Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor.

  • Thomas Taylor
Date:
1822
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Credit: Political fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and other ancient Pythagoreans, preserved by Stobaeus; and also, ethical fragments of Hierocles ... preserved by the same author / Translated from the Greek. By Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    26 ruler of all things. For he is venerable and honourable, through transcendency and mag¬ nitude of virtue. He is benign, because he is beneficent, and the giver of good; and hence he is said by the Ionic poet [Homer] to be the father of men and Gods. He is also terrible and transcendent, because he punishes the unjust, and reigns and rules over all things. But he carries thunder in his hand, as a symbol of his formidable excellence. From all these particulars, therefore, it is requisite to remem¬ ber that a kingdom is a God-resembling thing. FROM THE TREATISE OF STHENIDAS THE * LOCRIAN, ON A KINGDOM. It is requisite that a king should be a wise man: for thus he will be honoured analo¬ gously to the first God, of whom also he will be an imitator. For this god is by nature the first king and potentate; but a king is so by birth and imitation. And the former rules in the universe, and in the whole of things ; but the latter in the earth. The former also governs all things eternally, and has a never- failing life, possessing wisdom in himself; but the latter acquires science through time. But a king will imitate the first God in the most