# Stobaei Hermetica 26.11

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 26. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/26.11

[[διαζώματος τετευχότες πυρὸς ἐργάται γίγνονται καὶ τροφῆς]] [οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ ὑγροῦ ἐν ὑγροῖς διαζώμασιν] οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ ἐπιστημονικοῦ καὶ τεχνικοῦ περὶ ἐπιστήμας καταγίγνονται καὶ τέχνας, ⟨οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ ἐνεργοῦς⟩ ⟨⟨διαζώματος ⟨κα⟩τελΗλΥΘότες [πυρὸς] ἐργάται γίγνονται καὶ τροφεῖς,⟩⟩ οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ ἀργοῦ ἀργῶς καὶ ἐπιρρεμβῶς διαζῶσι. πάντων γὰρ τῶν ἐπὶ γῆς, ὦ τέκνον, [διὰ λόγου καὶ ἔργου πραΤΤΟΜέΝων] ἄνω εἰσὶν αἱ πηγαί, μέτρῳ καὶ σταθμῷ ἐπιχύνουσαι ἡμῖν τὰς ’οὐσίας καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃ μὴ ἄνωθεν καταβέβηκε.

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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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