# Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ τρισμεγίστου. Κλείς 4b

Corpus Hermeticum, Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ τρισμεγίστου. Κλείς, Section 4b. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/text-4/4b

⟨...⟩ ἴδιον γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τὸ γνωρίζεσθαι [[ἔστὶ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ὦ Τὰτ]] ⟨⟨τῷ δυναμένῳ ἰδεῖν⟩⟩.—Ἐπλήρωσας ἡμᾶς, ὦ πάτερ, τῆς ἀγαθῆς καὶ καλλίστης θέας· καὶ ὀλίγου δεῖν ⟨ἐπ⟩εσκιάσθη μου ὁ τοῦ νοῦ ὀφθαλμὸς ὑπὸ τῆς τοιαύτης ⎡θέας⎤.—Οὐ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἡ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀκτὶς πυρώδης οὖσα καταυγάζει καὶ μύειν ποιεῖ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς, οὕτω καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θέα· τοὐναντίον δὲ ἐκλάμπει [καὶ] ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον, ἐφ᾽ ὅσον δύναται ὁ θεώμενος δέξασθαι τὴν ἐπεισροὴν τῆς νοητῆς λαμπηδόνος. ὀξυτέρα μὲν γάρ ἐστιν εἰς τὸ καθικνεῖσθαι, ἀβλαβὴς δέ, καὶ πάσης ἀθανασίας ἀνάπλεως.

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Anonymous, Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ τρισμεγίστου. Κλείς, 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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