# Stobaei Hermetica 26.7

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/26.7

γίγνεται μὲν οὖν καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῳ ⟨γένει⟩ εὑρεῖν ζῷον τῇ ἰδίᾳ φύσει ⎡μὴ καταχρώμενον⎤.—Πῶς [πάλιν], ὦ τεκοῦσα; εἶπεν Ὧρος.—καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Ἶσις· Ὥστε ἄνθρωπον μέν, ὦ τέκνον, τὸ κριτικὸν ὑπερβῆναι, ⟨πτηνὸν δὲ...,⟩ τετράπουν δὲ τὴν ἀνάγκην παραλλάξαι, ἑρπετὸΝ δὲ τὸ δόλιον ἀπολέσαι, καὶ νηκτὸν τῆς δειλίας καταφρονῆσαι [καὶ πτηνὸν τῆς ἀπανθρωπίας ἐκπεσεῖν]. [[καὶ τὰ μὲν περὶ τῆς διαθέσεως τῶν ἄνω καὶ τῆς καταβάσεαως αὐτῶν καὶ τῆς σωματουργίας τοσαῦτα.]]

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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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