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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.58.43–I.49.58.45
Ancient Greek
p. 145858.43
Τούτων δὲ οὕτω πεφυκότων, ἐπειδὰν ἀφίκωνται οἱ τετελευτηκότες εἰς τὸν τόπον οἷ ὁ δαίμων ἕκαστον κομίζει, πρῶτον μὲν διεδικάσαντο οἵ τε καλῶς καὶ ὁσίως βιώσαντες καὶ οἱ μή.
58.44
Καὶ οἱ μὲν ἂν δόξωσι μέσως βεβιωκέναι, πορευθέντες ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀχέροντα, ἀναβάντες ἃ δὴ αὐτοῖς ὀχήματά ἐστιν, ἐπὶ τούτων ἀφικνοῦνται εἰς τὴν λίμνην, καὶ ἐκεῖ οἰκοῦσί τε καὶ καθαιρόμενοι τῶν τε ἀδικημάτων διδόντες δίκας ἀπολύονται, εἴ τις τι ἠδίκησε, τῶν τε εὐεργεσιῶν τιμὰς φέρονται κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν ἕκαστος·
58.45
Οἱ δ᾽ ἂν δόξωσιν ἀνιάτως ἔχειν διὰ τὰ μεγέθη τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, ἢ ἱεροσυλίας πολλὰς καὶ μεγάλας ἢ φόνους ἀδίκους καὶ παρανόμους πολλοὺς ἐξεργασάμενοι, ἢ ἄλλ᾽ ὅσα τοιαῦτα τυγχάνει ὄντα, τούτους δὲ ⟨ἡ⟩ προσήκουσα μοῖρα ῥίπτει εἰς τὸν Τάρταρον, ὅθεν οὔποτε ἐκβαίνουσιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 145958.43 · Judgment of the dead
“With this arrangement established, when the dead arrive at the place to which the daimon brings each one, first both those who have lived well and reverently and those who have not undergo judgment.”1747
58.44 · The souls whose lives were intermediate
“Those judged to have lived an intermediate life go to Acheron, board the conveyances provided for them, and on these reach the lake. They dwell there and, through purification and payment of penalties, are absolved of their wrongdoings, if any have done wrong. For their good deeds each receives honors according to desert.”1748
58.45 · Those judged incurable
“But those judged incurable because of the enormity of their offenses, having committed many great acts of temple robbery, many unjust and unlawful killings, or other deeds of that kind, are cast by ⟨the⟩ fate appropriate to them into Tartarus, from which they never emerge.”1749
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