# [Ἑρμοῦ τρισμεγίστου] Ποιμάνδρης 23

Corpus Hermeticum, [Ἑρμοῦ τρισμεγίστου] Ποιμάνδρης, Section 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/text-3/23

τοῖς δὲ ἀνοήτοις καὶ κακοῖς καὶ πονηροῖς καὶ φθονεροῖς καὶ πλεονέκταις καὶ φονεῦσι καὶ ἀσεβέσι πόρρωθέν εἰμι, τῷ τιμωρῷ ἐκχωρήσας δαίμονι, ὅστις τὴν ὀξύτητα τοῦ πυρὸς προσβάλλων ⟨τὸν⟩ ⟨⟨τ⟨οι⟩οῦτον βασανίζει⟩⟩, θράσϲωΝ αὐτὸν αἰσθητικῶς, καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπὶ τὰς ἀνομίας αὐτὸν ὁπλίζει, ἵνα τύχῃ μείζονος τιμωρίας. καὶ οὐ παύεται ⟨⟨σκοτομαχῶν⟩⟩, ἐπ᾽ ὀρέξεις ἀπλέτους ⟨ . . . ⟩, τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ἔχων ἀκόρεστοΝ, [[σκοτομαχῶν]] [καὶ] [[τοῦτον βασανίζει]] καὶ ἐφ᾽ αὑτὸν ⟨τὸ⟩ πῦρ ἐπὶ πλεῖον αὐξάνει. –

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Anonymous, [Ἑρμοῦ τρισμεγίστου] Ποιμάνδρης. 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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