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Clemens Alexandrinus, Cohortatio ad gentes (Λόγος προτρεπτικὸς πρὸς Ἕλληνας)

Editors' preface

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ΚΛΗΜΕΝΤΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΡΟΤΡΕΠΤΙΚΟΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA'S EXHORTATION TO THE GREEKS.
CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI COHORTATIO AD GENTES.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA'S EXHORTATION TO THE GENTILES.
CAPUT I.
CHAPTER I.
Ab orgiis et impiis idolorum mysteriis homines avocans, ad veram jubilationem Dei Verbi nomine provocat, et ad laudes Dei Patris ob revelatam veritatem celebrandas hortatur.
Calling men away from the orgies and impious mysteries of the idols, he summons them in the name of God the Word to true rejoicing, and exhorts them to celebrate the praises of God the Father for the truth revealed.
Ἀμφίων ὁ Θηβαῖος καὶ Ἀρίων ὁ Μηθυμναῖος ἄμφω μὲν ἤστην ᾠδικὼ, μῦθος δὲ ἄμφω (καὶ τὸ ᾆσμα εἰσέτι τοῦτο Ἑλλήνων ᾄδεται χορῷ)· τέχνῃ τῇ μου-
Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both skilled in song, and both are a fable (and the song is still sung to this day by a chorus of the Greeks); by the art of mu-
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Footnotes

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Λόγος Προτρεπτικός. Protreptici titulum agnoscit et probat Auctor ipse, Strom. VII, his verbis: Καὶ περὶ μὲν τῆς δεισιδαιμονίας ἱκανῶς, οἶμαι, ἐν τῷ Προτρεπτικῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ παρεστήσαμεν, ἀπαχόρως [sic; read ἀφθόνως?] τῇ κατεπειγούσῃ συγκαταχρώμενοι ἱστορίᾳ. H. SYLBURG. — Hoc est nobile illud scriptum, in quo, teste Photio, τὴν Ἑλλήνων διελέγχει ἀθεότητα, qui de ordine recepto in Clementis libris esse nos securos jubet. Postquam enim primo loco de Paedagogo egit, huic tamen primum deberi confitetur: Ἔχει δὲ τούτων καὶ προηγούμενον καὶ συντασσόμενον λόγον ἕτερον, ἐν ᾧ τῶν Ἑλλήνων διελέγχει ἀθεό- (continues)

"Exhortation" (Logos Protreptikos). The author himself acknowledges and approves the title Protrepticus, Stromata VII, in these words: "And concerning superstition we have, I think, shown enough in the work entitled the Protrepticus, making abundant use of the pressing history." H. Sylburg. — This is that famous writing in which, as Photius witnesses, he "refutes the godlessness of the Greeks"; and Photius bids us be sure of the received order among Clement's books. For after treating the Paedagogus in first place, he nevertheless admits that the first place is owed to this one: "Before these, and composed together with them, he has another work, in which he refutes the godless- (continues)

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Editors' prose

τητα. Tertio deinde loco ponit τοὺς Στρωματεῖς, τοὺς ἐν ὀκτὼ λόγοις καθ' Ἑλλήνων καὶ αἱρέσεων τὸν ἀγῶνα εἰσενηνεγμένους. Sed et recte scriptum hoc ἐλεγκτικόν vocat; potissima enim pars est ἀποτρεπτική· in qua de inventione et origine, de materia, templis et imaginibus gentilium deorum, et judicio de iis saniorum inter gentiles agitur. Quare non minus Ἀποτρεπτικός inscribi poterat, quemadmodum Theodoreti Θεραπευτικός, sive τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν παθημάτων θεραπευτική. HEINSIUS. — Quamvis, ut observat P. Victorius Var. Lect. lib. IV, c. 18, veteribus λόγοι προτρεπτικοί dictae sunt orationes, quae rem aliquam laudando ad eam capessendam adhortabantur; unde Aristoteles a Graecis interpretibus traditur προτρεπτικόν confecisse, quo adolescentes impelleret ad studia philosophiae. Ipse autem aliquando mecum cogitavi, an Cicero verbis his ex Hortensio quae citat Nonius, hujuscemodi orationem significarit: Nam quod vereris, ne non conveniat nostris aetatibus ista oratio, quae spectat ad hortandum. Haec ille. Pollux libro sexto citat Antisthenem ἐν τῷ Προτρεπτικῷ, et Galeni est Προτρεπτικὸς ἐπὶ τὰς τέχνας. COLLECT. — Nihilominus haud immerito προτρεπτικοί sermones vocantur, qui in refutatione falsarum opinionum praecipue versantur. Nemo enim melius ad amplectendam veritatem hortatur, quam qui adversos ipsi errores detegit. Unde Justinus martyr orationem illam, qua gentilium superstitiones redarguit, λόγον παραινετικὸν πρὸς Ἕλληνας appellavit. Quam, ut videtur, alio titulo τοῦ ἐλέγχου insignivit. Nam de hoc libro vix dubitaverim loqui Eusebium Eccles. Hist. lib. IV, cap. 18, ubi de S. Justini scriptis agit: Καὶ αὖθις ἕτερον πρὸς Ἕλληνας εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλήλυθεν αὐτοῦ σύγγραμμα, ὃ καὶ ἐπέγραψεν Ἔλεγχον. Caeterum observat Heinsius, Photium nos docere, συντετάχθαι ταῦτα, quod conjuncta jam olim fuerunt haec Clementis scripta. De duobus enim primis postquam egit, Stromateon libros statim subjungit. Itaque quemadmodum in multis, etiam in ordine, Πυθαγόρειος καὶ μυστηριώδης est Clemens. Primus enim est ἀποκάθαρσις, secundus μύησίς τε καὶ κατήχησις, tertius ἐποπτικός sive ἐποπτεία. Nam in primo, qui futuri Christiani sunt, purgantur; in secundo, facti jam initiantur; in tertio, ad sacra maxima, supremam Dei admittuntur notionem, et aeternam contemplationem. Quod a studioso Clementis observari velle se dicit Heinsius. His porro adjiciendum, quod cum auctori propositum esset, ut gentes in perfectos Christianos formaret, primo illis persuadere aggreditur, ut relicto simulacrorum, falsorumque deorum cultu, sese ad veram religionem convertant. Quod quidem hoc sermone exsequitur, quem vocat Λόγον προτρεπτικόν, suasoriam orationem, uno vocabulo Cohortationem dicere placuit. Hanc proxime sequitur aliud opus, quo bene et secundum Evangelii rectaeque rationis normam vivendi praecepta tradit. Quod, quia pueris, hoc est Christianis νεοφύτοις, necessariam doctrinam contineat Παιδαγωγοῦ titulo ornat. Tandem Στρωματέων libris, quibus id nominis indidit propter multiplicem, qua contexti sunt, materiae varietatem, sublimiora religionis dogmata explicat, et diversa sentientes refellit. Atque haec est praecipuorum Clementis operum, quae quidem hodienum exstant, ἀκολουθία, quam ipse tradit Paedag. lib. I, cap. 1.

[…]-ness. Then in the third place he puts the Stromateis, "which carry on the contest against the Greeks and the heresies in eight books". And rightly too he calls this writing a work of refutation (ἐλεγκτικόν); for its chief part is dissuasive (ἀποτρεπτική), in which he treats of the invention and origin, the material, the temples and the images of the gods of the gentiles, and of the judgement passed upon them by the sounder men among the gentiles. Wherefore it could no less have been entitled Ἀποτρεπτικός (Dissuasive), as Theodoret's is called Θεραπευτικός, or "The Cure of the Hellenic Maladies". HEINSIUS. — Although, as P. Victorius observes, Var. Lect. book IV, ch. 18, among the ancients those orations were called λόγοι προτρεπτικοί (protreptic discourses) which, by praising some thing, exhorted men to take it up; whence Aristotle is related by the Greek interpreters to have composed a Protrepticus, by which to urge young men to the studies of philosophy. I myself have at times wondered whether Cicero, in these words from the Hortensius which Nonius cites, meant an oration of this kind: "For as to your fear that this speech, which aims at exhortation, may not befit our years." So far he. Pollux in his sixth book cites Antisthenes "in the Protrepticus", and there is a Protrepticus of Galen "to the arts". COLLECT. — Nevertheless those discourses are not undeservedly called protreptic which are chiefly occupied in the refutation of false opinions. For no one exhorts better to the embracing of the truth than he who lays bare the errors opposed to it. Hence Justin Martyr called that oration of his in which he confutes the superstitions of the gentiles a "Hortatory Address to the Greeks" (λόγον παραινετικὸν πρὸς Ἕλληνας). This, as it seems, he marked with another title, that of the Refutation. For I should hardly doubt that Eusebius speaks of this book, Eccles. Hist. book IV, ch. 18, where he treats of the writings of St Justin: "And again another treatise of his against the Greeks has come down to us, which he also entitled Refutation." Moreover Heinsius observes that Photius teaches us that "these were composed together" (συντετάχθαι ταῦτα), because these writings of Clement were already joined together of old. For after he has treated of the first two, he straightway subjoins the books of the Stromateis. Accordingly, as in many things, so also in order, Clement is Pythagorean and mystical. For the first is a purification (ἀποκάθαρσις), the second an initiation and instruction (μύησίς τε καὶ κατήχησις), the third contemplative (ἐποπτικός), or the beholding (ἐποπτεία). For in the first, those who are to be Christians are purged; in the second, being now made such, they are initiated; in the third they are admitted to the greatest mysteries, to the supreme notion of God and to eternal contemplation. This Heinsius says he wishes to be observed by the student of Clement. To this must further be added that, since the author's purpose was to form the gentiles into perfect Christians, he first undertakes to persuade them to abandon the worship of images and of false gods and to turn themselves to the true religion. This indeed he carries out in this discourse, which he calls Λόγον προτρεπτικόν, a persuasive oration; it has pleased us to call it in one word the Cohortatio (Exhortation). Next after this follows another work, in which he delivers precepts for living well and according to the rule of the Gospel and of right reason. This, because it contains doctrine necessary for children, that is, for Christian neophytes (νεοφύτοις), he adorns with the title of the Paedagogus (Tutor). Lastly, in the books of the Stromateis, to which he gave that name on account of the manifold variety of matter of which they are woven together, he expounds the more sublime doctrines of religion and refutes those who think otherwise. And this is the sequence (ἀκολουθία) of the principal works of Clement, at least of those which are extant today, the sequence which he himself gives, Paedag. book I, ch. 1.

Caeterum Cohortatio ad Gentes duodecim capitibus constat, quorum summaria, ut etiam eorum, quae singulis Stromatum libris continentur, et non paucas, tam in hos, quam in Paedagogum, observationes et emendationes, suis locis inserendas, perhumaniter mecum communicavit vir non vulgariter eruditus W. Lowthius, Ecclesiae cathedralis Winthon. praebendarius.

For the rest, the Exhortation to the Gentiles consists of twelve chapters, the summaries of which, as also of the contents of the several books of the Stromateis, together with not a few observations and emendations, as well on these as on the Paedagogus, to be inserted in their proper places, were most kindly communicated to me by a man of no common learning, W. Lowth, prebendary of the cathedral church of Winchester.

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  • running head: 51 CLEMENTIS ALEXAN
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σικῇ ὁ μὲν ἰχθὺν δελεάσας, ὁ δὲ Θήβας τειχίσας. Θρᾴκιος δὲ ἄλλος σοφιστὴς (ἄλλος οὗτος μῦθος Ἑλληνικός) ἐτιθάσσευε τὰ θηρία γυμνῇ τῇ ᾠδῇ· καὶ δὴ τὰ δένδρα, τὰς φηγοὺς, μετεφύτευε τῇ μουσικῇ. Ἔχοιμ' ἂν σοι καὶ ἄλλον τούτοις ἀδελφὸν διηγήσασθαι μῦθον καὶ ᾠδὸν, Εὔνομον τὸν Λοκρὸν, καὶ τέττιγα τὸν Πυθικόν. Πανήγυρις Ἑλληνικὴ ἐπὶ νεκρῷ δράκοντι συνεκροτεῖτο Πυθοῖ, ἐπιτάφιον ἑρπετοῦ, ᾄδοντος Εὐνόμου· ὕμνος ἢ θρῆνος ὄφεως ἦν ἡ ᾠδὴ, οὐκ ἔχω λέγειν. Ἀγὼν δὲ ἦν, καὶ ἐκιθάριζεν ὥρᾳ καύματος Εὔνομος, ὁπηνίκα οἱ τέττιγες ὑπὸ τοῖς πετάλοις ᾖδον ἀνὰ τὰ ὄρη, θερόμενοι ἡλίῳ· ᾖδον δὲ ἄρα οὐ τῷ δράκοντι τῷ νεκρῷ. ἀλλὰ τῷ Θεῷ τῷ πανσόφῳ, αὐτόνομον ᾠδὴν, τῶν Εὐνόμου βελτίονα νόμων· ῥήγνυται χορδὴ τῷ Λοκρῷ· ἐφίπταται ὁ τέττιξ τῷ ζυγῷ· ἐτερέτιζεν ὡς ἐπὶ κλά
sic, the one having lured a fish, the other having walled Thebes. And another Thracian sophist (this is another Greek myth) tamed the wild beasts by his bare song; and indeed transplanted the trees, the oaks, by his music. I might relate to you another myth also, and singer, akin to these, Eunomus the Locrian and the Pythian cicada. A Greek assembly was being held at Pytho over a dead dragon, Eunomus singing a funeral song for the reptile; whether the song was a hymn or a dirge for the snake, I cannot say. But there was a contest, and Eunomus was playing the cithara at the hour of heat, when the cicadas under the leaves were singing along the mountains, warmed by the sun; and they were singing, then, not to the dead dragon, but to the all-wise God, an autonomous song, better than the strains of Eunomus; a string breaks for the Locrian; the cicada flies upon the crossbar; it chirped as upon a bra
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Footnotes

(36) ‹anchor: Ὁ μὲν ἰχθὺν δελεάσας› · call in col 52

Ὁ μὲν ἰχθὺν δελεάσας. De Arione, praeter auctores ab Herveto citatos, conf. Aelianus Hist. animal., lib. II, cap. 6; lib. VI, cap. 15; lib. XII, cap. 45. Gregor. Nazianz., Carmine Nicobuli ad Filium. Apud Latinos, Plinius, Nat. Hist. lib. VIII, c. 9; Solinus, cap. 12, H. et R.; Plutarchus Symposio septem Sapientum. SYLBURG.

"The one lured a fish." On Arion, besides the authors cited by Hervetus, compare Aelian, History of Animals II, 6; VI, 15; XII, 45; Gregory Nazianzen, in the poem of Nicobulus to his son. Among the Latins, Pliny, Natural History VIII, 9; Solinus, ch. 12, H. and R.; Plutarch, in the Banquet of the Seven Sages. Sylburg.

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(37) ‹anchor: Ὁ δὲ Θήβας τειχίσας› · call in col 52

Ὁ δὲ Θήβας τειχίσας. De Amphione vid. Pausanias Boeoticis, Horatius Artis Poeticae, v. 394; Ejusdem lib. III, Od. 11; Solinus, cap. 15; Plutarchus, De musica; Propertius, l. III, eleg. 2; Plato, lib. III De legibus.

"The other walled Thebes." On Amphion see Pausanias in the Boeotica; Horace, Art of Poetry, line 394; the same, Odes III, 11; Solinus, ch. 15; Plutarch, On Music; Propertius III, elegy 2; Plato, Laws III.

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(38) ‹anchor: Θρᾴκιος σοφιστής› · call in col 52

Θρᾴκιος σοφιστής. Orpheus, cujus tota fabula exstat apud Ovidium in Metamorphosi. Vid. etiam Pausanias Boeot. Item Gregorius Nazianz., Carm. ad Vitalium, et ad Nemesium. Idem tamen Gregor. etiam allegorice hanc de Orpheo et Amphione fabulam transfert ad eloquentiam, Carmine Nicobuli ad filium, his verbis: Ὀρφείη κιθάρη μῦθος πέλεν, ὥσπερ ἐΐσκω, / Πάντας ἄγων μελέεσσιν ὁμῶς ἀγαθούς τε κακούς τε, / Ὡς δ' Ἀμφιονίη λύρη καὶ λᾶας ἔπειθε, / Ψυχὰς ἀντιτύπους πετρώδεας. SYLBURG.

"The Thracian sophist." Orpheus, whose whole story is found in Ovid's Metamorphoses. See also Pausanias, Boeotica; likewise Gregory Nazianzen, Poem to Vitalianus, and to Nemesius. Yet the same Gregory also transfers this fable of Orpheus and Amphion allegorically to eloquence, in the poem of Nicobulus to his son, in these words: "The tale of Orpheus' lyre, as I take it, / leading all alike with its songs, the good and the bad, / as Amphion's lyre too persuaded stones, / means souls stubborn and stony." Sylburg.

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(39) ‹anchor: Εὔνομον τὸν Λοκρόν› · call in col 52

Εὔνομον τὸν Λοκρόν. De Eunomo et cicada narrat Antigonus Παραδόξων συναγωγῇ, initio. SYLBURG. — De cicadis Locrensibus Aelianus De animalibus, lib. V, cap. 9. Vide proverbium Acanthia cicada. COLLECT. Conf. etiam Cononis Διήγησις quinta.

"Eunomus the Locrian." Antigonus tells of Eunomus and the cicada in his Collection of Marvels, at the beginning. Sylburg. — On the Locrian cicadas, Aelian, On Animals V, 9. See the proverb "an Acanthian cicada". Collect. Compare also Conon's fifth Narrative.

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(40) ‹anchor: Ἐπιτάφιον ᾆσμα [lemma faint]› · call in col 52

Ἐπιτάφιον ᾆσμα. Ἐπιτάφιον ἑρπετοῦ ᾄδοντος Εὐν. ms. Nov.

"A funeral song." The New manuscript reads "as Eunomus sang a funeral song for the serpent".

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(41) ‹anchor: Δράκοντι τῷ νεκρῷ› · call in col 52

Δράκοντι τῷ νεκρῷ. Τῷ Πυθικῷ addit ms. Nov., interpretamenti, ut videtur, loco.

"For the dead serpent." The New manuscript adds "the Pythian", by way of explanation, it seems.

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  • running head: ENTIS ALEXANDRINI 52
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δῳ, τῷ ὀργάνῳ· καὶ τοῦ τέττιγος τῷ ᾄσματι ἁρμοσάμενος ὁ ᾠδὸς, τὴν λείπουσαν ἀνεπλήρωσε χορδήν. Οὐκοῦν ᾠδῇ τῇ Εὐνόμου ἄγεται ὁ τέττιξ, ὡς ὁ μῦθος βούλεται, χαλκοῦν ἀναστήσας Πυθοῖ τὸν Εὔνομον, αὐτῇ τῇ κιθάρᾳ, καὶ τὸν συναγωνιστὴν τοῦ Λοκροῦ· ὁ δὲ ἑκὼν ἐφίπταται, καὶ ᾄδει ἑκών· Ἕλλησι δὲ ἐδόκει ὑποκριτὴς γεγονέναι μουσικῆς. Πῆ δὴ οὖν μύθοις κενοῖς πεπιστεύκατε, θέλγεσθαι μουσικῇ τὰ ζῶα ὑπολαμβάνοντες· ἀληθείας δὲ ὑμῖν τὸ πρόσωπον τὸ φαιδρὸν μόνον, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐπίπλαστον εἶναι δοκεῖ, καὶ τοῖς ἀπιστίας ὑποπέπτωκεν ὀφθαλμοῖς ; Κιθαιρὼν δὲ ἄρα, καὶ Ἑλικὼν, καὶ τὰ Ὀδρυσῶν ὄρη, καὶ Θρᾳκῶν τελεστήρια, τῆς πλάνης τὰ μυστήρια, τεθείωται καὶ καθύμνηται. Ἐγὼ μὲν, εἰ καὶ μῦθός εἰσι, δυσανασχετῶ τοσαύταις ἐκτραγῳδουμέναις συμφοραῖς· ὑμῖν δὲ, καὶ τῶν κακῶν ἀναγραφαὶ γεγόνασι δράματα. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ τὰ μὲν δράματα, καὶ τοὺς ληναΐζοντας ποιητὰς, τέλεον ἤδη παροινοῦντας, κιττῷ που ἀναδήσαντες, ἀφραίνοντας ἐκτόπως τελετῇ βακχικῇ, αὐτοῖς σατύροις, καὶ θυάσῳ μαινάλῃ σὺν καὶ τῷ ἄλλῳ δαιμόνων χορῷ, Ἑλικῶνι καὶ Κιθαιρῶνι κατακλείσωμεν γεγηρακόσιν. Κατάγωμεν δὲ ἄνωθεν ἐξ οὐρανῶν ἀλήθειαν, ἅμα φανωτάτῃ φρονήσει, εἰς ὄρος ἅγιον Θεοῦ καὶ χορὸν τὸν ἅγιον τὸν προφητικόν. Ἡ δὲ ὡς ὅτι μάλιστα τηλαυγὲς ἀποστίλβουσα φῶς, καταυγαζέτω πάντη τοὺς ἐν σκότει κυλινδουμένους, καὶ τῆς πλάνης τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀπαλλαττέτω, τὴν ὑπερτάτην ὀρέγουσα δεξιὰν, τὴν σύνεσιν, εἰς σωτηρίαν. Οἱ δὲ ἀνανεύσαντες καὶ ἀνακύψαντες, Ἑλικῶνα μὲν καὶ Κιθαιρῶνα καταλειπόντων, οἰκούντων δὲ Σιών· Ἐκ γὰρ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος, καὶ λόγος Κυρίου ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ· Λόγος οὐράνιος, ὁ γνήσιος ἀγωνιστὴς ἐπὶ τῷ παντὸς κόσμου θεάτρῳ στεφανούμενος. ᾌδει δέ γε ὁ Εὔνομος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ τὸν Τερπάνδρου νόμον, οὐδὲ
nch, upon the instrument; and the singer, having adapted himself to the song of the cicada, supplied the missing string. Not then by the song of Eunomus is the cicada led, as the myth will have it, which set up at Pytho a bronze Eunomus, with his cithara itself, and the fellow-combatant of the Locrian; but of its own accord it flies upon it, and sings of its own accord; yet to the Greeks it seemed to have become an imitator of music. How then have you believed empty myths, supposing dumb creatures to be charmed by music; while the bright face of truth alone, as it seems, appears to you to be counterfeit, and has fallen under eyes of unbelief? And so Cithaeron, and Helicon, and the mountains of the Odrysians, and the initiation-halls of the Thracians, the mysteries of error, have been deified and celebrated in hymns. For my part, even if they are a myth, I am vexed at so many calamities turned into tragedies; but for you, even the records of evils have become dramas. Yet let us crown with ivy the dramas and the Lenaean raving poets, now altogether drunken, raving extravagantly in a Bacchic rite, with the satyrs themselves and the frenzied company, together with the rest of the chorus of demons, and shut them up in Helicon and Cithaeron, now grown old. And let us bring down truth from above out of heaven, together with brightest wisdom, to the holy mountain of God and the holy prophetic chorus. And let her, gleaming forth the farthest-shining light possible, illumine everywhere those rolling in darkness, and deliver men from error, stretching out her supreme right hand, understanding, for salvation. And let them, raising their heads and looking up, leave Helicon and Cithaeron, and dwell in Sion: "For out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" (Isa. 2:3); the heavenly Word, the true combatant crowned in the theatre of the whole world. Yea, my Eunomus sings not the strain of Terpander, nor
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  • running head: 53 COHORTATIO AD GEN
  • marginal letters: A δῳ, τῷ; B συμφοραῖς· ὑμῖν; C ταλειπόντων, οἰκούντων; D κοῦν, positam
  • old-edition numerals: (none)
  • other: col. begins with rest of word κλά-δῳ from col. 52 and ends mid-sentence into col. 56
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Footnotes

(42) ‹anchor: Τῷ ᾄσματι ἁρμοσάμενος› · call in col 54

Τῷ ᾄσματι ἁρμοσάμενος. Vult citharoedum cicadae cantui suum instrumentum sic attemperasse, ut illa chordae deficientis locum suppleret. Sic pag. 4: Τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι ἁρμοσάμενος. Et Paedag. lib. I sub finem cap. 12: Ἡμᾶς ἁρμοσαμένους χρὴ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς πρὸς τὸν παιδαγωγὸν... τῷ ὄντι ζῆν.

"Tuning to the song." He means that the lyre-player so adjusted his instrument to the cicada's singing that the cicada took the place of the failing string. So on p. 4: "having tuned man by the Holy Spirit". And Paedagogus I, near the end of ch. 12: "We, having tuned ourselves to the Instructor, must … truly live."

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(43) ‹anchor: ᾠδῇ τῇ Εὐνόμου … χαλκοῦν› · call in col 54

Ὠδῇ τῇ Εὐνόμου ἄγεται ὁ τέττιξ, ὡς ὁ μῦθος βούλεται, χαλκοῦν. Haec omittit ms. Nov. scriptoris haud dubio negligentia, qui sententiam inter voces ὁμοιοτελεύτους, scilicet οὐκοῦν et χαλκοῦν, positam oculo male festinanti praeteriit.

"The cicada is drawn by Eunomus's song, as the myth will have it, in bronze." The New manuscript omits these words, no doubt through the carelessness of the scribe, whose too-hasty eye passed over a sentence placed between two words with the same ending, namely οὐκοῦν and χαλκοῦν.

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(44) ‹anchor: Τοῖς ἀπιστίας› · call in col 54

Τοῖς ἀπιστίας. Τοῖς τῆς ἀπιστίας, ms. Nov.

"To those … of unbelief." The New manuscript reads "to those of unbelief" (with the article).

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(45) ‹anchor: Ὑποπέπτωκεν› · call in col 54

Ὑποπέπτωκεν. Ὕποπτον, suspectum, legere mavult Lowthius. Sed ὑποπίπτειν eodem aut simili sensu adhibent, cum alii scriptores, tum etiam ipse Clemens.

"Has fallen under (suspicion)." Lowth prefers to read ὕποπτον, "suspect". But ὑποπίπτειν is used in the same or a similar sense both by other writers and by Clement himself.

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(46) ‹anchor: Δράματα› · call in col 54

Δράματα. Haec addit ms. Nov.: καὶ τῶν δραμάτων οἱ ὑποκριταὶ θυμηδίας θεάματα, et fabularum actores jucunda spectacula. Quae propter δράματα et θεάματα, voces ὁμοιοτελεύτους, excidisse verisimile est.

"Dramas." The New manuscript adds: "and the actors of the dramas, delightful spectacles". These words probably dropped out because of δράματα and θεάματα, words with the same ending.

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(47) ‹anchor: Κιττῷ› · call in col 54

Κιττῷ. Scilicet more ebriorum et bacchantium, quibus hedera sese coronare, sacra Baccho arbore, solemne olim erat.

"With ivy." That is, after the manner of drunkards and bacchants, whose custom of old was to crown themselves with ivy, the tree sacred to Bacchus.

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(48) ‹anchor: Μαινάλῃ› · call in col 54

Μαινάλη. Μαινώλη ms. Nov. Legendum porro μαινόλη. Nam μαινόλης est apud Hesychium et Suidam, et Clemens Bacchum postea vocat Διόνυσον μαινόλην p. 9, idemque in epigrammate μαινόλιος Βάκχος dicitur.

"Maenalian." The New manuscript has μαινώλη. Further, read μαινόλη ("raving"). For μαινόλης occurs in Hesychius and Suidas, and Clement later calls Bacchus "raving Dionysus" (p. 9), and in an epigram he is likewise called "raving Bacchus".

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(49) ‹anchor: Κατάγωμεν› · call in col 54

Κατάγωμεν. Partes hujus sententiae totidem praecedentis partibus sunt ἀντίστοιχοι· scilicet ἀλήθεια et φρόνησις Christianorum, τῇ πλάνῃ et ἀφραδίᾳ gentium: Mons Dei, poeticis montibus, Heliconi et Cithaeroni: prophetarum denique chorus daemonum et bacchantium choro respondet.

"Let us bring down." The parts of this sentence correspond one to one with the parts of the preceding: the truth and wisdom of the Christians to the error and folly of the gentiles; the mountain of God to the poets' mountains, Helicon and Cithaeron; and finally the choir of the prophets answers to the choir of demons and bacchants.

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(50) ‹anchor: τὴν ὑπερτάτην› · call in col 54

Ὑπερτάτην. Id est, ἰσχυροτάτην. Quemadmodum apud Sophoclem, ἐξ ὑπερτέρας χειρός explicari solet ἰσχυροτέρας, seu μετὰ δυνάμεως μείζονος.

"Highest." That is, "strongest". Just as in Sophocles "from a higher hand" is usually explained as "stronger", or "with greater power".

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(51) ‹anchor: ὀρέγουσα› · call in col 54

Ὀρέγουσα. Ὀρέγουσαν ms. Nov. manifesto errore.

"Stretching out." The New manuscript has the accusative ὀρέγουσαν, an evident error.

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(52) ‹anchor: Οἱ δὲ ἀνανεύσαντες› · call in col 54

Οἱ δὲ ἀνανεύσαντες. Simile est, quod postea dicit hujus libri pag. 66: Ἀνανεύσατε τῆς γῆς εἰς αἰθέρα, ἀναβλέψατε εἰς οὐρανόν: a terra in aetherem oculos attollite, in coelum suspicite. Nam ἀνανεύειν hoc loco non est ἀνανήφειν, ad se reverti, ut Hervetus, et post eum alii putarunt; sed idem fere quod ἀνακύψαι, sursum oculos attollere.

"And they, looking up." Similar is what he says later in this book, p. 66: "Look up from the earth to the ether, look up to heaven": raise your eyes from the earth to the ether, gaze up into heaven. For ἀνανεύειν here does not mean ἀνανήφειν, "to come to oneself", as Hervetus and others after him thought, but nearly the same as ἀνακύψαι, "to raise the eyes upward".

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(53) ‹anchor: ὁ γνήσιος ἀγωνιστής› · call in col 54

Γνήσιος ἀγων. Per metaphoram a Graecis certaminibus sumptam, in quibus coronae victoribus dari solebant, dicit Christum, quem οὐράνιον Λόγον vocat, universas totius mundi gentes tandem devicisse. Similis locus occurrit hujusce libri, pag. 68, 69. Γνήσιος γὰρ ἦν ἀγωνιστής, καὶ τοῦ πλάσματος συναγωνιστής· τάχιστα δὲ εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους διαδοθεὶς, θᾶττον ἡλίου ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀνατείλας τῆς πατρικῆς βουλήσεως ῥᾷστα ἡμῖν ἐπέλαμψε τὸν Θεόν. Conf. Strom. VII, pag. 710.

"The true contestant." By a metaphor taken from the Greek games, in which crowns were given to the victors, he says that Christ, whom he calls the heavenly Word, at last conquered all the nations of the whole world. A similar passage occurs in this book, pp. 68–69: "For he was a true contestant, and a fellow-contestant with his creature; and spreading most swiftly to all men, rising swifter than the sun out of the Father's very will, he most readily shone God upon us." Compare Stromata VII, p. 710.

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  • running head: TATIO AD GENTES. 54
  • marginal letters: A stantiorem : tum; B ria, divinum; C tur, undique; D (51) Ὀρέγουσα.
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  • running head: 55 CLEMENTIS ALEXA
  • marginal letters: A mini de; B res ingeniosis; C post satis; D magico delinitos
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τὸν Καπίτωνος, οὐδὲ μὴν Φρύγιον, ἢ Λύδιον, ἢ Δώριον, ἀλλὰ τῆς καινῆς ἁρμονίας τὸν ἀΐδιον νόμον, τὸν φερώνυμον τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ καιν⟨ὸ⟩ν, τὸ Λευιτικόν,
that of Capito, nor yet Phrygian, or Lydian, or Dorian, but the eternal strain of the new harmony, which bears the name of God, the new song (Ps. 95:1; 97:1), the Levitical,
Νηπενθές τ' ἄχολόν τε, κακῶν ἐπίληθες ἁπάντων.
Soothing grief and wrath, bringing forgetfulness of all ills.
Γλυκύ τε καὶ ἀληθινὸν φάρμακον πειθοῦς ἐγκέκραται τῷ ᾄσματι. Ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν δοκοῦσιν ὁ Θρᾴκιος ἐκεῖνος Ὀρφεὺς καὶ ὁ Θηβαῖος, καὶ ὁ Μηθυμναῖος, ἄνδρες τινὲς, οὐκ ἄνδρες, ἀπατηλοὶ γεγονέναι, προσχήματι μουσικῆς λυμηνάμενοι τὸν βίον, ἐντέχνῳ τινὶ γοητείᾳ δαιμονῶντες εἰς διαφθορὰς, ὕβρεις ὀργιάζοντες, πένθη ἐκθειάζοντες, τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐπὶ τὰ εἴδωλα χειραγωγῆσαι πρῶτοι· ναὶ μὴν λίθοις καὶ ξύλοις, τουτέστιν ἀγάλμασι καὶ σκιαγραφίαις, ἀνοικοδομῆσαι τὴν σκαιότητα τοῦ ἔθνους· τὴν καλὴν ὄντως ἐκείνην ἐλευθερίαν τῶν ὑπ' οὐρανὸν πεπολιτευμένων ᾠδαῖς καὶ ἐπῳδαῖς ἐσχάτῃ δουλείᾳ καταζεύξαντες· ἀλλ' οὐ τοιόσδε ὁ ᾠδὸς ὁ ἐμὸς, οὐδ' εἰς μακρὰν καταλύσων ἀφῖκται τὴν δουλείαν τὴν πικρὰν τῶν τυραννούντων δαιμόνων· ὡς δὲ τὸν πρᾶον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον τῆς θεοσεβείας μετάγων ἡμᾶς ζυγὸν, αὖθις εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀνακαλεῖται τοὺς εἰς γῆν ἐῤῥιμμένους. Μόνος γοῦν τῶν πώποτε τὰ ἀργαλεώτατα θηρία, τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ἐτιθάσσευεν·
A sweet and true medicine of persuasion has been blended into the song. To me, therefore, that Thracian Orpheus, and the Theban, and the Methymnaean seem to have been men, yet not men, deceivers, who under the pretext of music corrupted life, possessed by some artful sorcery unto ruin, celebrating outrages as mysteries, deifying sorrows, the first to lead men by the hand to idols; yea more, with stones and stocks, that is, with statues and shadow-paintings, to build up the perversity of custom; having yoked that truly noble freedom of those who have lived as citizens under heaven to extreme slavery by songs and incantations; but not such is my singer, nor has He come to dissolve after a long time the bitter slavery of the tyrannizing demons; but transferring us to the gentle and humane yoke of godliness, He calls back again to heaven those who had been cast down to earth. He alone, at least, of all that ever were, tamed the most intractable wild beasts, men:
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Footnotes

(¹) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 56 Isa. II, 3.

Isaiah 2:3.

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Psalms 95 (96):1; 97 (98):1.

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(54) ‹anchor: Τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ καινόν› · call in col 56

Τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ καινόν. Quid hoc velit, paulo post satis plene explicat p. 5.

"The new song." What he means by this he explains fully enough a little later, p. 5.

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(55) ‹anchor: Νηπενθές τ'› · call in col 56

Νηπενθές τ'. ...τ' omittit ms. Nov. Respicit autem Clemens Odyss. Δ, v. 220, quo loco de Circe haec scribit Homerus: Αὐτίκ' ἄρ' εἰς οἶνον βάλε φάρμακον, ἔνθεν ἔπινον, / Νηπενθές τ', ἄχολόν τε, κακῶν ἐπίληθες ἁπάντων. / Statim autem in vinum injecit medicamentum, inter bibendum, / Quod luctum sedat, iramque, et malorum omnium oblivionem inducit. Conf. etiam Gregorii Nazianz. Carm. Nicobuli ad filium, v. 202.

"And banishing grief." The New manuscript omits the τ' ("and"). Clement has in mind Odyssey IV (Δ), line 220, where Homer writes this of Circe: "At once she cast a drug into the wine they were drinking, / a drug that quiets grief and anger and brings forgetfulness of every ill." (Latin version: "At once she threw a drug into the wine while they drank, which allays grief and wrath and brings forgetting of all evils.") Compare also Gregory Nazianzen, Poem of Nicobulus to his son, line 202.

