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Book I Chapter 21 · I.21.4.1–I.21.4.2
Ancient Greek
p. 4984 ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩ · 1
Ὅμηρός φησι πεπερασμένον εἶναι τὸν κόσμον, δηλοῦται δὲ διὰ τούτων·
Τριχθὰ δὲ πάντα δέδασται, ἕκαστος δ᾽ ἔμμορε τιμῆς.Τοῦτο τοίνυν ἑνὶ στίχῳ διαρρήδην ἐδήλωσεν, τὸ γὰρ ἄπειρον οὐκ ἔστιν εἰς μοίρας διελεῖν. Καὶ ἐν τούτοις δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ σημαίνει·
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ὡς τῶν ἐν μέσῳ φύσεων πεποιημένος τὴν νέμησιν, τὰ δὲ ἄκρα καὶ περατοῦντα ἀνέμητα καταλελοιπώς. Καὶ εἶναι τὴν γῆν μὲν κατωτάτω πάντων, τὸν δὲ Ὄλυμπον ἀνωτάτω δεδήλωκεν ἐν τούτῳ·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 21
p. 4994 ⟨Plutarch⟩: Homer’s bounded world
Homer says that the world is bounded; this is shown in these words:
All things are divided three ways; each has his share of honor.
He has thus stated this expressly in a single line, for the unlimited cannot be divided into portions. He indicates the same thing also in the following words:625
4 ⟨Plutarch⟩: The allotted regions
When the lots were shaken, I won the gray sea for my lasting home; Hades won the misty darkness, Zeus won the ⟨broad⟩ heaven in the aether and the clouds; but earth and high Olympus remain common to us all.
Thus he has allotted the regions in between, leaving the outermost and bounding regions unallotted. And he has shown that earth is lowest of all and Olympus highest in the following passage:626
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