# Stobaei Hermetica 26.16

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/26.16

εἰ δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ πλεονάσειε, τὸ τηνικαῦτα [καὶ] τὸ ζῷον τῇ μὲν ψυχῇ γίγνεται εὔ[χ]ρουν [καὶ εὐφυὲς] καὶ εὐπερίχυτον, ἱκανῶς τε τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐπιπεσεῖν καὶ κολληθῆναι δυνάμενον, διὰ τὸ πρὸς τὰ ἄλλα [ἑνωτικὸν καὶ] κοινωνικὸν τοῦ ὕδατος· [ἐφιζάνει] ⟨ἑνοῦται⟩ γὰρ πᾶσι, καὶ πολὺ μὲν ὂν ⟨⟨καὶ περιλαΒὸΝ⟩⟩ εἰς ἑαυτὸ[ν] ἀναλύει [[καὶ περιλαμβάνει]], ὀλίγον δ᾽ ὑπάρχον καὶ καταδὺ[σα]ν ἐκεῖνο γίγνεται ᾧ ἐμίγη. τὰ μέντοι σώματα ὑπὸ τῆς πλαδαρότητος καὶ χαυνότητος εἰς περίσφιγξιν οὐ ⟨συ⟩νάγεται, ἀλλὰ μικρᾷ τινι [νόσου] ἀφορμῇ λύεται [καὶ τοῦ ἰδίου συνδέσμου κατ᾽ ὀλίγον ἐκπίπτει].

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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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