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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.44.9–I.49.44.10
Ancient Greek
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Τοσαῦτα εἰπὼν τὰς βίβλους [καὶ] τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ κατευξάμενος ἔργοις ἰδίαις τεμενίζεται ζώναις.
44.10
Ἱκανὸς δὲ ὁ μέσος ἤργει χρόνος ⟨καὶ⟩ ἐκέκρυπτο· καὶ ἡ φύσις, ὦ τέκνον, ἐτύγχανε στεῖρα, ἕως αὐτοὶ οἱ ἤδη περιπολεῖν τὸν οὐρανὸν κελευσθέντες ⟨θεοὶ⟩ τῷ πάντων θεῷ βασιλεῖ προσελθόντες τὴν τῶν ὄντων ἡσυχίαν ἀπήγγειλαν, καὶ ὅτι δέον ἐστὶ συγκοσμηθῆναι τὰ σύμπαντα καὶ τοῦτο ὅτι οὐχ ἑτέρου τινός ἐστιν ἔργον ἢ αὐτοῦ· ‘καὶ δεόμεθά σου’, ἔλεγον, ‘τὰ νῦν ὄντα καὶ ὧν ⟨τὰ⟩ ὕστερον ἔχει χρείαν διάσκεψαι’.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 124744.9 · The books are set apart
After saying this [and] pronouncing a blessing upon his own works, he sets the books apart in a sacred enclosure with bands of his own.1520
44.10 · The gods ask for an ordered world
A considerable interval of time lay idle, ⟨and⟩ the books remained hidden. Nature, my child, was barren, until the very ⟨gods⟩ already commanded to patrol heaven approached the god who is king of all and reported the stillness of existing things: everything needed to be ordered, and this was the work of no one else but him. ‘We beg you,’ they said, ‘consider what now exists and what ⟨the things⟩ to come will need.’1521
Socrates
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