοειδές. ⟨εἶπε δὲ οὕτως·⟩ Ἐγὼ δΗ [τῆς ἀνατολῆς γενόμενος] τοῖς πάντα βλέπουσιν ὀφθαλμοῖς ⟨τοῦ νοῦ⟩ τὰ τῆς ⎡ἀνατολῆς⎤ ⟨ἐ⟩θεώρησα[ι τι] ἀειδ῀Η· καὶ ἐπισκοποῦντί ⟨μοι⟩ βραδέως μέν, ἀλλ᾽ οὖν ἦλθεν ἡ ἀκριβὴς [δια]γνῶσις. ⟨... χρή με⟩ πλησίον τῶν Ὀσίριδος κρυφίων ἀποθέσθαι τὰ ἱερὰ τῶν κοσμικῶν στοιχείων σύμβολα, ἐπικατευξάμενον δὲ [καὶ τοὺς λόγους τούσδε εἰπόντα[ς]] εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀπελθε⟨ῖ⟩ν.

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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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