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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.44.37–I.49.44.38
Ancient Greek
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αἱ δὲ πλέον ἔτριζον δίκην ἀσπίδων, ὀξὺ δὲ κώκυσασα ἑτέρα καὶ πρὸ τῶν λόγων ἱκανὰ κλαύσασα καὶ πολλάκις ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω τοὺς ὡς ἔτυχεν ἔχουσα μεταφέρουσα ὀφθαλμούς·
44.38
“Οὐρανέ, τῆς ἡμετέρας”, εἶπεν, “ἀρχὴ γενέσεως, αἰθήρ τε καὶ ἀὴρ καὶ τοῦ μονάρχου θεοῦ χεῖρές τε καὶ ἱερὸν πνεῦμα, περιλαμπῆ τε, ὀφθαλμοὶ θεῶν, ἄστρα καὶ φῶς ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης ἀκοπίαστον, τὰ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀρχῆς σύντροφα, ὧν ἁπάντων ἀποσπώμεναι ἄθλια πάσχομεν, πλέον δ᾽ ὅτι ἀπὸ μεγάλων τε καὶ λαμπρῶν καὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ περιχύματος καὶ πλουσίου πόλου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς μακαρίας μετὰ θεῶν πολιτείας εἰς ἄτιμα καὶ ταπεινὰ οὕτως ἐγκατειρχθησόμεθα σκηνώματα· τί ταῖς δυστήνοις ἡμῖν ἀπρεπὲς οὕτως πέπρακται; τί τῶν κολάσεων τούτων ἄξιον;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 127544.37 · One soul speaks after weeping
Others hissed all the more, like asps. Another wailed sharply, wept at length before speaking, and repeatedly turned upward and downward the eyes she happened to possess:1548
44.38 · The loss of the heavenly dwelling
“Heaven,” she said, “origin of our birth; ether and air; hands and sacred breath of the sole-ruling god; radiant stars, eyes of gods; tireless light of Sun and Moon, companions of our beginning: torn away from you all, we suffer miserably. Worse still, from things great and splendid, from the sacred surrounding expanse and rich vault of heaven, and from our blessed life with the gods, we shall be shut within dwellings so dishonored and low. What have we poor creatures done that is so unseemly? What deserves these punishments?1549
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