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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.53.14–I.49.53.15
Ancient Greek
p. 138653.14
Ὑποθέμενος οὖν τούτους, καθάπερ καὶ λέγονται, ἐμπαθεῖς καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐπιθυμίας μετέχοντας καὶ ὀργῆς καὶ μίσους καὶ ἔχθρας καὶ ὑφ᾽ εἱμαρμένην ὄντας, εἰκότως καὶ ἁμαρτάνειν οἴεται καὶ ψεύδεσθαι καὶ ὀμνύναι καὶ εὐορκεῖν ἢ τοὐναντίον τινὰς πλημμελεῖν εἰς τοὺς ὅρκους. Διὸ καὶ τούτων κολάσεις ὑποτίθεται, οὐ μέντοι ἀναμεμιγμένας τοῖς ἀνθρωπίνοις κολαστηρίοις, ἀλλ᾽ ἅτε μείζονας ὄντας, μείζονος καὶ τιμωρίας πειρᾶσθαι ἀδικήσαντας.
53.15
Διὸ τῶν μὲν ἀνθρωπίνων ψυχῶν ἐν Ἅιδου τὰ κολαστήρια· τῶν δ᾽ εἰρημένων θεῶν ὑπὸ τὸν Ἅιδην ἐν τῇ Κρόνου ἐπικρατείᾳ κατὰ τὸν Τάρταρον. Διὸ καὶ τῶν Τιτάνων χῶρος οὗτος κέκληται ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ τίσιν διδόντων θεῶν παρὰ τοῖς τιμωροῖς θεοῖς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 138753.14 · Divine wrongdoing and punishment
Supposing these beings, then, to be subject to passions, as they are indeed said to be, and therefore to share in desire, anger, hatred, and enmity, and to be under fate, he reasonably thinks that they also do wrong, lie, swear oaths, and keep them, or that some, conversely, offend against their oaths. He therefore supposes punishments for them too, though not mingled with the places where human beings are punished. Since they are greater beings, they also experience greater punishment when they do wrong.1666
53.15 · Tartarus and the Titans
Accordingly, the places of punishment for human souls are in Hades, while those for the gods just mentioned lie beneath Hades, in Cronus’s domain, in Tartarus. Hence this has also been called the region of the Titans, after the gods who pay a penalty there before the avenging gods.1667
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