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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.64.15–I.49.64.17
Ancient Greek
p. 150264.15
Τὸν δὲ Ἀρδιαῖον καὶ ἄλλους συμποδίσαντες χεῖράς τε καὶ πόδας καὶ κεφαλήν, καταβαλόντες καὶ ἐκδείραντες, εἷλκον παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐκτὸς ἐπ᾽ ἀσπαλάθων κνάμπτοντες, καὶ τοῖς ἀεὶ παριοῦσι σημαίνοντες, ὧν ἕνεκά τι, καὶ ὅτι εἰς τὸν Τάρταρον ἐμπεσούμενοι ἄγοιντο.
64.16
Ἔνθα δὴ φόβων πολλῶν καὶ παντοδαπῶν σφίσι γεγονότων τοῦτον ὑπερβάλλειν, μὴ γένοιτο ἑκάστῳ τὸ φθέγμα ὅτε ἀναβαίνοι, καὶ ἀσμενέστατα σιγήσαντος ἀναβῆναι. Καὶ τὰς μὲν δὴ δίκας τε καὶ τιμωρίας τοιαύτας τινὰς εἶναι, καὶ αὖ τὰς εὐεργεσίας ταύταις ἀντιστρόφους·
64.17
Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῖς ἐν τῷ λειμῶνι ἑκάστοις ἑπτὰ ἡμέραι γένοιντο, ἀναστάντας ἐντεῦθεν δεῖν τῇ ὀγδόῃ πορεύεσθαι καὶ ἀφικνεῖσθαι τεταρταίους, ὅθεν καθορᾶν ἄνωθεν διὰ παντὸς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς τεταμένον φῶς εὐθύς, οἷον κίονα, μάλιστα τῇ Ἴριδι προσφερῆ, λαμπρότερον δὲ καὶ καθαρώτερον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 150364.15 · Dragged toward Tartarus
“But they bound Ardiaeus and others hand, foot, and head, threw them down and flayed them, and dragged them off beside the road, scraping them over thorn bushes. They indicated to everyone passing by the reasons for this, and that they were being led away to be cast into Tartarus.”1804
64.16 · The fear of hearing the roar
Of the many and varied fears they had experienced there, this surpassed them all: that the sound might come for each of them as he ascended. They went up with the greatest relief when the opening remained silent. Such, then, were the penalties and punishments, while the benefits corresponded to them on the opposite side.1805
64.17 · The column of light
When each company had spent seven days in the meadow, they had to rise and set out on the eighth. On the fourth day of their journey they reached a place from which they could see a light extending straight from above through all heaven and earth, like a column. It most resembled a rainbow, but was brighter and purer.1806
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