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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.61.1–I.49.61.3
Ancient Greek
p. 147861.1
Τοῦ αὐτοῦ.
Πάλιν αἰνιττόμενος, ὅτι ταῖς τῶν εὐσεβῶς βεβιωκότων ψυχαῖς μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν οἰκεῖός ἐστι τόπος ὁ περὶ τὴν σελήνην, ὑπεδήλωσεν εἰπών·
ἀλλά σ᾽ ἐς ἠλύσιον πεδίον καὶ πείρατα γαίης ἀθάνατοι πέμψουσιν, ὅθι ξανθὸς Ῥαδάμανθυς,61.2
Ἠλύσιον μὲν πεδίον εἰκότως προσειπὼν τὴν τῆς σελήνης ἐπιφάνειαν ὑπὸ ἡλίου καταλαμπομένην, “ὅτ᾽ ἀέξεται ἀλίου αὐγαῖς”, ὥς φησι Τιμόθεος·
61.3
Πέρατα δὲ γῆς τὰ ἄκρα τῆς νυκτός, ἣν σκιὰν τῆς γῆς εἶναι λέγουσιν οἱ μαθηματικοὶ πολλάκις ἐπιψαύουσαν τῆς σελήνης, ὡς τοῦτο τῆς γῆς πέρας ἐχούσης οὗ τῇ σκιᾷ μακρότερον οὐκ ἐξικνεῖται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 147961.1 · Porphyry: Elysium and the moon
By the same author.
Again, hinting that the region about the moon is the fitting place after death for the souls of those who have lived reverently, he intimated it by saying:
But to the Elysian plain and the limits of the earth the immortals will send you, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys dwells.1773
61.2 · The moon’s sunlit surface
He appropriately called the surface of the moon illuminated by the sun the Elysian plain, “when it waxes in the sun’s rays,” as Timotheus says.1774
61.3 · The earth’s shadow as its limit
By the limits of the earth he meant the farthest reaches of night, which the mathematical astronomers say is the earth’s shadow, often touching the moon. On this account, the earth has as its limit that point beyond which its shadow does not extend.1775
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