# Stobaei Hermetica 24.7

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 24. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/24.7

Καλῶς,εἶπεν Ὧρος, [ἅπαντα] ⟨ταῦτά⟩ μοι ⟨ἐξήπλωσας⟩, ὦ τεκοῦσα· πῶς δὲ εὐγενεῖς γίγνονται ψυχαί, οὐδέπω μοι διηγήσω.— [Πῶς γίγνονται εὐγενεῖς ψυχαί.] Ὃν τρόπον ἐπὶ γῆς, ὦ τέκνον Ὧ ρε, εἰσί τινες πολιτεῖαι διαφέρουσαι ἀλλήλων, οὕτως καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ψυχῶν ἐστι. καὶ αὗται γὰρ τόπους ἔχουσιν ὅθεν ὡρμῶσι, καὶ ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνδοξοτέρου τόπου ὡρμηκυῖα εὐγενεστέρα ἐστὶ τῆς μὴ οὕτως ἐχούσης. ὅνπερ γὰρ τρόπον ἐΝ ἀνθρώποις ὁ ἐλεύθερος εὐγενέστερος εἶναι δοκεῖ δούλου,—τὸ γὰρ [[ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς]] ὑπερέχον καὶ βασιλικὸν δουλοποιεῖ⟨ται⟩ τὸ ὑπερεχόμενον ἐξ ἀνάγκης,οὔταω δή, ὦ τέκνον, καὶ ⟨⟨ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς⟩⟩ ⟨ἔχει⟩.—

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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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