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Περὶ Ἴσιδος και Ὀσίριδος

Περὶ Ἴσιδος και Ὀσίριδος Plutarch
26 As we read Homer, we notice that in many different places he distinctively calls the good godlike The word is found forty-four times in Homer. and peers of the gods Homer employs this expression sixty-two times. and having prudence gained from the gods,See Homer, Od. vi. 12. but that the epithet derived from the demigods (or daemons) he uses of the worthy and worthless alike Cf. 415 a, infra.; for example: Daemon-possessed, come on! Why seek you to frighten the Argives Thus ? Iliad, xiii. 810. and again When for the fourth time onward he came with a rush, like a daemon Ibid. v. 438, xiv. 705, xx. 447.; and Daemon-possessed, in what do Priam and children of Priam Work you such ill that your soul is ever relentlessly eager Ilium, fair-built city, to bring to complete desolation ? Ibid. iv. 31. The assumption, then, is that the demigods (or daemons) have a complex and inconsistent nature and purpose; wherefore PlatoPlato, Laws, 717 a, assigns the Even and the Left to the chthonic deities, and Plutarch quite correctly derives his statement from this. assigns to the Olympian gods right-hand qualities and odd numbers, and to the demigods the opposite of these. Xenocrates also is of the opinion that such days as are days of ill omen, and such festivals as have associated with them either beatings or lamentations or fastings or scurrilous language or ribald jests have no relation to the honours paid to the gods or to worthy demigods, but he believes that there exist in the space about us certain great and powerful natures, obdurate, however, and morose, which take pleasure in such things as these, and, if they succeed in obtaining them, resort to nothing worse.

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