Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 7

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τοῖσι λάμπει μὲν μένος ἀελίου τὰν ἐνθάδε νύκτα κάτω,
φοινικορόδοις ἐνὶ λειμώνεσσι,
καὶ τοῖσιν ἀκάρπων μὲν ἀνθηρῶν
καὶ σκυθίων δένδρων ἄνθεσι τεθηλὸς
ἀναπέπταται πεδίον

[p. 486] καὶ ποταμοί τινες ἄκλυστοι καὶ λεῖοι διαρρέουσι, καὶ διατριβὰς ἔχουσιν ἐν μνήμαις καὶ λόγοις τῶν γεγονότων καὶ ὄντων παραπέμποντες αὑτοὺς καὶ συνόντες. ἡ δὲ τρίτη τῶν ἀνοσίως βεβιωκότων καὶ παρανόμως ὁδός ἐστιν, εἰς ἔρεβός τι καὶ βάραθρον ὠθοῦσα τὰς ψυχὰς

ἔνθεν τὸν ἄπειρον ἐρεύγονται σκότον
βληχροὶ δνοφερᾶς νυκτὸς ποταμοί

δεχόμενοι καὶ ἀποκρύπτοντες ἀγνοίᾳ καὶ λήθῃ τοὺς κολαζομένους. οὐ γὰρ οὔτε γῦπες κειμένων ἐν γῇ τῶν πονηρῶν κείρουσιν ἀεὶ τὸ ἧπαρ: κατακέκαυται γὰρ ἢ κατασέσηπεν οὔτε βαρῶν τινων ἀχθοφορίαι θλίβουσι καὶ καταπονοῦσι τὰ σώματα τῶν κολαζομένων

οὐ γὰρ ἔτι σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα ἶνες ἔχουσιν.

οὐδ᾽ ἔστιν ὑπόλειμμα σώματος τοῖς τεθνηκόσι τιμωρίας ἀπέρεισιν ἀντιτύπου δέξασθαι δυνάμενον: ἀλλ᾽ ἓν κολαστήριον ὡς ἀληθῶς τῶν κακῶς βιωσάντων, ἀδοξία καὶ ἄγνοια καὶ παντελῶς ἀφανισμός, ὃς αἴρων εἰς τὸν ἀμειδῆ ποταμὸν ἀπὸ τῆς Λήθης καταποντίζει εἰς ἄβυσσον καὶ ἀχανὲς πέλαγος, ἀχρηστίαν καὶ ἀπραξίαν καὶ πᾶσάν ἄγνοιαν καὶ ἀδοξίαν συνεφελκόμενον.

Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1895. 6.

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