Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 21.14.4

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[4] And this oracles and writers of distinction have shown; among the latter is also the comic poet Menander, in whom we read these two senarii:

A daemon is assigned to every man

At birth, to be the leader¹ of his life.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[4] Idque et oracula et auctores docuere praeclari. Inter quos est etiam Menander comicus, apud quem hi senarii duo leguntur:

ἅπαντι δαίμων ἀνδρὶ συμπαρίσταται

εὐθὺς γενομένῳ, μυσταγωγὸς τοῦ βίου.

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1. μυσταγωγός is the name applied to the priest who gave the initiated instruction in the mysteries. Later it was used of the guide who showed strangers the noteworthy objects in a place. The quotation is frag. 550 in Kock’s Comicorum Att. Frag. III.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 21.14.4

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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