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Book I Chapter 3 · I.3.15b–I.3.19
Ancient Greek
p. 11415b ⟨Ἀδήλου τραγικοῦ ποιητοῦ⟩
16 ⟨Ἀδήλου τραγικοῦ ποιητοῦ⟩
17 ⟨Ἀδήλου τραγικοῦ ποιητοῦ⟩
18 ⟨Εὐριπίδου⟩
19 Διονυσίου
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 3
p. 11515b ⟨An unidentified tragic poet⟩
He paid the penalty for the evils he had done.
16 ⟨An unidentified tragic poet⟩
Keen is the gods’ eye to see all things.
17 ⟨An unidentified tragic poet⟩
There is, it seems, there is a divine power, unseen and unexpected by us who live, that has some care for mortal life.117
18 ⟨Euripides⟩
You have paid the penalty. So let no one, if he runs the first stretch of wrongdoing well, think he has beaten Justice, before he reaches the finishing line and rounds the limit of his life.118
19 Dionysius
The eye of Justice, gazing as though from a calm countenance, sees all things alike, always.
Socrates
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Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.
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