# Stobaei Hermetica 3.9

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/3.9

⟨κ⟩αὶ μῊν ⟨αἱ⟩ ἐνέργειαι οὐ μόνον τὰ ἔμψυχα ἐνεργοῦσι σώματα, ⟨⟨ἀλλ⟨ὰ⟩⟩⟩ καὶ τὰ ἄψυχα, ⟨τὰ⟩ ξύλα καὶ τοὺς λίθους καὶ τὰ [[ἄλλ’]] ὅμοια, αὔξουσαί τε [καὶ καρποφοροῦσαι] καὶ πεπαίνουσαι, καὶ φθείρουσαι καὶ τήκουσαι καὶ σήπουσαι καὶ θρύπτουσαι, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια ἐνεργοῦσαι, ὅσα δύναται σώματα ἄψυχα πάσχειν. ἐνέργεια γὰρ κέκληται, ὦ τέκνον, αὐτὸ τοῦτο, ⟨τὸ δι᾽ οὗ γίγνεται⟩ ὅ τί ποτέ ἐστι τὸ γιγνόμενον.

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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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