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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.53.12–I.49.53.13
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p. 138453.12
Τῶν δὲ ὑπὲρ τὸν ποταμὸν διατριβουσῶν ψυχῶν πρῶται γυναῖκές εἰσι τεταγμέναι (λέγω δὲ πρώτας ⟨τὰς⟩ πλησιαζούσας τοῖς ἔξω), ἐνδοτάτω δὲ αἱ τῶν ἀνδρῶν, καὶ λοιπὸν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἅιδην θεοί. Διὸ καὶ πρῶται αἱ γυναῖκες πέμπονται, εἶθ᾽ οἱ ἄνδρες καὶ τούτων οἱ τίμιοι ὕστεροι.
53.13
Τὰ μὲν οὖν κατὰ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους οὕτως αὐτῷ διατέτακται· ὑποθέμενος δὲ τοὺς κοσμικοὺς θεούς, ὧν τὰ γένη διηριθμήκαμεν, οὐ πάντῃ ἀπαθεῖς, ⟨θεοὺς⟩ καλέσας κατὰ παλαιὰν συνήθειαν [ὧν τὰ γένη ἐξεθήκαμεν], κατ᾽ αὐτὸν μεγάλου δαίμονος ὄντος, ὃν καλεῖ Δία καὶ οἷον ἄρχοντος τῶν ἄχρις οὐρανοῦ φθανόντων,
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 138553.12 · The order of souls beyond the river
Among the souls dwelling beyond the river, women are stationed first (by “first” I mean ⟨those⟩ nearest the ones outside); the souls of men are furthest within, and beyond them are the gods around Hades. For this reason women are sent first, then men, and among these the honored ones last.1664
53.13 · The cosmic gods and their ruler
This, then, is how he has ordered human affairs. He supposed the cosmic gods, whose classes we have enumerated, not to be entirely free from passions, calling them ⟨gods⟩ according to ancient usage [whose classes we have set out]. In his account there is a great daimon, whom he calls Zeus, acting as a kind of ruler over those extending as far as heaven.1665
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