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(56) ‹anchor: Ἄνδρες τινές, οὐκ ἄνδρες› · call in col 56

Ἄνδρες τινές, οὐκ ἄνδρες. Gatakerus, in Advers. cap. 8, ait: Lege οὐκ ἀΐδριες. Non inscitos, non imperitos, sed callidos, gnaros, astutos, i. e. ἀπατηλούς, uti continuo sequitur, appellat: utpote qui artificii musici lenocinio, tanquam carmine quodam magico delinitos in fraudem ac perniciem, morumque labem, et simulacrorum cultum, ac daemonum malignorum servitium, mortales miseros illexerint. Haec ille. Verumtamen veterem lectionem retinere visum est: quippe cum velit auctor, eos, qui humano generi tantam perniciem intulerunt, non tam viros esse, quam daemones, habendos. Quemadmodum alias homines vitiis deditos dicit θηρία μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώπους, feras potius bestias, quam homines, esse, Strom. IV, p. 479, homines ἀφελεῖς, simplices, ὡς ἄρνας, οὐκ ἄνδρας, tanquam agnos habendos esse, non viros, Paedag. lib. I, cap. 5, p. 86. Denique viros molles et effeminatos, οὐκ ἄνδρας, βατάλους δὲ, καὶ γύννιδας, non esse vocandos viros, sed batalos et semiviros. Simile est, quod de falso dictis philosophis protulit Tatianus pag. 15 ed. Oxon.: Μὴ παρασυρέτωσαν ὑμᾶς αἱ τῶν φιλοσόφων καὶ οὐ φιλοσόφων πανηγύρεις. Ne vos traducant philosophorum istorum non philosophorum coetus. Illud item Euripidis Orest. v. 1555. Δισσοῖν λεόντοιν· οὐ γὰρ ἄνδρ' αὐτὼ καλῶ. Duorum leonum: non enim viros eos voco. Et quod dixit Constit. apost. auctor, lib. II, cap. 21: Παραδώσεις λύκοις εἰς κατάβρωμα, τουτέστι δαίμοσι καὶ πονηροῖς ἀνθρώποις, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐκ ἀνθρώποις, ἀλλὰ θηρίοις ἀνθρωποειδέσιν, ἐθνικοῖς, καὶ Ἰουδαΐσταῖς καὶ αἱρεσιώταις ἀθέοις. Devorandum trades lupis, hoc est daemonibus et pravis hominibus: imo vero non hominibus, sed feris humana forma praeditis, ethnicis nempe, judaizantibus et impiis haereticis.

"Certain men, not men." Gataker, Adversaria ch. 8, says: read οὐκ ἀΐδριες: he calls them not unskilled, not ignorant, but cunning, knowing, crafty, that is, deceivers, as follows directly: for by the allure of the musician's art they enticed wretched mortals, soothed as by a magic spell, into fraud and ruin, the corruption of morals, the worship of images and the service of malignant demons. So he. Nevertheless it seemed best to keep the old reading, since the author means that those who brought such ruin on the human race are to be reckoned not so much men as demons. In the same way he says elsewhere that men given over to vice are "beasts rather than men" (Stromata IV, p. 479); that simple men are to be held "as lambs, not men" (Paedagogus I, 5, p. 86); and finally that soft and effeminate men are to be called "not men but batali and half-men". Similar is what Tatian said of the falsely so-called philosophers, p. 15 of the Oxford edition: "Let not the assemblies of the philosophers, who are no philosophers, sweep you away." So too the line of Euripides, Orestes 1555: "Of the two lions — for I do not call them men." And what the author of the Apostolic Constitutions said, book II, ch. 21: "You will hand him over to wolves to be devoured, that is, to demons and wicked men, or rather not men but beasts in human form: heathens, judaizers and godless heretics."

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(57) ‹anchor: Προσχήματι μουσ.› · call in col 56

Προσχήματι μουσ. Προσχήματι μουσικῆς· λυμηνάμενοι τὸν βίον ἐντέχνῳ τινὶ γοητείᾳ δαιμονῶντες· εἰς διαφθορᾶς ὕβρεις ὀργιάζ. Ms. Nov. Similia his habet Minutius Octavio: Considera denique sacra ipsa et ipsa mysteria, invenies exitus tristes, fata et funera, et luctus atque planctus. Atheganoras Legatione, Τὰ πάθη αὐτῶν, inquit, δεικνύουσι μυστήρια. Deorum passiones et libidines vocant mysteria.

"Under the pretext of music." The New manuscript reads: "under the pretext of music, having ruined life by a skilful sorcery, possessed, … celebrating orgies to outrages of corruption". Minucius has similar words in the Octavius: "Consider finally the rites themselves and the mysteries themselves: you will find sad endings, deaths and funerals, mourning and lamentation." Athenagoras [printed "Atheganoras"], in the Embassy: "Their sufferings," he says, "they display as mysteries." They call the sufferings and lusts of the gods mysteries.

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(58) ‹anchor: Σκαιότητα τοῦ ἔθνους› · call in col 56

Σκαιότητα τοῦ ἔθνους. Scribe ἔθους consuetudinis, auctoritate ms. Nov. Similiter apud Philonem Judaeum, lib. I De vita Moysis, pag. 645, pro ἐθνῶν ἰδιότητα, scribendum ex codice ms. G. Whelri, ἐθῶν ἰδιότητα.

"The perversity of the nation." Write ἔθους, "of custom", on the authority of the New manuscript. Similarly in Philo the Jew, On the Life of Moses I, p. 645, for "the peculiarity of the nations" one should write, from G. Wheler's manuscript, "the peculiarity of the customs".

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(59) ‹anchor: Καταζεύξαντες› · call in col 56

Καταζεύξαντες. In exemplari scriptum ambiguo errore κατεξεύξαντες. H. legit κατιξεύσαντες, ut sit, ceu visco involventes. Nostrum et H. καταζεύξαντες confirmat continuata ζυγοῦ metaphora, et repetita inferius ejusdem verbi usurpatio: τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν συνωρίδα καταζεύξας εἰς τὸν Θεόν. SYLBURG.

"Having yoked." The exemplar has, by an ambiguous error, κατεξεύξαντες. H. reads κατιξεύσαντες, meaning "as it were entangling with bird-lime". Our reading, which is also H.'s, καταζεύξαντες, is confirmed by the continued metaphor of the yoke and by the same verb's being used again below: "having yoked the pair of men to God". Sylburg.

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(60) ‹anchor: Καταλύσων› · call in col 56

Καταλύσων. Paria sunt quae dixit Tatianus, cap. 47, p. 103: ὅτι λύει τὴν ἐν κόσμῳ δουλείαν, καὶ ἀρχόντων μὲν πολλῶν καὶ μυρίων ἡμᾶς ἀποσπᾷ. A servitute mundi solvunt (sacrae sc. Scripturae) et a multis dominis et innumeris tyrannis liberant.

"To dissolve." Tatian says the like, ch. 47, p. 103: "that it looses the slavery that is in the world, and tears us away from many rulers, indeed from countless ones." They (that is, the holy Scriptures) release from the slavery of the world and free from many masters and countless tyrants.

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(61) ‹anchor: τὰ ἀργαλεώτατα θηρία› · call in col 56

Θηρία. His similia habes Strom. IV, p. 479.

"Beasts." You have the like in Stromata IV, p. 479.

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πτηνὰ μὲν, τοὺς κούφους αὐτῶν· ἑρπετὰ δὲ, τοὺς ἀπατεῶνας· καὶ λέοντας μὲν, τοὺς θυμικούς· σύας δὲ, τοὺς ἡδονικούς· λύκους δὲ, τοὺς ἁρπακτικούς. Λίθοι δὲ καὶ ξύλα οἱ ἄφρονες· πρὸς δὲ καὶ λίθων ἀναισθητότερος ἄνθρωπος ἀγνοίᾳ βεβαπτισμένος. Μάρτυς ἡμῖν προφητικὴ παρίτω φωνὴ, συνῳδὸς ἀληθείας, τοὺς ἐν ἀγνοίᾳ καὶ ἀνοίᾳ κατατετριμμένους οἰκτείρουσα· Δυνατὸς γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς ἐκ τῶν λίθων τούτων ἐγεῖραι τέκνα τῷ Ἀβραάμ· ὃς, κατελεήσας τὴν ἀμαθίαν τὴν πολλὴν καὶ τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν τῶν εἰς τὴν ἀλήθειαν λελιθωμένων, ἤγειρεν θεοσεβείας σπέρμα, ἀρετῆς αἰσθόμενον, ἐκ λίθων ἐκείνων, τῶν λίθοις πεπιστευκότων ἐθνῶν. Αὖθις οὖν ἰοβόλους τινὰς καὶ παλιμβόλους ὑποκριτὰς ἐφοδεύοντας δικαιοσύνῃ γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν κέκληκέ που· ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων εἴ τις τῶν ὄφεων μετανοήσαι ἑκὼν, ἑπόμενος δὴ τῷ Λόγῳ, ἄνθρωπος γίνεται Θεοῦ. Λύκους δὲ ἄλλους ἀλληγορεῖ προβάτων κωδίοις ἠμφιεσμένους, τοὺς ἐν ἀνθρώπων μορφαῖς ἁρπακτικοὺς αἰνιττόμενος. Καὶ πάντα ἄρα ταῦτα τὰ ἀγριώτατα θηρία, καὶ τοὺς τοιούτους λίθους, ἡ οὐράνιος ᾠδὴ μετεμόρφωσεν εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἡμέρους. Ἦμεν γὰρ, ἦμέν ποτε καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀνόητοι, ἀπειθεῖς, πλανώμενοι, δουλεύοντες ἡδοναῖς καὶ ἐπιθυμίαις ποικίλαις, ἐν κακίᾳ καὶ φθόνῳ διάγοντες, στυγητοὶ, μισοῦντες ἀλλήλους, ᾗ φησιν ἡ ἀποστολικὴ γραφή. Ὅτε δὲ ἡ χρηστότης, καὶ ἡ φιλανθρωπία ἐπεφάνη τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Θεοῦ, οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων τῶν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, ὧν ἐποιήσαμεν ἡμεῖς, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ αὐτοῦ ἔλεος ἔσωσεν ἡμᾶς. Ὅρα τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ καινὸν ὅσον ἴσχυσεν· ἀνθρώπους ἐκ λίθων, καὶ ἀνθρώπους ἐκ θηρίων πεποίηκεν· οἱ δὲ τηνάλλως ὡς νεκροὶ, οἱ τῆς ὄντως οὔσης ἀμέτοχοι ζωῆς, ἀκροαταὶ μόνον γενόμενοι τοῦ ᾄσματος, ἀνεβίωσαν. Τοῦτό τοι καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἐκόσμησεν ἐμμελῶς, καὶ τῶν στοιχείων τὴν διαφωνίαν εἰς τάξιν ἐνέτεινεν ἐμφωνίας, ἵνα δὴ ὅλος ὁ κόσμος αὐτῷ ἁρμονία γένηται· καὶ θάλασσαν μὲν ἀνῆκε λελυμένην, γῆς δὲ ἐπιβαίνειν κεκώλυκεν αὐτήν. Γῆν δ' ἔμπαλιν ἐστερέωσε, φερομένην, καὶ ὅρον αὐτῇ ἔπηξε θάλασσαν. Καὶ μὴν καὶ πυρὸς ὁρμὴν ἐμάλαξεν ἀέρι, οἱονεὶ Δώριον ἁρμονίαν κράσας Λυδίῳ· καὶ την ἀέρος ἀπηνῆ ψυχρότητα τῇ παραπλοκῇ τοῦ πυρὸς ἐτιθάσσευσε, τοὺς νεάτους τῶν ὅλων φθόγγους τούτους κιρνὰς ἐμμελῶς. Καὶ δὴ τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ ἀκήρατον, ἔρεισμα τῶν ὅλων, καὶ ἁρμονία τῶν πάντων, ἀπὸ τῶν μέσων ἐπὶ τὰ πέρατα, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἄκρων ἐπὶ τὰ μέσα διαταθὲν, ἡρμόσατο τόδε τὸ πᾶν, οὐ κατὰ τὴν Θρᾴκιον μουσικὴν, τὴν παραπλήσιον Τουβὰλ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν πάτριον τοῦ
birds, the light-minded among them; reptiles, the deceivers; and lions, the passionate; swine, the pleasure-loving; wolves, the rapacious. And the senseless are stones and stocks; nay more, a man baptized in ignorance is even more insensible than stones. Let the prophetic voice come forward as our witness, accordant with truth, pitying those wasted away in ignorance and folly: "For God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham" (Matt. 3:9; Luke 3:8); Who, having had compassion on the great ignorance and the hardness of heart of those petrified towards the truth, raised up a seed of godliness, sensitive to virtue, out of those stones, the nations that had believed in stones. Again, therefore, certain venomous and shifting hypocrites who lie in wait against righteousness He has somewhere called "offspring of vipers" (Matt. 3:7); yet if even one of these snakes willingly repents, following the Word, he becomes a man of God (2 Tim. 3:17). And others He allegorically calls wolves clothed in sheep's fleeces (Matt. 7:15), hinting at the rapacious in human forms. And so all these most savage wild beasts, and such stones, the heavenly song transformed into gentle men. "For we also, we were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another" (Titus 3:3), as says the apostolic Scripture. "But when the kindness and love towards man of God our Saviour appeared, not by works in righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us" (Titus 3:4–5). See how mighty the new song has been: it has made men out of stones, and men out of wild beasts; and those who were otherwise as dead, who had no share in the real life, having merely become hearers of the song, came back to life. This, too, adorned the universe melodiously, and tuned the discord of the elements into an order of concord, so that the whole world might become harmony for it; and it let loose the sea unbound, yet forbade it to encroach upon the land. And the land, again, which was being borne along, it made firm, and fixed the sea as a boundary for it. Yea, and it softened the violence of fire by air, having blended as it were the Dorian harmony with the Lydian; and it tamed the harsh coldness of the air by the interweaving of fire, melodiously mingling these extreme notes of the universe. And indeed this undefiled song, the stay of the universe and the harmony of all things, stretched from the centre to the bounds and from the extremities to the centre, harmonized this universe, not according to the Thracian music, which is like that of Tubal, but according to the paternal
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  • marginal letters: A πτηνὰ μὲν; B των εἴ; C νὸν ὅσον; D Καὶ δὴ
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Footnotes

(³) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 58 Matth. III, 9; Luc. III, 8.

Matthew 3:9; Luke 3:8.

(printed under page 34) (⁴) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 58 Matth. III, 7; Luc. III, 7.

Matthew 3:7; Luke 3:7.

(printed under page 34) (⁵) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 58 II Tim. III, 17.

2 Timothy 3:17.

(printed under page 34) (⁶) ‹anchor: ovium indutos› · call in col 58 Matth. VII, 15.

Matthew 7:15.

(printed under page 34) (⁷) ‹anchor: odientes invicem› · call in col 58 Tit. III, 3.

Titus 3:3.

(printed under page 34) (⁸) ‹anchor: salvos nos fecit› · call in col 58 Tit. III, 4, 5.

Titus 3:4–5.

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(62) ‹anchor: Δυνατὸς γάρ› · call in col 58

Δυνατὸς γάρ. Hanc interpretationem ex Irenaeo forte sumpsit Clemens. Is enim lib. IV, cap. 16, haec ait: Potens est enim Deus, etc. Hoc autem fecit Jesus a lapidum religione extrahens nos, et a nostris duris et infructuosis cogitationibus transferens nos, et similem Abrahae fidem in nobis constituens.

"For (God) is able." Clement perhaps took this interpretation from Irenaeus, who says in Book IV, ch. 16: "For God is able," etc. "And this Jesus did, drawing us away from the worship of stones, and carrying us over from our hard and fruitless thoughts, and establishing in us a faith like Abraham's."

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(63) ‹anchor: Τὰ ἀργ.› · call in col 58

Τὰ ἀργ. Τά omittit ms. Nov.

"The most troublesome …" The New manuscript omits the article τά.

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(64) ‹anchor: ὡς νεκροί› · call in col 58

Ὡς νεκρ. Ὡς omittit ms. Nov.

"As dead." The New manuscript omits ὡς ("as").

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(65) ‹anchor: εἰς τάξιν ἐνέτεινεν ἐμφωνίας› · call in col 58

Ἐνέτεινεν ἐμφωνίας. Scribe ex ms. Nov. ἐνέτεινε συμφωνίας. Etenim συμφωνία praecedenti διαφωνία melius respondet quam ἐμφωνία. Quod Sylburgius etiam vidit.

"Strung into an order of ἐμφωνία." Write, from the New manuscript, "strung into an order of symphony". For συμφωνία answers the preceding διαφωνία ("discord") better than ἐμφωνία. Sylburg saw this too.

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(66) ‹anchor: κεκώλυκεν› · call in col 58

Κεκώλ. Κεκώλυκεν αὐτὴν δὴ γῆν ἔμπαλιν, ἐστερέωσε φέρ. Ms. Nov. Idem mox pro ἐπιθάσσευσε habet ἐπιθάσσευεν.

"Has prevented." The New manuscript reads: "has prevented it; the earth, in turn, he made firm as it was borne about …" The same manuscript shortly after has the imperfect ἐπιθάσσευεν for the aorist ἐπιθάσσευσε ("tempered").

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(67) ‹anchor: καὶ πυρὸς› · call in col 58

Πυρός. Scilicet ignis elementaris, quem supra aerem sub concavo lunae cum Aristotele ponere videtur.

"Of fire." That is, elemental fire, which he seems, with Aristotle, to place above the air, beneath the hollow of the moon's sphere.

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(68) ‹anchor: Τουβάλ› · call in col 58

Τουβάλ. Ille, cum e Caini familia esset, musicam invenit: quam proinde Clemens, ut profa- (continues)

"Tubal." He, being of Cain's family, invented music; which music Clement therefore, as profane … (continues)

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  • running head: 59 CLEMENTIS ALEXAN
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Θεοῦ βούλησιν, ἣν ἐζήλωσε Δαβίδ. Ὁ δὲ ἐκ Δαβὶδ, καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ, ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος, λύραν μὲν καὶ κιθάραν, τὰ ἄψυχα ὄργανα, ὑπεριδὼν, κόσμον δὲ τόνδε, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν σμικρὸν κόσμον τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ψυχήν τε καὶ σῶμα αὐτοῦ, ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι ἁρμοσάμενος, ψάλλει τῷ Θεῷ, διὰ τοῦ πολυφώνου ὀργάνου, καὶ προσᾴδει τούτῳ τῷ ὀργάνῳ, τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ· Σὺ γὰρ εἶ κιθάρα, καὶ αὐλὸς, καὶ ναὸς ἐμός· κιθάρα διὰ τὴν ἁρμονίαν· αὐλὸς διὰ τὸ Πνεῦμα· ναὸς διὰ τὸν Λόγον· ἵν' ἡ μὲν κρέκῃ, τὸ δὲ ἐμπνέῃ, ὁ δὲ χωρήσῃ τὸν Κύριον. Καὶ μὴν ὁ Δαβὶδ, ὁ βασιλεὺς, ὁ κιθαριστὴς, οὗ μικρῷ πρόσθεν ἐμνήσθημεν, ὃς προὔτρεπεν ὡς τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἀπέτρεπε δὲ εἰδώλων· πολλοῦ γε ἔδει ὑμνεῖν αὐτὸν τοὺς δαίμονας, ἀληθεῖ πρὸς αὐτοῦ διωκομένους μουσικῇ, ᾗ τῷ Σαοὺλ ἐνεργουμένῳ ἐκεῖνος ᾄδων μόνον, αὐτὸν ἰάσατο. Καλὸν ὁ Κύριος ὄργανον ἔμπνουν τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐξειργάσατο κατ' εἰκόνα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ· ἀμέλει καὶ αὐτὸς ὄργανόν ἐστι τοῦ Θεοῦ παναρμόνιον, ἐμμελὲς καὶ ἅγιον, σοφία ὑπερκόσμιος, οὐράνιος Λόγος. Τί δὴ οὖν τὸ ὄργανον, ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος ὁ Κύριος, καὶ τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ καινὸν, βούλεται; Ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀναπετάσαι τυφλῶν, καὶ ὦτα ἀνοῖξαι κωφῶν, καὶ σκάζοντας τὼ πόδε ἢ πλανωμένους εἰς δικαιοσύνην χειραγωγῆσαι· Θεὸν ἀνθρώποις ἀφραίνουσιν ἐπιδεῖξαι, παῦσαι φθορὰν, νικῆσαι θάνατον, υἱοὺς ἀπειθεῖς διαλλάξαι πατρί. Φιλάνθρωπον τὸ ὄργανον τοῦ Θεοῦ· ὁ Κύριος ἐλεεῖ, παιδεύει, προτρέπει, νουθετεῖ, σώζει, φυλάττει, καὶ μισθὸν ἡμῖν τῆς μαθήσεως ἐκ περιουσίας βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν ἐπαγγέλλεται· τοῦτο μόνον ἀπολαύων ἡμῶν, ὃ σωζόμεθα. Κακία μὲν γὰρ τὴν ἀνθρώπων ἐπιβόσκεται φθοράν· ἡ δὲ ἀλήθεια, ὥσπερ ἡ μέλιττα, λυμαινομένη τῶν ὄντων οὐδὲν, ἐπὶ μόνης τῆς ἀνθρώπων ἀγάλλεται σωτηρίας. Ἔχεις οὖν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν· ἔχεις τὴν φιλανθρωπίαν· τῆς χά-
counsel of God, which David emulated. And He Who is from David, and before him, the Word of God, having disdained lyre and cithara, those lifeless instruments, and having tuned by the Holy Spirit this world, and indeed the little world too, man, both his soul and his body, sings to God through the many-voiced instrument, and sings to this instrument, man: "For you are my cithara, and pipe, and temple"; a cithara because of the harmony; a pipe because of the Spirit; a temple because of the Word; so that the first may sound, the second breathe, and the third contain the Lord. Yea, and David the king, the citharist, whom we mentioned a little before, who exhorted to the truth and turned men away from idols, was far from singing hymns to the demons, when they were chased away by him with true music, wherewith by singing alone he healed Saul when possessed. A noble breathing instrument the Lord fashioned man, after His own image; certainly He Himself also is an all-harmonious instrument of God, melodious and holy, supramundane wisdom, heavenly Word. What then does the instrument, the Word of God, the Lord, and the new song will? To open the eyes of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf (Matt. 11:5; Luke 7:22), and lead by the hand into righteousness those halting in both feet or wandering; to show God to foolish men, to make an end of corruption, to conquer death, to reconcile disobedient sons to the Father. Loving towards man is the instrument of God: the Lord pities, instructs, exhorts, admonishes, saves, guards, and out of superabundance promises us the kingdom of heaven as a reward of learning, reaping this sole benefit from us, that we are saved. For wickedness feeds upon the destruction of men; but truth, like the bee, harming nothing that exists, rejoices solely in the salvation of men. You have, then, the promise; you have the love towards man; of the gra-
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Footnotes

(69) ‹anchor: Κόσμον δέ› · call in col 60

Κόσμον δέ. Physici, inquit Macrobius, l. II, in Somnium Scipionis, cap. 12, mundum, magnum hominem; et hominem brevem mundum esse dixerunt. Quod sic expressit Philo Judaeus libro Quis rerum divinarum haeres, pag. 502: Ἐναλλάττοντες, βραχὺν μὲν κόσμον τὸν ἄνθρωπον, μέγαν δὲ ἄνθρωπον ἔφασαν τὸν κόσμον εἶναι. De homine microcosmo, κόσμῳ συντόμῳ, ubique legas. Mox τόν omittit ms. Nov. ante σμικρόν.

"And the world." "The natural philosophers," says Macrobius, On the Dream of Scipio II, 12, "said that the world is a great man, and man a little world." Philo the Jew expressed this in the book Who Is the Heir of Divine Things, p. 502: "Inverting the terms, they said that man is a little world and the world a great man." Of man as microcosm, "a world in brief", you may read everywhere. Shortly after, the New manuscript omits τόν before σμικρόν ("small").

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(70) ‹anchor: Τούτῳ τῷ ὀργάνῳ› · call in col 60

Τούτῳ τῷ ὀργάνῳ. Τούτῳ omittit ms. Nov. His similia habet Clemens Paedag., lib. II, cap. 4, pag. 164, et Strom. VI, pag. 658, 659. Plerique veterum Patrum homines θεοπνεύστους organis musicis assimilant. Justinus M., Paraenes., pag. 61. ed. Oxon.: Αὐτὸ τὸ θεῖον ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατιὸν πλῆκτρον, ὥσπερ ὀργάνῳ κιθάρᾳ τινὸς ἢ λύρας τοῖς ἀνδράσι δικαίοις χρώμενον, τὴν τῶν θείων ἡμῖν καὶ οὐρανίων ἀποκαλύψῃ γνῶσιν. Ipsum divinum plectrum coelitus descendens, quasi instrumento quopiam citharae alicujus vel lyrae viris justis utens, divinarum nobis et coelestium rerum cognitionem revelaret. Athenagoras Legat. p. 36 ed. Oxon. de prophetis ait: Συγχρησαμένου τοῦ Πνεύματος, ὡσεὶ καὶ αὐλητὴς, αὐλὸν ἐμπνεῦσαι, cum Spiritus eodem modo per illos operaretur, quo tibicen inflat fistulam. Et pag. 56, de toto mundo: Εἰ τοίνυν ἐμμελὲς ὁ κόσμος ὄργανον καὶ κινούμενον ἐν ῥυθμῷ, τὸν ἁρμοσάμενον καὶ πλάσσοντα τοὺς φθόγγους, καὶ τὸ σύμφωνον ἐπᾴδοντα μέλος, οὐ τὸ ὄργανον, προσκυνῶ. Si ergo mundus instrumentum canorum est, quod movetur ad numerum, ego eum, qui concentum temperat, et sonos evibrat, et congruum succinit carmen, non instrumentum, adoro. Quae sunt his, quae dicit Clemens, persimilia.

"This instrument." The New manuscript omits τούτῳ ("this"). Clement has the like in Paedagogus II, 4, p. 164, and Stromata VI, pp. 658–659. Most of the early Fathers liken God-inspired men to musical instruments. Justin Martyr, Hortatory Address, p. 61 of the Oxford edition: "that the divine plectrum itself, coming down from heaven and using righteous men as the instrument of a cithara or lyre, might reveal to us the knowledge of things divine and heavenly." Athenagoras, Embassy, p. 36 of the Oxford edition, says of the prophets: "the Spirit making use of them, as a flute-player breathes into a flute." And p. 56, of the whole world: "If, then, the world is a tuneful instrument moving in rhythm, I worship not the instrument but him who tuned it, strikes its notes, and sings the harmonious melody to it." These are very like what Clement says.

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(71) ‹anchor: Σὺ γὰρ εἶ› · call in col 60

Σὺ γὰρ εἶ. Christi verba, ut videtur, e sacro aliquo hymno citata. Caeterum pro ἐμός Nov. habet ἐμοί.

"For you are …" Words of Christ, it seems, quoted from some sacred hymn. For ἐμός ("my"), the New manuscript has ἐμοί ("to me").

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(72) ‹anchor: Διὰ τὸν Λόγον› · call in col 60

Διὰ τὸν Λόγον. Scilicet ἐνοικοῦντα, propter Dei Verbum in animabus justorum habitantem. Ἀνθρώπου δικαίου ψυχὴ ἐν ᾗ διὰ τῆς τῶν παραγγελμάτων ὑπακοῆς τεμενίζεται καὶ ἐνιδρύεται ὁ πάντων ἡγεμὼν ... Λόγος αἰώνιος. Hominis justi anima, in qua per praeceptorum obedientiam ut in templo collocatur omnium dux, aeternum Verbum. Strom. VII, pag. 708.

"Because of the Word." That is, indwelling: because of the Word of God dwelling in the souls of the righteous. "The soul of a righteous man, in which, through obedience to the commandments, the ruler of all … the eternal Word, is enshrined and established as in a temple." Stromata VII, p. 708.

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(73) ‹anchor: Ὃς πρ.› · call in col 60

Ὃς πρ. Nov. omittit ὅς.

"Who …" The New manuscript omits ὅς ("who").

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(74) ‹anchor: Ἢ τῷ Σαοὺλ ἐνεργουμένῳ› · call in col 60

Ἢ τῷ Σαοὺλ ἐνεργουμένῳ. Ἤτω ἔναυλος ὁ ἐνεργούμενος, Nov.; ἐνεργουμένῃ edit. Flor.; ἐνεργουμένῃ Sylburg, mendose omnia.

"Or for Saul, possessed." The New manuscript has Ἤτω ἔναυλος ὁ ἐνεργούμενος; the Florence edition ἐνεργουμένῃ; Sylburg ἐνεργουμένῃ: all faulty.

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(75) ‹anchor: Τοῦ Θεοῦ› · call in col 60

Τοῦ Θεοῦ. Τοῦ abest a Nov.

"Of God." The article τοῦ is absent from the New manuscript.

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(76) ‹anchor: Ὀφθαλμούς› · call in col 60

Ὀφθαλμούς. Respicit Matth. XI, 5; Luc. VII, 22.

"Eyes." He has in mind Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:22.

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(77) ‹anchor: Φιλάνθρωπον› · call in col 60

Φιλάνθρωπον. Conf. Paedag., lib. I, principio c. 9, et fine c. 7.

"Loving to man." Compare Paedagogus I, beginning of ch. 9, and end of ch. 7.

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(78) ‹anchor: ἐπὶ μόνης› · call in col 60

Ἐπὶ μόνης. Strom. VII, pag. 707, dicit nec sacrificia, nec aliud quidquam nunc a nobis exspectari, nisi ut nosmet Deo dedicemus, Μόνῃ γὰρ τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ σωτηρίᾳ ὁ Θεὸς ἥδεται. Sola enim nostra salute delectatur Deus.

"In … alone." In Stromata VII, p. 707, he says that neither sacrifices nor anything else is now expected of us, except that we dedicate ourselves to God: "For God delights in our salvation alone."

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(79) ‹anchor: τὴν φιλανθρωπίαν· τῆς› · call in col 60

Φιλανθρωπίαν· τῆς. Φιλανθρωπίαν τῆς χάριτος μεταλάμβανε Nov.

"Love for man: of the …" The New manuscript reads: "receive the loving-kindness of grace".

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  • running head: ENTIS ALEXANDRINI 60
  • marginal letters: A Θεοῦ βούλησιν; B ἐνεργουμένῳ (74); C λαύων ἡμῶν; D ἡγεμὼν ...
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ριτος μεταλάμβανε. Καί μου τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ σωτήριον μὴ καινὸν οὕτως ὑπολάβῃς, ὡς σκεῦος ἢ ὡς οἰκίαν· Πρὸ ἑωσφόρου γὰρ ἦν, καὶ Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος. Παλαιὰ δὲ ἡ πλάνη, καινὸν δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια φαίνεται. Εἴτ' οὖν ἀρχαίους τοὺς Φρύγας διδάσκουσιν αἶγες μυθικαί· εἴτε αὖ τοὺς Ἀρκάδας οι προσελήνους ἀναγράφοντες ποιηταί· εἴτε μὴν αὖ τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους, οἱ καὶ πρώτην ταύτην ἀναφῦναι τὴν γῆν θεούς τε καὶ ἀνθρώπους ὀνειρώσσοντες· ἀλλ' οὐ πρό γε τοῦ κόσμου τοῦδε τούτων οὐδὲ εἷς. Πρὸ δὲ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου καταβολῆς ἡμεῖς, οἱ τῷ δεῖν ἔσεσθαι ἐν αὐτῷ πρότερον γεγεννημένοι τῷ Θεῷ· τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου τὰ λογικὰ πλάσματα ἡμεῖς· δι' ὃν ἀρχαΐζομεν, ὅτι ἐν ἀρχῇ ὁ Λόγος ἦν. Ἀλλ' ὅτι μὲν ἦν ὁ Λόγος ἄνωθεν, ἀρχὴ θεία τῶν πάντων ἦν τε καὶ ἔστιν· ὅτι δὲ νῦν ὄνομα ἔλαβεν τὸ πάλαι καθωσιωμένον, δυνάμεως ἄξιον, ὁ Χριστὸς, καινὸν ᾆσμά μοι κέκληται. Οὗτος γοῦν ὁ Λόγος ὁ Χριστὸς, καὶ τοῦ εἶναι πάλαι ἡμᾶς (ἦν γὰρ ἐν Θεῷ)· καὶ τοῦ εὖ εἶναι, νῦν δὴ ἐπεφάνη ἀνθρώποις αὐτος οὗτος ὁ Λόγος, ὁ μόνος ἄμφω, Θεός τε καὶ ἄνθρωπος, ἁπάντων ἡμῖν αἴτιος ἀγαθῶν· παρ' οὗ τὸ εὖ ζῇν ἐκδιδασκόμενοι, εἰς ἀΐδιον ζωὴν παραπεμπόμεθα. Κατὰ γὰρ τὸν θεσπέσιον ἐκεῖνον τοῦ Κυρίου Ἀπόστολον· Ἡ χάρις τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡ σωτήριος πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐπεφάνη, παιδεύουσα ἡμᾶς, ἵνα, ἀρνησάμενοι τὴν ἀσέβειαν καὶ τὰς κοσμικὰς ἐπιθυμίας, σωφρόνως, καὶ δικαίως, καὶ εὐσεβῶς ζήσωμεν ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι, προσδεχόμενοι τὴν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα, καὶ ἐπιφάνειαν τῆς δόξης τοῦ μεγάλου Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ καινὸν, ἡ ἐπιφάνεια ἡ νῦν ἐκλάμψασα ἐν ἡμῖν τοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ ὄντος καὶ προόντος Λόγου· ἐπεφάνη δὲ ἔναγχος ὁ προὼν Σωτήρ· ἐπεφάνη ὁ ἐν τῷ ὄντι ὢν, ὅτι ὁ Λόγος, ὃς ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, Διδάσκαλος ἐπεφάνη, ᾧ τὰ πάντα δεδημιούργηται· Λόγος, ὁ καὶ τὸ ζῆν ἐν ἀρχῇ μετὰ τοῦ πλᾶσαι παρασχὼν, ὡς δημιουργὸς, τὸ εὖ ζῆν ἐδίδαξεν, ἐπιφανεὶς ὡς διδάσκαλος, ἵνα τὸ ἀεὶ ζῆν ὕστερον ὡς Θεὸς χορηγήσῃ. Ὁ δὲ, οὐ νῦν γε πρῶτον ᾤκτειρεν ἡμᾶς τῆς πλάνης, ἀλλ' ἄνωθεν ἀρχῆθεν· νῦν δὲ, ἤδη ἀπολλυμένους, ἐπιφανεὶς περισέσωκε· τὸ γὰρ πονηρὸν καὶ ἑρπυστικὸν θηρίον, γοητεῦον, καταδουλοῦται, καὶ αἰκίζεται εἰσέτι νῦν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους· ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, βαρβαρικῶς τιμωρούμενον, οἳ νεκροῖς τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους συνδεῖν λέγονται σώμασιν, ἔστ' ἂν αὐτοῖς
ce partake. And do not suppose my saving song to be new in the same way as a vessel or a house; for "before the morning star" it was (Ps. 109:3), and "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). Error is old, but truth appears a new thing. Whether, then, mythical goats prove the Phrygians to be ancient; or again the poets who record the Arcadians as older than the moon; or yet again the Egyptians, those who dream that this land first brought forth both gods and men: still not a single one of these existed before this world. But before the foundation of the world were we, who because we were destined to be were previously begotten in God Himself; we are the rational creatures of the Word of God, through Whom we are of old, because "in the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1). Yet because the Word was from above, He both was and is the divine beginning of all things; but because He has now taken the name hallowed of old, worthy of power, the Christ, He has been called by me a new song. This Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our being of old (for He was in God) and of our well-being; now this very Word Himself has appeared to men, He Who alone is both, God and man, the cause to us of all good things; by Whom being taught to live well, we are sent on our way to eternal life. For according to that divine Apostle of the Lord: "The saving grace of God has appeared to all men, instructing us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and righteously, and godly in this present world, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:11–13). This is the new song, the appearing that has now shone forth among us of the Word Who was in the beginning and pre-existed; and recently the pre-existing Saviour appeared; He appeared Who is in Him Who truly is, because the Word, Who was with God, appeared as Teacher, He by Whom all things have been created; the Word, Who also in the beginning gave life together with fashioning us, as Creator, taught us to live well when He appeared as Teacher, so that afterwards, as God, He might supply us with living for ever. And He did not now for the first time pity us for our error, but from above, from the beginning; and now, when we were already perishing, He has appeared and saved us; for the wicked and creeping beast, practising sorcery, enslaves and torments men even until now, taking vengeance on them, as seems to me, after the manner of barbarians, who are said to bind their captives to dead bodies, until with them
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  • running head: 61 COHORTATIO AD GE
  • marginal letters: A ριτος μεταλάμβανε.; B ἀρχὴ θεία; C Θεοῦ καὶ; D βαρβαρικῶς τιμωρούμενον
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Footnotes

(⁹) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 62 Psal. CIX, 3.

Psalm 109 (110):3.

(printed under page 36) (¹⁰) ‹anchor: in principio erat Verbum› · call in col 62 Joan. I, 1.

John 1:1.

(printed under page 36) (¹¹) ‹anchor: Salvatoris nostri, Jesu Christi› · call in col 62 Tit. II, 11-13.

Titus 2:11–13.

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(80) ‹anchor: Πρὸ ἑωσφόρου› · call in col 62

Πρὸ ἑωσφ. Respicit psalm. CIX, 3: Ἐκ γαστρὸς πρὸ ἑωσφόρου ἐγέννησά σε.

