Select works of Porphyry

Note 195 — APPENDIX. ON THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES.

Thomas Taylor translation

And this is the meaning of the Chaldaic oracle,—

Σον αγγειον θηρες χθονος οικησουσιν.

i.e. “The wild beasts of the earth shall inhabit thy vessel.” For, as Psellus well observes, by the vessel, the composite temperature of the soul is signified, and by the wild beasts of the earth, terrestrial dæmons.

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