# Stobaei Hermetica 2b.5

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 2b. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/2b.5

⟨...⟩ αὕτη γὰρ μόνη ἐστίν, ὦ τέκνον, [ἡ] πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ὁδός· ἣν καὶ οἱ ἡμέτεροι πρόγονοι ὥδευσαν, καὶ ὁδεύσαντες ἔτυχον τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ. σεμνὴ αὕτη ὁδὸς καὶ ⎡λεία⎤, χαλεπὴ δὲ ψυχῇ ὁδεῦσαι ἐν σώματι οὔσῃ. πρῶτον [μὲν] γὰρ αὐτὴν ἑαυτῇ πολεμῆσαι δεῖ, καὶ [δια]στάσιν μεγάλην ποιῆσαι, καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἑνὸς μέρους ⟨τὰ⟩ πλέω νικηθῆναι. ἑνὸς γὰρ γίγνεται πρὸς δύο ἡ [συ]στάσις, τοῦ μὲν ⟨ἄνω⟩ ϲΠεύΔοντος, τῶν δὲ καθελκόντων κάτω· καὶ ἔρις καὶ μάχη πολλὴ πρὸς ἄλληλα τούτων γίγνεται [τοῦ μὲν φυγεῖν βουλομένου, τῶν δὲ κατασχεῖν σπευδόντων].

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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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