"Before the morning star." He has in mind Psalm 109 (110):3: "From the womb, before the morning star, I begot you."

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(81) ‹anchor: Τοὺς Ἀρκάδας› · call in col 62

Τοὺς Ἀρκάδας. De προσελήνοις Arcadibus vide Plutarchi Problemata Romana. H. SYLBURG. Confer etiam Lycophronis Cassandram v. 482, ibique Tzetzae, et Meursii Commentarios.

"The Arcadians." On the Arcadians "older than the moon" see Plutarch's Roman Questions. H. Sylburg. Compare also Lycophron's Cassandra, line 482, and there the commentaries of Tzetzes and Meursius.

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(82) ‹anchor: Ἀναφῦναι› · call in col 62

Ἀναφῦναι. A. ἀναφῆναι. SYLB. Utriusque lectionis exempla infra Paedag., lib. III, cap. 1, et Strom. lib. I. Ἀναφῦναι tamen neutraliter plerumque accipitur, ut ἀναφῦσαι active.

"To spring up." A. reads ἀναφῆναι. Sylburg. There are examples of both readings below, in Paedagogus III, 1, and Stromata I. Yet ἀναφῦναι is generally taken intransitively, as ἀναφῦσαι is taken actively.

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(83) ‹anchor: Οὗτος γοῦν ὁ Λόγος ὁ Χριστός› · call in col 62

Οὗτος γοῦν ὁ Λόγος ὁ Χριστὸς, καὶ τοῦ εἶναι πάλαι ἡμᾶς· ἦν γὰρ ἐν Θεῷ καὶ τοῦ εὖ εἶναι. Scribe καὶ τοῦ εἶναι πάλαι ἡμᾶς (ἦν γὰρ ἐν Θεῷ)· καὶ τοῦ εὖ εἶναι αἴτιος. Quod repraesentat ipsa quoque interpretatio. HEINS.

"This Word, then, the Christ, both of our being long ago — for he was in God — and of our well-being." Write: "both of our being long ago (for he was in God) and of our well-being the cause." The translation itself also represents this. Heinsius.

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(84) ‹anchor: ἡ ἐπιφάνεια ἡ νῦν ἐκλάμψασα› · call in col 62

Ἐπιφάνεια... ἐκλάμψασα. Locutio Sophocleae illi similis Oedip. Tyr., p. 172, edit. Steph. Ἔλαμψε γὰρ τοῦ νιφόεντος / Ἀρτίως φανεῖσα / Φάμα Παρνασσοῦ.

"The appearing … that has shone out." An expression like that of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, p. 172 of Stephanus's edition: "For there has shone, just now appearing, the word from snowy Parnassus."

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(85) ‹anchor: τὸ εὖ ζῆν› · call in col 62

Ἐν ἀρχῇ... τὸ εὖ ζῆν. Haec omittit Nov. Ea scilicet scriptor, a priori ζῆν in posterius oculum conjiciens, praeteriit. Caeterum his similia quaedam occurrunt sub finem Paedag. lib. I.

"In the beginning … living well." The New manuscript omits these words: the scribe, casting his eye from the first ζῆν to the second, passed them over. Some things like these occur near the end of Paedagogus I.

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(86) ‹anchor: τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους συνδεῖν› · call in col 62

Οἱ νεκροῖς τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους συνδεῖν. Mezentius idem facit Aen. VIII. Mortua quin etiam jungebat corpora vivis.

"Who bind their captives to corpses." Mezentius does the same in Aeneid VIII: "He even joined dead bodies to the living."

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  • running head: ORTATIO AD GENTES. 62
  • marginal letters: A mercedem, tanquam; B Ægyptios, qui; C mus causa; D apud Deum
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  • running head: 63 CLEMENTIS ALEXAN
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καὶ συσσαπῶσιν. Ὁ γοῦν πονηρὸς οὑτοσὶ τύραννος καὶ δράκων, οὓς ἂν οἷός τε εἴη ἐκ γενετῆς σφετερίσασθαι, λίθοις, καὶ ξύλοις, καὶ ἀγάλμασι, καὶ τοιούτοις τισὶν εἰδώλοις προσφίγξας τῷ δεισιδαιμονίας ἀθλίῳ δεσμῷ, τοῦτο δὴ τὸ λεγόμενον, ζῶντας ἐπιφέρων συνέθαψεν αὐτοῖς, ἔστ' ἂν καὶ συμφθαρῶσιν· οὗ δὴ χάριν (εἷς γὰρ ὁ ἀπατεὼν) ἄνωθεν μὲν τὴν Εὔαν, νῦν δὲ ἤδη καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους εἰς θάνατον ὑποφέρων· εἷς καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπίκουρος καὶ βοηθὸς ἡμῖν ὁ Κύριος, προσμηνύων ἀρχῆθεν προφητικῶς, νῦν δὲ ἤδη καὶ ἐναργῶς εἰς σωτηρίαν παρακαλῶν. Φύγωμεν οὖν, ἀποστολικῇ πειθόμενοι παραγγελίᾳ, Τὸν ἄρχοντα τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος, τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ νῦν ἐνεργοῦντος ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς ἀπειθείας· καὶ τῷ Σωτῆρι τῷ Κυρίῳ προσδράμωμεν, ὃς καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ προὔτρεπεν εἰς σωτηρίαν, διὰ τεράτων καὶ σημείων ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ ἐν ἐρήμῳ· διά τε τῆς βάτου, καὶ τῆς ἀκολουθούσης χάριτι φιλανθρωπίας. θεραπαίνης δίκην Ἑβραίοις νεφέλης. Τούτῳ μὲν δὴ τῷ φόβῳ τοὺς σκληροκαρδίους προὔτρεπεν· ἤδη δὲ καὶ διὰ Μωϋσέως τοῦ πανσόφου, καὶ τοῦ φιλαλήθους Ἠσαΐου, καὶ παντὸς τοῦ προφητικοῦ χοροῦ, λογικώτερον ἐπὶ τὸν Λόγον ἐπιστρέφει τοὺς τὰ ὦτα κεκτημένους· καὶ ἔσθ' ὅπη μὲν λοιδορεῖται· ἔστιν δ' οὗ καὶ ἀπειλεῖ· τοὺς δὲ καὶ θρηνεῖ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ᾄδει δὲ ἄλλοις, καθάπερ ἰατρὸς ἀγαθὸς, τῶν νοσούντων σωμάτων τὰ μὲν καταπλάττων, τὰ δὲ καταλεαίνων, τὰ δὲ καταντλῶν· τὰ δὲ καὶ σιδήρῳ διαιρῶν, ἐπικαίων δὲ ἄλλα, ἔστι δ' οὗ καὶ ἀποπρίων, εἴ πως οἷόν τε κἂν παρὰ μέρος ἢ μέλος τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὑγιᾶναι. Πολύφωνός γε ὁ Σωτὴρ καὶ πολύτροπος εἰς ἀνθρώπων σωτηρίαν· ἀπειλῶν νουθετεῖ· λοιδορούμενος ἐπιστρέφει· θρηνῶν ἐλεεῖ· ψάλλων παρακαλεῖ· διὰ βάτου λαλεῖ· ὅτι σημείων ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τεράτων ἔχρηζον. Καὶ τῷ πυρὶ δεδίττεται τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ἀνάπτων ἐκ κίονος τὴν φλόγα, δεῖγμα ὁμοῦ χάριτος καὶ φόβου· ἐὰν ὑπακούσῃς, τὸ φῶς· ἐὰν παρακούσῃς, τὸ πῦρ. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ κίονος καὶ βάτου ἡ σὰρξ τιμιωτέρα, προφῆται μετ' ἐκεῖνα φθέγγονται. Αὐτὸς ἐν Ἠσαΐᾳ ὁ Κύριος λαλῶν· αὐτὸς ἐν Ἠλίᾳ· ἐν στόματι προφητῶν αὐτός. Σὺ δὲ ἀλλ' εἰ προφήταις μὴ πιστεύεις, μῦθον δὲ ὑπολαμβάνεις, καὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας, καὶ τὸ πῦρ· αὐτός σοι λαλήσει ὁ Κύριος, ὃς ἐν μορφῇ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἶσα Θεῷ· ἐκένωσε δὲ ἑαυτὸν ὁ φιλοικτίρμων Θεὸς, σῶσαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον γλιχόμενος. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἤδη σοι ἐναργῶς ὁ Λόγος λαλεῖ, δυσωπῶν τὴν ἀπιστίαν· ναὶ, φημὶ, ὁ Λόγος ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἄνθρωπος γενόμενος· ἵνα δὴ καὶ σὺ παρὰ ἀνθρώπου μάθῃς, πῆ ποτε ἄρα ἄνθρωπος γένηται Θεός. Εἶτ' οὐκ ἄτοπον, ὦ φίλοι, τὸν μὲν Θεὸν ἀεὶ προτρέπειν ἡμᾶς ἐπ' ἀρετὴν, ἡμᾶς δὲ ἀναδύεσθαι τὴν ὠφέλειαν, καὶ ἀναβάλλεσθαι τὴν σωτηρίαν ; Ἢ γὰρ οὐχὶ καὶ Ἰωάννης ἐπὶ σωτηρίαν πα-
they too rot away. At all events, this wicked tyrant and dragon, having bound fast with the wretched bond of superstition to stones, and stocks, and statues, and suchlike idols whomever he has been able to appropriate from birth, has, as the saying goes, carried the living and buried them together with those dead things, until they also perish together with them; for which reason (for the deceiver is one), carrying Eve away of old, and now the rest of men also, down to death; one also is our helper and defender Himself, the Lord, foretelling from the beginning prophetically, and now also clearly calling us to salvation. Let us flee, then, obeying the apostolic precept, "the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience" (Eph. 2:2), and let us run to the Saviour the Lord, Who both now and always exhorted to salvation, through wonders and signs in Egypt and in the wilderness, both through the bush, and through the cloud that by the grace of love towards man followed the Hebrews like a handmaid. By this fear, then, He exhorted the hard-hearted; and afterwards through the all-wise Moses, and the truth-loving Isaiah, and the whole prophetic chorus, in a more rational way He turns towards the Word those who have ears; and in some places He reproaches; and in some He even threatens; and some of men He laments; and to others He sings, just as a good physician, of diseased bodies poultices some, and smooths others, and bathes others; and some He cuts with iron, and cauterizes others, and in some cases even saws off a limb, if by any means it be possible even at the cost of a part or a member to make the man whole. Many-voiced indeed is the Saviour and of many ways for the salvation of men: threatening, He admonishes; reproaching, He converts; lamenting, He pities; singing, He cheers; through a bush He speaks, because those men had need of signs and wonders. And with fire He terrifies men, kindling the flame out of a pillar, a token at once of grace and of fear: if you obey, the light; if you disobey, the fire. But since flesh is more precious than both pillar and bush, prophets utter their voice after those things: the Lord Himself speaking in Isaiah, Himself in Elijah, Himself in the mouth of the prophets. Yet if you do not believe prophets, and suppose both the men and the fire a myth, the Lord Himself will speak to you, "Who, being in the form of God, counted it not a prize to be equal with God, but emptied Himself" (Phil. 2:6–7), the compassionate God, longing to save man. And the Word Himself now speaks to you clearly, putting unbelief to shame; yea, I say, the Word of God, having become man, so that you also may learn from a man how a man may become God. Then is it not absurd, O friends, that God is ever exhorting us to virtue, while we shrink back from the benefit, and put off salvation? For does not John also to salvation ex-
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Footnotes

(¹²) ‹anchor: in filios diffidentiae› · call in col 64 Ephes. II, 2.

Ephesians 2:2.

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(87) ‹anchor: Αὐτοῖς› · call in col 64

Αὐτοῖς. Αὐτοὺς Nov.

"To them." The New manuscript has the accusative αὐτούς.

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(88) ‹anchor: Οὗ δὴ χάριν› · call in col 64

Οὗ δὴ χ. Haec sic distingue: οὗ δὴ χάριν (εἷς γὰρ ὁ ἀπατεών) ἄνωθεν, etc., quod in Latina versione expressimus.

"For which reason …" Punctuate thus: "for which reason (for the deceiver is one) from above," etc., as we have rendered it in the Latin version.

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(89) ‹anchor: Προσμηνύων› · call in col 64

Προσμηνύων. Προμηνύων Nov.

"Announcing besides." The New manuscript has προμηνύων ("announcing beforehand").

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  • running head: ENTIS ALEXANDRINI 64
  • marginal letters: A καὶ συσσαπῶσιν.; B ὃς καὶ; C τε κἂν; D Θεῷ· ἐκένωσε
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ρακαλεῖ, καὶ τὸ πᾶν γίνεται φωνὴ προτρεπτική ; Πυθώμεθα τοίνυν αὐτοῦ, Τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν; Ἠλίας μὲν οὐκ ἐρεῖ, Χριστὸς δὲ εἶναι ἀρνήσεται· φωνὴ δὲ ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐρήμῳ βοῶσα. Τίς οὖν ἐστιν Ιωάννης ; ὡς τύπῳ λαβεῖν, ἐξέστω εἰπεῖν, φωνὴ τοῦ Λόγου προτρεπτικὴ, ἐν ἐρήμῳ βοῶσα. Τί βοᾷς, ὦ φωνή ; Εἰπὲ καὶ ἡμῖν. Εὐθείας ποιεῖτε τὰς ὁδοὺς Κυρίου. Πρόδρομος Ἰωάννης, καὶ ἡ φωνὴ πρόδρομος τοῦ Λόγου, φωνὴ παρακλητικὴ, προετοιμάζουσα εἰς σωτηρίαν, φωνὴ προτρέπουσα εἰς κληρονομίαν οὐρανῶν· δι' ἣν ἡ στείρα καὶ ἔρημος, ἄγονος οὐκέτι. Ταύτην μοι τὴν κυοφορίαν προεθέσπισεν ἀγγέλου φωνή· πρόδρομος ἦν κἀκείνη τοῦ Κυρίου, στείραν εὐαγγελιζομένη γυναῖκα, ὡς Ἰωάννης τὴν ἔρημον. Διὰ ταύτην τοίνυν τοῦ Λόγου τὴν φωνὴν ἡ στείρα εὐτεκνεῖ, καὶ ἡ ἔρημος καρποφορεῖ. Αἱ πρόδρομοι τοῦ Κυρίου φωναὶ δύο, ἀγγέλου καὶ Ἰωάννου, αἰνίττονταί μοι τὴν ἐναποκειμένην σωτηρίαν, ὡς, ἐπιφανέντος τοῦ Λόγου τοῦδε, εὐτεκνίας ἡμᾶς καρπὸν ἀπενέγκασθαι, ζωὴν ἀΐδιον. Ἄμφω γοῦν ἐς ταὐτὸν ἀγαγοῦσα τὰ φωνὰ ἡ Γραφὴ, σαφηνίζει τὸ πᾶν· Ἀκουσάτω ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα· ῥηξάτω φωνὴν ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα· ὅτι πλείονα τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα. Ἄνδρα ἡμῖν εὐηγγελίζετο ἄγγελος· ἡμᾶς προὔτρεπεν Ἰωάννης νοῆσαι τὸν γεωργὸν, ζητῆσαι τὸν ἄνδρα. Εἷς γὰρ καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς οὗτος ὁ τῆς στείρας ἀνὴρ, ὁ τῆς ἐρήμου γεωργὸς, ὁ τῆς θείας ἐμπλήσας δυνάμεως καὶ τὴν στείραν, καὶ τὴν ἔρημον. Ἐπεὶ γὰρ πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς εὐγενοῦς, ἄπαις δὲ ἦν δι' ἀπείθειαν, ἡ πολύπαις ἀνέκαθεν Ἑβραία γυνή· ἡ στείρα τὸν ἄνδρα λαμβάνει, καὶ ἡ ἔρημος τὸν γεωργόν· εἶτα ἡ μὲν καρπῶν, ἡ δὲ πιστῶν· ἄμφω δὲ μητέρες, διὰ τὸν Λόγον. Ἀπίστοις δὲ εἰσέτι νῦν καὶ στείρα καὶ ἔρημος περιλείπεται. Ὁ μὲν Ἰωάννης, ὁ κήρυξ τοῦ Λόγου, ταύτῃ πη παρεκάλει, ἑτοίμους γίνεσθαι εἰς Θεοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίαν· καὶ τοῦτο ἦν, ὃ ἠνίττετο ἡ Ζαχαρίου σιωπὴ, ἀναμένουσα τὸν πρόδρομον τοῦ Χριστοῦ καρπὸν, ἵνα τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ φῶς, ὁ Λόγος τῶν προφητικῶν αἰνιγμάτων τὴν μυστικὴν ἀπολύσηται σιωπὴν, Εὐαγγέλιον γενόμενος. Σὺ δὲ εἰ ποθεῖς ἰδεῖν ὡς ἀληθῶς τὸν Θεὸν, καθαρσίων μεταλάμβανε θεοπρεπῶν· οὐ δάφνης πετάλων, καὶ ταινιῶν τινων, ἐρίῳ καὶ πορφύρᾳ πεποικιλμένων· δικαιοσύνην
hort, and become wholly an exhorting voice? Let us then inquire of him, "Who and whence are you among men?" He will not say Elijah, and he will deny that he is Christ; but he will confess that he is "a voice crying in the wilderness" (John 1:20–23). Who then is John? To take it in outline, let us be permitted to say, an exhorting voice of the Word, crying in the wilderness. What do you cry, O voice? Tell us also. "Make straight the ways of the Lord" (Isa. 40:3; Matt. 3:3). John is a forerunner, and the voice is a forerunner of the Word, an inviting voice, preparing beforehand for salvation, a voice exhorting to the inheritance of heaven; through which the barren and desolate is childless no longer. This conception the voice of an angel foretold to me; that voice too was a forerunner of the Lord, bringing good tidings to a barren woman, as John did to the wilderness. Because of this voice of the Word, therefore, the barren bears fair children, and the wilderness bears fruit. The two forerunner voices of the Lord, of the angel and of John, hint to me at the salvation laid up in store, that upon the appearing of this Word we should carry off the fruit of fair childbearing, eternal life. At all events, Scripture makes the whole matter clear by bringing both voices together to the same point: "Let her hear who bears not; let her break forth into a voice who travails not; for more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband" (Isa. 54:1; Gal. 4:27). An angel brought us good tidings of a husband; John exhorted us to know the husbandman, to seek the husband. For one and the same is this husband of the barren woman and husbandman of the wilderness, He Who filled both the barren woman and the wilderness with divine power. For since many were the children of the noble woman, yet the Hebrew woman, who of old had many children, was childless through disobedience, the barren receives her husband, and the wilderness its husbandman; then the one becomes a mother of fruits, the other of the faithful; and both are mothers through the Word. But to the unbelieving both barrenness and wilderness still remain even now. John, then, the herald of the Word, in this way called upon men to become ready for the coming of God the Christ; and this was what the silence of Zacharias hinted at, waiting for the fruit that was the forerunner of Christ, so that the light of truth, the Word, might loose the mystic silence of the prophetic riddles, having become Good Tidings. And if you long to see God truly, partake of purifications worthy of God; not of laurel leaves, and certain fillets variegated with wool and purple; but righteousness
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(¹³) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 66 Philip. II, 6, 7.

Philippians 2:6–7.

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John 1:23.

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Isaiah 40:3.

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Isaiah 54:1.

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Τὸ πᾶν γίνεται φωνή. Joannis dictum respicit, qui interrogatus quis esset, nil aliud respondit, quam se esse φωνὴν βοῶντος ἐν ἐρήμῳ. Joan. I, 23.

"He becomes wholly a voice." He has in mind the saying of John, who, asked who he was, answered nothing else than that he was "the voice of one crying in the wilderness". John 1:23.

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Τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν. Interpungendum quemadmodum apud Homerum, cujus ex Odyss. T, v. 105, Clemens hoc hemistichium sumpsit: Τίς; πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν; πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες; / Quis? undenam es virorum? ubi tibi civitas, et parentes?

"Who, whence among men are you?" To be punctuated as in Homer, from whose Odyssey XIX (Τ), line 105, Clement took this half-line: "Who? Whence among men are you? Where is your city, and your parents?"

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Ὁμολογήσει. Ὁμολογήσῃ Nov. Mox τί οὖν, pro τίς οὖν.

"Will confess." The New manuscript has the subjunctive ὁμολογήσῃ. Shortly after, τί οὖν ("what then?") for τίς οὖν ("who then?").

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Τῆς στείρας. Locus ille de sterili et deserta tractatur infra Strom. lib. II, pag. 372. Et a Justino M., Apol. I, pag. 101, 102, edit. Oxon.

"Of the barren woman." That passage on the barren woman and the desert is treated below, Stromata II, p. 372; and by Justin Martyr, Apology I, pp. 101–102 of the Oxford edition.

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Ἑτοίμους. Respicit Joannis praeconium, Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν Κυρίου, Matthaei III, 3.

"Ready." He has in mind John's proclamation, "Prepare the way of the Lord", Matthew 3:3.

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Δάφνης πετάλων. Mos erat sacra facturos, antequam in templa deorum ingrederentur, lauri ramo sacra aqua intincto aspergere; qui erat lustrandi ritus. Juvenalis, Sat. II, v. 157: ... Cuperent lustrari, si qua darentur / Sulphura cum taedis, et si foret humida laurus. Sozomenus, Eccles. hist., lib. VI, cap. 6, de Valentiniano Julianum sequente agens, Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔμελλον, inquit, ὑπεραμείβειν τοῦ ναοῦ τὸν οὐδὸν, θαλλούς τινας διαβρόχους κατέχων ὁ ἱερεὺς νόμῳ Ἑλληνικῷ, περιέῤῥαινε τοὺς εἰσιόντας. Cumque limen templi transgressurus esset, sacerdos ramos quosdam aqua tinctos manu gestans Graecorum more, ingredientes conspersit.

"Not of laurel leaves." It was the custom for those about to sacrifice, before entering the temples of the gods, to sprinkle themselves with a laurel branch dipped in holy water; this was the rite of purification. Juvenal, Satire II, line 157: "… they would long to be purified, if sulphur and torches were to be had, and a dripping laurel." Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History VI, 6, treating of Valentinian when he followed Julian: "When they were about to cross the threshold of the temple," he says, "the priest, holding certain wet branches according to the Greek custom, sprinkled those entering."

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Ταινιῶν τινων, ἐρίῳ καὶ πορφύρᾳ πεπ. Qui diis supplicabant, vittas gestabant. Virgil. Aeneid. VII, 237: Praeferimus manibus vittas, et verba precantum.

"Of certain fillets, embroidered with wool and purple." Those who made supplication to the gods wore fillets. Virgil, Aeneid VII, 237: "We bear fillets before us in our hands, and the words of suppliants."

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CAPUT II.

CHAPTER II.

Absurditatem simul ac impietatem mysteriorum ethnicorum et fabularum de deorum suorum ortu et interitu ostendit.

He shows the absurdity and at the same time the impiety of the heathen mysteries, and of the fables about the birth and death of their gods.

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δὲ ἀναδησάμενος, καὶ τῆς ἐγκρατείας τὰ πέταλα περιθέμενος, πολυπραγμόνει Χριστόν. Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι ἡ θύρα, φησί που ἣν ἐκμαθεῖν δεῖ νοῆσαι θελήμασι τὸν Θεὸν, ὅπως ἡμῖν ἀθρόας τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀναπετάσῃ πύλας· λογικαὶ γὰρ αι τοῦ Λόγου πύλαι πίστεως ἀνοιγνύμεναι κλειδί. Θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἔγνω, εἰ μὴ ὁ Υἱὸς, καὶ ᾧ ἂν ὁ Υἱὸς ἀποκαλύψῃ. Θύραν δὲ εὖ οἶδ' ὅτι τὴν ἀποκεκλεισμένην τέως ὁ ἀνοιγνὺς, ὕστερον ἀποκαλύπτει τἄνδον, καὶ δείκνυσιν ἃ μήτε γνῶναι οἷόν τε ἦν πρότερον, εἰ μὴ διὰ Χριστοῦ πεπορευμένοις, δι' οὗ μόνου Θεὸς ἐποπτεύεται.
having bound upon yourself, and having put around yourself the leaves of self-control, seek earnestly after Christ. "For I am the door" (John 10:9), He says somewhere; which those who wish to understand God must learn, so that He may throw open for us all at once the gates of heaven; for rational are the gates of the Word, opened by the key of faith. "No one knew God, save the Son, and he to whom the Son shall reveal Him" (Matt. 11:27). And I know well that He Who opens the door that was hitherto shut, afterwards reveals the things within, and shows what it was not even possible to know before, save to those who have journeyed through Christ, through Whom alone God is beheld.
Ἄδυτα τοίνυν ἄθεα μὴ πολυπραγμονεῖτε, οὐδὲ βαράθρων στόματα, τερατείας ἔμπλεα, ἢ λέβητα Θεσπρωταῖον, ἢ τρίποδα Κιῤῥαῖον, ἢ Δωδωναῖον χαλκεῖον· γεράνδρυον δὲ ψάμμοις
Do not therefore curiously pry into godless shrines, nor mouths of chasms full of jugglery, or the Thesprotian cauldron, or the Cirrhaean tripod, or the Dodonaean bronze; and the old oak in sands
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(¹⁷) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 68 Joan. X, 9.

John 10:9.

(printed under page 39) (¹⁸) ‹anchor: scripture reference, full-width line› · call in col 68 Matth. XI, 27.

Matthew 11:27.

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(97) ‹anchor: Θελήμασι› · call in col 68

Θελήμασι. Θελήσασι C; at A, θελήσουσι. In qua lectione si quem offendit δεῖ cum dativo personae, sciat ille infra quoque in Strom. I similiter legi Οὐδὲ ἀντιμισθίας ἐφίεσθαι χρὴ τῷ εἰς ἄνδρας ἐγγραφομένῳ. A., SYLBURG. Θελήσασι habet Νov. quod a Clemente positum fuisse, est proinde verisimile.

"By the wills." C has θελήσασι ("to those who have willed"); but A, θελήσουσι ("to those who will will"). If anyone is troubled in this reading by δεῖ with a dative of the person, let him know that below, in Stromata I, we likewise read: "nor must he who is enrolled among men seek a reward in return." A., Sylburg. The New manuscript has θελήσασι, which is therefore likely to be what Clement wrote.

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(98) ‹anchor: Ἄδυτα τοίνυν› · call in col 68

Ἄδυτα τοίνυν. Locus hic de non consulendis oraculis recitatur ab Eusebio De praep. evang. lib. II, p. 61, ed. Par., ubi haec ei praefatio est praemissa: Ταῦτα δὲ Κλήμης ὁ θαυμάσιος ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ἕλληνας Προτρεπτικῷ διαῤῥήδην ἐκκαλύπτει, πάντων μὲν διὰ πείρας ἐλθὼν ἀνὴρ, θᾶττόν γε μὴν τῆς πλάνης ἀνανεύσας, ὡς ἂν πρὸς τοῦ σωτηρίου λόγου, καὶ διὰ τῆς εὐαγγελικῆς διδασκαλίας τῶν κακῶν λελυτρωμένος. Atque horum turpitudinem admirabilis ille Clemens, ea, quam ad Graecos dirigit, Cohortatione, nudam omniumque spectandam oculis proponit: quippe qui cum omnes illorum caeremonias sua ipsius experientia cognoverit, tum celerrime ab infami errore caput extulerit, verbi salutaris et evangelicae doctrinae vi ex tot tantorumque malorum contagione liberatus. Dein Clementis verbis, quasi tituli loco, praeponit ea quae sequuntur: Ἐπιτομὴ τῶν ἀποῤῥήτων τελετῶν, καὶ κρυφίων μυστηρίων τῆς πολυθέου πλάνης.

"The shrines, then." This passage on not consulting oracles is quoted by Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel II, p. 61 of the Paris edition, where he prefaces it thus: "These things the admirable Clement openly unveils in his Exhortation to the Greeks, a man who had gone through them all by experience, but who quickly looked up out of the error, as one ransomed from evils by the saving Word and through the teaching of the Gospel." (The Latin repeats this: the admirable Clement, in his Exhortation addressed to the Greeks, sets out their shamefulness naked for all eyes to see, since he had known all their ceremonies by his own experience, and very swiftly raised his head out of that infamous error, freed by the power of the saving Word and of the Gospel teaching from the contagion of so many great evils.) Then, before Clement's words, he places by way of a title the following: "Summary of the secret rites and hidden mysteries of polytheist error."

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Οὐδέ. Μηδέ Nov. Euseb. et ms. Eusebii codex in Collegio D. Joannis Baptistae Oxon. asservatus.

"Nor." The New manuscript, Eusebius, and the manuscript of Eusebius kept in St John Baptist's College, Oxford, have μηδέ.

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Βαράθρων στόματα. Sic vocat oracula quae ex antris et speluncis proferebantur. De specu oraculi Delphici vid. Archaeologiae nostrae lib. II, quae de caeteris etiam oraculis et vaticinandi artibus paulo infra memoratis a Clemente consuli potest.

"Mouths of chasms." So he calls the oracles uttered from caves and grottoes. On the cave of the Delphic oracle see book II of our Archaeologia, which may also be consulted on the other oracles and arts of divination that Clement mentions a little below.

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Λέβητα Θεσπρωταῖον. Θεσπρώτειον Euseb., Joan., ubi tamen Mont. leg. Θεσπρώτιον· quod etiam in Nov. occurrit. Quae omnia probari posse observavit Vigerus, qui notas in illum Eusebii librum scripsit.

"The Thesprotian cauldron." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has Θεσπρώτειον; there, however, the Montacutian manuscript reads Θεσπρώτιον, which also occurs in the New manuscript. Viger, who wrote notes on that book of Eusebius, observed that all these forms can be defended.

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Τρίποδα Κιῤῥαῖον. Modo a Graecis Κύῤῥαν scriptum reperias, modo Κίῤῥαν. Cirrham saepius Latini dixere. Plinius lib. IV, cap. 3: Ultra, inquit, Cirrhaei Phocidis campi, oppidum Cirrha. VIGERUS.

"The Cirrhaean tripod." You find it written by the Greeks sometimes Kyrrha, sometimes Kirrha. The Latins more often said Cirrha. Pliny, IV, 3: "Beyond," he says, "the Cirrhaean plains of Phocis, the town of Cirrha." Viger.

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Γεράνδρυον. Perperam ante apud Eusebium legebatur γεράνδρειον. Nos reposuimus γεράνδρυον ex Clemente. Nec dubium videtur, quin Libycum illud, ac Dodonae prope Ammonis oraculum intelligat. Sed mirum est, apud scriptores omnes de quercu illa, vel alia quavis arbore pervetusta, quod γεράνδρυον hic nominat, silentium. Arrianus quidem, et Curtius lib. IV, qui omnium uberrime oraculi situmque, solumque describunt, opacissimum ei nemus circumfundunt, nullam tamen alias inter arborem signant, aut vetustate aut cultu eximiam. Plinius autem lib. XII, cap. XLIX, 23, ubi de Hammoniaci sive Ammoniaci lacryma loquitur, ita scribit: Aethiopiae subjecta Africa, inquit, Hammoniaci lacrymam stillat in arenis suis (unde nomen etiam Hammonis oraculo, juxta quod gignitur arbor; quam Metopion vocant), resinae modo, aut gummi. Verum, opinor, genus arboris innuit, non singularem aliquam indicat, nec ullam aut vetustatis aut cultus notam adjungit. Theodoretus lib. X De Graec. affect. qui totus de oraculis est, inter caetera, καὶ τὴν ἱερὰν δρῦν commemorat, continuoque subdit, καὶ τὸ Δωδωναῖον χαλκεῖον. An ἱερὰ δρῦς nostrum hoc γεράνδρυον est? VIGER. Ita esse inde probabile videtur, quia Clemens paulo post simul memorat Ammonis et Dodonaei Jovis oracula. Verum integrum hunc Theodoreti locum, quia Clementi lucem aliquam allaturus videtur, et ex eo forte (continues)

"The ancient oak." Formerly the text of Eusebius wrongly read γεράνδρειον; we have restored γεράνδρυον from Clement. There seems no doubt that he means that Libyan oracle of Ammon, and the one near Dodona. But it is strange that all writers are silent about that oak, or any other very ancient tree, which he here calls γεράνδρυον. Arrian, indeed, and Curtius in Book IV, who describe the oracle's site and soil most fully of all, surround it with a very shady grove, yet mark out no tree among the others as outstanding for age or veneration. Pliny, Book XII, ch. 49 (23), speaking of the tear of Hammoniacum or Ammoniacum, writes thus: "Africa, lying below Ethiopia," he says, "drips in its sands the tear of Hammoniacum (whence too the name of the oracle of Hammon, near which the tree grows, which they call Metopion), like a resin or gum." But, I think, he indicates a kind of tree, not some single tree, and adds no mark of age or veneration. Theodoret, in Book X of On the Cure of Greek Maladies, which is wholly about oracles, mentions among other things "the sacred oak", and adds at once "and the Dodonaean bronze". Is the "sacred oak" our γεράνδρυον? Viger. That it is seems probable from the fact that Clement shortly after mentions together the oracles of Ammon and of Dodonaean Jupiter. But this whole passage of Theodoret, since it seems likely to throw some light on Clement, and perhaps from him … (continues)

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ἐρήμαις τετιμημένον, καὶ τὸ αὐτόθι μαντεῖον, αὐτῇ δρυῒ μεμαρασμένον, μύθοις γεγηρακόσι καταλείψατε. Σεσίγηται γοῦν ἡ Κασταλίας πηγὴ, καὶ ἡ Κολοφῶνος ἄλλη πηγὴ, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὁμοίως τέθνηκε νάματα μαντικά· καὶ δὴ τοῦ τύφου κενὰ ὀψὲ μὲν, ὅμως δ' οὖν διελήλεγκται τοῖς ἰδίοις συνεκρεύσαντα μύθοις. Διήγησαι ἡμῖν καὶ τῆς ἄλλης μαντικῆς, μᾶλλον δὲ μανικῆς, τὰ ἄχρηστα χρηστήρια· τὸν Κλάριον, τὸν Πύθιον, τὸν Διδυμέα, τὸν Ἀμφιάρεω, τὸν Ἀπόλλω, τὸν Ἀμφίλοχον· εἰ δὲ βούλει, καὶ τερατοσκόπους, καὶ οἰωνοσκόπους, καὶ τοὺς ὀνείρων κριτὰς ἀνιέρου σὺν αὐτοῖς· στῆσον δὲ ὁμοῦ παρὰ τὸν Πύθιον τοὺς ἀλευρομάντεις ἄγων καὶ κριθομάντεις, καὶ τοὺς εἰσέτι παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς τετιμημένους ἐγγαστριμύθους· καὶ μὴν ἄδυτα Αἰγυπτίων, καὶ Τυῤῥηνῶν νεκυομαντεῖαι σκότῳ παραδιδόσθων. Μανικὰ ταῦτα, ὡς ἀληθῶς, ἀνθρώπων ἀπίστων σοφιστήρια· συνέμποροι τῆσδε τῆς γοητείας αἶγες, αἱ ἐπὶ μαντικὴν ἠσκημέναι, καὶ κόρακες, ἀνθρώποις χρᾷν ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπων διδασκόμενοι. Τί δ' εἰ σοι καταλέγοιμι τὰ μυστήρια ; οὐκ ἐξορχήσομαι μὲν, ὥσπερ Ἀλκιβιάδην λέγουσιν, ἀπογυμνώσω δὲ εὖ μάλα ἀνὰ τὸν τῆς ἀληθείας λόγον, τὴν γοητείαν τὴν ἐγκεκρυμμένην αὐτοῖς, καὶ αὐ-
deserted honoured, and the oracle there, withered away with the oak itself, leave to aged myths. Silent, at all events, is the spring of Castalia, and the other spring of Colophon, and the other prophetic streams have likewise died; and indeed, stripped of their vanity, late though it be, yet they have been thoroughly convicted, having flowed away together with their own myths. Recount to us also the useless oracles of the other divination, or rather madness: the Clarian, the Pythian, the Didymaean, Amphiaraus, Apollo, Amphilochus; and if you will, dedicate along with them both prodigy-seers, and bird-augurs, and the interpreters of dreams; and bring and set together beside the Pythian the meal-diviners and barley-diviners, and the ventriloquists still honoured among the multitude; yea, and let the shrines of the Egyptians and the necromancies of the Tyrrhenians be delivered over to darkness. Mad sophisteries of unbelieving men, in very truth, are these, and fellow-traffickers in this sorcery are goats trained for divination, and ravens taught by men to give oracles to men. And what if I should recount the mysteries to you? I will not dance them out, as they say Alcibiades did, but right well according to the word of truth I will strip bare the sorcery hidden in them, and the
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Καὶ ἡ Κ. EUSEB., JOAN.

"And the K(astalian spring)." So Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript.

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Νάμ. μαντικά. Τὰ μαντ. νάματα, EUS., JOAN.

"Prophetic streams." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript: "the prophetic streams" (with the article and the words reversed).

