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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.58.46–I.49.58.48
Ancient Greek
p. 146058.46
Οἱ δ᾽ ἂν ἰάσιμα μὲν μεγάλα δὲ δόξωσιν ἡμαρτηκέναι ἁμαρτήματα, οἷον πρὸς πατέρα ἢ μητέρα ὑπ᾽ ὀργῆς βίαιόν τι πράξαντες, καὶ μεταμέλον αὐτοῖς τὸν ἄλλον βίον βιῶσιν, ἢ ἀνδροφόνοι τοιούτῳ τινὶ ἄλλῳ τρόπῳ γένωνται, τούτους δὲ ἐμπεσεῖν μὲν εἰς τὸν Τάρταρον ἀνάγκη, ἐμπεσόντας δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐκεῖ γενομένους ἐκβάλλει τὸ ῥεῦμα, τοὺς μὲν ἀνδροφόνους κατὰ τὸν Κωκυτόν, τοὺς δὲ πατραλοίας καὶ μητραλοίας κατὰ τὸν Πυριφλεγέθοντα·
58.47
Ἐπειδὰν δὲ φερόμενοι γένωνται κατὰ τὴν λίμνην τὴν Ἀχερονσιάδα, ἐνταῦθα βοῶσί τε καὶ καλοῦσιν, οἱ μὲν οὓς ἀπέκτειναν, οἱ δὲ οὓς ὕβρισαν, καλέσαντες δὲ ἱκετεύουσι καὶ δέονται ἐᾶσαι σφᾶς ἐκβῆναι εἰς τὴν λίμνην καὶ δέξασθαι, καὶ ἐὰν μὲν πείσωσιν, ἀποβαίνουσι καὶ λήγουσι τῶν κακῶν, εἰ δὲ μή, φέρονται αὖθις εἰς τὸν Τάρταρον καὶ ἐκεῖθεν πάλιν εἰς τοὺς ποταμούς·
58.48
Καὶ ταῦτα πάσχοντες οὐ πρότερον παύονται, πρὶν ἂν πείσωσιν οὓς ἠδίκησαν. Αὕτη γὰρ ἡ δίκη ὑπὸ τῶν δικαστῶν αὐτοῖς ἐτάχθη.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 146158.46 · Serious wrongs capable of remedy
“Those judged to have committed great but remediable offenses, for example, people who in anger have done violence to a father or mother and spend the rest of their lives regretting it, or who become killers in some other comparable way, must fall into Tartarus. But after they have fallen in and spent a year there, the current casts them out: the killers along Cocytus, and those who struck their fathers and mothers along Pyriphlegethon.”1750
58.47 · Appealing to those they harmed
“When the currents carry them to the Acherusian lake, they cry out and call, some to those they killed, others to those they abused. Calling them, they supplicate and beg them to allow them to come out into the lake and to receive them. If they persuade them, they come out and their sufferings end. If not, they are carried back into Tartarus and from there into the rivers again.”1751
58.48 · The sentence continues until persuasion succeeds
“They do not cease undergoing these sufferings until they persuade those they wronged. For this is the sentence the judges imposed upon them.”1752
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