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Theophrastus, Characters English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth , Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
AI translation. Translated by Claude (Anthropic) from the original beside it, then checked against the original by a second AI (Codex, from OpenAI); objections that held up were corrected. No specialist has reviewed it. Read it as a plain working version, not an authoritative translation. How these were made 16.1.1 ἀμέλει ἡ δεισιδαιμονία δόξειεν ἂν εἷναι δειλία πρὸς τὸ δαιμόνιον, ὁ δὲ δεισιδαίμων τοιοῦτός τις,
Superstition, of course, would seem to be cowardice towards the divine; and the superstitious man is the sort who,
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