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Χρηστήρια. Μυστήρια, JOAN. Porro cum ea Clemens enumerasset oracula, quae per res inanimas, velut instrumenta, sc. tripodem, lebetem, fontem, etc., futura praedicebant; jam pergit ad ἄλλην, ut vocat, μαντικήν, qua daemones ipsis hominibus futurorum scientiam afflatu suo indebant; mox ad tertiam μαντικῆς speciem transiturus, qua ipsi homines ex avium volatu, prodigiis, aliisve rebus futura conjectabant.

"Oracles." The St John's manuscript has μυστήρια ("mysteries"). Further: Clement, having listed the oracles that foretold the future through lifeless things as instruments, namely the tripod, the cauldron, the spring, etc., now passes to "another divination", as he calls it, by which demons put knowledge of the future into men themselves by their inspiration; and he will shortly pass to a third kind of divination, by which men themselves guessed the future from the flight of birds, from portents or from other things.

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Διδυμέα. Fed. Morello, professori regio, doctissimo viro legendum videtur Δωδωνέα, ex Cicerone lib. I De divinat., Arnob., lib. VI et aliis. COLLECT. Verum nulla est causa, ob quam recepta lectio mutari debeat. Non enim de oraculo Dodonaeo loquitur, quod supra memoravit; sed de Apollinis oraculis. Is autem non solum dicitur Διδυμαῖος, ut in Theodoreti verbis ante citatis, sed etiam Διδυμεύς. Vid. Stephanus De urb.

"Didymean." To Fed. Morel, the king's professor, a most learned man, it seems one should read Δωδωνέα ("Dodonaean"), from Cicero, On Divination I, Arnobius VI, and others. Collect. But there is no reason why the received reading should be changed. For he is not speaking of the oracle of Dodona, which he mentioned above, but of Apollo's oracles. And Apollo is called not only Didymaios, as in the words of Theodoret quoted above, but also Didymeus. See Stephanus, On Cities.

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Ἀμφιάρεω. Ἀμφιάρεων. EUSEB.

"Of Amphiaraus." Eusebius has Ἀμφιάρεων.

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Τὸν Ἀπόλλω. Forte glossema est. Quorsum enim post Clarium, Pythium, Didymea, quae omnia sunt Apollinis cognomenta, ejusdem Apollinis nominatim meminisse? VIGER.

"Apollo." Perhaps a gloss. For why mention Apollo by name after the Clarian, the Pythian and the Didymean, which are all Apollo's surnames? Viger.

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Καὶ τερατοσκόπους. Καί omittit Joan., τεροσκόπους Nov.

"And readers of portents." The St John's manuscript omits καί; the New manuscript has τεροσκόπους [sic].

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Κριτὰς ἀνιέρου. Κριτὰς τοὺς ἀνιέρους legunt Euseb., Joan. Verum recepta Clementis lectio significantior et gravior est. VIGER.

"Judges of the unholy …" Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, reads "the unholy judges". But Clement's received reading is more expressive and weightier. Viger.

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Τυῤῥηνῶν νεκυομαντεῖαι. Haec in Odyssea late describuntur, quo loco Ulysses ad inferos descendit. Vid. Archaeologiae nostrae lib. II.

"The necromancies of the Etruscans." These are described at length in the Odyssey, where Ulysses goes down to the underworld. See book II of our Archaeologia.

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Σκότῳ παραδιδόσθων. Σκότει παραδεδόσθων Euseb., Joan.

"Let them be handed over to darkness." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has σκότει παραδεδόσθων (the perfect).

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Σοφιστήρια. Subjungitur in ms. Nov. Euseb. et Joan. haec sententiola, καὶ πλάνης ἀκράτου κυβευτήρια, et comparatae ad purum putumque fraudem quasi aleae officinae. Quae quidem, ut Vigero non immerito videtur, plane est Clementis ex genio, et fortasse propter ὁμοιοτέλευτον excidit. Quamvis nec impressae Clementis editiones, nec Eusebii Montac. codex agnoscant.

"Schools of sophistry." The New manuscript, Eusebius, and the St John's manuscript add this little phrase: "and gaming-houses of undiluted error", that is, as it were dicing-shops set up for sheer fraud. As Viger rightly thinks, this is entirely in Clement's manner and perhaps dropped out because of the like ending. Neither the printed editions of Clement nor Eusebius's Montacutian manuscript have it, however.

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Αἱ. Omittunt Euseb., Joan.

"The." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, omits the article.

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Ἐξορχήσομαι. Ea voce Clemens alias usus est; ut Paedag. lib. III, cap. 3, pag. 225: Τῆς φύσεως τὰ ἀπόῤῥητα εἰς τὸ συμφανὲς ἀπογυμνοῦντας, ἐξορχουμένους, naturae arcana palam denudantes, prodentes; et Strom. I, pag. 279: Μέγας ὁ κίνδυνος τὸν ἀπόῤῥητον ὡς ἀληθῶς τῆς ὄντως φιλοσοφίας λόγον ἐξορχήσασθαι. Magnum est periculum vere arcanam verae philosophiae rationem propalare. Tatianus, perinde ac Clemens, ait quemdam ἐξορχήσασθαι μυστήρια, mysteria propalasse, pag. 95, edit. Oxon. Est itaque ἐξορχήσασθαι, temere, quae tacenda fuerant, enuntiare, atque sic ea ridenda proponere; sumpta ab illis metaphora, qui extra templi vestibulum sacras choreas celebrabant. Hesychius, Ἐξορχήσομαι, χλευάζω, ὑβρίζω: ubi scribendum, mutato tempore, χλευάσω, ὑβρίσω. Suidas, Ἐξωρχησάμην· Πρὸς ὃν ἐξωρχησάμην τὰ τέως ἀνέκπυστα, ἐξεφαύλισα, κατέπαιξα. Καὶ αὖθις· Ὁ δὲ μεθυσθεὶς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ Πουλτίωνος τοῦ παρασίτου τὰ μυστήρια ἐξωρχήσατο· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐξεμυκτήρισεν, ἔκπυστα ἐποίησεν. Ad quem locum adnotavit Kusterus, fragmentum id intelligendum esse de Alcibiade, qui in domo Pultionis, vel potius Polytionis, mysteria Cereris enuntiasse et derisisse legitur. Vide Andociden De mysteriis, pag. 2, et Plutarchum in Alcibiade, pag. 200. Mox pro ἀνὰ τὸν τῆς ἀληθείας λόγον, Lowthius legere maluit μὰ τόν, etc.

"I will dance out (the secrets)." Clement uses this word elsewhere: Paedagogus III, 3, p. 225, "laying bare the secrets of nature openly, dancing them out", that is, exposing, betraying them; and Stromata I, p. 279: "Great is the danger of dancing out the truly secret word of the true philosophy," that is, of divulging it. Tatian, like Clement, says that someone "danced out the mysteries", that is, divulged them (p. 95, Oxford edition). So ἐξορχήσασθαι is rashly to utter what should have been kept silent, and so expose it to ridicule; the metaphor is taken from those who performed the sacred dances outside the temple porch. Hesychius: "I will dance out: I mock, I insult", where the tense should be changed to "I will mock, I will insult". Suidas: "I danced out: to whom I divulged things hitherto unknown, belittled them, made sport of them. And again: Having got drunk in the house of Pultion the parasite, he danced out the mysteries; that is, he jeered at them, made them public." On that passage Küster noted that the fragment is to be understood of Alcibiades, who is said to have divulged and mocked the mysteries of Ceres in the house of Pultion, or rather Polytion. See Andocides, On the Mysteries, p. 2, and Plutarch, Alcibiades, p. 200. Shortly after, for "according to the word of truth", Lowth preferred to read "by the (word)", etc.

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(18) Ἐγκυκλήσω. Ἐγκεκλήσθω. Euseb., Joan. Scribendum videtur ἐκκυκλήσω, id est evolvam, explicabo. Qua voce Clemens usus est Strom. vii, p. 752: Οὐ γὰρ ἐκκυκλεῖν χρὴ τὸ μυστήριον, non enim evolvendum est mysterium. Solet etiam apud alios auctores ἐγκυκλεῖν pro ἐκκυκλεῖν poni, scriptorum, ut videtur, negligentia, Hesychius et Suidas ἐκκυκλεῖν expl. ἐκκαλύπτειν. Est autem vox scenica, significans in medium proferre, translatione ducta a machina theatrali, cujus versatione res oculis spectatorum exhibebantur. Inde ἐκκύκλημα, vel ἐγκύκλημα, ut a nonnullis scribitur, μηχάνημα ξύλινον τροχοὺς ἔχον, ὅπερ περιστρεφόμενον τὰ δοκοῦντα ἔνδον ὡς οἰκίᾳ πράττεσθαι, καὶ τοῖς θεαταῖς ἐδείκνυεν· machina lignea rotas habens, quae conversa ea, quae intus ut in aedibus geri videbantur, spectatoribus ostendebat; ut ait Scholiastes in Aristophanis Acharn. p. 392, et ex eo Suidas v. Ἐγκυκληθῆναι. Quo loco καὶ delendum post πράττεσθαι. Conf. etiam Pollux lib. iv, et Casaubonus in Athenaei lib. viii, cap. 15.

(18) Ἐγκυκλήσω. Eusebius and Joannes have Ἐγκεκλήσθω. It seems one should write ἐκκυκλήσω, that is, 'I will unroll, I will lay open'. Clement used this word in Stromata VII, p. 752: 'For one must not roll out the mystery', for the mystery is not to be unrolled. In other authors too ἐγκυκλεῖν is commonly put for ἐκκυκλεῖν, through the carelessness, it seems, of copyists; Hesychius and Suidas explain ἐκκυκλεῖν as ἐκκαλύπτειν. It is, moreover, a term of the stage, meaning 'to bring forth into view', by a metaphor drawn from the theatrical machine by whose turning things were displayed to the eyes of the spectators. Hence ἐκκύκλημα, or ἐγκύκλημα as some write it, 'a wooden machine with wheels, which, being turned about, showed to the spectators the things that seemed to be done within, as in a house': a wooden machine having wheels which, when turned, showed the spectators what seemed to be going on inside, as in a house; so says the scholiast on Aristophanes, Acharnians, p. 392, and Suidas from him, s.v. Ἐγκυκληθῆναι. In which passage καὶ should be deleted after πράττεσθαι. Compare also Pollux, book IV, and Casaubon on Athenaeus, book VIII, ch. 15.

(19) Μαινόλην. Μανώμην Nov. mendose. Mox Βάχχοις pro Βάκχοι. Euseb., Joan.

(19) Μαινόλην. Nov. has Μανώμην, wrongly. Next, Βάχχοις for Βάκχοι: Eusebius, Joannes.

(20) Ὠμοφαγίᾳ. In festis Bacchi insanientium more crudas carnes devorabant. Hinc Bacchus Ὠμοφάγος et Ὠμηστής, de quibus nominibus vid. Archaeologia nostra lib. ii, ubi de Bacchi festis agitur. Julius Firmicus de Bacchi festis agens: Cretenses, inquit, ut furentis tyranni saevitiam mitigarent, festos funeris (sc. Bacchi a Titanibus discerpti) dies statuunt, et annum sacrum trieterica consecratione componunt, omnia per ordinem facientes, quae puer (Bacchus) moriens aut fecit, aut passus est: vivum laniant dentibus taurum, crudeles epulas annuis commemorationibus excitantes, etc.

(20) Ὠμοφαγίᾳ. At the feasts of Bacchus they devoured raw flesh after the manner of madmen. Hence Bacchus is called Ὠμοφάγος and Ὠμηστής ('Eater of raw flesh'), on which names see our Archaeologia, book II, where the feasts of Bacchus are treated. Julius Firmicus, dealing with the feasts of Bacchus, says: 'The Cretans, in order to appease the cruelty of the raging tyrant, appoint festal days of the funeral (namely of Bacchus torn in pieces by the Titans), and make up a sacred year with a triennial consecration, doing in order all the things which the boy (Bacchus) either did or suffered in dying: they tear a live bull with their teeth, reviving cruel banquets in yearly commemorations', etc.

(21) Ἄγοντες. Ἀγόντων scripsit aliquis in margine Joan. Mox χρεανομίας, pro χρεωνομίας, habent Euseb., Joan.

(21) Ἄγοντες. Someone has written Ἀγόντων in the margin of Joannes. Next, Eusebius and Joannes have χρεανομίας for χρεωνομίας.

(22) Τῶν φόνων. Τῶν φόρων Eusebius. At Clementis lectionem sequitur codex Montac., φωνῶν etiam habet Joan. Arnobius tamen lib. v, legisse visus est τῶν ἐρίφων· haedos enim reddidit: quod etiam, ait Vigerus, magis placet; nam et illud: χρεανομία φόνων, admodum insolens; et haedis optime cum illis Bacchi sacris convenit.

(22) Τῶν φόνων. Eusebius has Τῶν φόρων. But Montagu's codex follows Clement's reading, and Joannes too has φωνῶν. Arnobius, however, in book V, seems to have read τῶν ἐρίφων, for he rendered it 'kids': which, says Viger, is also preferable; for the phrase χρεανομία φόνων is quite unusual, and kids agree excellently with those rites of Bacchus.

(23) Ἀνεστεμμένοι τοῖς ὄφεσιν. Arnobius lib. v: Bacchanalia etiam praetermittemus inania, quibus nomen Omophagiis Graecum est, in quibus furore mentito, et sequestrata pectoris sanitate, circumplicatis vos anguibus, atque ut vos plenos Dei numine ac majestate doceatis, caprorum reclamantium viscera cruentatis oribus dissipatis. Sic apud Nonnium citatur e Lycurgo Naevii versus h. c, qui forte huc pertinet: Alte jugatos angues in se gerunt. Plutarchus in Alexandro de Olympiade verba faciens, quae Bacchi sacris addicta erat, et Maenadum more dracones alebat: Οἱ πολλοὶ περιελιττόμενοι θύρσοις τῶν γυναικῶν καὶ τοῖς στεφάνοις, ἐξέπληττον τοὺς ἄνδρας. Collect.

(23) Ἀνεστεμμένοι τοῖς ὄφεσιν. Arnobius, book V: 'We shall pass over also the empty Bacchanalia, which bear the Greek name of Omophagia, in which with feigned frenzy, and soundness of mind set aside, you wreathe yourselves with snakes, and, to show yourselves full of the godhead and majesty of the god, tear apart with bloodied mouths the entrails of bleating goats.' So in Nonius a verse of this kind is cited from the Lycurgus of Naevius, which perhaps belongs here: 'They bear on themselves snakes yoked on high.' Plutarch in the Alexander, speaking of Olympias, who was devoted to the rites of Bacchus and kept serpents after the manner of the Maenads: 'The many, coiling themselves about the women's thyrsi and garlands, terrified the men.' Collect.

(24) Ἐπολολύζοντες Εὐ. Ἐπολολύζοντες Εὐαν· Εὐαν· ἐκείνην δὲ ἥν, etc. Nov. Non male.

(24) Ἐπολολύζοντες Εὐ. Nov. reads 'shouting Euan! Euan!, her whom', etc. Not badly.

(25) Παρηκολούθησε. Addit Eusebius, καὶ ὁ θάνατος ἐπηκολούθησε· et mors insecuta est; quod propter ὁμοιοτέλευτον excidisse videtur ex Clemente: unde factum etiam est, ut posterius illud Εὐαν ex Eusebii codicibus eliminaretur. Utroque loco ms. Joan. cum impressis Eusebii codd. consentit.

(25) Παρηκολούθησε. Eusebius adds 'and death followed', and death came after; which seems to have fallen out of Clement through the like ending: whence it also came about that the second Εὐαν was expelled from the codices of Eusebius. In both places the manuscript of Joannes agrees with the printed codices of Eusebius.

(26) Τὸ Εὔια δασυνόμενον. Gen. III, v. 1, serpens Hebraice dicitur נחש, at in Chaldaica paraphrasi חויא. Item Exod. IV, 3, ut quidem vult A. Mazius a verbo חוי, nuntiavit, judicavit: q. d. Nuntium; quod nuntiavit ipsi חוה, Chavae, Evae, fructum vetitum. Unde Bar-Cepha Syrus eam dictam putat ab indicatione, Hebraei a vita. Est ergo Syro-Chaldaica vox Chevia; sed et alibi saepe Hebraea lingua dicitur Syriaca, ut in Actis apost. Epiphanius in Epitome librorum contra haereses: Καὶ τὴν χρεωνομίαν μυοῦντες τοὺς ὄφεις ἀνεστεμμένοι, εὐάζοντες τὸ Οὐά, Οὐάν, ἐκείνην τὴν Εὔαν ἔτι, τὴν διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως ἀπατηθεῖσαν, ἐπικαλούμενοι, ἢ διὰ τῆς δασείας φωνῆς τὸν ὄφιν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑβραΐδος εἰς ἑαυτῶν πλάνην κικλήσκοντες. Εὔα γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ψιλὴν ἀπόδοσιν τὴν γυναῖκα, κατὰ δὲ τὴν δασεῖαν Εὔια τὸν ὄφιν παῖδες Ἑβραίων ὀνομάζουσι. Hoc Epiphanius atque Eusebius a Clemente acceperunt. Caeterum quod Evae nomen scribi dicitur cum spiritu leni, non, opinor, viris doctis probabitur; multo minus J. Drusii opinio, qui Evantes inde putat appellatas, et Graecae vocis etymologiam quaerit in Syria, lib. i Animadvers., cap. 53. Collect. Theophilus Antiochenus, lib. ii ad Autolycum, pag. 104: Ταύτην τὴν Εὔαν, διὰ τὸ ἀρχῆθεν πλανηθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄφεως, καὶ ἀρχηγὸν ἁμαρτίας γεγονέναι, ὁ κακοποιὸς δαίμων, ὁ καὶ Σατὰν καλούμενος, ὁ τότε διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως λαλήσας αὐτῇ, ἕως γὰρ τοῦ δεῦρο ἐνεργῶν ἐν τοῖς ἐνθουσιαζομένοις ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἀνθρώποις, Εὔαν ἐκκαλεῖται. Hanc Evam principem et caput peccati (quia seducta est a serpente, per quem maleficus Diabolus locutus est, qui diabolus et Satan vocatur, et usque adhuc operatur in iis, qui ipsius spiritu aguntur) diabolus non cessat vocare. At Hesychius Εὐάν, inquit, ὁ κισσὸς ὑπὸ Ἰνδῶν. Quo facit, quod Bacchus in expeditione Indica hedera coronatus fuerit, ut in fabulis est.

(26) Τὸ Εὔια δασυνόμενον. In Gen. 3:1 the serpent is called in Hebrew נחש, but in the Chaldee paraphrase חויא. Likewise in Exod. 4:3, as indeed A. Masius holds, from the verb חוי, 'he announced, he declared': as if to say 'Messenger'; because it announced the forbidden fruit to חוה, Chava, Eve. Whence Bar-Cepha the Syrian thinks she was named from 'declaring', the Hebrews from 'life'. It is therefore a Syro-Chaldaic word, Chevia; but elsewhere too the Hebrew tongue is often called Syriac, as in the Acts of the Apostles. Epiphanius, in the Epitome of the books against the heresies: 'And, wreathed with serpents, initiating into the distribution of flesh, crying "Euoi", "Oua, Ouan", still invoking that Eve who was deceived through the serpent, or calling, in their error, upon the serpent by the rough-breathed word from the Hebrew. For with the smooth pronunciation the children of the Hebrews name the woman Eua, but with the rough Heuia the serpent.' Epiphanius and Eusebius took this from Clement. For the rest, the statement that Eve's name is written with the smooth breathing will not, I think, be approved by learned men; much less the opinion of J. Drusius, who thinks the Evantes were named from it, and seeks the etymology of a Greek word in Syria, Animadversiones book I, ch. 53. Collect. Theophilus of Antioch, Ad Autolycum book II, p. 104: 'This Eve, because she was led astray by the serpent from the beginning and became the leader in sin, the evil-working demon, who is also called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, and who works even until now in the men possessed by him, invokes as Eve.' This Eve, the beginning and head of sin (because she was seduced by the serpent, through which the malicious Devil spoke, who is called devil and Satan, and works even until now in those who are driven by his spirit), the devil does not cease to invoke. But Hesychius says: 'Euan: the ivy, among the Indians.' To this it is relevant that Bacchus, as the fables have it, was crowned with ivy on his Indian expedition.

(27) Δρᾶμα ἤδη. Δρᾶμα ἤδη ἐγενέσθην· μυστικὴν καὶ τὴν, etc. Joan.

(27) Δρᾶμα ἤδη. Joannes reads Δρᾶμα ἤδη ἐγενέσθην· μυστικὴν καὶ τὴν, etc.

(28) Μύσους. Μίσους Nov. Mox pro Μυοῦντος Eusebius habet Μυσοῦντος. Item κυνηγίῳ, pro κυνηγί… Nov.

(28) Μύσους. Nov. has Μίσους. Next, for Μυοῦντος Eusebius has Μυσοῦντος. Likewise κυνηγίῳ for κυνηγί… Nov.

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τούς γε τοὺς καλουμένους ὑμῶν θεοὺς, ὧν αἱ τελεταὶ μυστικαὶ, οἷον ἐπὶ σκηνῆς τοῦ βίου τοῖς τῆς ἀληθείας ἐγκυκλήσω θεαταῖς. Διόνυσον μαινόλην ὀργιάζουσι Βάκχοι, ὠμοφαγίᾳ τὴν ἱερομανίαν ἄγοντες καὶ τελίσκουσι τὰς κρεωνομίας τῶν φόνων ἀνεστεμμένοι τοῖς ὄφεσιν, ἐπολολύζοντες Εὔαν ἐκείνην, δι' ἣν ἡ πλάνη παρηκολούθησε. Καὶ σημεῖον ὀργίων βακχικῶν ὄφις ἐστὶ τετελεσμένος. Αὐτίκα γοῦν κατὰ τὴν ἀκριβῆ τῶν Ἑβραίων φωνὴν, τὸ ὄνομα τὸ Εὔϊα δασυνόμενον, ἑρμηνεύεται ὄφις ἡ θήλεια. Δηὼ δὲ καὶ Κόρη, δρᾶμα ἤδη ἐγενέσθην μυστικόν· καὶ τὴν πλάνην, καὶ τὴν ἁρπαγὴν, καὶ τὸ πένθος αὐταῖν Ἐλευσὶς δᾳδουχεῖ. Καί μοι δοκεῖ τὰ ὄργια καὶ τὰ μυστήρια δεῖν ἐτυμολογεῖν, τὰ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς ὀργῆς τῆς Δηοῦς, τῆς πρὸς Δία γεγενημένης, τὰ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μύσους τοῦ συμβεβηκότος περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον· εἰ δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ
those at least who are called your gods, whose rites are mystical, I will wheel out as it were upon the stage of life for the spectators of truth. The Bacchants celebrate in orgies the raving Dionysus, conducting their sacred madness by the eating of raw flesh, and they accomplish the distributions of the flesh of their murders crowned with serpents, shrieking out that name of Eve, through whom error followed after. And a consecrated serpent is the token of the Bacchic orgies. Immediately, at any rate, according to the exact speech of the Hebrews, the name Hevia, when aspirated, is interpreted the female serpent. Deo too and Kore have already become a mystic drama; and Eleusis celebrates with torches their wandering, and their rape, and their grief. And it seems to me that one ought to derive the etymology of the orgies and the mysteries, the former from the wrath of Deo which arose towards Zeus, and the latter from the pollution which came to pass concerning Dionysus; and even if from
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… das ἐκκυκλεῖν expl. ἐκκαλύπτειν. Est autem vox scenica, significans in medium proferre, translatione ducta a machina theatrali, cujus versatione res oculis spectatorum exhibebantur. Inde ἐκκύκλημα, vel ἐγκύκλημα, ut a nonnullis scribitur, μηχάνημα ξύλινον τροχοὺς ἔχον, ὅπερ περιστρεφόμενον τὰ δοκοῦντα ἔνδον ὡς οἰκίᾳ πράττεσθαι, καὶ τοῖς θεαταῖς ἐδείκνυεν· machina lignea rotas habens, quae conversa ea, quae intus ut in aedibus geri videbantur, spectatoribus ostendebat; ut ait Scholiastes in Aristophanis Acharn. p. 392, et ex eo Suidas v. Ἐγκυκληθῆναι. Quo loco καί delendum post πράττεσθαι. Conf. etiam Pollux lib. IV, et Casaubonus in Athenaei lib. VIII, cap. 15.

[opening not visible] … explains ἐκκυκλεῖν ("to wheel out") as ἐκκαλύπτειν ("to uncover"). It is a stage word meaning "to bring out into view", a metaphor from the theatre machine by whose turning things were displayed to the spectators' eyes. Hence ἐκκύκλημα, or ἐγκύκλημα as some write it: "a wooden machine with wheels which, when turned round, showed the spectators what seemed to be going on inside, as in a house", as the scholiast on Aristophanes' Acharnians says (p. 392), and Suidas after him, under the word "to be wheeled in". In that passage καί is to be deleted after πράττεσθαι. Compare also Pollux, Book IV, and Casaubon on Athenaeus VIII, 15.

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Μαινόλην. Μανιώμην Nov. mendose. Mox Βάκχοις pro Βάκχοι. Euseb., Joan.

"Raving." The New manuscript has μανιώμην, wrongly. Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has Βάκχοις for Βάκχοι.

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Ὠμοφαγίᾳ. In festis Bacchi insanientium more crudas carnes devorabant. Hinc Bacchus Ὠμοφάγος et Ὠμηστής, de quibus nominibus vid. Archaeologia nostra lib. II, ubi de Bacchi festis agitur. Julius Firmicus de Bacchi festis agens: Cretenses, inquit, ut furentis tyranni saevitiam mitigarent, festos funeris (sc. Bacchi a Titanibus discerpti) dies statuunt, et annum sacrum trieterica consecratione componunt, omnia per ordinem facientes, quae puer (Bacchus) moriens aut fecit, aut passus est: vivum laniant dentibus taurum, crudeles epulas annuis commemorationibus excitantes, etc.

"By eating raw flesh." At the feasts of Bacchus they devoured raw flesh in the manner of madmen. Hence Bacchus is called Omophagos and Omestes ("Eater of raw flesh"); on these names see our Archaeologia, book II, where the feasts of Bacchus are treated. Julius Firmicus, treating of the feasts of Bacchus, says: "The Cretans, to soothe the savagery of the raging tyrant, appoint festal days of the funeral (that is, of Bacchus torn apart by the Titans), and arrange a sacred year with a triennial consecration, doing in order everything that the boy (Bacchus) either did or suffered in dying: they tear a living bull with their teeth, reviving the cruel banquet in yearly commemorations," etc.

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Ἄγοντες. Ἀγόντων scripsit aliquis in margine Joan. Mox κρεανομίας, pro κρεωνομίας, habent Euseb., Joan.

"Leading." Someone wrote ἀγόντων in the margin of the St John's manuscript. Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has κρεανομίας for κρεωνομίας ("distribution of flesh").

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Τῶν φόνων. Τῶν φόρων Eusebius. At Clementis lectionem sequitur codex Montac., φονῶν etiam habet Joan. Arnobius tamen lib. V, legisse visus est τῶν ἐρίφων· haedos enim reddidit: quod etiam, ait Vigerus, magis placet; nam et illud: κρεανομία φόνων, admodum insolens; et haedis optime cum illis Bacchi sacris convenit.

"Of the slaughters." Eusebius has τῶν φόρων. But the Montacutian manuscript follows Clement's reading, and the St John's manuscript also has φονῶν. Arnobius, Book V, however, seems to have read τῶν ἐρίφων, "of the kids", for he rendered it "kids"; and this, says Viger, is more pleasing; for the phrase "distribution of the flesh of slaughters" is very unusual, while kids suit those rites of Bacchus perfectly.

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Ἀνεστεμμένοι τοῖς ὄφεσιν. Arnobius lib. V: Bacchanalia etiam praetermittemus inania, quibus nomen Omophagiis Graecum est, in quibus furore mentito, et sequestrata pectoris sanitate, circumplicatis vos anguibus, atque ut vos plenos Dei numine ac majestate doceatis, caprorum reclamantium viscera cruentatis oribus dissipatis. Sic apud Nonnium citatur e Lycurgo Naevii versus hic, qui forte huc pertinet: Alte jugatos angues in se gerunt. Plutarchus in Alexandro de Olympiade verba faciens, quae [the end of this note lies above the rendered crop of the right-hand column and is not visible]

"Crowned with snakes." Arnobius, Book V: "We shall pass over also the empty Bacchanalia, whose Greek name is Omophagia, in which, with feigned frenzy and with soundness of mind set aside, you wrap yourselves round with snakes, and, to show yourselves full of the godhead and majesty of the god, you tear apart with bloodied mouths the entrails of bleating goats." So too Nonius quotes this line from Naevius's Lycurgus, which perhaps belongs here: "They bear snakes yoked high upon themselves." Plutarch, in the Alexander, speaking of Olympias, who … [the rest not visible]

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… νατος ἐπηκολούθησε· et mors insecuta est; quod propter ὁμοιοτέλευτον excidisse videtur ex Clemente: unde factum etiam est, ut posterius illud Εὐὰν ex Eusebii codicibus eliminaretur. Utroque loco ms. Joan. cum impressis Eusebii codd. consentit.

[opening not visible] … "(death) followed", that is, and death ensued; which seems to have dropped out of Clement because of the like ending; and so it also came about that the second "Euan" was removed from the manuscripts of Eusebius. In both places the St John's manuscript agrees with the printed texts of Eusebius.

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Τὸ Εὔια δασυνόμενον. Gen. III, v. 1, serpens Hebraice dicitur נחש, at in Chaldaica paraphrasi חויא. Item Exod. IV, 3, ut quidem vult A. Mazius a verbo חוה, nuntiavit, judicavit: q. d. Nuntium; quod nuntiavit ipsi חוה, Chavae, Evae, fructum vetitum. Unde Bar-Cepha Syrus eam dictam putat ab indicatione, Hebraei a vita. Est ergo Syro-Chaldaica vox Chevia; sed et alibi saepe Hebraea lingua dicitur Syriaca, ut in Actis apost. Epiphanius in Epitome librorum contra haereses: Καὶ τὴν κρεωνομίαν μυοῦντες τοὺς ὄφεις ἀνεστεμμένοι, εὐάζοντες τὸ Οὐά, Οὐά, ἐκείνην τὴν Εὔαν ἔτι, τὴν διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως ἀπατηθεῖσαν, ἐπικαλούμενοι, ἢ διὰ τῆς δασείας φωνῆς τὸν ὄφιν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑβραΐδος εἰς ἑαυτῶν πλάνην κικλήσκοντες. Εὔα γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ψιλὴν ἀπόδοσιν τὴν γυναῖκα, κατὰ δὲ τὴν δασεῖαν Εὔια τὸν ὄφιν παῖδες Ἑβραίων ὀνομάζουσι. Hoc Epiphanius atque Eusebius a Clemente acceperunt. Caeterum quod Evae nomen scribi dicitur cum spiritu leni, non, opinor, viris doctis probabitur; multo minus J. Drusii opinio, qui Evantes inde putat appellatas, et Graecae vocis etymologiam quaerit in Syria, lib. I Animadvers., cap. 53. COLLECT. Theophilus Antiochenus, lib. II ad Autolycum, pag. 104: Ταύτην τὴν Εὔαν, διὰ τὸ ἀρχῆθεν πλανηθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄφεως, καὶ ἀρχηγὸν ἁμαρτίας γεγονέναι, ὁ κακοποιὸς δαίμων, ὁ καὶ Σατὰν καλούμενος, ὁ τότε διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως λαλήσας αὐτῇ, ἕως γὰρ τοῦ δεῦρο ἐνεργῶν ἐν τοῖς ἐνθουσιαζομένοις ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἀνθρώποις, Εὔαν ἐκκαλεῖται. Hanc Evam principem et caput peccati (quia seducta est a serpente, per quem maleficus Diabolus locutus est, qui diabolus et Satan vocatur, et usque adhuc operatur in iis, qui ipsius spiritu aguntur) diabolus non cessat vocare. At Hesychius Εὐάν, inquit, ὁ κισσὸς ὑπὸ Ἰνδῶν. Quo facit, quod Bacchus in expeditione Indica hedera coronatus fuerit, ut in fabulis est.

"Hevia, with the rough breathing." In Genesis 3:1 the serpent is called in Hebrew nachash, but in the Chaldee paraphrase chivya. So too Exodus 4:3, as A. Masius would have it, from the verb chavah, "he announced, he declared", as if to say "Messenger", because it announced to Chavah, Eve, the forbidden fruit. Hence the Syrian Bar-Cepha thinks she was named from "announcing", the Hebrews from "life". Chevia is therefore a Syro-Chaldaic word; but elsewhere too the Hebrew language is often called Syriac, as in the Acts of the Apostles. Epiphanius, in the Epitome of the books against heresies: "And initiating the distribution of flesh, crowned with snakes, crying Oua, Oua, invoking still that Eve who was deceived by the serpent, or, with the rough-breathed sound, calling on the serpent, from the Hebrew, to their own error. For the children of the Hebrews call the woman Eua with the smooth breathing, and the serpent Heuia with the rough." Epiphanius and Eusebius took this from Clement. But the statement that Eve's name is written with the smooth breathing will not, I think, win the approval of the learned; much less the opinion of J. Drusius, who thinks the Evantes (the bacchants) were named from it, and seeks the etymology of a Greek word in Syria (Animadversiones I, 53). Collect. Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus II, p. 104: "This Eve, because she was deceived from the beginning by the serpent and became the author of sin, the evil-doing demon, who is also called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, calls on as Eve, for he works to this day in the men possessed by him." (The Latin renders: "This Eve, the beginning and head of sin, the devil does not cease to invoke, because she was seduced by the serpent, through which the malicious devil spoke, who is called devil and Satan, and works until now in those who are driven by his spirit.") But Hesychius says: "Euan: ivy, among the Indians." This bears on the fact that Bacchus was crowned with ivy on his Indian expedition, as the myths tell.

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Δρᾶμα ἤδη. Δρᾶμα ἤδη ἐγενέσθην· μυστικὴν καὶ τὴν, etc. Joan.

"A drama now." The St John's manuscript reads: "they have now become a drama; and the mystic …", etc.

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Μύσους. Μίσους Nov. Mox pro Μυοῦντος Eusebius habet Μυσοῦντος. Item κυνηγίῳ, pro κυνηγ[…] Nov.

"Of defilement." The New manuscript has μίσους ("of hatred"). Shortly after, for μυοῦντος Eusebius has μυσοῦντος. Likewise the New manuscript has κυνηγίῳ for κυνηγ[…] [the last word is abbreviated or damaged in the print and not legible].

