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Book I Chapter 5 · I.5.14a–I.5.14b
Ancient Greek
p. 17414 Ἑρμοῦ (αʹ)
14 Ἑρμοῦ (βʹ)
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 5
p. 17514 Hermes (1)
Seven far-wandering stars revolve across Olympus’s threshold, and with them eternity forever circles: night-shining Moon, gloomy Cronus, sweet Sun, bridal-chamber-bearing Paphian, bold Ares, well-winged Hermes, and Zeus, first begetter, from whom nature sprang. These same powers received the human race as their lot; in us are Moon, Zeus, Ares, Paphian, Cronus, Sun, and Hermes.191
14 Hermes (2)
Hence it is allotted to us to draw from the ethereal spirit tears, laughter, anger, generation, speech, sleep, and desire. Tears are Cronus; ⟨and⟩ Zeus is generation; speech is Hermes; anger is Ares; Moon is sleep; Cytherea is desire; and Sun is laughter: through him, fittingly, every mortal mind laughs, and the boundless cosmos too.192
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