Delphi'deki E Üzerine: "Sen Varsın"

I am therefore of the opinion that this syllable signifies neither number, order, nor connection, nor any other of the deficient parts, but is a self-perfect appellation and salutation of the God, which brings the speaker to the conception of the power of the God at the very moment of uttering it. For the God in a manner calls upon every one of us who comes here with this salutation, "Know thyself," which is nothing inferior to "All hail." And we, in return answering the God, say to him Ei, "Thou art," attributing to him the true, unfeigned, and sole appellation of being, as agreeing to him alone. For we indeed do not at all essentially partake of "being." Every mortal nature, existing in the midst between generation and corruption, exhibits merely an appearance and an obscure, weak opinion of itself. And if you fix your thought, desiring to comprehend it, just as the hard grasping of water, by the pressing and squeezing together that which is fluid, loses what is held, so when reason pursues too evident a perception of any of the things subject to passion and change, it is deceived and led away, partly towards its generation and partly towards its corruption, being able to apprehend nothing either remaining or really subsisting.