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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordEpignōsis is recognition or knowledge of something.
- In StobaeusHorus asks Isis for knowledge of a hymn so that he will not remain ignorant.
- In this edition“Knowledge” is most natural here; “recognition” suits contexts of identifying something already encountered.
- A place to beginHorus requests knowledge of a hymn that the surviving excerpt does not provide.
- English renderings
- recognition; knowledge; coming to know
Meaning
Epignōsis is recognition or knowledge of something. It need not designate a separately defined faculty in every occurrence.
Use in the book
Horus asks Isis for knowledge of a hymn so that he will not remain ignorant. The word here concerns learning the requested sacred content. Stobaeus’s excerpt ends after Isis tells him to attend, leaving the hymn itself unquoted.
Places to read
- I.49.44.82Horus requests knowledge of a hymn that the surviving excerpt does not provide.
Translation in this edition
“Knowledge” is most natural here; “recognition” suits contexts of identifying something already encountered.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 407. The absence of the hymn is a boundary of the excerpt, not evidence that an English translation of it was omitted from the volume.