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Μυοῦντός τινος Ἀττικοῦ, ὃν ἐν κυνηγίᾳ διαφθαρῆναι Ἀπολλόδωρος λέγει, οὐ φθόνος ὑμῶν δεδοξάσθαι τὰ μυστήρια ἐπιτυμβίῳ τιμῇ. Πάρεστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλως μυθήριά σοι νοεῖν, ἀντιστοιχούντων τῶν γραμμάτων, τὰ μυστήρια· θηρεύουσι γὰρ, εἰ καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς, ἀτὰρ δὴ καὶ οἱ μῦθοι οἱ τοιοίδε, Θρᾳκῶν τοὺς βαρβαρικωτάτους, Φρυγῶν τοὺς ἀνοητοτάτους, Ἑλλήνων τοὺς δεισιδαίμονας. Ὄλλοιτο οὖν ὁ τῆσδε ἄρξας τῆς ἀπάτης ἀνθρώποις ! εἴτε ὁ Δάρδανος, ὁ μητρὸς θεῶν καταδείξας τὰ μυστήρια· εἴτε Ἠετίων, ὁ τὰ Σαμοθρᾳκῶν ὄργια καὶ τελετὰς ὑποστησάμενος· εἴτε ὁ Φρὺξ ἐκεῖνος ὁ Μίδας, ὁ παρὰ τοῦ Ὀδρύσου μαθὼν, ἔπειτα διαδοὺς τοῖς ὑποτεταγμένοις ἔντεχνον ἀπάτην. Οὐ γάρ με ὁ Κύπριος ὁ νησιώτης Κινύρας παραπείσαι ποτ' ἂν, τὰ περὶ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην μαχλῶντα ὄργια, ἐκ νυκτὸς ἡμέρᾳ παραδοῦναι τολμήσας, φιλοτιμούμενος θειάσαι πόρνην πολίτιδα. Μελάμποδα δὲ τὸν Ἀμυθάονος ἄλλοι φασὶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μετακομίσαι τῇ Ἑλλάδι τὰς Δηοῦς ἑορτὰς, πένθος ὑμνούμενον. Τούτους ἐγώγ' ἂν ἀρχεκάκους φήσαιμι μύθων ἀθέων καὶ δεισιδαιμονίας ὀλεθρίου πατέρας, σπέρμα κακίας καὶ φθορᾶς ἐγκαταφυτεύσαντας τῷ βίῳ τὰ μυστήρια. Ἤδη δὲ, καὶ γὰρ καιρὸς, αὐτὰ ὑμῶν τὰ ὄργια ἐξελέγξω, ἀπάτης καὶ τερατείας ἔμπλεα· καὶ εἰ μεμύησθε, ἐπιγελάσεσθε μᾶλλον τοῖς μύθοις ὑμῶν τούτοις, τοῖς τιμωμένοις. Ἀγορεύω δὲ ἀναφανδὸν τὰ κεκρυμμένα, οὐκ αἰδούμενος λέγειν, ἃ προσκυνεῖν οὐκ αἰσχύνεσθε. Ἡ μὲν οὖν ἀφρογενής τε, καὶ κυπρογενὴς, ἡ Κινύρᾳ φίλη, τὴν Ἀφροδίτην λέγω, τὴν φιλομηδέα, ὅτι μηδέων ἐξεφαάνθη, μηδέων ἐκείνων τῶν ἀποκεκομμένων Οὐρανοῦ, τῶν λάγνων, τῶν μετὰ τὴν
a certain Myus of Attica, whom Apollodorus says perished in a hunt, I do not begrudge it that your mysteries have been glorified with a sepulchral honour. And it is possible for you also in another way to understand the mysteries as hunting-fables, the letters corresponding to one another; for such fables as these hunt down, if any others do, the most barbaric of the Thracians, the most senseless of the Phrygians, the superstitious among the Greeks. Perish then the man who began this deceit for mankind! whether Dardanus, who introduced the mysteries of the mother of the gods; or Eetion, who instituted the orgies and rites of the Samothracians; or that Phrygian Midas, who having learned from the Odrysian, afterwards handed down an artful deceit to his subjects. For never could the Cyprian islander Cinyras persuade me, who dared to hand over from night to day the lewd orgies concerning Aphrodite, ambitious to deify a harlot countrywoman. Others say that Melampus the son of Amythaon brought over from Egypt into Greece the festivals of Deo, a grief celebrated in hymns. These men I for my part would call originators of evil, fathers of godless fables and of deadly superstition, having implanted the mysteries in life as a seed of wickedness and corruption. And now, for indeed it is time, I will convict your orgies themselves, which are full of deceit and jugglery; and if you have been initiated, you will laugh all the more at these fables of yours that are honoured. And I proclaim openly the hidden things, not being ashamed to tell what you are not ashamed to worship. So then the foam-born and Cyprus-born, the darling of Cinyras—I mean Aphrodite, the genitals-loving, because she shone forth from genitals, those genitals of Uranus that were cut off, the lustful ones, which after the
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(29) ‹anchor: Λέγει, οὐ φθ.› · call in col 74

Λέγει, οὐ φθ. Λέγει, οὐ φθόνος· ὑμῶν δεδόξασται τὰ μ. Nov. Mox ἐπιτυμβίῳ φωνῇ καὶ τιμῇ. Joan., Euseb. Non male.

"He says, without grudging." The New manuscript reads: "He says, there is no grudging: your m(ysteries) have been glorified." Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript: "with a funeral cry and honour". Not badly.

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(30) ‹anchor: Μυθήρια› · call in col 74

Μυθήρια. Gulielmus Canterus, lib. VIII, cap. 18, Nov. lect. haec habet, quae huc pertinent: Hic, inquit, locus male a scriptoribus habitus pristinae restituetur integritati, si pro μυθήρια reponatur μαστήρια, quasi a venatione velit dicta Mysteria. Nam hoc eum velle, satis quae mox sequuntur indicant: Θηρεύουσι γὰρ, εἰ καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς, ἀτὰρ δὴ καὶ οἱ μῦθοι οἱ τοιοίδε Θρᾳκῶν τοὺς βαρβαρικωτάτους. COLLECT. Verum μυθήρια ficta vox est, ἀπὸ τοῦ μυεῖν καὶ θηρεύειν· quasi etiam initiando venentur. Nihil ergo est, quamobrem μαστήρια reponatur; praesertim cum subjungat, θηρεύουσι γάρ. Dicendum enim potius fuisset, μαστεύουσι γάρ. Nunc τὸ μυθήρια cum τῷ θηρεύουσιν optime convenit. VIGER., SYLBURG. — Caeterum ne quis, ut nonnulli existimarunt, veram etymologiam mysteriorum hic tradi putet, advertendum est non tam grammaticum veriloquium, quam rhetoricam regulam a conjugatis argumentandi, aut a notatione nominis, ridendis his vocibus observari; in qua plerumque joco, aut non ita exacta statera res proferuntur; non enim magis haec sunt certa, quam illa apud Athenaeum lib. III Dionysium quemdam nomina nova finxisse: ut columnam, μενεκράτη, quod valida perduret; jaculum, βαλλάντιον, quod jaciatur in adversum: murium latebras, μυστήρια, quia μῦς τηροῦσι, mures servant. COLLECT.

"Mytheria." William Canter, New Readings VIII, 18, has the following, which bears on this: "This passage," he says, "badly treated by the scribes, will be restored to its original soundness if for μυθήρια we put μαστήρια, as if he means that 'mysteries' are named from hunting. That this is his meaning is shown clearly enough by what follows at once: 'For these myths of all things hunt the most barbarous of the Thracians.'" Collect. But μυθήρια is a coined word, from "initiating" and "hunting", as though they hunt by initiating. There is therefore no reason to substitute μαστήρια, especially since he adds "for they hunt"; for then he would rather have had to say "for they seek". As it is, μυθήρια fits "they hunt" perfectly. Viger, Sylburg. — But lest anyone think, as some have, that a true etymology of "mysteries" is given here, note that in mocking these words he is following not so much a grammarian's derivation as the rhetorical rule of arguing from related words, or from the meaning of a name; in which things are generally put forward in jest, or not weighed on so exact a scale. These are no more certain than the new words that a certain Dionysius, in Athenaeus III, coined: a column "menecrates" because it endures strongly; a javelin "ballantion" because it is hurled against the enemy; mouse-holes "mysteria" because they keep mice. Collect.

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(31) ‹anchor: Δή› · call in col 74

Δή. Δέ, Euseb. Neutrum habet Joan.

"Indeed." Eusebius has δέ. The St John's manuscript has neither.

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(32) ‹anchor: Ἑλλήνων τοὺς δεισιδαίμονας› · call in col 74

Ἑλλήνων τοὺς δεισιδαίμονας. G. Canterus, loco jam modo citato, putat aptius esse, τοὺς δεισιδαιμονεστάτους· eo nempe comparationis gradu, quo praecedit ἀνοητοτάτους· idemque sentiunt A. et SYLBURG. E contra pro ἀνοητοτάτους, aliquis adnotavit ἀνοήτους in margine Joan.

"The superstitious among the Greeks." G. Canter, in the passage just cited, thinks "the most superstitious" more fitting, in the same degree of comparison as the preceding "the most senseless"; A. and Sylburg agree. On the other hand, for "the most senseless" someone noted "senseless" in the margin of the St John's manuscript.

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(33) ‹anchor: Ὄλλοιτο οὖν› · call in col 74

Ὄλλοιτο οὖν. Ὄλοιτ' οὖν. JOAN.

"May he perish, then." The St John's manuscript has Ὄλοιτ' οὖν.

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(34) ‹anchor: Ἀπάτης› · call in col 74

Ἀπάτης. Τῆς ἀπάτης. Nov. Recte. Nam τῆς sequi solet τῆσδε ut paulo ante, τῆσδε τῆς γοητείας. Τῆς ἀτοπίας ἀνὴρ ἀνθρώποις habent Euseb., Joan.

"Of deceit." The New manuscript has τῆς ἀπάτης, rightly; for τῆς usually follows τῆσδε, as a little before, "of this sorcery". Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has "the man of absurdity to men".

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(35) ‹anchor: Μητρός› · call in col 74

Μητρός. Μύθους. Nov., Euseb., Joan. Dein καταδιδάξας, pro καταδείξας, JOAN. Sed in margine καταδείξας positum est.

"Of the mother." The New manuscript and Eusebius in the St John's manuscript have μύθους ("myths"). Then the St John's manuscript has καταδιδάξας ("having taught") for καταδείξας ("having shown"); but καταδείξας is set in the margin.

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(36) ‹anchor: Κινύρας› · call in col 74

Κινύρας. Κιννύρας, Joan. Conf. Julius Firmicus De errore prof. relig., pag. 22, edit. Lugd. Bat.; Arnobius, lib. V; Lucianus, De dea Syria. Mox, pro παραπεῖσαι, παραποιεῖσαι, et in margine παραπεῖσαι habet Joan.

"Cinyras." The St John's manuscript has Κιννύρας. Compare Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions, p. 22 of the Leiden edition; Arnobius V; Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess. Shortly after, for παραπεῖσαι the St John's manuscript has παραποιεῖσαι, with παραπεῖσαι in the margin.

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(37) ‹anchor: Μελάμποδα› · call in col 74

Μελάμποδα. Diodorus Sic., lib. I, p. 87: Μελάμποδά φασιν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μετενεγκεῖν τὰ Διονύσια νομιζόμενα τελεῖσθαι παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι, καὶ τὰ περὶ Κρόνου μυθολογούμενα, καὶ τὰ περὶ Τιτανομαχίας, καὶ τὸ σύνολον τὴν περὶ τὰ πάθη τῶν θεῶν ἱστορίαν. Melampoda porro sancita Baccho sacra apud Graecos, et fabulosam de Saturno et Titanum pugna narrationem, adeoque totam de affectibus deorum historiam ex Aegypto traduxisse, perhibent. Mox, Ἀμυθάωνος pro Ἀμυθάονος, Euseb., Joan.

"Melampus." Diodorus Siculus I, p. 87: "They say that Melampus brought over from Egypt the rites of Dionysus customarily performed among the Greeks, the myths about Kronos and the war of the Titans, and in short the whole history of the sufferings of the gods." Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has Ἀμυθάωνος for Ἀμυθάονος.

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(38) ‹anchor: Τούτους ἔγωγ' ἄν› · call in col 74

Τούτους ἐγώγ' ἄν. Ἔγωγε τούτους ἄν, Joan.

"These I would …" The St John's manuscript has "I would these" (word order changed).

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(39) ‹anchor: τὰ ὄργια› · call in col 74

Ὄργια. Ἔργα in marg. Joan.

"Orgies." The margin of the St John's manuscript has ἔργα ("works").

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(40) ‹anchor: τοῖς τιμωμένοις› · call in col 74

Τοῖς τιμ. Τοῖς omittunt Nov., Euseb., Joan. Mox ἀγορεύσω, pro ἀγορεύω, Euseb., Joan.

"To those honoured." The New manuscript and Eusebius in the St John's manuscript omit τοῖς. Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has ἀγορεύσω ("I will proclaim") for ἀγορεύω ("I proclaim").

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(41) ‹anchor: ἀφρογενής τε› · call in col 74

Ἀφρογενής τε. Τε omittunt Euseb., Joan. Conf. Homeri Iliad. Γ, ibique vetus Scholiastes, et Hesiodi Theogonia a v. 188 ad v. 201. Mox καὶ Κινύρᾳ pro ἡ Κινύρᾳ, Euseb., Joan.

"Foam-born." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, omits τε. Compare Homer, Iliad III (Γ), and there the old scholiast; and Hesiod, Theogony 188–201. Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has "and to Cinyras" for "the … to Cinyras".

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τομὴν τὸ κῦμα βεβιασμένων· ὡς ἀσελγῶν ὑμῖν μορίων ἄξιος Ἀφροδίτη γίνεται καρπὸς ἐν ταῖς τελεταῖς· ταύτης τῆς πελαγίας ἡδονῆς, τεκμήριον τῆς γονῆς, ἁλῶν χόνδρος, καὶ φαλλὸς τοῖς μυουμένοις τὴν τέχνην τὴν μοιχικὴν ἐπιδίδοται. Νόμισμα δὲ εἰσφέρουσιν αὐτῇ οἱ μυούμενοι, ὡς ἑταίρᾳ ἐρασταί. Δηοῦς δὲ μυστήρια, καὶ Διὸς πρὸς μητέρα Δήμητραν ἀφροδίσιοι συμπλοκαὶ, καὶ μῆνις, οὐκ οἶδ' ὅτι φῶ λοιπὸν, μητρὸς ἢ γυναικὸς, τῆς Δηοῦς· ἧς δὴ χάριν Βριμὼ προσαγορευθῆναι λέγεται· ἱκετηρίαι Διὸς, καὶ πόμα χολῆς, καὶ καρδιουλκίαι, καὶ ἀῤῥητουργίαι· ταῦτα οἱ Φρύγες τελίσκουσιν Ἄττιδι, καὶ Κυβέλῃ, καὶ Κορύβασιν. Τεθρυλλήκασιν δὲ, ὡς ἄρα ἀποσπάσας ὁ Ζεὺς τοῦ κριοῦ τοὺς διδύμους, φέρων ἐν μέσοις ἔῤῥιψε τοῖς κόλποις τῆς Δηοῦς, τιμωρίαν ψευδῆ τῆς βιαίας συμπλοκῆς ἐκτιννύων, ὡς ἑαυτὸν δῆθεν ἐκτεμών. Τὰ σύμβολα τῆς μυήσεως ταύτης, ἐκ περιουσίας παρατεθέντα, οἶδ' ὅτι κινήσει γέλωτα, κἂν μὴ γελᾶσαι ἔπεισιν ὑμῖν, διὰ τοὺς ἐλέγχους· Ἐκ τυμπάνου ἔφαγον, ἐκ κυμβάλου ἔπιον· ἐκερνοφόρησα· ὑπὸ τὸν παστὸν ὑπέδυον. Ταῦτα οὐχ ὕβρις τὰ σύμβολα ; οὐ χλεύη τὰ μυστήρια ; Τί δ' εἰ καὶ τὰ ἐπίλοιπα προσθείην ; Κύει μὲν ἡ Δημήτηρ, ἀνατρέφεται δὲ ἡ Κόρη· μίγνυται δ' αὖθις ὁ γεννήσας οὑτοσὶ Ζεὺς τῇ Φερεφάττῃ, τῇ ἰδίᾳ θυγατρὶ, μετὰ τὴν μητέρα τὴν Δηὼ, ἐκλαθόμενος τοῦ προτέρου μύσους· πατὴρ καὶ φθορεὺς Κόρης ὁ Ζεύς· καὶ μίγνυται δράκων γενόμενος· ὃς ἦν, ἐλεγχθείς. Σαβαζίων γοῦν μυστηρίων σύμβολον τοῖς μυουμένοις ὁ διὰ κόλπου
severance violated the wave; how worthy a fruit of lewd members Aphrodite becomes for you in the rites; in these rites of marine pleasure, as a token of her birth, a lump of salt and a phallus are handed over to those who are initiated into the adulterous art. And those who are initiated bring a coin to her, as lovers do to a courtesan. And the mysteries of Deo are Zeus's amorous embraces with his mother Demeter, and the wrath—I know not what to call her hereafter, whether mother or wife—of Deo, on account of which it is said she was called Brimo; also the supplications of Zeus, and a drink of gall, and tearings out of the heart, and unspeakable deeds; these things the Phrygians perform for Attis, and Cybele, and the Corybantes. And they have bruited it abroad that Zeus, having torn off the testicles of a ram, brought and flung them into the midst of the lap of Deo, paying a false penalty for the violent embrace, as though he had castrated himself. The symbols of this initiation, when set forth in abundance, I know will move laughter, even though you are not inclined to laugh, because of the refutations: I ate from the drum, I drank from the cymbal; I carried the kernos; I slipped in under the bridal chamber. Are not these symbols an outrage? Are not the mysteries a mockery? And what if I should add the rest as well? Demeter is pregnant, and Kore is reared up; and again this Zeus who begot her mingles with Pherephatta, his own daughter, after her mother Deo, forgetting his former pollution; Zeus is both father and corrupter of Kore; and he mingles with her having become a serpent, being exposed for what he was. Of the Sabazian mysteries, at any rate, the symbol for those who are initiated is the
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Footnotes

(42) ‹anchor: Ὡς ἀσελγ.› · call in col 76

Ὡς ἀσελγ. Ὡς omittunt Euseb. et Joan., sed in margine aliquis posuit. Mox λέγεται pro γίνεται, Joan.; sed γίνεται in margine scriptum est. Dein καρπός· ἐν ταῖς τελεταῖς ταύτης, Nov.; quin etiam τελεταῖς et ταύτης conjungunt Euseb., Joan. Recte, unde id in versione expressum est.

"As (of) lewd …" Eusebius and the St John's manuscript omit ὡς, but someone has put it in the margin. Shortly after, the St John's manuscript has λέγεται ("is said") for γίνεται ("becomes"), though γίνεται is written in the margin. Then the New manuscript reads "fruit: in the rites of this (goddess)"; indeed Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, also joins "rites" and "of this". Rightly; and so it has been rendered in the translation.

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(43) ‹anchor: Νόμισμα› · call in col 76

Νόμισμα. Julius Firmicus loco superius citato: Statuisse etiam, ut quicunque initiari vellet, secreto Veneris sibi tradito, assem in manum mercedis nomine deae daret. Arnobius, lib. V: Necnon et Cypriae Veneris abstrusa illa mysteria praetereamus: quorum conditor indicatur Cinyras rex fuisse: in quibus sumentes ea, certas stipes inferunt ut meretrici, et referunt phallos propitii numinis signa donatos.

"A coin." Julius Firmicus, in the passage cited above: "He also ordained that whoever wished to be initiated, once the secret of Venus had been handed to him, should give a copper coin into the goddess's hand by way of a fee." Arnobius, Book V: "Let us also pass over those hidden mysteries of Cyprian Venus, whose founder is said to have been King Cinyras: in which those who receive them bring fixed payments, as to a harlot, and carry away phalli given as tokens of the deity's favour."

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(44) ‹anchor: Ἑταίρᾳ› · call in col 76

Ἑταίρᾳ. Ἑταίρας Nov., ἑτέρᾳ Joan., mendose. Solent enim αι et ε ob similitudinem pronuntiationis confundi.

"To a courtesan." The New manuscript has ἑταίρας; the St John's manuscript ἑτέρᾳ ("to another"), wrongly. For αι and ε are commonly confused because they are pronounced alike.

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(45) ‹anchor: Δηοῦς› · call in col 76

Δηοῦς. Arnobius hoc argumentum copiose tractat lib. V, qui, cum Clemente collatus, lucem dabit accipietque invicem. Conf. etiam Lycophronis Cassandrae v. 698 et 1176; et ibi Tzetzae scholia.

"Of Deo." Arnobius treats this subject at length in Book V; compared with Clement, he will give and receive light in turn. Compare also Lycophron, Cassandra, lines 698 and 1176, and there the scholia of Tzetzes.

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Κυβέλη. Κυβέλλη, Euseb., Joan.

"Cybele." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has Κυβέλλη.

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(47) ‹anchor: Κἂν μὴ γελᾶσαι ἔπεισιν ὑμῖν› · call in col 76

Κἂν μὴ γελᾶσαι ἔπεισιν ὑμῖν. Sic legunt Clementis codices, pleniore et illustriore sensu quam Eusebius; καὶ μὴ γελασείουσιν ὑμῖν, Viger.; κἂν μὴ γελασείουσιν, Nov.

"Even if it does not occur to you to laugh." So the manuscripts of Clement read, with a fuller and clearer sense than Eusebius; Viger's Eusebius has "and to you who do not wish to laugh"; the New manuscript "even if to those who do not wish to laugh".

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(48) ‹anchor: Ἐκ τυμπάνου ἔφαγον› · call in col 76

Ἐκ τυμπάνου ἔφαγον. Sequentem mysteriorum formulam Jul. Firmicus, in lib. De errore profan. relig., cap. 10, paulo aliter citat: Libet nunc explanare, quibus se signis vel quibus symbolis miseranda hominum turba cognoscat. Habent enim propria signa, propria responsa, quae illis in ipsis sacrilegiorum coetibus diaboli tradidit disciplina. In quodam templo ut in interiores partes homo moriturus possit admitti, dicit: « De tympano manducavi, de cymbalo bibi, et religionis secreta perdidici. » Quod Graeco sermone dicitur, ἐκ τυμπάνου βέβρωκα, ἐκ κυμβάλου πέπωκα, γέγονα μυστικός. COLLECT., SYLB.

"I ate from the drum." Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions, ch. 10, quotes the following formula of the mysteries a little differently: "I wish now to explain by what signs or what passwords the pitiable crowd of men recognise one another. For they have their own signs, their own responses, which the devil's teaching has handed to them in those very gatherings of sacrilege. In a certain temple, so that the man who is to die may be admitted to the inner parts, he says: 'I have eaten from the drum, I have drunk from the cymbal, and I have learnt the secrets of the religion.'" In Greek this is: "I have eaten from the drum, I have drunk from the cymbal, I have become an initiate." Collect., Sylburg.

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(49) ‹anchor: Ἐκερνοφόρησα› · call in col 76

Ἐκερνοφόρησα. Olim scriptum fuit ἐκιρνοφόρησα, tam apud Clementem, quam Eusebium. Nostram lectionem debemus P. Leopardo, lib. IV, c. 2, Emendat. Athenaeus, lib. XI: Τὸ κέρνος, ἀγγεῖον κεραμοῦν, ἔχον ἐν αὐτῷ κοτυλίσκους· cernos, vas fictile, cui agglutinatae sunt exiguae cotylae multae, in quibus alba sunt papavera, triticum, farra, mel, oleum. His vescitur, qui fert cernos, ut et qui cistam gestaverit. Pollux, lib. IV: Τὸ γὰρ κερνοφόρον ὄρχημα οἶδα ὅτι κέρνα ἢ ἐσχαρίδας ἔφερον (ms. φέροντες), κέρνα δὲ ταῦτα ἐκάλεῖτε. Hesychius, κερνοφόρος, ὁ τὰς θυσίας ἄγων. Est itaque ἐκερνοφόρησα, cernos tuli, vel craticulas illas mysteriorum gestavi, aut quaecunque illa fictilia fuerint vasa. COLLECT.

"I carried the kernos." Formerly ἐκιρνοφόρησα was written, both in Clement and in Eusebius. We owe our reading to P. Leopardus, Emendationes IV, 2. Athenaeus XI: "The kernos, an earthenware vessel holding little cups within it": a clay vessel with many small cups stuck to it, in which are white poppies, wheat, spelt, honey and oil. He who carries the kernos eats these, as does he who has carried the casket. Pollux IV: "As for the kernos-bearing dance, I know that they carried kerna or braziers (manuscript: 'carrying'), and these you called kerna." Hesychius: "kernos-bearer: the one who leads the sacrifices." So ἐκερνοφόρησα is "I carried the kerna", or "I bore those little braziers of the mysteries", or whatever those clay vessels were. Collect.

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(50) ‹anchor: Ὑπέδυον› · call in col 76

Ὑπέδυον. Ὑπέδυν, Euseb., Joan.

"I slipped under." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has ὑπέδυν.

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(51) ‹anchor: Τί δ' εἰ› · call in col 76

Τί δ' εἰ. Τί δή, Euseb. Mox πεπροσθείην pro προσθείην, Joan.

"And what if …" Eusebius has τί δή. Shortly after, the St John's manuscript has πεπροσθείην for προσθείην.

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(52) ‹anchor: οὗτοσί› · call in col 76

Οὗτοσί. Οὕτωσί, Euseb. Similiter porro Athenagoras Legat. pag. 71, edit. Oxon., postquam Jovis cum Rhea vel Cerere concubitum memorasset, addit: Εἶθ' ὅτι Περσεφόνῃ τῇ θυγατρὶ ἐμίγη, βιασάμενος καὶ ταύτην δράκοντος σχήματι, ἐξ ἧς παῖς Διόνυσος αὐτῷ. Deinde, quo modo per vim etiam in forma draconis cum filia Proserpina concubuerit, ex qua filius ei Dionysius natus est. Conf. etiam Tatianus, pag. 53.

"This (Zeus)." Eusebius has οὕτωσί ("thus"). Likewise Athenagoras, Embassy, p. 71 of the Oxford edition, after mentioning Jupiter's union with Rhea or Ceres, adds: "then that he lay with his daughter Persephone, violating her too in the form of a serpent, from whom a son, Dionysus, was born to him." Compare also Tatian, p. 53.

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(53) ‹anchor: τὴν Δηώ› · call in col 76

Τὴν Δηώ. Τήν omittit Euseb. Mox, πατὴρ καὶ φθορεὺς Κόρης ὁ Ζεύς e Joan. et Euseb. excidit.

"Deo." Eusebius omits the article. Shortly after, "Zeus, father and seducer of Kore" has dropped out of the St John's manuscript and Eusebius.

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(54) ‹anchor: Σαβαζίων γοῦν› · call in col 76

Σαβαζίων γοῦν μυστηρίων. Arnobius, l. V: Auctorem aliquis desiderabit rei, tum illum citabimus tritum notumque senarium, quem antiquitas canit, dicens: Taurus draconem genuit, et taurum draco.

"Of the Sabazian mysteries, then." Arnobius, Book V: "If anyone wants an authority for this, we shall cite that well-worn and familiar line which antiquity sings, saying: 'The bull begot the serpent, and the serpent the bull.'"

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  • marginal letters: A τομὴν τὸ κῦμα; B μωρίαν ψευδῆ τῆς; C μυστηρίων σύμβολον τοῖς
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θεός· δράκων δέ ἐστι οὗτος, διελκόμενος τοῦ κόλπου τῶν τελουμένων· ἔλεγχος ἀκρασίας Διός. Κύει καὶ ἡ Φερεφάττα παῖδα, ταυρόμορφον ἀμέλει, φησί τις ποιητὴς εἰδωλικός ;
god; and this is a serpent, drawn through the bosom of those who are initiated, a proof of the incontinence of Zeus. Pherephatta also conceives a child, bull-shaped of course, as a certain idolatrous poet says:
.... Ταῦρος Πατὴρ δράκοντος, καὶ πατὴρ ταύρου δράκων· Ἐν ὄρει τὸ κρύφιον βουκόλος τὸ κέντρον·
The bull is father of the serpent, and the serpent father of the bull; on the mountain the hidden goad is the herdsman's;
Βουκολικὸν, οἶμαι, τὸ κέντρον, τὸν νάρθηκα ἐπιτελῶν, ὃν δὴ κάλον ἀναστρέφουσιν οἱ βάκχοι. Βούλει καὶ τὰ Φερεφάττης ἀνθολόγια διηγήσομαί σοι, καὶ τὸν κάλαθον, καὶ τὴν ἁρπαγὴν τὴν ὑπὸ Αἰδωνέως, καὶ τὸ σχίσμα τῆς γῆς, καὶ τὰς ὗς τὰς Εὐβουλέως, τὰς συγκαταποθείσας ταῖν θεαῖν ; δι' ἣν αἰτίαν ἐν τοῖς Θεσμοφορίοις μεγαρίζοντες, χοίρους ἐκβάλλουσιν. Ταύτην τὴν μυθολογίαν αἱ γυναῖκες ποικίλως κατὰ πόλιν ἑορτάζουσιν, Θεσμοφόρια, Σκιροφόρια, πολυτρόπως τὴν Φερεφάττης ἐκτραγῳδοῦσαι ἁρπαγήν. Τὰ γὰρ Διονύσου μυστήρια τέλεον ἀπάνθρωπα, ὃν εἰσέτι παῖδα ὄντα, ἐνόπλῳ κινήσει περιχορευόντων Κουρήτων, δόλῳ δὲ ὑποδύντων Τιτάνων, ἀπατήσαντες παιδαριώδεσιν ἀθύρμασιν, οὗτοι δὴ οἱ Τιτᾶνες διέσπασαν, ἔτι νηπίαχον ὄντα,
meaning, I suppose, by the herdsman's goad the fennel-stalk with which the rite is performed, which wood indeed the Bacchants brandish. Would you have me recount to you also Pherephatta's flower-gatherings, and her basket, and her rape by Aidoneus, and the cleaving of the earth, and the swine of Eubuleus that were swallowed down together with the two goddesses, for which cause in the Thesmophoria, throwing them into the megara, they cast out pigs? This mythology the women celebrate variously in festival from city to city, as Thesmophoria, Scirophoria, dramatizing in manifold ways the rape of Pherephatta. For the mysteries of Dionysus are wholly inhuman; whom, while he was still a child and the Curetes were dancing around him in armed movement, the Titans having crept in by stealth and having deceived him with childish toys, these very Titans tore limb from limb while he was still an infant,
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Θεός. Supra hanc vocem aliquis θεῶν scripsit in Nov. Mox, pro ἐστίν, Joan. habet καί. Eusebius neutrum agnoscit. Dein, διολκούμενος pro διελκόμενος, Euseb., Joan.

"God." Above this word someone wrote θεῶν ("of the gods") in the New manuscript. Shortly after, for ἐστίν the St John's manuscript has καί. Eusebius has neither. Then Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has διολκούμενος for διελκόμενος ("drawn through").

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(56) ‹anchor: Ποιητὴς εἰδ.› · call in col 78

Ποιητὴς εἰδ. Ποιητὴς, εἰδωλικὸς ταῦρος· πατήρ, etc. Nov.

"Poet … of idols." The New manuscript reads: "maker, idolatrous bull; father," etc.

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(57) ‹anchor: ἐπιτελῶν› · call in col 78

Ἐπιτελῶν. Sic quidem veteres Clementis editiones e cod. Florentino; nuperiores ἐπικαλῶν habent, quam lectionem firmant Nov., Euseb., Joan. Unde nec dubitari potest, quin ita scripserit auctor.

"Performing." So the old editions of Clement, from the Florentine manuscript; the more recent have ἐπικαλῶν ("invoking"), a reading confirmed by the New manuscript and by Eusebius in the St John's manuscript. So there can be no doubt that the author wrote that.

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(58) ‹anchor: ὃν δὴ κάλον› · call in col 78

Ὃν δὴ κάλον. Lego καλόν, ut sit καλόν pro καλῶς, inquit Hervetus; κάλων Eusebius, Joan. Montacutius conjicit καλοί, ut conveniat cum Βάκχοι. Forte leg. διὰ κάλων· nisi ea vox praecedenti ἐπικαλῶν proseminata est, inquit Vigerus. Et quidem non est absimile vero, aliquem juxta vocem ἐπιτελῶν in libri sui margine adnotasse, ut veriorem lectionem, — κάλων, idque postea ab imperito scriptore in textum, loco tamen non suo, receptum fuisse.

"Which, indeed, the rope …" "I read καλόν, so that καλόν stands for καλῶς ('finely')," says Hervetus. Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has κάλων. Montagu conjectures καλοί, to agree with Βάκχοι. "Perhaps read διὰ κάλων ('by ropes'), unless that word grew out of the preceding ἐπικαλῶν," says Viger. And indeed it is not unlikely that someone noted in his book's margin beside the word ἐπιτελῶν, as the truer reading, "-κάλων", and that an unskilled copyist later took it into the text, though not in its proper place.

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(59) ‹anchor: διηγήσομαί σοι› · call in col 78

Διηγήσομαι. Διηγήσωμαι, Euseb., recte. Mox τὴν ὑπ' Αἰδωνέως ἁρπαγὴν, idem. Dein, τὸ χάσμα τῆς γῆς, idem et Joan. Postea τοῦ Εὐβουλέως, Euseb., sed τάς retinet Joan.

"I will relate." Eusebius has the subjunctive διηγήσωμαι, rightly. Shortly after, he has "the rape by Aidoneus" (with ὑπ'). Then "the chasm of the earth", he and the St John's manuscript. Afterwards Eusebius has "of Eubuleus" (τοῦ); but the St John's manuscript keeps τάς.

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(60) ‹anchor: χοίρους ἐκβάλλουσιν› · call in col 78

Χοίρους ἐκβάλλουσιν. Χείρους ἐμβάλλουσιν, Joan. Mox, ποικίλως κατὰ πόλεις ἑορτάζουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες. Euseb., Joan. Dein ἐκτραγῳδοῦσιν, Euseb. pro ἐκτραγῳδοῦσαι.

"They throw out pigs." The St John's manuscript has χείρους ἐμβάλλουσιν ("they throw in worse"). Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript: "the women celebrate variously city by city". Then Eusebius has ἐκτραγῳδοῦσιν for ἐκτραγῳδοῦσαι.

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(61) ‹anchor: Σκιροφόρια› · call in col 78

Σκιροφόρια. Σκιῤῥοφόρια, Euseb., Joan. Utrumque dici solet. Caeterum post Σκιροφόρια sequitur apud Nov. impressum, Euseb. et Joan., Ἀῤῥητοφόρια, quod excidisse videtur propter ὁμοιοτέλευτον. Nec quidem, ait Vigerus, rejici debet; licet grammatici Ἀῤῥηφορία potius quam Ἀῤῥητοφόρια, vel Ἀῤῥητοφορία scripserint. Hoc porro festum Minervae alii, alii vero Cereris et Proserpinae faciunt.

"Skirophoria." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has Σκιῤῥοφόρια; both forms are usual. Further, after Skirophoria the New manuscript, printed Eusebius and the St John's manuscript have "Arrhetophoria", which seems to have dropped out because of the like ending. Nor, says Viger, should it be rejected, though the grammarians wrote Arrhephoria rather than Arrhetophoria. Some make this a feast of Minerva, others of Ceres and Proserpine.

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(62) ‹anchor: ὑποδύντων Τιτάνων› · call in col 78

Ὑποδύντων Τιτάνων. Brevius et clarius legeretur, ὑποδύντες Τιτᾶνες, καὶ ἀπατήσαντες παιδαριώδεσιν ἀθύρμασι, διέσπασαν, ὡς ὁ τῆς, etc. Nam si prius εἰσέτι παῖδα ὄντα, quorsum deinde ἔτι νηπίαχον ὄντα; Quid? quod sententia post ὑπο- (continues)

"The Titans having crept in." It would read more briefly and clearly: "the Titans, having crept in and deceived him with childish toys, tore him apart, as the (poet) of the …", etc. For if first "being still a child", why then "being still an infant"? What of the fact that the sentence after ὑπο- … (continues)

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ὡς ὁ τῆς τελετῆς ποιητὴς Ὀρφεύς φησιν ὁ Θρᾷκιος·
as the poet of the rite, the Thracian Orpheus, says:
Κῶνος, καὶ ῥόμβος, καὶ παίγνια καμπεσίγυια, Μῆλά τε χρύσεα καλὰ παρ' Ἑσπερίδων λιγυφώνων.
Top, and bull-roarer, and limb-bending toys, and fair golden apples from the clear-voiced Hesperides.
Καὶ τῆσδε ὑμῖν τῆς τελετῆς τὰ ἀχρεῖα σύμβολα οὐκ ἀχρεῖον εἰς κατάγνωσιν παραθέσθαι· ἀστράγαλος, σφαῖρα, στρόβιλος, μῆλα, ῥόμβος, ἔσοπτρον, πόκος. Ἀθηνᾶ μὲν οὖν τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ Διονύσου ὑφελομένη, Παλλὰς ἐκ τοῦ πάλλειν τὴν καρδίαν προσηγορεύθη· οἱ δὲ Τιτᾶνες, οἱ καὶ διασπάσαντες αὐτὸν, λέβητά τινα τρίποδι ἐπιθέντες, καὶ τοῦ Διονύσου ἐμβάλλοντες τὰ μέλη, καθήψουν πρότερον· ἔπειτα ὀβελίσκοις περιπείραντες, ὑπείρεχον Ἡφαίστοιο. Ζεὺς δὲ ὕστερον ἐπιφανεὶς, εἰ θεὸς ἦν, τάχα που τῆς κνίσσης τῶν ὀπτωμένων κρεῶν μεταλαβὼν, ἧς δὴ τὸ γέρας λαχεῖν ὁμολογοῦσιν ὑμῶν οἱ θεοὶ, κεραυνῷ τοὺς Τιτᾶνας αἰκίζεται, καὶ τὰ μέλη τοῦ Διονύσου Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ παιδὶ παρακατατίθεται καταθάψαι. Ὁ δὲ, οὐ γὰρ ἠπείθησε Διὶ, εἰς τὸν Παρνασσὸν φέρων, κατατίθεται διεσπασμένον τὸν νεκρόν. Εἰ θέλεις δ' ἐποπτεῦσαι καὶ τὰ Κορυβάντων ὄργια, τὸν τρίτον ἀδελφὸν ἀποκτείναντες οὗτοι, τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ νεκροῦ φοινικίδι ἐπεκαλυψάτην· καὶ καταστρέψαντες ἐθαψάτην, φέροντες ἐπὶ χαλκῆς ἀσπίδος, ὑπὸ τὰς ὑπορείας τοῦ Ὀλύμπου. Καὶ ταῦτ' ἐστὶ τὰ
And it is not useless to set forth for you the useless symbols of this rite for condemnation: knucklebone, ball, spinning-top, apples, bull-roarer, mirror, fleece. Athena, then, having filched the heart of Dionysus, was called Pallas from the palpitating of the heart; while the Titans, who also tore him to pieces, having set a certain cauldron upon a tripod and cast in the limbs of Dionysus, first boiled them down; afterwards, having pierced them with spits, they held them over Hephaestus. And Zeus appearing later—if he was a god, perhaps having caught the savour of the roasting flesh, which your gods confess they have received as their privilege—torments the Titans with a thunderbolt, and entrusts the limbs of Dionysus to his son Apollo to bury. And he—for he did not disobey Zeus—bearing the mangled corpse to Parnassus, lays it to rest. And if you wish to behold also the orgies of the Corybantes, these, having slain the third brother, covered the head of the corpse with a purple cloth, and having wreathed it buried it, bearing it upon a brazen shield, beneath the foothills of Olympus. And these are the
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(63) ‹anchor: Κῶνος› · call in col 80

Κῶνος. Arnobius contra Gentes, lib. V: Cujus rei testimonium argumentumque fortunae suis prodidit in carminibus Thracius: Talos, speculum, turbines, volubiles rotulas, et teretes pilas, et virginibus aurea sumpta ab Hesperidibus mala, erat nobis consilium praeterire. Hesychius, Καμπεσίγυια, κάμπτοντα τὰ μέλη. Scaliger, in Catullum: Tympanum, tubam, Cybelle, tua, Mater, initia: non hic sacra, sed plane crepundia. Apuleius, in Apologetico: Etiamne cuiquam mirum videri potest, cui sit ulla memoria religionis, hominem tot mysteriis deum conscium, quaedam sacrorum crepundia domi asservare? Nam tuba et tympanum sunt crepundia Cybeles, cum adhuc in cunis esset, ut Bacchi: Κῶνος, καὶ ῥόμβος, καὶ παίγνια καμπεσίγυια. Παίγνια, crepundia, initia. Pindarus, in Hyporchematis, vocat καταρχάς. Adde Glossarium: Crepundia, γνωρίσματα, ἀρχαί. Idem in hunc locum Varronis lib. VIII De lingua Latina: Ac si quis puerorum per delicias pedes male ponere, atque imitari vacias coeperit, hoc corrigi oportere, ei concedant: contra si quis in consuetudine ambulandi jam factus sit vacia, aut compernis, si eum corrigi non concedant, non sequitur, ut stulte faciant, qui pueris in geniculis obligent serperastra, ut eorum depravata corrigant crura. Καμπεσίγυια, serperastra. Orpheus enumerans crepundia Bacchi, in infantum supellectile recenset illa, ut citat Clemens. COLLECT. Sed vereor, ut Scaliger persuadeat, καμπεσίγυια esse serperastra. Hic enim Orpheus crepundia enumerat, quibus infantes oblectari solent: at serperastra puerorum geniculis illigabantur, quibus crurum pravitatem corrigerent. Lusus ergo fuere τὰ καμπεσίγυια, serperastra medicinae. VIGER. Conf. Hyginus Fab. 167; Julius Firmicus, pag. 13, 14, 15.

