{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1286.tlg017.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg017.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1286.tlg017.local001","title":"Dialogus (sine titulo)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"CORPUS HERMETICUM","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1286-corpus-hermeticum/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Hermetica. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus.","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1924","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Proofreading","names":[]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/ScottHermeticaVolOne/page/n275/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Dialogus (sine titulo). Hermetica. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1924. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1286.tlg017.local001","excerpt":"εἰ δὲ νοεῖς, ἔστιν, ὦ βασιλεῦ, καὶ σωμάτων ⟨εἴδωλα⟩ ἀσώματα. —Ποῖα; ἔφη ὁ βασιλεύς.—Τὰ ἐν τοῖς ἐσόπτροις φαινόμενα [σώματα] οὐ δοκεῖ σοι ἀσώματα εἶναι;—Οὕτως ἔχει, ὦ Τάτ, [θείως νοεῖς,] ὁ βασιλεὺς εἶπεν.—Ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἀσώματα ἄλλα· οἷον αἱ ἰδέαι οὐ δοκ῀Υϲί σοι ἀσώματοι εἶναι, ὅ[υ]σαι ἐν σώμαϲι φαίνοΝΤαι οὐ μόνον τῶν ἐμψύχων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἀψύχων;—Εὖ λέγεις, ὦ Τάτ.—⟨. . .,⟩ οὕτως ἀντανακλάσεις εἰσὶ τῶν ἀσωμάτων πρὸς τὰ σώματα, [καὶ τῶν σωμάτων πρὸς τὰ ἀσώματα, τουτέστι τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ πρὸς τὸν νοητὸν κόσμον,] καὶ τοῦ νοητοῦ ⟨κόσμου⟩ πρὸς τὸν αἰσθητόν. διὸ προσκύνει τὰ ἀγάλματα, ὦ βασιλεῦ, ὡς καὶ αὐτὰ ἰδέας ἔχοντα ἀπὸ τοῦ [αἰσθητοῦ] ⟨νοητοῦ⟩ κόσμου. ὁ οὖν βασιλεὺς ἐξαναστὰς ἔφη· Ὥρα ἐστίν, ὦ προφῆτα, περὶ τὴν τῶν ξένων ἐπιμέλειαν γενέσθαι· τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ περὶ τῶν ἑξῆς θεολογήσομεν.","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg017.local001/#tlg1286-tlg017-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg017.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1286.tlg017.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286/tlg017/local001.json.gz"}}
