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Book I Chapter 5 · I.5.4–I.5.6
Ancient Greek
p. 1684 Μενάνδρου
5 Ἡσιόδου Θεογονίας
6 Εὐριπίδου Ἡρακλειδῶν
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 5
p. 1694 Menander
A divine spirit stands beside every man from birth, his guide through the mysteries of life.184
5 Hesiod, Theogony
And she bore the Fates and the ruthlessly avenging Keres, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who give to mortals at their birth both good and evil as their portion.185
6 Euripides, Children of Heracles
No man, I say, becomes prosperous or grievously fated apart from the gods. … What is allotted may not be escaped; no one will thrust it away by wisdom; the eager man will always labor in vain.186
Socrates
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Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.
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