"A top." Arnobius, Against the Gentiles, Book V: "The Thracian poet has revealed in his songs the testimony and proof of this, and of his fortunes: the knucklebones, the mirror, the spinning-tops, the rolling wheels and the smooth balls, and the golden apples taken from the Hesperides for the maidens — these we had meant to pass over." Hesychius: "kampesiguia: things that bend the limbs." Scaliger, on Catullus: "'Drum, trumpet, Cybele, your initiations, Mother': these are not rites here, but plainly toys." Apuleius, in the Apology: "Can it seem strange to anyone with any memory of religion that a man privy to so many mysteries of the gods should keep at home certain toys of the rites?" For trumpet and drum are the toys of Cybele while she was still in the cradle, as are those of Bacchus: "top, and bull-roarer, and limb-bending playthings". Παίγνια: toys, first beginnings; Pindar in his Hyporchemata calls them "beginnings". Add the Glossary: "crepundia: tokens, beginnings". The same (Scaliger), on this passage of Varro, On the Latin Language VIII: "And if any boy in play begins to set his feet badly and to imitate the bandy-legged, they would grant that this ought to be corrected; on the other hand, if someone has already become bandy-legged or knock-kneed through his habit of walking, and they do not grant that he should be corrected, it does not follow that those act foolishly who bind leg-splints on boys' knees to correct their crooked legs." Καμπεσίγυια: leg-splints. Orpheus, listing the toys of Bacchus, counts them among the furniture of infants, as Clement quotes. Collect. But I doubt that Scaliger will persuade anyone that καμπεσίγυια are leg-splints. For Orpheus here lists the toys with which infants are usually amused, whereas leg-splints were bound to boys' knees to correct crooked legs. So the καμπεσίγυια were playthings; leg-splints are medicine. Viger. Compare Hyginus, Fable 167; Julius Firmicus, pp. 13, 14, 15.

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(64) ‹anchor: στρόβιλος› · call in col 80

Στρόβιλος. Στροβῦλος in marg. Joan. Mox οὖν omittit.

"Spinning-top." The margin of the St John's manuscript has στροβῦλος. Shortly after, it omits οὖν.

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(65) ‹anchor: Ἐμβάλλοντες› · call in col 80

Ἐμβάλλοντες. Ἐμβαλόντες. Euseb., Joan. Mox καθήψων. IIDEM.}

"Throwing in." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has the aorist ἐμβαλόντες. Shortly after, καθήψων. The same. [The closing brace is printed.]

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(66) ‹anchor: ὀβελίσκοις› · call in col 80

Ὀβελίσκοις. Respicit Homeri Iliad. B, v. 426: Σπλάγχνα δ' ἄρ' ἀμπείραντες, ὑπείρεχον Ἡφαίστοιο· / Αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ κατὰ μῆρ' ἐκάη, καὶ σπλάγχν' ἐπάσαντο, / Μίστυλλόν τ' ἄρα τἄλλα, καὶ ἀμφ' ὀβελοῖσιν ἔπειραν.

"On spits." He has in mind Homer, Iliad II (Β), line 426: "Then, spitting the entrails, they held them over Hephaestus' flame; but when the thighs were burnt and they had tasted the entrails, they cut up the rest and pierced it on spits."

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(67) ‹anchor: Τὸ γέρας› · call in col 80

Τὸ γέρας. Respicit Homeri Iliad. Δ', v. 49: Λοιβῆς τε, κνίσσης τε· τὸ γὰρ λάχομεν γέρας ἡμεῖς. Mox, ὁμολογοῦσιν ὑμῶν οἱ θεοὶ λαχεῖν, Euseb., Joan., nisi quod hic ὑμῖν habeat.

"The prize of honour." He has in mind Homer, Iliad IV (Δ), line 49: "of libation and the savour of fat; for that is the honour we have as our portion." Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, reads "your gods confess that they have received", except that the manuscript has ὑμῖν.

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(68) ‹anchor: Παρακατατίθεται› · call in col 80

Παρακατατίθεται. Quae hanc vocem sequuntur usque ad κατατίθεται excidisse videntur e Nov. propter τὸ ὁμοιοτέλευτον harum vocum. Caeterum hic θάψαι pro καταθάψαι, habent Euseb., Joan. Et οὐ γάρ pro οὐδὲ γάρ, Joan. Dein, τοῦτον τὸν νεκρόν, uterque. Item, ἐθέλεις pro εἰ θέλεις, Euseb. recte, ut videtur, hanc sententiam interrogative proferens.

"Entrusts." What follows this word, up to κατατίθεται, seems to have dropped out of the New manuscript because of the like ending of these words. Further, here Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has θάψαι for καταθάψαι ("to bury"); and the St John's manuscript οὐ γάρ for οὐδὲ γάρ. Then both have "this corpse". Likewise Eusebius has ἐθέλεις for εἰ θέλεις, rightly as it seems, putting this sentence as a question.

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Τρίτον ἀδελφόν. Hervetus hic frustra τρίτον mutavit in ἑαυτῶν. Tres enim fratres erant Corybantes. Strabo, lib. X: Τοὺς Κορύβαντας οἱ μὲν τοῦ Διὸς καὶ Καλλιόπης φασὶ, τοὺς αὐτοὺς τοῖς Καβείροις ὄντας. Paulo post ex Pherecyde tradit, Vulcanum ex Cabeira Protei filia, tres Cabeiros, totidemque nymphas Caberidas ortas. Arnobius, lib. V: Oblivioni etiam Corybantia sacra donentur, in quibus sanctum illud mysterium traditur: Frater trucidatur a fratribus, interempti ex sanguine apium natum, prohibitum mensis olus illud apponi, ne a manibus mortui inexpiabilis contraheretur offensio. Jul. Firmicus De errore profan. relig., cap. 12: In sacris Corybantium parricidium colitur. Nam unus frater (continues)

"The third brother." Hervetus here needlessly changed "third" to "of themselves". For the Corybantes were three brothers. Strabo X: "Some say the Corybantes are the sons of Zeus and Calliope, being the same as the Cabeiri." A little later he reports from Pherecydes that from Vulcan and Cabeira, daughter of Proteus, were born three Cabeiri and as many Cabeirid nymphs. Arnobius, Book V: "Let the Corybantic rites too be consigned to oblivion, in which this holy mystery is handed down: a brother is slaughtered by his brothers; parsley sprang from the blood of the slain, and that herb is forbidden to be set on tables, lest an inexpiable offence be incurred from the dead man's shade." Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions, ch. 12: "In the rites of the Corybantes a murder of kin is worshipped. For one brother … (continues)

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Ἀποκτείναντες. Ἀπεκτονότες, Joan. Mox, καταστέψαντες (continues)

"Having killed." The St John's manuscript has the perfect ἀπεκτονότες. Shortly after, "having crowned" … (continues)

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μυστήρια, συνελόντι φάναι, φόνοι καὶ τάφοι· οἱ δὲ ἱερεῖς οἱ τῶνδε, οὓς Ἀνακτοτελέστας, οἷς μέλον καλεῖν, καλοῦσι, προσεπιτερατεύονται τῇ συμφορᾷ, ὁλόῤῥιζον ἀπαγορεύοντες σέλινον ἐπὶ τραπέζης τιθέναι· οἴονται γὰρ δὴ, ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ ἀποῤῥυέντος τοῦ Κορυβαντικοῦ τὸ σέλινον ἐκπεφυκέναι· ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ αἱ θεσμοφοριάζουσαι τῆς ῥοιᾶς τοὺς κόκκους παραφυλάττουσιν ἐσθίειν· τοὺς ἀποπεπτωκότας χαμαὶ ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Διονύσου αἵματος σταγόνων βεβλαστηκέναι νομίζουσι τὰς ῥοιάς. Καβείρους δὲ τοὺς Κορύβαντας καλοῦντες, καὶ τελευτὴν Καβειρικὴν καταγγέλλουσιν. Αὐτὼ γὰρ δὴ τούτω τὼ ἀδελφοκτόνω, τὴν κίστην ἀνελομένω, ἐν ᾗ τὸ τοῦ Διονύσου αἰδοῖον ἀπέκειτο, εἰς Τυῤῥηνίαν κατήγαγον, εὐκλεοῦς ἔμποροι φορτίου· κἀνταῦθα διετριβέτην, φυγάδε ὄντε, τὴν πολυτίμητον εὐσεβείας διδασκαλίαν, αἰδοῖα καὶ κίστην, θρησκεύειν παραθεμένω Τυῤῥηνοῖς. Δι' ἣν αἰτίαν οὐκ ἀπεικότως τὸν Διόνυσόν τινες Ἄττιν προσαγορεύεσθαι θέλουσιν, αἰδοίων ἐστερημένον. Καὶ τί θαυμαστὸν εἰ Τυῤῥηνοὶ οἱ βάρβαροι αἰσχροῖς οὕτω τελίσκονται παθήμασιν, ὅπουγε Ἀθηναίοις καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ Ἑλλάδι, αἰδοῦμαι καὶ λέγειν, αἰσχύνης ἔμπλεως ἡ περὶ τὴν Δηὼ μυθολογία ; Ἀλωμένη γὰρ ἡ Δηὼ κατὰ ζήτησιν τῆς θυγατρὸς τῆς Κόρης, περὶ τὴν Ἐλευσῖνα (τῆς Ἀττικῆς δέ ἐστι τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον) ἀποκάμνει, καὶ φρέατι ἐπικαθίζει λυπουμένη. Τοῦτο τοῖς μυουμένοις ἀπαγορεύεται εἰσέτι νῦν, ἵνα μὴ δοκοῖεν, οἱ τετελεσμένοι μιμεῖσθαι τὴν ὀδυρομένην. ᾬκουν δὲ τηνικάδε τὴν Ἐλευσῖνα οἱ γηγενεῖς· ὀνόματα αὐτοῖς, Βαυβὼ, καὶ Δυσαύλης, καὶ Τριπτόλεμος· ἔτι δὲ Εὔμολπός τε, καὶ Εὐβουλεύς. Βουκό-
mysteries, in a word, murders and tombs! And the priests of these rites, whom those who care to call them so call Anactotelestae, add further portentousness to the calamity, forbidding celery with its whole root to be placed upon the table; for they actually suppose that celery grew forth out of the Corybantic blood that flowed away; just as, of course, the women celebrating the Thesmophoria also beware of eating the seeds of the pomegranate; they suppose that from the drops of the blood of Dionysus that fell upon the ground the pomegranates sprouted. And calling the Corybantes Cabiri, they also proclaim a Cabiric rite. For those very two fratricides, having taken up the chest in which the privy part of Dionysus was laid away, brought it down to Tyrrhenia, merchants of a glorious cargo; and there they tarried, being exiles, having set before the Tyrrhenians the precious teaching of piety, privy parts and a chest, for them to worship. For which cause not unreasonably some will have it that Dionysus is called Attis, being deprived of his privy parts. And what wonder if the Tyrrhenians, who are barbarians, are initiated into such shameful sufferings, when among the Athenians and the rest of Greece—I am ashamed even to speak of it—the mythology concerning Deo is full of shame? For Deo, wandering in search of her daughter Kore, grows weary about Eleusis (this place belongs to Attica) and sits down upon a well in grief. This is forbidden to those who are initiated even to this day, lest the initiated should seem to imitate her who mourned. And at that time the earth-born inhabited Eleusis: their names were Baubo, and Dysaules, and Triptolemus; and besides, Eumolpus and Eubuleus. A herds-
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(71) ‹anchor: Ἀνακτοτελέστας› · call in col 82

Ἀνακτοτελέστας. Al. Ἀνακτοτελέτας, quod usitatius est. Hesychius, Ἀνακτοτελέται, inquit, οἱ τὰς τελετὰς ἐπιτελοῦντες τῶν ἱερῶν. Itaque Reges sacrorum, verti. Huc referri potest locus ille Pausaniae, τῶν Φοινίκων extremo: Ἄγουσι τελετὴν Ἀμφισσεῖς Ἀνάκτων καλουμένην παίδων· οἵτινες δὲ θεῶν εἰσιν οἱ Ἄνακτες παῖδες, οὐ κατὰ ταὐτά ἐστιν εἰρημένον· οἱ μὲν Διοσκούρους, οἱ δὲ Κούρητας, οἱ δὲ πλέον τι ἐπίστασθαι νομίζοντες, Καβείρους λέγουσι. VIGER. — Mox, καλεῖν omittunt Euseb., Joan.

"Anaktotelestai." Others read Ἀνακτοτελέτας, which is more usual. Hesychius: "Anaktotelétai," he says, "those who perform the rites of the sacred things." So I translated "Kings of the rites". To this may be referred the passage of Pausanias at the end of the Phocica [printed "Φοινίκων"]: "The people of Amphissa celebrate a rite of the so-called Boy Kings; but which gods the Boy Kings are is not said in the same way: some say the Dioscuri, others the Curetes, and those who think they know more say the Cabeiri." Viger. — Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, omits καλεῖν.

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(72) ‹anchor: τραπέζῃς› · call in col 82

Τραπέζῃς. Τραπέζῃ. Euseb., Joan. Dein ἀπορέντος, pro ἀποῤῥυέντος, Nov. — Paulo post, τοὺς τῆς ῥοιᾶς κόκκους, Euseb., Joan. Mox, τοὺς γὰρ ἀπεκτωκότας, iidem; sed supra id in Joan. aliquis scripsit ἀποπεπτωκότας. Mihi videntur haec verba ad praecedentia spectare, idque proinde in versione expressi. Dein, malim νομίζουσαι, quam νομίζουσι.

"On the table." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has τραπέζῃ. Then the New manuscript has ἀπορέντος for ἀποῤῥυέντος ("having flowed off"). — A little after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript: "the seeds of the pomegranate". Shortly after, the same have τοὺς γὰρ ἀπεκτωκότας; but above it in the St John's manuscript someone wrote ἀποπεπτωκότας ("those that have fallen off"). These words seem to me to refer to what precedes, and so I have rendered it in the translation. Then I would rather read νομίζουσαι than νομίζουσι.

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Τελευτήν. Τελετήν, caeremoniam, sacra, Euseb., Joan., recte. Et hanc quidem emendationem fieri debere jampridem observavit Meursius, Graeciae Feriatae lib. IV, v. Καβείρια. Mox, καταλέγουσιν, pro καταγγέλλουσιν, Joan. Dein, αὐτῷ γὰρ δὴ τούτῳ τῷ ἀδελφοκτόνῳ, τὴν κίστην ἀνελομένῳ, Euseb. singulari numero. Mox, τοῦ Διονύσου τὸ αἰδοῖον ἀπεκεῖτο, Euseb., Joan.; sed, in hujus margine aliquis scripsit ἐναπέκειτο.

"End." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has τελετήν, "ceremony", "rites", rightly; and Meursius long ago observed that this emendation should be made (Graecia Feriata IV, under "Kabeiria"). Shortly after, the St John's manuscript has καταλέγουσιν ("recount") for καταγγέλλουσιν ("announce"). Then Eusebius, in the singular: "for to this very fratricide, who took up the chest". Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript: "the member of Dionysus was laid away"; but in the margin of the manuscript someone wrote ἐναπέκειτο ("was laid away in it").

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(74) ‹anchor: Διετριβέτην› · call in col 82

Διετριβέτην. Διατριβείτην, Euseb.; διατριβέτην, Joan. Mox, πολύτιμον, pro πολυτίμητον. Idem. Paulo post, παραθεμένῳ θρησκεύειν. Item. τινὲς τὸν Διόνυσον, inverso verborum ordine, Idem.

"The two spent time." Eusebius has διατριβείτην; the St John's manuscript διατριβέτην. Shortly after, πολύτιμον for πολυτίμητον ("highly honoured"); the same. A little after, "to the one who entrusted it, to worship". Likewise "some … Dionysus", with the word order reversed; the same.

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Ἄττιν. Arcerius convenientius scribi posse Ἄτην suspicatur; nempe παρὰ τὴν ἄτην, τὴν βλάβην· utpote mulctatum virilibus. Sed Ἄττιν habet etiam Eusebius. SYLBURG. — Et quidem recte quis Attyn vocaverit, hominem castratum: erat enim Attys, Cybeles sacerdos, exsectus.

"Attis." Arcerius suspects that Ἄτην could more fittingly be written, that is, from ἄτη, "harm", as one deprived of his manhood. But Eusebius too has Ἄττιν. Sylburg. — And indeed one might rightly call a castrated man "Attys"; for Attys, the priest of Cybele, was gelded.

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Τελίσκονται. Aliquis in marg. Joan. τελίσκουσι scripsit.

"Are initiated." Someone wrote the active τελίσκουσι in the margin of the St John's manuscript.

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Ὅπου γε. Conf. Arnobius, lib. V.

"Where indeed." Compare Arnobius, Book V.

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Ἀττικῆς δέ ἐστι τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον. Ἀττικῆς ἐστι τοῦτο χωρίον, JOAN.

"And this place is in Attica." The St John's manuscript reads "this place is in Attica" (without δέ and the article).

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Φρέατι. Puteum hunc Pausanias indicat in Atticis, p. 36, dum scribit: Ἐλευσινίοις ἐστὶ μὲν Τριπτολέμου ναὸς, etc., φρέαρ τε καλούμενον Καλλίχορον, ἔνθα πρῶτον Ἐλευσινίων αἱ γυναῖκες χορὸν ἔστησαν, καὶ ᾖσαν ἐς τὴν θεόν. Nempe quod Ceres eo in puteo consedisset. Unde Callimachus, hymno de Cerere (qui versus in Henrici Stephani editione omissus est): Τρὶς δ' ἐπὶ Καλλιχόρῳ χαμάδις ἐκαθίσσαο φρητί· Cererem ipsam alloquitur. Et Nicander, in Theriacis: . . . Τὸν μέν τ' ἐρέει φάτις, οὕνεκ' Ἀχαιὴ / Δημήτηρ ἔβλαψεν, ὅθ' ἄγεα σίνατο παιδός, / Καλλίχορον περὶ φρεῖαρ..... VIGER.

"At a well." Pausanias points to this well in the Attica, p. 36, where he writes: "The Eleusinians have a temple of Triptolemus," etc., "and a well called Callichorus, where the women of Eleusis first set up a dance and sang to the goddess." That is, because Ceres had sat down by that well. Hence Callimachus, in the hymn to Ceres (a line omitted in Henri Estienne's edition): "Three times you sat on the ground by the well Callichorus," addressing Ceres herself. And Nicander, in the Theriaca: "… the tale will tell of him, that Achaean Demeter harmed him, when he wronged her child's grief, beside the well Callichorus …" Viger.

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Δοκοῖεν. Δοκεῖεν, Joan. Paulo post pro ᾤχουν, aliquis in marg. Joan. ᾤκνουν posuit. Dein, pro Ἐλευσῖνα, idem habet Ἐλευσίν, sed Ἐλευσῖνα in ejus margine scriptum est.

"That they may (not) seem." The St John's manuscript has δοκεῖεν. A little after, for ᾤχουν ("they dwelt"), someone put ᾤκνουν in the margin of the St John's manuscript. Then for Ἐλευσῖνα the same manuscript has Ἐλευσίν, but Ἐλευσῖνα is written in its margin.

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Βαυβώ. Horum etiam omnium, si Baubonem (continues)

"Baubo." Of all these too, if Baubo … (continues)

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λος ὁ Τριπτόλεμος ἦν, ποιμὴν δὲ ὁ Εὔμολπος· συβώτης δὲ ὁ Εὐβουλεύς· ἀφ' ὧν τὸ Εὐμολπιδῶν, καὶ τὸ Κηρύκων τὸ ἱεροφαντικὸν δὴ τοῦτο Ἀθήνησι γένος ἤνθηκεν. Καὶ δὴ (οὐ γὰρ ἀνήσω μὴ οὐχὶ εἰπεῖν) ξενίσασα ἡ Βαυβὼ τὴν Δηὼ, ὀρέγει κυκεῶνα αὐτῇ· τῆς δὲ ἀναινομένης λαβεῖν, καὶ πιεῖν οὐκ ἐθελούσης (πενθήρης γὰρ ἦν) περιαλγὴς ἡ Βαυβὼ γενομένη, ὡς ὑπεροραθεῖσα δῆθεν, ἀναστέλλεται τὰ αἰδοῖα, καὶ ἐπιδεικνύει τῇ θεῷ. Ἡ δὲ τέρπεται τῇ ὄψει ἡ Δηώ· καὶ μόλις ποτὲ δέχεται τὸ ποτὸν, ἡσθεῖσα τῷ θεάματι. Ταῦτ' ἐστὶ τὰ κρύφια τῶν Ἀθηναίων μυστήρια· ταῦτά τοι καὶ Ὀρφεὺς ἀνάγράφει. Παραθήσομαι δέ σοι αὐτὰ τοῦ Ὀρφέως τὰ ἔπη, ἵν' ἔχῃς μάρτυρα τῆς ἀναισχυντίας τὸν μυσταγωγόν.
man was Triptolemus, and Eumolpus a shepherd, and Eubuleus a swineherd; from whom the race of the Eumolpidae and that of the Ceryces, this hierophantic race at Athens, flourished. And indeed (for I will not forbear to tell it), Baubo, having received Deo as a guest, holds out a kykeon to her; and when she refuses to take it and is unwilling to drink (for she was in mourning), Baubo, becoming deeply aggrieved as though slighted, pulls up her clothes and exposes her privy parts to the goddess. And Deo is delighted at the sight, and at last barely accepts the draught, pleased with the spectacle. These are the secret mysteries of the Athenians; these very things Orpheus also records. And I will set before you the very verses of Orpheus, so that you may have the mystagogue himself as a witness of their shamelessness.
Ὣς εἰποῦσα, πέπλους ἀνεσύρετο, δεῖξε δὲ πάντα Σώματος οὐδὲ πρέποντα τύπον· παῖς δ' ἦεν Ἴακχος· Χειρί τέ μιν ῥίπτασκε γελῶν Βαυβοῦς ὑπὸ κόλποις. Ἡ δ' ἐπεὶ οὖν μείδησε θεὰ, μείδησ' ἐνὶ θυμῷ. Δέξατο δ' αἰόλον ἄγγος, ἐν ᾧ κυκεὼν ἐνέκειτο.
Thus having spoken, she drew up her robes, and showed the whole unseemly shape of her body; and the child Iacchus was there, and laughing he tossed it with his hand beneath Baubo's bosom. And when the goddess then smiled, she smiled in her heart, and received the gleaming vessel in which the kykeon lay.
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Ἀφ' ὧν τό. Ἀφ' ὧν δὴ τό, Euseb., Joan.

"From whom the …" Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has "from whom indeed the …"

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Κηρύκων. Recte: fuerunt enim Eumolpidarum et Praeconum familiae Athenis conjunctissimae. Pausanias, in Attic. p. 36: Τελευτήσαντος δὲ Εὐμόλπου, κῆρυξ νεώτερος λείπεται τῶν παίδων, ὃν αὐτοὶ κήρυκες, θυγατρὸς Κέκροπος Ἀγλαύρου καὶ Ἑρμοῦ παῖδα εἶναι λέγουσιν, ἀλλ' οὐχ Εὐμόλπου. Praecipua utrique familiae mysteriorum cura. Plutarchus, in Alcibiade, accusatum eum scribit, quod mysteria domi simulasset, ὀνομάζων αὐτὸν μὲν ἱεροφάντην, Πλουτίωνα δὲ δᾳδοῦχον, κήρυκα δὲ Θεόδωρον, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους ἑταίρους μύστας καὶ ἐπόπτας, idque παρὰ τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τὰ καθεστηκότα ὑπό τε Εὐμολπιδῶν, καὶ Κηρύκων, καὶ τῶν ἱερέων τῶν ἐξ Ἐλευσῖνος. VIGER.

"Of the Heralds." Rightly; for the families of the Eumolpidae and of the Heralds (Kerykes) were very closely joined at Athens. Pausanias, Attica, p. 36: "When Eumolpus died, Keryx, the younger of his sons, was left; but the Kerykes themselves say that he was the son of Hermes and Aglaurus, daughter of Cecrops, and not of Eumolpus." Both families had the chief charge of the mysteries. Plutarch, in the Alcibiades, writes that he was accused of having mimicked the mysteries at his house, "calling himself hierophant, Pulytion torch-bearer, Theodorus herald, and his other companions initiates and beholders", and that "contrary to the laws and ordinances of the Eumolpidae, the Kerykes and the priests of Eleusis". Viger.

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Ἱεροφαντικὸν δὴ τ. Ἱεροφαντικὸν τοῦτο γένος ἤνθησε, καί, etc., Euseb., Joan., ἤνθεσεν habet etiam Nov. Mox, Καὶ γάρ, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀνήσω μὴ οὐχὶ εἰπ. Joan.

"A hierophantic (race) indeed …" Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript: "this hierophantic race flourished, and," etc.; the New manuscript also has ἤνθεσεν. Shortly after, the St John's manuscript: "And indeed, for I shall not refrain from saying …"

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Ἐπιδεικνύει. Ὑποδεικνύει, Euseb., Joan.

"Displays." Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has ὑποδεικνύει ("shows privately").

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Ἵν' ἔχῃς μ. Ἵν' ἔχοις μάρτυρα ἀναισχυντίας, Euseb. Caeterum Orpheum μυσταγωγόν vocat; quia τὰς θεῶν τελετάς, deorum caeremonias, instituisse fertur, referente in Boeoticis Pausania. Tatianus, pag. 3: Ποίησιν μὲν γὰρ ἀσκεῖν καὶ ᾄδειν Ὀρφεὺς ὑμᾶς ἐδίδαξεν· ὁ δ' αὐτὸς καὶ μυεῖσθαι. Poeticae studium et canendi docuit vos Orpheus, sicut etiam initiatorios ritus. Idem refert Justinus M. Cohort. ad Graec. pag. 76, 77, aliisque locis; Athenagoras Legat., p. 64, alios ut mittam.

"That you may have a w(itness)." Eusebius: "that you might have a witness of shamelessness" (optative). He calls Orpheus a mystagogue because he is said to have founded the rites of the gods, as Pausanias reports in the Boeotica. Tatian, p. 3: "Orpheus taught you to practise poetry and singing; the same taught you also to be initiated." Justin Martyr says the same, Exhortation to the Greeks, pp. 76–77 and elsewhere; and Athenagoras, Embassy, p. 64, to pass over others.

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Ὡς εἰποῦσα. Paulus Leopardus, lib. VI, cap. 25, Emendationum, haec Orphei carmina, ut apud Arnobium, lib. V, et Clementem hic, itaque apud interpretem Eusebii habentur lib. II De praeparat. evang. cap. 5, emendanda esse ait, et notandum in tertio carmine Arnobium videri aliter legisse, quam Graeca habeant exemplaria, tam Clementis quam Eusebii. Nam ab illis nulla fit mentio Iacchi; quare non παῖς δ' ἦεν Ἴακχος suspicatur eum legisse, sed παῖς νηπίαχος δ' ἦν, aut aliquid simile. Ut semel dicam quod sentio, inquit, sunt haec involuta et μυστηριώδη et forte mendosa. Caeterum fortasse legendum est apud utrumque ut legit Arnobius, qui in hujus impurae fabulae narratione hunc versum videtur expressisse illis verbis: Facit sumere habitum, etc. In Eusebio impresso quod ad reliquum attinet, legitur ὑποδεικνύει, ut suspicatur legendum Hervetus. Caetera leguntur ut apud Clementem, nisi quod δεῖξε δὲ πάντα corrigendum est pro δεῖξαι, cyceon, cinnus Nonio, potio ex multis liquoribus confecta. Athenaeus, lib. II: Κυκεὼν γὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ γίνεται, τοῦτ' ἔστι πόσις ἐν τῷ κράματι τυρὸν ἔχουσα καὶ ἄλφιτον. Hesychius: Κυκεὼν, πόμα ἐκ πολλῶν βοτανῶν συγκείμενον, aliis οἰνόμελι, ut et interpretationum hujus nominis cinnus fieri possit; sed Budaeus ejus varia fuisse genera admonet. Vide Turnebum lib. XII, cap. 8, Advers. Arnobius etiam et Cicero cinnum vertunt. COLLECT. — Nullus est criticus, peritus imperitus, e plebe aut e patribus, qui non in hoc loco sudaverit. Et in primis summus vir Paulus Leopardus, cum se diu in omnem partem vertisset, ut est homo minime ambitiosus, tandem ait, mystica videri sibi, et non minus quam haec ipsa sacra, quae hic vates prodidit Threicius, obscura ac involuta. Nam cur nemo, ac ne ipse quidem Arnobius, qui versus hos Latine fecit, aut ex aliquo, ut ego arbitror, poeta, qui Latine Orphica converterat, deprompsit, meminit Iacchi? meminit aetatis ejus: meminit flagitii ejus, quod Bauboni ipse Arnobius ascribit? Nam ecce tibi versus: Sic effata, simul vestem contraxit ab imo, / Objecitque oculis formatas inguinibus res. / Quas cava concutiens Baubo manu, nam puerilis / Ollis vultus erat, plaudit, contrectat amice. / Tum dea defigens augusti luminis orbes, / Tristitias animi paulum mollita reponit: (continues)

"So saying." Paulus Leopardus, Emendationes VI, 25, says that these lines of Orpheus, as they stand in Arnobius V, in Clement here, and likewise in the translator of Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel II, 5, need emending; and that it should be noted that in the third line Arnobius seems to have read otherwise than the Greek copies of both Clement and Eusebius. For he makes no mention of Iacchus; so Leopardus suspects that he read not "and the child was Iacchus" but "and it was an infant child", or something similar. "To say once for all what I think," he says, "these lines are obscure, mystical, and perhaps corrupt." But perhaps in both authors one should read as Arnobius read, who in his telling of this foul tale seems to have rendered this line with the words "She makes it take on the appearance", etc. As for the rest, printed Eusebius reads ὑποδεικνύει, as Hervetus suspects should be read. The rest reads as in Clement, except that δεῖξε δὲ πάντα is to be corrected for δεῖξαι; "cyceon", in Nonius "cinnus", a drink made of many liquids. Athenaeus II: "For it becomes a kykeon, that is, a drink having cheese and barley-meal in the mixture." Hesychius: "kykeon, a drink compounded of many herbs"; to others it is honeyed wine, so that "cinnus" can also be counted among the renderings of this name; but Budé points out that there were various kinds of it. See Turnèbe, Adversaria XII, 8. Arnobius and Cicero also render it "cinnus". Collect. — There is no critic, skilled or unskilled, plebeian or patrician, who has not sweated over this passage. Above all that very great man Paulus Leopardus, after long turning himself every way, being a man not at all ambitious, at last says that it seems to him mystical, and no less obscure and involved than the very rites that the Thracian bard here betrays. For why does no one, not even Arnobius himself, who put these verses into Latin, or (as I think) drew them from some poet who had turned the Orphica into Latin, mention Iacchus? He mentions his age; he mentions his shameful act, which Arnobius himself ascribes to Baubo. For here are the verses: "So saying, she at once drew up her robe from the hem, and exposed to view the parts shaped at the groin; which Baubo, striking with hollow hand — for they had a childish face — pats and fondles kindly. Then the goddess, fixing the orbs of her august eyes, a little softened, lays aside the sadness of her mind:" (continues)

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Inde manu poclum sumit, risuque sequenti Perducit totum cyceonis laeta liquorem.

Then she takes the cup in her hand, and, with laughter following, / gladly drains the whole liquor of the kykeon.

At vero Graecus : Ὣς εἰποῦσα, πέπλους ἀνεσύρετο, δεῖξε δὲ πάντα Σώματος οὐδὲ πρέποντα τύπον· παῖς δ' ἦεν Ἴακχος· Χειρί τέ μιν ῥίπτασκε γελῶν Βαυβοῦς ὑπὸ κόλποις. Ἡ δ' ἐπεὶ οὖν μείδησε θεὰ, μείδησ' ἐνὶ θυμῷ, Δέξατο δ' αἰόλον ἄγγος, ἐν ᾧ κυκεὼν ἐνέκειτο.

But the Greek runs: "So saying, she drew up her robes and showed the whole shape of the body, not seemly; and the child Iacchus was there, and laughing he tossed her with his hand beneath Baubo's bosom. Then, when the goddess smiled, smiled in her heart, she took the glancing vessel in which the kykeon lay."

