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Book I Chapter 9 · I.9.heading–I.9.2a
Ancient Greek
p. 268Κεφάλαιον Θʹ
Περὶ Ἀφροδίτης οὐρανίας καὶ Ἔρωτος ⟨θείου⟩.
1 ⟨Εὐριπίδου⟩
2a Εὐριπίδου Οἰδίποδι
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 9
p. 269Chapter 9: Aphrodite and Love
On Heavenly Aphrodite and ⟨Divine⟩ Love.300
1 ⟨Euripides⟩
Do you not see how mighty a goddess Aphrodite is? You could not even tell or measure how great she is, or how far her power extends. She nourishes you and me and all mortals. Here is proof, so you need not learn by words alone: I shall show the goddess’s strength in what she does. Earth longs for rain when its dry ground, made barren by drought, is short of moisture; and the august sky, filling with rain, longs, under Aphrodite’s influence, to fall upon the earth. When the two mingle together, together they bring forth and nourish everything for us, by which the mortal race lives and flourishes.301
2a Euripides, Oedipus
⟨Yet⟩ though love is one, its pleasure is not one: some love shameful things, others noble things.
Socrates
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