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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.47.1–I.49.47.2
Ancient Greek
p. 134647.1
Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Ἀξιόχου. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἕτερον βούλει λόγον ἀκοῦσαι, ὃν ἐμοὶ ἤγγειλε Γωβρίης, ἀνὴρ μάγος, [ὃς] ἔφη κατὰ τὴν Ξέρξου διάβασιν τὸν πάππον αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμώνυμον πεμφθέντα εἰς Δῆλον, ὅπως τηρήσειε τὴν νῆσον ἄσυλον ἐν ᾗ ⟨οἱ⟩ δύο θεοὶ ἐγένοντο, ἔκ τινων χαλκέων δέλτων, ἃς ⟨ἐξ⟩ Ὑπερβορέων ἐκόμισαν Ὦπις καὶ Ἑκάεργος, ἐκμεμαθηκέναι [τε]
47.2
μετὰ τὴν τοῦ σώματος λύσιν τὴν ψυχὴν εἰς τὸν ἄδηλον χωρεῖν τόπον καὶ τὴν ὑπόγειον οἴκησιν, ἐν ᾗ βασίλεια Πλούτωνος οὐχ ἥττω τῶν Διός, ἅτε τῆς γῆς μὲν ἐχούσης τὰ μέσα τοῦ κόσμου, τοῦ πόλου δὲ ὄντος σφαιροειδοῦς· οὗ τὸ μὲν ἕτερον ἡμισφαίριον θεοὶ ἔλαχον οἱ οὐράνιοι, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον οἱ ὑπένερθεν, οἱ μὲν ἀδελφοὶ ὄντες, οἱ δὲ ἀδελφῶν παῖδες.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 134747.1 · Axiochus: the account of Gobryas
Plato, from the Axiochus. And if you wish to hear another account, which Gobryas, a Magus, reported to me: [who] said that, at the time of Xerxes’ crossing, his grandfather and namesake was sent to Delos to keep inviolate the island where ⟨the⟩ two gods were born. From certain bronze tablets, which Opis and Hecaergos brought ⟨from⟩ the Hyperboreans, he had learned [also]1624
47.2 · The two hemispheres of the gods
that after the body’s dissolution the soul travels to the unseen region and the dwelling beneath the earth. There Pluto has a palace no less grand than Zeus’s, since earth occupies the center of the universe and the heavens are spherical. Of their two hemispheres the heavenly gods received one, and the gods below the other, some being brothers, others children of brothers.1625
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