Dedit paraphrasin potius quam strictam interpretationem Arnobius. Et tamen ecce de Iaccho nihil. Totum illud drama μυστηριῶδες, foedum, καὶ κατάπτυστον, a Baubone et Cerere peragitur. Nusquam vel levissima Iacchi mentio. Quid de versibus loquor? Idem Arnobius, verbis paulo ante suis minima maxima sigillatim persequitur, et Orphica non tam exponit quam dilatat: Redit ad deam tristem, inquit, et inter illa communia, quibus moris est frangere ac temperare moerores, retegit seipsum: atque omnia illa pudoris loca revelatis monstrat inguinibus. Atque pubi affigit oculos diva, et inauditi specie solaminis pascitur. Tum diffusior facta per risum, aspernatam sumit atque ebibit potionem: et quod diu nequivit verecundia Baubonis exprimere, propudiosi facinoris extorsit obscenitas. Sed quid Arnobium loquor? Totam fabulam interpretatur ipse Clemens, et quasi stricta oratione, Orphica diducit. An ergo ipse Clemens meminit Iacchi? Nihil minus. Ξενίσασα ἡ Βαυβὼ τὴν Δηὼ, inquit, ὀρέγει κυκεῶνα αὐτῇ. Τῆς δὲ ἀναινομένης λαβεῖν, καὶ πιεῖν οὐκ ἐθελούσης (πενθήρης γὰρ ἦν), περιαλγὴς ἡ Βαυβὼ γενομένη, ὡς ὑπεροραθεῖσα δῆθεν, ἀναστέλλεται τὰ αἰδοῖα, καὶ ἐπιδεικνύει τῇ θεῷ. Ἡ δὲ τέρπεται τῇ ὄψει ἡ Δηώ· καὶ μόλις ποτὲ δέχεται τὸ ποτὸν, ἡσθεῖσα τῷ θεάματι. Nusquam hic est Iacchus, nusquam puer dicitur, nusquam manum proterve movet. Plane corruperunt hunc versum homines religiosi, et, uti reor, pudebat verborum; quae fuerunt tamen verecunda, si quis cum Arnobianis contendat. Imo cum praefatione honoris, proferuntur a vate, pudendis, et, ut ille loquitur, propudiosis sacris praefecto. Neque ulla foeditas in verbis, sed in sacro et in facto Baubus, summa καὶ ἐσχάτη ἀσχημοσύνη est, quam nisi vellent intelligi homines sanctissimi, nunquam tot verbis totum facinus et foeditatem rei exposuisset Arnobius. Scripserat hoc modo sine ullo dubio poeta Graecus, et sic legit Arnobius:

Arnobius gave a paraphrase rather than a strict rendering. And yet, behold, nothing about Iacchus. That whole mystic drama, foul and "deserving to be spat upon", is played out by Baubo and Ceres. Nowhere is there even the slightest mention of Iacchus. Why do I speak of the verses? Arnobius himself, in his own words a little earlier, pursues the least and the greatest things one by one, and does not so much expound the Orphic lines as enlarge them: "She returns to the sorrowing goddess," he says, "and amid those common means by which it is customary to break and temper griefs, she uncovers herself, and with her groin laid bare shows all those places of shame. And the goddess fixes her eyes on the pubes, and feeds on the sight of an unheard-of consolation. Then, made merrier through laughter, she takes the potion she had spurned and drinks it off; and what the modesty of Baubo had long been unable to draw out, the obscenity of a shameless deed wrung forth." But why do I speak of Arnobius? Clement himself interprets the whole fable and draws out the Orphic lines as if in prose. Does Clement himself, then, make mention of Iacchus? Nothing of the kind. "Baubo, having received Deo as a guest," he says, "offers her the kykeon. And when she refuses to take it and is unwilling to drink (for she was in mourning), Baubo, much grieved, as though forsooth slighted, uncovers her private parts and displays them to the goddess. And Deo is delighted at the sight, and at last, with difficulty, receives the drink, pleased by the spectacle." Nowhere here is Iacchus; nowhere is a boy spoken of; nowhere does he wantonly move his hand. Plainly religious men have corrupted this verse, and, as I suppose, they were ashamed of the words; which were nevertheless modest, if one compares them with those of Arnobius. Nay, they are uttered by the poet with an apology of respect, though he was set over shameful and, as that writer says, shameless rites. Nor is there any foulness in the words, but in the rite and in the deed of Baubo there is the utmost and "extreme indecency"; and unless those most holy men had wished it to be understood, Arnobius would never have set forth in so many words the whole deed and the foulness of the thing. Beyond any doubt the Greek poet had written thus, and so Arnobius read:

Ὣς εἰποῦσα, πέπλους ἀνεσύρατο, δεῖξε δὲ πάντα Σώματος οὐδὲ πρέποντα τύπον, παιδήϊον ἄνθος· Χειρί τέ μιν ῥίπτασκεν ἑῇ Βαυβὼ ὑπὸ κόλποις. Ἡ δ' ἐπεὶ οὖν μείδησε θεὰ, μείδησ' ἐνὶ θυμῷ, Δέξατο δ' αἰόλον ἄγγος, ἐν ᾧ κυκεὼν ἐνέκειτο.

"So saying, she drew up her robes and showed the whole shape of the body, not seemly, a boyish bloom; and Baubo tossed it with her own hand beneath her bosom. Then, when the goddess smiled, smiled in her heart, she took the glancing vessel in which the kykeon lay."

Primo versu Eusebium secuti sumus, apud quem sic legitur, quod nec Sylburgius omisit. Nam ἀνασύρασθαι, etiam cum absolute ponitur, semper foedum est feminis. In secundo versu, eleganti pariter ac verecunda usus est ellipsi. Nam cum aliquid efferrent cum praefatione honoris, utebantur istis verbis: Οὐδὲ πρέπον λέγεσθαι· ita Halicarnasseus Dionysius, reliquias humanas, τὴν οὐ λέγεσθαι πρέπουσαν ἀκαθαρσίαν vocavit. Ita Orpheus plane eleganter pariter et verecunde, τύπον σώματος οὐδὲ πρέποντα λέγεσθαι (nam hoc est intelligendum) vocavit, non obscenam illam partem, per quam, ut sine ulla reprehensione cum Arnobio loquar, secus femineum et sobolem prodere, et nomen solet acquirere generi; verum inverecundam illam formam quam ad exprimendum risum Baubo excogitaverat. Arnobius, σώματος οὐδὲ πρέποντα τύπον, vocat formatas inguinibus res. Uterque intelligit παρατετιλμένην. Non quemadmodum solebant moechi παρατίλλεσθαι, quam poenam apud comicos, et alios Latinos

In the first verse we have followed Eusebius, in whom it is so read, which Sylburg too did not omit. For ἀνασύρασθαι, even when it is used absolutely, is always foul in women. In the second verse he has used an ellipsis at once elegant and modest. For when they uttered something with an apology of respect, they used these words: "not seemly to be spoken"; thus Dionysius of Halicarnassus called human remains "the uncleanness not seemly to be spoken of". So Orpheus, quite elegantly and modestly alike, called it "the shape of the body not seemly to be spoken of" (for so it is to be understood): not that obscene part through which, to speak without any reproach in the words of Arnobius, "the female sex is wont to bring forth offspring and to gain a name for the race", but that shameless form which Baubo had devised to provoke laughter. Arnobius calls σώματος οὐδὲ πρέποντα τύπον "things formed in the groin". Both understand her as "plucked bare". Not in the way in which adulterers used to be "plucked", a punishment which in the comic poets and other Latin [writers]

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Κἄστι τὸ σύνθημα. Sic omnino legendum ex (continues)

"And the password is …" This is certainly how it should be read, from … (continues)

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Τὸ σύνθημα Ἐλευσινίων. Arnobius haec ita vertisse videtur: Ipsa denique symbola, quae rogati (continues)

"The password of the Eleusinians." Arnobius seems to have rendered this thus: "Finally the very passwords which, when asked, … (continues)

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Ἐνήστευσα· ἔπιον τὸν κυκεῶνα· ἔλαβον ἐκ κίστης· ἐργασάμενος ἀπεθέμην εἰς κάλαθον, καὶ ἐκ καλάθου εἰς κίστην. Καλά γε τὰ θεάματα, καὶ θεᾷ πρέποντα· ἄξια μὲν οὖν νυκτὸς τὰ τελέσματα, καὶ πυρὸς, καὶ τοῦ μεγαλήτορος, μᾶλλον δὲ ματαιόφρονος Ἐρεχθειδῶν δήμου· πρὸς δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων, οὕστινας μένει τελευτήσαντας, ἅσσα οὐδὲ ἔλπονται. Τοῖσι δὴ μαντεύεται Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, νυκτιπόλοις, μάγοις, βάκχοις, ληναῖς, μύσταις· τούτοις ἀπειλεῖ τὰ μετὰ θάνατον· τούτοις μαντεύεται τὸ πῦρ. Τὰ γὰρ νομιζόμενα κατ' ἀνθρώπους μυστήρια ἀνιέρως μυοῦνται. Νόμος οὖν καὶ ὑπόληψις κενή· καὶ τοῦ δράκοντος τὰ μυστήρια ἀπάτη τίς ἐστι, θρησκευομένη τὰς ἀμυήτους ὄντως μυήσεις, καὶ τὰς ἀνοργιάστους τελετὰς εὐσεβείᾳ νόθῳ προστρεπομένη. Οἷαι δὲ καὶ αἱ κίσται αἱ μυστικαί ; δεῖ γὰρ ἀπογυμνῶσαι τὰ ἅγια αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ ἄῤῥητα ἐξειπεῖν. Οὐ σησαμαῖ ταῦτα, καὶ πυραμίδες, καὶ τολύπαι, καὶ πόπανα πολυόμφαλα, χόνδροι τε ἁλῶν, καὶ δράκων, ὄργιον
I fasted; I drank the kykeon; I took from the chest; having wrought, I laid it away into the basket, and from the basket into the chest. Fair indeed are the sights, and befitting a goddess! Worthy, rather, of night are the rites, and of fire, and of the great-hearted, or rather vain-minded people of the Erechthidae, and moreover of the other Greeks as well, whom there awaits when they have died such things as they do not even expect. Against whom indeed Heraclitus the Ephesian prophesies: night-roamers, magians, bacchants, lenai, initiates; to these he threatens the things after death; to these he prophesies the fire. For the mysteries practised among men they are initiated into unholily. Custom, then, it is and vain opinion; and the mysteries of the serpent are a deceit, worshipping what are in reality uninitiated initiations, and with a bastard piety reverencing rites that are no rites. And of what sort too are the mystic chests? For one must strip bare their holy things and speak out the unspeakable things. Are not these sesame-cakes, and pyramids, and balls of wool, and many-navelled cakes, and lumps of salt, and a serpent, the orgy of
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Ἐκ κίστης· ἐργασάμενος ἀπ. Ἐκ κίστης ἐργασάμενος, ἀπεθ., Nov. — Caeterum Reinesio, Var. lect. lib. I, cap. 23, vox ἐργασάμενος suspecta est, quia non respondeat ei quidquam in sacro illo, quod fecissent initiandi. Mavult igitur ille θεασάμενος, id est postquam inspexi sacrum illum ῥῶπον, et secretam mercem. Cyceonem autem e cista accepisse, ut annotat Meursius, nec hujus, nec illius conditio tulisset. Eum exemplo Cereris a Baubone hospitio acceptae biberunt οἱ μυσταγωγούμενοι.

"From the chest; having worked, I put (it) away." The New manuscript: "from the chest, having worked, I put away". — Further, to Reinesius, Variae lectiones I, 23, the word ἐργασάμενος ("having worked") is suspect, because nothing in that rite which the initiands performed answers to it. He therefore prefers θεασάμενος, that is, "after I had looked upon that sacred trinket" and secret ware. But, as Meursius notes, the nature of neither this nor that would have allowed them to have received the kykeon from the chest. Those being led into the mysteries drank it after the example of Ceres, received as a guest by Baubo.

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Τοῖσι. Τίσι, Nov., Euseb. cum interrogat., recte. Ibidem pro Ἡράκλειτος, Eusebius habet Ἡράκλειος, utique ex Clemente corrigendus. Nam Heracliti locum respicit, quem recitat Strom. IV, p. 532: Συνᾴδειν τούτῳ καὶ ὁ Ἡράκλειτος φαίνεται δι' ὧν φησι περὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων διαλεγόμενος· Ἀνθρώπους μένει ἀποθανόντας ἅσσα οὐκ ἔλπονται, οὐδὲ δοκέουσιν. Theodoretus etiam serm. 8, quo de martyribus agit, hoc dictum memorat, p. 600: Heracliti vero dictum illud valde admiror: Manere morientes homines ea quae neque sperant, neque exspectant.

"To these." The New manuscript and Eusebius have τίσι ("to whom?") with a question mark, rightly. In the same place, for Ἡράκλειτος Eusebius has Ἡράκλειος, which must certainly be corrected from Clement. For he has in mind a passage of Heraclitus which he quotes in Stromata IV, p. 532: "Heraclitus too seems to agree with this, when he says, speaking of men: 'There await men when they die things they neither hope for nor expect.'" Theodoret also mentions this saying in Discourse 8, where he treats of the martyrs, p. 600: "But I greatly admire that saying of Heraclitus: that there await men when they die things which they neither hope for nor expect."

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Ἀνιέρως μυοῦνται. Ἀνιερωστὶ μυοῦνται· νόμος οὖν καὶ ὑπόληψις, Nov., Euseb. Mox, κοινή pro κενή, Euseb., Joan. Recte utrumque.

"They are initiated unholily." The New manuscript and Eusebius have ἀνιερωστὶ μυοῦνται ("they are initiated in unholy fashion; custom, then, and opinion"). Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has κοινή ("common") for κενή ("empty"). Both rightly.

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Ἀμυήτους, etc. Augustinus, lib. De haeresibus, cap. 46, de Manichaeorum sacro ait: Hoc non sacramentum, sed exsacramentum.

"Uninitiated," etc. Augustine, On Heresies, ch. 46, says of the Manichaean rite: "This is not a sacrament but an execrament."

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Προστρεπομένη. Rectius videtur quam quod apud Eusebium exstat προτρεπομένων. Sed hic meo judicio colendi et reverendi significatio commodior sit quam adhortandi quae potius τῷ προτρέπειν convenit quam τῷ προστρέπειν. Quid, quod praepositione quadam opus esset, ut ἐπί, πρός, aut simili? VIGER. — Προστρεπομένων, Nov.

"Turning to in supplication." This seems more correct than Eusebius's προτρεπομένων. But here, in my judgement, the sense "to worship and revere" would be more fitting than "to exhort", which suits προτρέπειν rather than προστρέπειν. And what of the fact that some preposition would be needed, such as ἐπί, πρός, or the like? Viger. — The New manuscript has προστρεπομένων.

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Σησαμαῖ. Supra hanc vocem aliquis posuit σησαμεναὶ in Joan.

"Sesame cakes." Above this word someone put σησαμεναί in the St John's manuscript.

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Τολύπαι. Josephus Scaliger in Varronem, Pannus, τολύπη, glomus. Unde quaedam placentae, quae ad eum modum confectae essent, τολύπαι dicebantur. Meminit Athenaeus, lib. III; Clemens Alex., Protreptico, καὶ πυραμίδες καὶ τολύπαι. Glomus vocabatur Latine, quod τολύπη Graece. Festus, Glomus, in sacris crustulum. COLLECT.

"Wool-balls." Joseph Scaliger, on Varro: "a rag, τολύπη, a ball of wool". Hence certain cakes made in that shape were called τολύπαι. Athenaeus mentions them, Book III; and Clement of Alexandria, in the Protrepticus, "both pyramids and tolypai". What was τολύπη in Greek was called glomus in Latin. Festus: "glomus: in the rites, a small cake." Collect.

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Χόνδροι τε ἁλῶν. Est qui legere maluit, χόνδροι τε ἁλός, sed receptam lectionem tuetur ipse Clemens paulo ante, ἁλῶν χόνδρος, καὶ φαλλός. Et Strom. VII, pag. 713: Ἔρια πυῤῥά, καὶ ἁλῶν χόνδρους, καὶ δᾷδας... δεδίασι. Mox Βασάρου cum simplici σ habent Euseb., Joan.

"And lumps of salt." One scholar preferred to read "lumps of salt" with the singular ἁλός; but Clement himself defends the received reading a little before, "a lump of salt, and a phallus", and in Stromata VII, p. 713: "they fear red wool, and lumps of salt, and torches …" Shortly after, Eusebius, in the St John's manuscript, has Βασάρου with a single σ.

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Διονύσου Βασσάρου ; Οὐχὶ δὲ ῥοιαὶ πρὸς τοῖσδε, καὶ καρδίαι, νάρθηκές τε, καὶ κιττοί ; πρὸς δὲ, καὶ φθοῖς, καὶ μήκωνες ; ταῦτ' ἐστὶν αὐτῶν τὰ ἅγια. Καὶ προσέτι τῆς Θέμιδος τὰ ἀπόῤῥητα σύμβολα, ὀρίγανον, λύχνος, ξίφος, κτεὶς γυναικεῖος· ὅ ἐστιν, εὐφήμως καὶ μυστικῶς εἰπεῖν, μόριον γυναικεῖον. Ὢ τῆς ἐμφανοῦς ἀναισχυντίας ! πάλαι μὲν ἀνθρώποις σωφρονοῦσιν ἐπικάλυμμα ἡδονῆς νὺξ ἦν σιωπωμένη, νυνὶ δὲ τοῖς μυουμένοις, ἡ ἱερὰ τῆς ἀκρασίας νύξ ἐστι λαλουμένη· καὶ τὸ πῦρ ἐλέγχει τὰ πάθη δᾳδουχούμενον. Ἀπόσβεσον, ὦ ἱεροφάντα, τὸ πῦρ· αἰδέσθητι, δᾳδοῦχε, τὰς λαμπάδας· ἐλέγχει τῇ νυκτὶ τὰ μυστήρια· καὶ σκότει τετιμήσθω τὰ τοῦ τὸν Ἴακχον τὸ φῶς· ἐπίτρεψον ἀποκρύψαι ὄργια· τὸ πῦρ οὐχ ὑποκρίνεται ἐλέγχειν καὶ κολάζειν ἃ κελεύεται. Ταῦτα τῶν ἀθέων τὰ μυστήρια. Ἀθέους δὲ εἰκότως ἀποκαλῶ τούτους, οἳ μὲν ὄντως ὄντα Θεὸν ἠγνοήκασιν, παιδίον δὲ ὑπὸ Τιτάνων διασπώμενον, καὶ γύναιον πενθοῦν, καὶ μόρια ἄῤῥητα ὡς ἀληθῶς ὑπ' αἰσχύνης, ἀναισχύντως σέβουσιν· διττῇ ἐνεσχημένοι τῇ ἀθεότητι· προτέρᾳ μὲν, καθ' ἣν ἀγνοοῦσι τὸν Θεὸν, τὸν ὄντως ὄντα μὴ γνωρίζοντες Θεόν· ἑτέρᾳ καὶ δευτέρᾳ ταύτῃ πλάνῃ, τοὺς οὐκ ὄντας, ὡς ὄντας, νομίζοντες, καὶ θεοὺς τούτους ὀνομάζοντες τοὺς οὐκ ὄντως ὄντας· μᾶλλον δὲ οὐδὲ ὄντας, μόνου δὲ τοῦ ὀνόματος τετυχηκότας. Διὰ τοῦτό τοι καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος διελέγχει ἡμᾶς· Καὶ ἦτε ξένοι, λέγων, διαθηκῶν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, ἐλπίδα μὴ ἔχοντες, καὶ ἄθεοι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ. Πολλὰ κἀγαθὰ γένοιτο τῷ τῶν Σκυθῶν βασιλεῖ, ὅστις ποτὲ ἦν Ἀνάχαρσις ! οὗτος τὸν πολίτην τὸν ἑαυτοῦ, τὴν παρὰ Κυζικηνοῖς μητρὸς τῶν θεῶν τελετὴν ἀπομιμούμενον παρὰ Σκύθαις, τύμπανόν τε ἐπικτυποῦντα, καὶ κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, οἷα τοῦ τραχήλου τινὰ μηναγύρτην ἐξηρτημένον, κατετόξευσεν· ὡς ἄνανδρον αὐτόν τε
Dionysus Bassarus? And besides these, are there not pomegranates, and hearts, and fennel-stalks, and ivies? And moreover, round cakes also, and poppies? These are their holy things. And in addition, the secret symbols of Themis: marjoram, a lamp, a sword, a woman's comb—which is, to speak euphemistically and mystically, a woman's privy part. O the manifest shamelessness! Of old, for temperate men, silent night was a veil for pleasure; but now, for those who are initiated, the sacred night of incontinence is talked of, and the fire, carried in torches, exposes the passions. Quench the fire, O hierophant; reverence the torches, O torch-bearer; the light exposes your Iacchus; suffer the night to hide the mysteries, and let the orgies be honoured with darkness; the fire does not dissemble in exposing and punishing what it is commanded. These are the mysteries of the atheists. And reasonably do I call those men atheists who have been ignorant of Him Who truly is God, and shamelessly worship a little child torn to pieces by Titans, and a poor mourning woman, and parts truly unspeakable from shame; being held fast in a twofold atheism: the first, whereby they are ignorant of God, not recognizing Him Who truly is God; and this other and second error, accounting those who do not exist as existing, and naming these gods who do not truly exist, or rather do not exist at all, having obtained only the name. Wherefore indeed the Apostle also reproves us, saying: And you were strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12). May many blessings befall the king of the Scythians, whoever Anacharsis was! This man shot down with arrows his own fellow-citizen who was imitating among the Scythians the rite of the mother of the gods practised among the Cyzicenes, beating a drum and clanging a cymbal, having depictions hung from his neck like a priest of Men, on the ground that he had become unmanly himself
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Καὶ καρδίαι. Fed. Morellus P. legendum suspicatur καὶ κράδαι, ut de ramis ficulneis intelligatur, quia Clemens paulo post κλαδῶν συκῆς inter Dionysiaca refert. Collect. — Hanc emendationem fecit etiam Reinesius, Variar. lect., lib. I, cap. 25.

"And hearts." Fed. Morellus P. suspects one should read καὶ κράδαι ("and fig-branches"), so that it be understood of fig branches, because Clement a little later lists "fig branches" among the Dionysiac objects. Collector. — Reinesius also made this emendation, Variae lectiones, book 1, ch. 25.

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Φθοῖς. Phthois non incommode reddi potest. Sic apud Athenaeum, ὁ δὲ φθοῖς οὕτω γίνεται· sic porro conficitur phthois. Enumeratur et apud Pollucem, lib. VI, cap. 11, inter placentarum genera: sic enim legendum ex ms. φθοῖς καὶ φθοΐδια, ἐπίχυτος θρυμματῶδες, nam diversum genus ἐπίχυτος apud Athen. lib. XIV. Interpres vertit phthoides, libatoria.

"Phthois." It may be rendered, not unsuitably, as "phthois." So in Athenaeus: "the phthois is made thus"; that is, "the phthois is prepared as follows." It is also listed in Pollux, book 6, ch. 11, among the kinds of cakes; for so one should read from the manuscript: "phthois and phthoidia, epichytos, crumbly," for the epichytos is a different kind in Athenaeus, book 14. The translator rendered "phthoides, libatoria" (offering-cakes).

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Ἀπόῤῥητα. Ἄῤῥητα, Euseb., Joan. Mox, ὀρίγανον, Joan. Dein, κτεὶς γυναικεῖος, ὅς ἐστιν εὔφημον καὶ μυστικὸν, μόριον γυναικεῖον, Euseb., Joan. Suidae κτεὶς est ἐφήβαιον.

"Secret things." "Unspeakable things," Eusebius, John. Next, "origanum" (marjoram), John. Then, "a woman's comb, which is, to speak with decent and mystic reserve, the female part," Eusebius, John. In Suidas κτείς is the pubes.

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Νὺξ ἦν σιωπ. Ἦν omittit Euseb. Mox, pro ἡ ἱερὰ τῆς ἀκρασίας νύξ ἐστι λαλουμένη, legendum, particula ἡ transposita, ἱερὰ τῆς ἀκρασίας ἡ νὺξ κ.τ.λ., sacra intemperantiae nox loquitur.

"Night was silent." Eusebius omits "was." Next, instead of "the sacred night is a thing talked of by incontinence," read, with the article transposed, "the night is a sacred thing of incontinence," etc.: "the night, sacred to intemperance, speaks."

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Δᾳδουχούμενον. Δᾳδουχούμενα, Euseb., Joan.

"Lit by torches" (singular). "Lit by torches" (plural), Eusebius, John.

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Ἀποκρύψαι. Ἐπικρύψαι, Nov., Mox, καί omittunt post μυστήρια, Nov., Euseb., Joan., recte.

"To hide away." "To cover over," Novus (codex). Next, Novus, Eusebius and John omit "and" after "mysteries," rightly.

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Τὸ πῦρ, etc. Τὸ πῦρ οὐχ ὑποκρίνεται· ἐλέγχειν καὶ κολάζειν κελεύεται, ignis non dissimulat: arguere et punire jubetur, Euseb., Joan.

"The fire," etc. "The fire does not dissemble: it is bidden to convict and to punish" — so Eusebius, John.

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Διττῇ ἐνεσχημένοι. Δ. ἐνισχημένοι Nov., Euseb.; ἐνισχημένη, Joan., quod corruptum est ex ἐνισχημένοι. Porro simile est illud Jerem. II, 13: Δύο καὶ πονηρὰ ἐποίησεν ὁ λαός μου· ἐμὲ ἐγκατέλιπον πηγὴν ὕδατος ζωῆς, καὶ ὤρυξαν ἑαυτοῖς λάκκους συντετριμμένους. Mox, ὄντα ὄντως pro ὄντως ὄντα, Nov. Dein, ἑτέρᾳ δὲ καὶ δευτέρᾳ ταύτῃ δὴ πλάνῃ Euseb., Joan. et Nov., nisi quod in hoc particula δὴ ponatur ante ταύτῃ. Itaque ex his auctoris textus supplendus esse videtur.

"Held fast in a double [error]." "D[ouble]... ἐνισχημένοι," Novus, Eusebius; "ἐνισχημένη," John, which is corrupted from ἐνισχημένοι. Similar, moreover, is Jeremiah 2:13: "My people have done two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug for themselves broken cisterns." Next, "being truly" for "truly being," Novus. Then, "and in this other and second error indeed," Eusebius, John and Novus, except that in the last the particle "indeed" stands before "this." From these, therefore, the author's text seems to need supplementing.

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Μόνου. Μόνον, Joan. Et hactenus Eusebius.

"Only" (genitive). "Only" (adverb), John. And thus far Eusebius.

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Πολλὰ κἀγ. Historiam hanc memorat Herodotus, lib. IV, cap. 76, ubi regis nomen, quod omisit Clemens, Saulium fuisse dicit. Meminerunt etiam Diogenes Laertius, in Anacharside, et Josephus, Archaeol. Jud., lib. II, alios ut taceam. Consentiunt porro universi Anacharsidem occisum, non vero occisorem fuisse. Quid igitur vult quod Clemens subjungit de rege Scytharum, ὅστις ποτὲ ἦν Ἀνάχαρσις· quicunque fuerit Anacharsis; plane ac si Anacharsis rex fuisset, et civem quemdam suum, qui alienos mores in Scythiam inducere vellet, occidisset? Casaubonus, in notis ad Laertii Anacharsidem, Ego vero hanc litem, inquit, facile componam: non enim haec unquam Clementis fuit mens, sed scriptoris, qui glossam in textum loco alieno recepit. Legendum aio, τῷ τῶν Σκυθῶν βασιλεῖ, ὅστις ποτὲ ἦν, deleta voce Ἀνάχαρσις, quae perperam huc intrusa est, cum prius adnotata esset, non ad illa, ὅστις ποτὲ ἦν, ut putavit librarius, sed ad illa, τὸν πολίτην τὸν ἑαυτοῦ.

"Many blessings." Herodotus records this story, book 4, ch. 76, where he says the king's name, which Clement omitted, was Saulius. Diogenes Laertius also mentions it, in his Anacharsis, and Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, book 2, to say nothing of others. All agree, moreover, that Anacharsis was the one killed, not the killer. What then does Clement mean by adding of the king of the Scythians, "whoever Anacharsis was" — just as if Anacharsis had been king and had killed a citizen of his own who wished to bring foreign customs into Scythia? Casaubon, in his notes on Laertius' Anacharsis, says: "I shall easily settle this dispute: for this was never Clement's meaning, but that of a scribe who took a gloss into the text in the wrong place. I say we should read, 'to the king of the Scythians, whoever he was,' deleting the word 'Anacharsis,' which has been wrongly thrust in here, since it had first been noted not against the words 'whoever he was,' as the copyist thought, but against the words 'his own fellow citizen.'"

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Οἷα τοῦ τραχήλου τινὰ μηναγύρτην ἐξηρ- (continues)

"Like some begging priest of the Mother, with [a drum] hung from his neck…" (continues)

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Νικάνορα. Nicanorem forte intelligit, Epicuri discipulum, cujus meminit Diogenes Laert., lib. X, seg. 20. Itaque malim Arnobium ex Clemente corrigere, quam hunc ex Arnobio, qui loco superius laudato, Nicagoram hunc atheum vocat. Porro Sextus Empiricus, initio lib. I atheos enumerans, nominat Prodicum Ceum, Diagoram Melium, Euhemerum Critiam, Theodorum cognomine Atheum, Protagoram Abderitam, Epicurum. Quibus alii alios addunt.

"Nicanor." He perhaps means Nicanor, the disciple of Epicurus, whom Diogenes Laertius mentions, book 10, section 20. So I would rather correct Arnobius from Clement than Clement from Arnobius, who in the place praised above calls this atheist Nicagoras. Further, Sextus Empiricus, listing the atheists at the start of book 1, names Prodicus of Ceos, Diagoras of Melos, Euhemerus, Critias, Theodore surnamed the Atheist, Protagoras of Abdera, and Epicurus. To these others add others.

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Οὐ σμικρὸν εἰς ἀληθείας φρονήσεως ζώπυρον. Sunt, qui malint εἰς ἀλήθειαν, vel εἰς ἀληθοῦς φρονήσεως ζώπυρον. Sylburg.

"No small spark towards the prudence of truth." Some prefer "towards truth," or "towards a spark of true prudence." Sylburg.

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Ὃν ὁ μέν τις. Is, cujus hic nomen dissimulatur, Xenophanes est Plutarcho lib. Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας extremo. Heraclito Aegyptio tribuit Epiphanius, p. 512, ubi Diagorae quoque factum his verbis memorat idem Epiphanius: Τὸν ἴδιον Ἡρακλέα, ξύλινον ὄντα, δι' ἀπορίαν ξύλων, ὑποκαίοντος, καὶ σκωμματικῶς ἐπιλέγοντος· Ἄγε δή, Ἡράκλεις, τὸν τρισκαιδέκατον ἆθλον ἐκτελῶν πάρελθε, τὸ ὄψον ἡμῖν (continues)

"One of whom." The man whose name is concealed here is Xenophanes, according to Plutarch at the end of his book On Superstition. Epiphanius, p. 512, attributes it to Heraclitus the Egyptian, where the same Epiphanius also records Diagoras' deed in these words: "...setting fire under his own Heracles, which was of wood, for want of firewood, and saying mockingly: 'Come now, Heracles, perform your thirteenth labour and come along — [cook] our dish…'" (continues)

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τημένον. Scribe, τοῦ τραχήλου, οἷά τινὰ μηναγύρτην, ἐξηρτημένον. Ita enim postulat, et sensus et Græcismus. Ut sic totus legatur locus: Τύμπανόν τε ἐπικτυποῦντα, καὶ κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, τοῦ τραχήλου οἷά τινὰ μηναγύρτην, ἐξηρτημένον, quod illi de collo, tanquam Rheæ sacerdoti, pendebat. Quanquam sane de collo non pendebant cymbala, quæ manu gestabantur, manu impellebantur. Nam ansata erant, manibus apprehendebantur. Hinc Ovidius æriferas cymbalistriarum manus vocavit, cum de comitatu Bacchico loquitur:

[ἐξηρ]τημένον. Write: τοῦ τραχήλου, οἷά τινὰ μηναγύρτην, ἐξηρτημένον ('hanging from his neck, like some begging priest'). For so both the sense and the Greek idiom require. So that the whole passage may read thus: Τύμπανόν τε ἐπικτυποῦντα, καὶ κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, τοῦ τραχήλου οἷά τινὰ μηναγύρτην, ἐξηρτημένον, 'which hung from his neck, as from a priest of Rhea'. Although indeed cymbals did not hang from the neck; they were carried in the hand and struck with the hand. For they had handles and were grasped by the hands. Hence Ovid called the hands of the cymbal-women 'bronze-bearing', when he speaks of the Bacchic retinue:

Æriferæ comitum cum crepuere manus.

'When the bronze-bearing hands of the companions have clashed.'

Et vir summus Isaacus Casaubonus, annis superioribus jaspidem edidit, in qua una cymbalistria, una item tibicina Bacchum oblectat. Quanquam ibi cymbala non satis sint expressa. Quæ res credo effecit, ut vir ille summus tympanistriam esse putaret. Atqui tympana impellebantur aut virga, aut palmis; sicut etiam Clemens hic innuit. Ibi vero cymbala sat manifeste inter se colliduntur; hoc est ære æs repellitur, ut ait poeta. Quare vel posterius respondet priori; vel transposita paulo etiam amplius sunt verba pro illis: καὶ κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, καὶ τύμπανον ἐπικτυποῦντα, τοῦ τραχήλου, οἷά τινὰ μηναγύρτην, ἐξηρτημένον. Nam quod viri eruditi, Victorius et alii, μητραγύρτην substituunt, maximus etiam vir Adrianus Junius, in Eusebio, legendum sic docuit, frustra est. Et ex ipso Eusebii secundo, ubi prolixe περὶ τῶν μητραγυρτούντων παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις agitur, aliud discere poterat. De Græcis quoque non est dubium. Suidas: Μηναγύρτης, ἀπὸ μηνὸς συνάγων· καὶ μηναγύρτης, ὁ Ῥέας ἱερεύς. Heinsius, Μηναγύρτην, menagyrten. Apuleius, lib. VIII Metamorph.: Per plateas et oppida cymbalis et crotalis personantes, deamque Syriam circumferentes mendicare compellunt. Minutius Octavio, Mendicantes vicatim deos ducunt; idem Tertull. Apologet. 13; Dionysius Halicar., lib. XI; Junius, cent. IX, proverb. 23, apud eumdem Dionysium et Eusebium, II De præparat., legit μηναγυρτοῦντες et μηναγυρτῶν, quæ vox idem cum altera μητραγυρτοῦντες et μητραγυρτῶν, sonat; nisi quod ex etymi ratione menstruum circulatorem intelligamus μηναγύρτην· nam quolibet mense cœtus faciebant, stipemque corrogabant, ut ex Suida quoque discimus. COLLECT. — Verum his missis, legendum ex Nov. (καὶ pro οἷα substituto) κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, καὶ τοῦ τραχήλου τινὰ μηναγύρτην ἐξηρτημένον). Cymbalum resonantem, et quædam collo appensa habentem menagyrtam. Sed quid vult illud τινά, quædam? Scilicet, Cybeles ἀγάλματα, seu parva ejus simulacra, quæ menagyrtæ collo suo appendebant. Testis sit Herodotus loco superius citato. Ἐς ταύτην δὴ καταδὺς ὁ Ἀνάχαρσις, τὴν ὀρτὴν πᾶσαν ἐπετέλεε τῇ θεῷ, τύμπανόν τε ἔχων, καὶ ἀγάλματα ἐκδησάμενος. In hanc (Hylæam) cum venisset Anacharsis, omnem festi cæremoniam deæ persolvit, tympanum tenens, et simulacra appensa habens. Quo loco illud ἐκδησάμενος, Valla exp. exutis simulacris, ac si legisset ἐκδυσάμενος, absurdo sensu, quem tamen alii hactenus secuti sunt.

And that very great man Isaac Casaubon, some years ago, published a jasper on which one cymbal-woman and likewise one flute-girl delight Bacchus. Although there the cymbals are not clearly enough rendered. This, I believe, is what made that very great man think she was a tambourine-player. But tambourines were struck either with a stick or with the palms, as Clement too here indicates. There, however, the cymbals are quite plainly being clashed together; that is, 'bronze is beaten back by bronze', as the poet says. Therefore either the latter answers to the former, or the words are transposed somewhat further still, in place of these: καὶ κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, καὶ τύμπανον ἐπικτυποῦντα, τοῦ τραχήλου, οἷά τινὰ μηναγύρτην, ἐξηρτημένον. For as to learned men, Victorius and others, substituting μητραγύρτην, and even that very great man Hadrianus Junius teaching in Eusebius that it should be so read, this is to no purpose. And from Eusebius's second book itself, where the begging priests of the Mother among the Romans are treated at length, he could have learned otherwise. Concerning the Greeks, too, there is no doubt. Suidas: 'Μηναγύρτης, one who collects by the month; and μηναγύρτης, the priest of Rhea.' Heinsius: Μηναγύρτην, menagyrten. Apuleius, Metamorphoses book VIII: 'Making their way through streets and towns resounding with cymbals and castanets, and carrying the Syrian goddess about, they force her to beg.' Minucius in the Octavius: 'They lead their gods begging from street to street'; likewise Tertullian, Apology 13; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, book XI; Junius, century IX, proverb 23, reads in the same Dionysius and in Eusebius, Preparation II, μηναγυρτοῦντες and μηναγυρτῶν, a word that means the same as the other, μητραγυρτοῦντες and μητραγυρτῶν; except that, on the reasoning of the etymology, we may understand μηναγύρτης as a monthly mountebank; for they held gatherings every month and collected alms, as we also learn from Suidas. COLLECT. — But leaving these aside, one should read from the Nov. (καὶ being substituted for οἷα) κύμβαλον ἐπηχοῦντα, καὶ τοῦ τραχήλου τινὰ μηναγύρτην ἐξηρτημένον): 'a begging priest sounding a cymbal and having certain things hung from his neck.' But what does that τινά, 'certain things', mean? Plainly, ἀγάλματα of Cybele, that is, small images of her, which the begging priests hung from their necks. Let Herodotus be witness, in the place cited above: Ἐς ταύτην δὴ καταδὺς ὁ Ἀνάχαρσις, τὴν ὀρτὴν πᾶσαν ἐπετέλεε τῇ θεῷ, τύμπανόν τε ἔχων, καὶ ἀγάλματα ἐκδησάμενος: 'When Anacharsis had come into this' (Hylaea), 'he performed the whole ceremony of the feast to the goddess, holding a tambourine and having images hung upon him.' In which place Valla rendered that ἐκδησάμενος as 'having put off the images', as if he had read ἐκδυσάμενος, an absurd sense, which others have nevertheless followed hitherto.

(10) Τοῖς ἄλλοις. Τῆς ἄλλης, Nov.

(10) Τοῖς ἄλλοις ('to the others'). Τῆς ἄλλης, Nov.

