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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.63.7–I.49.63.9
Ancient Greek
p. 148863.7
Πρῶτον μὲν οὖν, ἔφη, παυστέον ἐστὶ προειδότας αὐτοὺς τὸν θάνατον· νῦν γὰρ προΐσασι. Τοῦτο μὲν δὴ καὶ εἴρηται τῷ Προμηθεῖ ὅπως ἂν παύσῃ αὐτῶν.
63.8
Ἔπειτα γυμνοὺς κριτέον ἁπάντων τούτων· τεθνεῶτας γὰρ δεῖ κρίνεσθαι. Καὶ τὸν κριτὴν δεῖ γυμνὸν εἶναι, τεθνεῶτα, αὐτῇ τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτὴν τὴν ψυχὴν θεωροῦντα ἐξαίφνης ἀποθανόντος ἑκάστου, ἔρημον πάντων τῶν συγγενῶν καὶ καταλιπόντα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς πάντα ἐκεῖνον τὸν κόσμον, ἵνα δικαία ἡ κρίσις ᾖ.
63.9
Ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ἐγνωκὼς πρότερος ἢ ὑμεῖς ἐποιησάμην δικαστὰς υἱεῖς ἐμαυτοῦ, δύο μὲν ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας, Μίνω τε καὶ Ῥαδάμανθυν, ἕνα δὲ ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης, Αἰακόν· οὗτοι οὖν ἐπειδὰν τελευτήσωσι, δικάσουσιν ἐν τῷ λειμῶνι, ἐν τριόδῳ, ἐξ ἧς φέρετον τὼ ὁδώ, ἡ μὲν εἰς μακάρων νήσους, ἡ δ᾽ εἰς Τάρταρον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 148963.7 · Foreknowledge of death must cease
“‘First, then,’ he said, ‘they must cease to know their death in advance; for now they do know it beforehand. Prometheus has already been instructed to put an end to this knowledge among them.’”1786
63.8 · Soul judges soul without coverings
“‘Next, they must be judged stripped of all these things, for they must be judged after death. The judge too must be stripped and dead, contemplating with the soul itself the soul itself of each person who has suddenly died, bereft of all relatives and having left all that adornment upon the earth, so that the judgment may be just.’”1787
63.9 · Three sons appointed as judges
“‘Recognizing this before you did, I appointed sons of my own as judges: two from Asia, Minos and Rhadamanthys, and one from Europe, Aeacus. When they die, they will judge in the meadow, at the crossroads from which the two roads lead, one to the Isles of the Blessed, the other to Tartarus.’”1788
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