« Plut. Num. 4 | Plut. Num. 4 | Plut. Num. 5 | About This Work »
2but he had tasted the joy of more august companionship and had been honoured with a celestial marriage; the goddess Egeria loved him and bestowed herself upon him, and it was his communion with her that gave him a life of blessedness and a wisdom more than human. However, that this story resembles many of the very ancient tales which the Phrygians have received and cherished concerning Attis, the Bithynians concerning Herodotus, the Arcadians concerning Endymion, and other peoples concerning other mortals who were thought to have achieved a life of blessedness in the love of the gods, is quite evident.
« Plut. Num. 4 | Plut. Num. 4 | Plut. Num. 5 | About This Work »