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βέλτιον οὖν οἱ τὰ περὶ τὸν Τυφῶνα καὶ Ὄσιριν καὶ Ἶσιν ἱστορούμενα
μήτε θεῶν παθήματα μήτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ δαιμόνων μεγάλων εἶναι
νομίζοντες, οὓς 1 καὶ
Πλάτων καὶ Πυθαγόρας; καὶ Ξενοκράτης καὶ Χρύσιππος, ἑπόμενοι τοῖς
πάλαι θεολόγοις, ἐρρωμενεστέρους μὲν ἀνθρώπων
γεγονέναι λέγουσι καὶ πολὺ 2 τῇ δυνάμει τὴν φύσιν ὑπερφέροντας ἡμῶν, τὸ
δὲ θεῖον οὐκ ἀμιγὲς οὐδ᾽ ἄκρατον ἔχοντας, ἀλλὰ καὶ ψυχῆς; φύσει καὶ
σώματος: αἰσθήσει 3
4 συνειληχός, ἡδονὴν δεχόμενον 5 καὶ πόνον, καὶ
ὅσα ταύταις ἐγγενόμενα ταῖς μεταβολαῖς πάθη
τοὺς μὲν μᾶλλον τοὺς δ᾽ ἧττον ἐπιταράττει. γίγνονται γὰρ ὡς ἐν
ἀνθρώποις, καὶ δαίμοσιν, ἀρετῆς διαφοραὶ καὶ κακίας. τὰ γὰρ Γιγαντικὰ καὶ
Τιτανικὰ παρ᾽ Ἕλλησιν ᾀδόμενα καὶ Κρόνου 6
τινὲς ἄθεσμοι πράξεις καὶ Πύθωνος
ἀντιτάξεις πρὸς; Ἀπόλλωνα, φυγαί 7 τε Διονύσου καὶ πλάναι, Δήμητρος
οὐδὲν ἀπολείπουσι τῶν Ὀσιριακῶν καὶ Τυφωνικῶν, ἄλλων θ᾽ ὧν πᾶσιν
8
ἔξεστιν ἀνέδην μυθολογουμένων ἀκούειν: ὅσα τε μυστικοῖς ἱεροῖς
περικαλυπτόμενα 9 καὶ τελεταῖς ἄρρητα [p. 496] διασῴζεται καὶ ἀθέατα πρὸς τοὺς πολλούς, ὅμοιον ἔχει
λόγον.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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