---
title: Dialogue Untitled
title_greek: Διάλογος
author: "Hermetica "
eul_wid: oqk-as
eul_aid: oqk
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/hermetica-dialogue-oqk-as"
period: Roman
dialect: Philosophical Koine
domain: Philosophy
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Dialogue Untitled

*Διάλογος*

**Author:** Hermetica 

**eul_wid:** `oqk-as` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/hermetica-dialogue-oqk-as)

## Text

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... εἰ δὲ νοεῖς, ἔστιν, ὦ βασιλεῦ, καὶ σωμάτων 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 δοκοῦσιν εἶναί σοι, ἀσώματοι οὖσαι, ἐν σώματι φαινόμεναι, 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 πρὸς τὸν αἰσθητόν· διὸ προσκύνει τὰ ἀγάλματα, ὦ βασιλεῦ, ὡς καὶ αὐτὰ ἰδέας ἔχοντα ἀπὸ τοῦ νοητοῦ κόσμου. ὁ οὖν βασιλεὺς ἐξαναστὰς ἔφη, Ὥρα ἐστίν, ὦ προφῆτα, περὶ τὴν τῶν ξένων ἐπιμέλειαν γενέσθαι· τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ περὶ τῶν ἑξῆς θεολογήσομεν.

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