ἦ μὰν ἀμφοτέροισιν ὁμὸν γένος ἠδ᾽ ἴα πάτρη,σεμνοτέραν ἀπέφηνε τὴν τοῦ Διὸς ἡγεμονίαν, ἐπιστήμῃ 6 καὶ σοφίᾳ πρεσβυτέραν οὖσαν. οἶμαι δὲ καὶ τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς, ἣν ὁ θεὸς εἴληχεν, εὔδαιμον 7 εἶναι τὸ τῇ γνώσει μὴ προαπολείπειν 8 τὰ γιγνόμενα: τοῦ [p. 472] δὲ γιγνώσκειν τὰ ὄντα καὶ φρονεῖν ἀφαιρεθέντος, οὐ βίον ἀλλὰ χρόνον εἶναι τὴν ἀθανασίαν.
5 ἀλλὰ Ζεὺς πρότερος γεγόνει καὶ πλείονα ᾔδει,
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πάντα μέν, ὦ Κλέα, δεῖ τἀγαθὰ τοὺς νοῦν ἔχοντας αἰτεῖσθαι παρὰ τῶν
θεῶν, μάλιστα δὲ τῆς περὶ αὐτῶν ἐπιστήμης ὅσον ἐφικτόν ἐστιν
ἀνθρώποις μετιόντες εὐχώμεθα 1 τυγχάνειν παρ᾽ αὐτῶν ἐκείνων: ὡς οὐδὲν ἀνθρώπῳ λαβεῖν μεῖζον οὐδὲ 2 χαρίσασθαι θεῷ σεμνότερον ἀληθείας;.
τἄλλα 3 μὲν
γὰρ ἀνθρώποις ὁ θεὸς ὧν δέονται δίδωσιν, νοῦ δὲ καὶ φρονήσεως
μεταδίδωσιν, 4 οἰκεῖα κεκτημένος ταῦτα καὶ χρώμενος. οὐ γὰρ
ἀργύρῳ καὶ χρυσῷ μακάριον τὸ θεῖον, οὐδὲ
βρονταῖς καὶ κεραυνοῖς ἰσχυρόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπιστήμῃ καὶ φρονήσει. καὶ τοῦτο
κάλλιστα πάντων Ὅμηρος ὧν εἴρηκε περὶ θεῶν ἀναφθεγξάμενος
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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