(11) Ὧν δὴ χάριν. Muretus, lib. X, cap. 17, Var. lect. Diagoras et Hippo, Melii fuerunt; de iisque, et de Theodoro, quasi de hominibus impiis locuti sunt veteres, quod, etsi veri Dei cognitionem consecuti non erant, eos tamen qui colerentur a popularibus suis, deos non esse intelligebant. Ideo Aristophanes Socratem, Melium vocat, cui eamdem notam inurere calumniatores volebant. Idemque de Socrate testatur Justinus, in Apol. 2 pro Christianis, et de Heraclito, cum modeste ac frugaliter viverent, atheos habitos illos. Et certe Socrates nunquam docuit nullos deos esse, sed tantum supremum quemdam Deum immensum, æternum, multo superiorem iis omnibus qui tum publice colerentur: Οἱ μετὰ λόγου βιώσαντες Χριστιανοί εἰσι, κἂν ἄθεοι ἐνομίσθησαν, οἷον ἐν Ἕλλησι μὲν Σωκράτης καὶ Ἡράκλειτος, καὶ οἱ ὅμοιοι αὐτοῖς. Hæc Muretus. Arnobius lib. IV: Possumus hoc in loco omnes istos, votis quos inducitis atque appellatis deos, homines fuisse monstrare; vel Agragantino Euhemero replicato, cujus libellos Ennius, clarum ut fieret cunctis, sermonem in Italum transtulit; vel Nicagora Cyprio, vel Cyrenensi Theodoro, vel Hippone ac Diagora Meliis, vel auctoribus aliis mille. Lactantius, lib. I, cap. 11, meminit Euhemeri, sed Messenium dicit; Plutarchus apud Eusebium lib. XIV, cap. 6, Tegeaten, sic enim legendum est ex lib. De placitis philos. I. Itemque Diagoras Melius, non Milesius, paulo post. Quod apud Epiphanium legitur Heraclites Ægyptius, sine dubio mendosus est locus; licet et Græco sit Αἰγύπτιος φησί. COLLECT.

(11) Ὧν δὴ χάριν ('for which reason'). Muretus, Variae lectiones book X, chapter 17: Diagoras and Hippo were Melians; and the ancients spoke of them, and of Theodorus, as of impious men, because, although they had not attained the knowledge of the true God, they nevertheless understood that those who were worshipped by their countrymen were not gods. Therefore Aristophanes calls Socrates 'the Melian', on whom his slanderers wished to brand the same mark. And Justin, in the second Apology for the Christians, testifies the same of Socrates, and of Heraclitus: that, though they lived modestly and frugally, they were held to be atheists. And certainly Socrates never taught that there are no gods, but only that there is one supreme God, immeasurable, eternal, far above all those who were then publicly worshipped: 'Those who have lived with the Word are Christians, even if they were reckoned atheists, as among the Greeks Socrates and Heraclitus and those like them.' Thus far Muretus. Arnobius, book IV: 'We can show in this place that all those whom you bring in with your vows and call gods were men; whether by unfolding Euhemerus of Agrigentum, whose books Ennius translated into the Italian tongue that it might become clear to all; or Nicagoras of Cyprus, or Theodorus of Cyrene, or Hippo and Diagoras of Melos, or a thousand other authors.' Lactantius, book I, chapter 11, mentions Euhemerus, but calls him a Messenian; Plutarch, in Eusebius book XIV, chapter 6, calls him a Tegean, for so it must be read from the book On the Opinions of the Philosophers I. And likewise Diagoras the Melian, not the Milesian, a little after. That in Epiphanius one reads 'Heraclites the Egyptian', the passage is without doubt corrupt; although in the Greek too it is 'he says, the Egyptian'. COLLECT.

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παρὰ Ἕλλησι γεγενημένον, καὶ τῆς θηλείας τοῖς ἄλλοις Σκυθῶν διδάσκαλον νόσου. Ὧν δὴ χάριν (οὐ γὰρ οὐδαμῶς ἀποκρυπτέον) θαυμάζειν ἔπεισί μοι, ὅτῳ τρόπῳ Εὐήμερον τὸν Ἀκραγαντῖνον, καὶ Νικάνορα τὸν Κύπριον, καὶ Διαγόραν, καὶ Ἵππωνα τὸν Μήλιον, τόν τὲ Κυρηναῖον ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐκεῖνον, ὁ Θεόδωρος ὄνομα αὐτῷ, καί τινας ἄλλους συχνοὺς, σωφρόνως βεβιωκότας, καὶ καθεωρακότας ὀξύτερόν που τῶν λοιπῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν ἀμφὶ τοὺς θεοὺς τούτους πλάνην, ἀθέους ἐπικεκλήκασιν· εἰ καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν αὐτὴν μὴ νενοηκότας, ἀλλὰ τὴν πλάνην γε ὑποπτευκότας· ὅπερ οὐ σμικρὸν εἰς ἀληθείας φρονήσεως ζώπυρον ἀναφύεται σπέρμα· ὧν ὁ μέν τις πα-
among the Greeks, and a teacher of the effeminate disease to the rest of the Scythians. Wherefore indeed (for by no means must it be concealed) it comes over me to wonder how they have called Euhemerus of Agrigentum, and Nicanor of Cyprus, and Diagoras, and Hippo of Melos, and besides these that Cyrenaean—Theodorus was his name—and a good many others who lived temperately and discerned more sharply than the rest of mankind the error concerning these gods, atheists; even if they did not perceive the truth itself, yet at least they suspected the error; which springs up as no small seed for a spark of the wisdom of truth. One of whom ex-
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ρεγγυᾷ τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις· Εἰ θεοὺς νομίζετε, μὴ θρηνεῖτε αὐτοὺς, μηδὲ κόπτεσθε· εἰ δὲ πενθεῖτε αὐτοὺς, μηκέτι τούτους ἡγεῖσθε εἶναι θεούς. Ὁ δ' Ἡρακλέα ἐκ ξύλου λαβὼν κατεσκευασμένον· (ἔτυχε δὲ ἕψων τι οἴκοι, οἷα εἰκός·) Εἶα δὴ, ὦ Ἡράκλεις, εἶπεν· νῦν σοι ἤδη καιρὸς, ὥσπερ Εὐρυσθεῖ, ἀτὰρ δὴ καὶ ἡμῖν, ὑπουργῆσαι τὸν τρισκαιδέκατον τοῦτον ἆθλον, καὶ Διαγόρᾳ τοῦτον παρασκευάσαι κατ' αὐτὸν, εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐνέθηκεν ὡς ξύλον. Ἀκρότητες ἄρα ἀμαθίας ἀθεότης καὶ δεισιδαιμονία· ὧν ἐκτὸς μένειν σπουδαστέον. Οὐχ ὁρᾷς τὸν ἱεροφάντην τῆς ἀληθείας Μωϋσέα προστάττοντα, θλαδίαν καὶ ἀποκεκομμένον μὴ ἐκκλησιάζειν· καὶ προσέτι τὸν ἐκ πόρνης ; αἰνίττεται δὲ διὰ μὲν τῶν προτέρων τὸν ἄθεον τρόπον, τὸν τῆς θείας καὶ γονίμου δυνάμεως ἐστερημένον· διὰ δὲ τοῦ λοιποῦ τοῦ τρίτου τὸν πολλοὺς ἐπιγραφόμενον ψευδωνύμους θεοὺς, ἀντὶ τοῦ μόνου ὄντος Θεοῦ, ὥσπερ ὁ ἐκ τῆς πόρνης τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐπιγράφεται πατέρας ἀγνοίᾳ τοῦ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν πατρός. Ἦν δέ τις ἔμφυτος ἀρχαία πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἀνθρώποις κοινωνία, ἀγνοίᾳ μὲν ἐσκοτισμένη, ἄφνω δέ που διεκθρώσκουσα τοῦ σκότους, καὶ ἀναλάμπουσα· οἷον δὴ ἐκεῖνο λέλεκταί τινι, τό·
horts the Egyptians: If you account them gods, do not lament them, nor beat your breasts; but if you mourn for them, no longer consider these to be gods. And another, having taken a Heracles fashioned out of wood (and he happened to be boiling something at home, as was natural), said: Come now, O Heracles, now is the time for you already, just as for Eurystheus, so indeed for us also, to perform this thirteenth labour and prepare this dish for Diagoras; and so according to his word he put him into the fire as wood. Extremes of ignorance, then, are atheism and superstition, outside of which we must strive to remain. Do you not see Moses, the hierophant of truth, commanding that a eunuch with crushed testicles and one that is castrated shall not enter the assembly, and in addition the son of a harlot (Deut. 23:1–2)? By the former two he hints at the godless way of life, which is deprived of the divine and generative power; and by the remaining third one, him who registers for himself many falsely named gods in place of the only existing God, just as the son of the harlot registers for himself many fathers through ignorance of his true father. Yet there was an innate ancient fellowship with heaven in men, darkened indeed by ignorance, yet suddenly leaping forth somehow out of the darkness and shining back; such as that saying uttered by someone:
Ὁρᾷς τὸν ὑψοῦ, τόνδ' ἄπειρον αἰθέρα, Καὶ γῆν πέριξ ἔχονθ' ὑγραῖς ἐν ἀγκάλαις ;
Do you see this boundless aether on high, holding the earth round about in its moist arms?
Καὶ τό·
And this:
Ὦ γῆν ὄχημα, τἀπὶ γῆς ἔχονθ' ἕδραν, Ὅστις ποτ' εἶ σὺ, δυστόπαστος εἰσιδεῖν.
O support of earth, having your seat upon the earth, whoever you are, hard to conjecture for the sight;
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and whatever other such things the sons of the poets sing. But
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Ἀτάρ. Αὐτάρ, Nov.

"But." "But" (epic form αὐτάρ), Novus.

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Παρασκευάσαι κατ' αὐτὸν, εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐνέθηκεν. Procul dubio, facta post παρασκευάσαι interpunctione, legendum, καὶ αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐνέθηκε. Sylburg. Vel potius, κᾆτ' αὐτὸν, etc.

"To prepare … him, he put into the fire." Without doubt, with a stop placed after "to prepare," one should read "and he put him into the fire." Sylburg. Or rather, "and then him," etc.

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Θλαδίαν. Θλασίαν, Nov.

"Crushed (eunuch)." Θλασίαν (same sense, variant spelling), Novus.

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Τῆς θείας καὶ γονίμου δυνάμεως. Explicationem hujusce commatis prolixe infra in Paedagogo invenies, lib. II, c. 10. Sylburg. — Theodoretus, Τὸ ἄγονον, inquit, τῆς ψυχῆς διὰ τούτων αἰνίττεται· Animae sterilitatem per haec innuit. Caeterum Clemens hanc interpretationem, ut alias solet, e Philone Judaeo sumpsit: is enim lib. De nominum mutat., p. 1076, haec dicit: Τεθλασμένοι γὰρ τὰ γεννητικὰ τῆς διανοίας, ἢ καὶ τελείως ἀποκοπέντες, οἱ τὸν ἴδιον νοῦν καὶ αἴσθησιν ἀποσεμνύνοντες, ὡς μόνα τῶν κατ' ἀνθρώπους αἴτια πραγμάτων· ἢ οἱ πολυθεΐας ἐρασταί, καὶ τὸν πολύθεον ἐκτετιμηκότες θίασον, οἱ ἐκ πόρνης γεγονότες, τὸν ἕνα ἄνδρα καὶ πατέρα φιλαρέτου ψυχῆς Θεὸν οὐκ εἰδότες, ἆρ' οὐκ εἰκότως ἐλαύνονταί τε καὶ φυγαδεύονται; Nam illi, quibus prolificae partes mentis contusae sunt, vel penitus abscissae, hoc est, qui proprium intellectum et sensum extollunt, ut solas humanarum rerum causas; vel illi, qui multitudinem deorum amplexi sunt, et deorum ritus celebrant, ex meretrice scilicet nati, quippe qui Deum solum probae animae maritum et patrem, non agnoscunt, nonne merito abiguntur et fugantur?

"Of the divine and generative power." You will find an explanation of this clause at length below in the Paedagogus, book 2, ch. 10. Sylburg. — Theodoret says: "By these things he hints at the barrenness of the soul." Clement, however, took this interpretation, as he often does elsewhere, from Philo the Jew; for Philo, in the book On the Change of Names, p. 1076, says: "For those whose generative parts of the mind are crushed, or even wholly cut off — who exalt their own mind and sense as the sole causes of human affairs; or the lovers of many gods, who have honoured the polytheist rout, born of a harlot, not knowing the one God, husband and father of the virtue-loving soul — are they not rightly driven out and banished?" The Latin following repeats the same: For those whose prolific parts of the mind are bruised or wholly cut away, that is, who extol their own understanding and sense as the only causes of human affairs; or those who have embraced a multitude of gods and celebrate the rites of gods — born of a harlot, that is, since they do not acknowledge God alone as husband and father of the upright soul — are they not deservedly driven away and put to flight?

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Ὁρᾷς τὸν ὑψοῦ. Duo priores ex his quatuor versibus Euripidis sunt, ut monet Clemens ipse lib. V. Athenagoras citat in Legat. pro Christianis, et Cicero lib. II De natura deorum: Vides sublime fusum immoderatum aethera, Qui tenero terram circumjectu amplectitur, Hunc summum habeto divum, hunc perhibeto Jovem. Jo. Villiomarus in Titium VIII, 17, legit, Vides sublime sursum, non fusum, id est ὑψοῦ· et immoderatum ἄπειρον significare ait. Ennius item: Aspice hoc sublime candens, quem invocant omnes Jovem. Alii legunt, sublimem aethera, quem vocant Jovem. Collect. — Hos versus ex Euripide recitat Clemens infra Protrept., p. 46, St. V, p. 603; Stobaeus Eclog. Phys., lib. I, tit. 3; Heraclides Ponticus, lib. De allegoriis Homericis.

"Do you see on high." The first two of these four lines are Euripides', as Clement himself notes in book 5 [of the Stromata]. Athenagoras quotes them in the Legatio for the Christians, and Cicero in book 2 of On the Nature of the Gods: "You see the boundless ether poured out on high, which embraces the earth in its tender encircling: hold this the highest of the gods, call this one Jove." Jo. Villiomarus, on Titius 8.17, reads "You see on high, upward" — not "poured out" — that is, ὑψοῦ; and he says "boundless" renders ἄπειρον. Ennius likewise: "Behold this shining height, which all invoke as Jove." Others read "the lofty ether, which they call Jove." Collector. — Clement recites these lines from Euripides below, Protrepticus p. 46, and Stromata 5, p. 603; Stobaeus, Eclogae physicae, book 1, title 3; Heraclides Ponticus, in the book On Homeric Allegories.

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Ὦ γῆν ὄχ. Rectius, Ὦ γῆς ὄχημα, κἀπὶ γῆς ἔχων ἕδραν.

"O … the earth (accusative), vehicle." More correctly: "O vehicle of the earth, who have your seat upon the earth."

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Εἰσιδεῖν. Legitur in vulg. editionibus δυστόπαστος εἰδέναι. Sylburg. — Superioris versiculi emendationem firmat ms. Nov. in quo γῆς pro γῆν, ἔχων pro ἔχονθ' occurrit.

"To look upon." The common editions read "hard to guess, to know." Sylburg. — The manuscript Novus confirms the emendation of the line above, for in it γῆς appears for γῆν, and ἔχων for ἔχονθ'.

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Deuteronomy 23:1–2.

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Ὡς ἀληθῶς. Priores editiones haec verba connectunt cum praecedente ὀλέθριαι, quae referre ad φυτὸν οὐράνιον, quod sequitur, suadent alia Clementis verba, hujus libri pag. 63: Τὸν ἄνθρωπον, inquit, ἐπὶ τὴν οὐρανοῦ γενόμενον θέαν, φυτὸν οὐράνιον ὡς ἀληθῶς, ἐπὶ τὴν γνῶσιν παρακαλοῦμεν τοῦ Θεοῦ. Hominem, qui ad coeli contemplationem natus est, et vere est planta coelestis, ad Dei cognitionem hortamur.

"Truly." The earlier editions join these words with the preceding "destructive"; but other words of Clement, on p. 63 of this book, urge that they be referred to "heavenly plant," which follows: "Man," he says, "who was made for the contemplation of heaven, truly a heavenly plant, we call to the knowledge of God." That is: we urge man, who was born for the contemplation of heaven and is truly a heavenly plant, to the knowledge of God.

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Ἐξετάνυσαν ἐπὶ γῆς. Phrasis Homerica ex Il. P, v. 58: Βόθρου τ' ἐξέστρεψε, καὶ ἐξετάνυσσ' ἐπὶ γαίῃ.

"They stretched out on the ground." A Homeric phrase, from Iliad 17 (P), line 58: "it wrenched it from its trench and stretched it out upon the earth."

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Οἱ μὲν γάρ. Deorum originem septem causis tribuit. 1 Coelestium corporum splendori, quem mirati homines, ea in deos retulerunt; 2 frugibus terrae inventis; 3 scelerum poenis in maleficos irrogatis; 4 humanis affectibus in deos relatis; 5 humanae vitae casibus corporea specie descriptis; 6 poetarum fabulis; 7 beneficiis humano generi per divinam Providentiam collatis.

"For some." He attributes the origin of the gods to seven causes: 1. the brightness of the heavenly bodies, which men admired and so counted them gods; 2. the discovery of the fruits of the earth; 3. the punishments of crimes inflicted on evildoers; 4. human passions ascribed to the gods; 5. the chances of human life portrayed in bodily form; 6. the fables of the poets; 7. the benefits conferred on mankind by divine Providence.

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Θεοὺς ἐκ τοῦ θεῖν. Plato in Cratylo existimare se dicit sidera, quibus solis Barbari et Graeci veteres divinos honores solvebant, primo θεοὺς dictos fuisse, tanquam ἀεὶ ἰόντα δρόμῳ καὶ θέοντα, quae perpetuo cursu ferantur; dein id nominis ad alios deos venisse. Plutarchus, lib. De Iside et Osir., pag. 375, dicit omnibus diis a duabus vocibus, θεατοῦ, spectabili, et θέοντος, currente, θεοῦ nomen inditum fuisse. Etymologici auctor: Θεός, παρὰ τὸ θέω, τὸ τρέχω, εἰς ὃν πάντες τρέχομεν. Παρὰ τὸ θέω καὶ θεύω, θεὸς, ὡς φωλεύω φωλεός. Οἱ γὰρ ἀρχαῖοι ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον ἐπὶ ἡλίου, καὶ σελήνης, καὶ ἀστέρων, ἀστατοῦσι γὰρ, ἐτίθεσαν τὸ ὄνομα, παρὰ τὸ ἀεὶ θεῖν καὶ κινεῖσθαι. Καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ χωρὶς τούτων λεγομένου Θεοῦ λέγοιτ' ἂν παρὰ τὸ πανταχοῦ εἶναι καὶ περιθεῖν. Clemens, Strom. IV, pag. 555 [print unclear: 555 or 535], vult θεὸν dici κατὰ τὴν ἀμετάτρεπτον τοῦ ἀεὶ θεῖν τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἕξιν· propter immutabilem cursum, quo bona semper fluunt. Conf. Theophilus Antiochenus non procul a principio lib. I ad Autolycum.

"Gods from 'running'." Plato in the Cratylus says he thinks that the stars, to which alone the barbarians and the ancient Greeks paid divine honours, were first called θεοί as "always going on their course and running," being borne in perpetual motion; and that afterwards the name passed to the other gods. Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris, p. 375, says the name θεός was given to all the gods from two words, θεατός, "visible," and θέων, "running." The author of the Etymologicum: "Θεός, from θέω, 'I run,' to whom we all run. From θέω and θεύω, θεός, as φωλεός from φωλεύω. For the ancients for the most part gave the name to the sun and moon and stars — for they are never at rest — from their ever running and moving. And of the God spoken of apart from these, it might be said from his being everywhere and running round all things." Clement, Stromata 4, p. 555 [or 535], holds that God is called θεός from the unchanging habit of ever "running" good things: on account of the unchangeable course by which good things ever flow. Compare Theophilus of Antioch, not far from the beginning of book 1 To Autolycus.

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Θεοποιοῦσι, τὰς ἀν. Haec sic distinguit Nov.: θεοποιοῦσι τὰς ἀντιδόσεις, προσκυν. Retributiones in deos referunt, calamitates etiam ipsas adorantes. Non male.

"They deify, the re[tributions]." Novus punctuates thus: "they deify the retributions, worship[ping]…": they make the retributions into gods, worshipping even the calamities themselves. Not badly.

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Προτροπαίους. Προστροπαίους, Nov., recte. Nam δαίμονες προστρόπαιοι vel προστροπαῖοι iidem sunt, qui παλαμναῖοι et ἀλάστορες, id est scelerum ultores. Suidas: Παλαμναῖος, φονεύς, ἢ μιαρός .... καὶ Ζεὺς Παλαμναῖος, ὁ τοὺς τοιούτους τιμωρούμενος· καὶ Προστροπαῖος, ὁ προτρέπων τὸ ἄγος αὐτοῖς. Παλαμναῖος, homicida, vel piaculo obstrictus. Et Jupiter Παλαμναῖος, qui tales punit; et Προστροπαῖος, qui piaculum in eos convertit.

"Protropaioi." "Prostropaioi," Novus, rightly. For "prostropaic" daemons are the same as the "palamnaean" and the "alastors," that is, avengers of crimes. Suidas: "Palamnaios: a murderer, or one defiled … and Zeus Palamnaios, who punishes such men; and Prostropaios, who turns the pollution upon them." Palamnaios: a homicide, or one bound by blood-guilt. And Jupiter Palamnaios, who punishes such; and Prostropaios, who turns the guilt back upon them.

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Ὕβρεως καὶ Ἀναιδ. Fanum his deabus positum fuisse, non solum altare, memorat Cicero, De leg., lib. II: Illud vitiosum Athenis, quod Cylonis scelere expiato, Epimenide Crete suadente, fecerunt Contumeliae fanum et Impudentiae. At vero, referente Pausania, in Atticis, ἀργυροῦς λίθους, ἐφ' ὧν ἑστᾶσιν ὅσοι δίκας ὑπέχουσι, καὶ οἱ διώκοντες· τὸν μὲν Ὕβρεως, τὸν δὲ Ἀναιδείας, αὐτοὶ ὀνομάζουσι· Ex argento lapides, quibus insistunt, cum qui rei in Areopagit. foro, tum qui actores, illum Contumeliae, istum Impudentiae vocant. Quo loco, pro Ἀναιδείας, Ἀναιτίας, innocentiae, perperam substitui, Ciceron. ac Clement. verba manifestum faciunt.

"Of Insolence and Shamelessness." Cicero records that a shrine, not merely an altar, was set up to these goddesses, Laws book 2: "That was a fault at Athens, that after the crime of Cylon had been expiated, on the advice of Epimenides the Cretan, they made a shrine to Insolence and to Shamelessness." But according to Pausanias, in the Attica, "the silver stones on which stand those who are on trial and their accusers — the one they call the stone of Insolence, the other of Shamelessness": stones of silver on which stand, in the court of the Areopagus, both the accused and the accusers; the one they call Insolence's, the other Shamelessness's. The words of Cicero and Clement make it plain that in that passage Ἀναιτίας, "of innocence," has wrongly been substituted for Ἀναιδείας.

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νοιαι δὲ ἡμαρτημέναι καὶ παρηγμέναι τῆς εὐθείας, ὀλέθριαι ὡς ἀληθῶς, τὸ οὐράνιον φυτὸν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, οὐρανίου ἐξέτρεψαν διαίτης, καὶ ἐξετάνυσαν ἐπὶ γῆς, γηΐνοις προσανέχειν ἀναπείσασαι πλάσμασιν. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ, εὐθέως ἀμφὶ τὴν οὐρανοῦ θέαν ἀπατώμενοι, καὶ ὄψει μόνῃ πεπιστευκότες, τῶν ἀστέρων τὰς κινήσεις ἐπιθεώμενοι, ἐθαύμασάν τε καὶ ἐξεθείασαν, θεοὺς ἐκ τοῦ θεῖν ὀνομάσαντες τοὺς ἀστέρας· καὶ προσεκύνησαν ἥλιον, ὡς Ἰνδοὶ, καὶ σελήνην, ὡς Φρύγες. Οἱ δὲ, τῶν ἐκ γῆς φυομένων τοὺς ἡμέρους δρεπόμενοι καρποὺς, Δηὼ τὸν σῖτον, ὡς Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ Διόνυσον τὴν ἄμπελον, ὡς Θηβαῖοι, προσηγόρευσαν. Ἄλλοι, τὰς ἀμοιβὰς τῆς κακίας ἐπισκοπήσαντες, θεοποιοῦσι, τὰς ἀντιδόσεις προσκυνοῦντες, καὶ τὰς συμφοράς· ἐντεῦθεν τὰς Ἐριννύας καὶ τὰς Εὐμενίδας, παλαμναίους τε καὶ προτροπαίους, ἔτι δὲ ἀλάστορας, ἀναπεπλάκασιν οἱ ἀμφὶ τὴν σκηνὴν ποιηταί. Φιλοσόφων δὲ ἤδη τινὲς, καὶ αὐτοὶ μετὰ τοὺς ποιητικοὺς, τῶν ἐν ὑμῖν παθῶν ἀνειδωλοποιοῦσι τύπους, τὸν Φόβον, καὶ τὸν Ἔρωτα, καὶ τὴν Χαρὰν, καὶ τὴν Ἐλπίδα· ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ Ἐπιμενίδης ὁ παλαιὸς, Ὕβρεως καὶ Ἀναιδείας Ἀθήνησιν ἀναστήσας βωμούς. Οἱ δὲ, ἐξ αὐτῶν ὁρμώμενοι τῶν πραγμάτων, ἐκθεοῦνται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, καὶ σωματικῶς ἀναπλάττονται· Δίκη τις, καὶ Κλωθὼ, καὶ Λάχεσις, καὶ Ἄτροπος, καὶ Εἱμαρμένη, Αὐξώ τε, καὶ Θαλλὼ, αἱ Ἀττικαί. Ἕκτος ἐστὶν εἰσηγητικὸς τρόπος ἀπάτης, θεῶν περιποιητικὸς, καθ' ὃν ἀριθμοῦσι θεοὺς τοὺς δώδεκα· ὧν καὶ Θεογονίαν Ἡσίοδος ᾄδει τὴν αὑτοῦ· καὶ ὅσα θεολογεῖ Ὅμηρος. Τελευταῖος δὲ ὑπολείπεται (ἑπτὰ γὰρ οἱ ἅπαντες οὗτοι τρόποι) ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς θείας εὐεργεσίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους καταγινομένης ὁρμώμενος. Τὸν γὰρ εὐερ-
mistaken notions, turned aside from the straight path, truly deadly, turned man, the heavenly plant, away from a heavenly way of life, and stretched him out upon the earth, persuading him to cleave to earthly formations. For some, immediately deceived about the contemplation of heaven, and trusting to sight alone, gazing upon the movements of the stars, wondered at them and deified them, naming the stars gods from their running; and they worshipped the sun, as the Indians did, and the moon, as the Phrygians did. And others, plucking the cultivated fruits of the plants that grow from the earth, called grain Deo, as the Athenians did, and the vine Dionysus, as the Thebans did. Others, having considered the retributions of wickedness, make gods of them, worshipping the recompenses and the calamities; hence the poets of the stage have fashioned the Erinyes and the Eumenides, the avengers of blood and the averters, and furthermore the spirits of vengeance. And some of the philosophers already, themselves also following the poetic writers, fashion idolatrous types of the passions within you—Fear, and Love, and Joy, and Hope—just as, of course, the ancient Epimenides also set up altars of Outrage and Shamelessness at Athens. And others, starting from the affairs themselves, are deified for men and fashioned in bodily form: a certain Dike, and Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos, and Heimarmene, and Auxo and Thallo, the Attic goddesses. A sixth way of introducing deceit, productive of gods, is that according to which they reckon the twelve gods, of whom Hesiod sings his Theogony, and whatever Homer discourses of the gods. And the last remains (for all these ways are seven in number), that which starts from the divine beneficence exercised towards men. For not under-
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γετοῦντα μὴ συνιέντες Θεὸν, ἀνέπλασάν τινας σωτῆρας Διοσκούρους, καὶ Ἡρακλέα ἀλεξίκακον, καὶ Ἀσκληπιὸν ἰατρόν. Αὗται μὲν αἱ ὀλισθηραί τε καὶ ἐπιβλαβεῖς παρεκβάσεις τῆς ἀληθείας, καθέλκουσαι οὐρανόθεν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, καὶ εἰς βάραθρον περιτρέπουσαι. Ἐθέλω δὲ ὑμῖν ἐν χρῷ τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐπιδεῖξαι, ὁποῖοι καὶ τίνες εἰσὶν, ἵν' ἤδη ποτὲ τῆς πλάνης λήξητε, αὖθις δὲ παλινδρομήσητε εἰς οὐρανόν· Ἦμεν γάρ που καὶ ἡμεῖς τέκνα ὀργῆς, ὡς καὶ οἱ λοιποί· ὁ δὲ Θεὸς, πλούσιος ὢν ἐν ἐλέει, διὰ τὴν πολλὴν ἀγάπην αὐτοῦ, ἣν ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, ὄντας ἤδη νεκροὺς τοῖς παραπτώμασιν, συνεζωοποίησεν τῷ Χριστῷ. Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ Λόγος, καὶ συνταφεὶς Χριστῷ, συνυψοῦται Θεῷ. Οἱ δὲ ἔτι ἄπιστοι τέκνα ὀργῆς ὀνομάζονται, τρεφόμενα ὀργῇ· ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐκ ὀργῆς θρέμματα ἔτι, οἱ τῆς πλάνης ἀπεσπασμένοι, ἀΐσσοντες δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Ταύτῃ τοι ἡμεῖς οἱ τῆς ἀνομίας υἱοί ποτε, διὰ τὴν φιλανθρωπίαν τοῦ Λόγου νῦν υἱοὶ γεγόναμεν τοῦ Θεοῦ· ὑμῖν δὲ καὶ ὁ ὑμέτερος ὑποδύεται ποιητὴς ὁ Ἀκραγαντῖνος Ἐμπεδοκλῆς·
standing the beneficent God, they fashioned certain saviours, the Dioscuri, and Heracles the averter of evil, and Asclepius the healer. These are the slippery and harmful deviations from the truth, dragging man down from heaven and overturning him into the pit. And I wish to show you at close quarters the gods themselves, of what sort and who they are, so that now at last you may cease from error and run back again to heaven. For we also were once children of wrath, even as the rest; but God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were already dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (Eph. 2:3–5). For the Word is living, and having been buried together with Christ, is exalted together with God. Those who are still unbelieving are called children of wrath, reared for wrath; whereas we are no longer nurslings of wrath, having been torn away from error and darting towards the truth. Thus we who were once sons of lawlessness have now, through the loving-kindness of the Word, become sons of God; and your own poet, Empedocles of Agrigentum, also steals in upon you:
Τοιγάρ τοι χαλεπῇσιν ἀλύοντες κακότησιν, Οὔ ποτε δειλαίων ἀχέων λωφήσετε θυμόν.
Therefore, distraught with grievous wickedness, you will never relieve your soul from wretched sorrows.
Τὰ μὲν δὴ πλεῖστα μεμύθευται καὶ πέπλασται περὶ θεῶν ὑμῖν· τὰ δὲ καὶ ὅσα γεγενῆσθαι ὑπείληπται, ταῦτα δὲ περὶ ἀνθρώπων αἰσχρῶν καὶ ἀσελγῶς βεβιωκότων ἀναγέγραπται·
Most things, indeed, have been fabled and fabricated by you concerning the gods; and whatever things are supposed to have actually happened, these have been recorded about shameful men who lived lewdly:
Τύφῳ καὶ μανίῃ δὲ βαδίζετε, καὶ τρίβον ὀρθὴν Εὐθεῖαν προλιπόντες, ἀπήλθετε τὴν δι' ἀκανθῶν Καὶ σκολόπων. Τί πλανᾶσθε ; βροτέων παύσασθε μάταιοι, Καλλίπετε σκοτίην νυκτὸς, φωτὸς δὲ λάβεσθε.
In pride and madness you walk, and having left the straight, right path, you have gone away along that through thorns and stakes. Why do you wander? Cease from mortal things, you vain ones; leave the darkness of night, and lay hold of the light.
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Τέκνα ὀργῆς. In vulgatis editt. Pauli Ephes. II legitur τέκνα φύσει ὀργῆς. Sylburg. — Sed φύσει omittit etiam versio Aethiopica.

"Children of wrath." In the common editions of Paul, Ephesians 2, one reads "children by nature of wrath." Sylburg. — But the Ethiopic version also omits "by nature."

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Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ Λόγος, καὶ συνταφεὶς Χριστῷ, συνυψοῦται Θεῷ. Quaeri potest, quomodo Λόγος, hoc est Deus Filius, consepultus Christo, et cum Deo elevatus fuerit? Quam difficultatem sic tolli posse admonuit vir quidam amicus doctusque, si Λογάς scriberetur pro Λόγος. Illi porro λογάς est electio, quam pro electis ac fidelibus Dei servis sumi posse arbitrabatur: hos autem in baptismo cum Christo sepeliri, et resurgere, saepe affirmant post Paulum scriptores veteres recentesque. At vero haec vox nec in ullo Clementis codice habetur, nec pro electis usurpari solet: quos Graeci auctores ἐκλεκτούς vocant, raro aut nunquam λογάδα. Itaque hac mutatione non tam solvitur nodus, quam secatur. Sit igitur hoc loco, ut alias, Λόγος, divina Jesu persona: Logos autem consepultus Christo dicitur, quia secundum humanam naturam mortuus ac sepultus fuit; cum Deo vero extollitur, quia divinae naturae virtute resurrexit: quemadmodum a Petro dicitur θανατωθεὶς μὲν σαρκὶ, ζωοποιηθεὶς δὲ τῷ πνεύματι· mortificatus quidem carne, vivificatus vero spiritu, I Pet. III, 18. Nam hoc loco, ut saepe alias, πνεῦμα oppositum σαρκὶ, divinam Christi naturam significat. Nec vero insolens est, quod dicitur Λόγος sepultus fuisse; cum ei, propter unionem ad humanam naturam, humanos affectus tribuere soleant, cum alii, tum etiam Clemens; ut cum dicit: Τὸν Λόγον τὸν ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἐκχεόμενον, Logon pro multis effusum, Paed. lib. II, c. 2, p. 158. Ubi Logon sumit pro Logi incarnati sanguine. Qua ratione Patres Ephesini B. Virgini non solum Χριστοτόκου, sed etiam Θεοτόκου, nomen jure deberi contra Nestorium statuerunt. Posset etiam dici Λόγος Christo consepultus fuisse, quia humanam naturam ne mortuam quidem deseruit. Quod multi Patres clare affirmant. Gregorius Nyssenus, orat. 1, De resur.: Τὴν μὲν ψυχὴν τοῦ σώματος ἡ θεότης ἑκουσίως διέζευξεν, ἑαυτὴν δὲ ἐν ἀμφοτέροις μένουσαν ἔδειξεν· Animam quidem deitas a corpore voluntarie separavit, se vero in utroque manentem clare ostendit. Augustinus, Tract. in Joan. 47, negat quidquam ultra fecisse mortem Christi, nisi quod corpus ab anima separavit. Leo, serm. 1, De resurr.: Deitas, quae ab utraque suscepti hominis substantia non recessit, quod potestate divisit, potestate conjunxit. Fulgentius, ad Trasimund. lib. III, c. 34: Non est Deus ab humanitate, quam susceperat, separatus; qui et in anima sua fuit, ut solutis inferni doloribus ab inferno victrix rediret, et in carne fuit, ut celeri resurrectione corrumpi non posset.

"For the Word lives, and buried with Christ, is exalted with God." It may be asked how the Word, that is, God the Son, was buried with Christ and raised up with God. A learned friend suggested that the difficulty could be removed if λογάς were written for λόγος. To him λογάς means "election," which he thought could be taken for the elect and faithful servants of God; and writers ancient and modern, following Paul, often say that these are buried with Christ in baptism and rise again. But this word is found in no codex of Clement, nor is it commonly used for "the elect": Greek authors call them ἐκλεκτοί, rarely or never λογάς. So this change cuts the knot rather than untying it. Let the Word here, then, be as elsewhere the divine person of Jesus. The Word is said to be buried with Christ because he died and was buried according to his human nature; and is exalted with God because he rose by the power of his divine nature — as Peter says, "put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit," 1 Peter 3:18. For here, as often elsewhere, "spirit," set against "flesh," signifies Christ's divine nature. Nor is it unusual for the Word to be said to have been buried, since, because of his union with human nature, others and Clement too commonly ascribe human experiences to him; as when he says, "the Word poured out for many," Paedagogus book 2, ch. 2, p. 158, where he takes "the Word" for the blood of the incarnate Word. On this principle the Fathers of Ephesus decreed against Nestorius that the Blessed Virgin is rightly owed the name not only of "Mother of Christ" but also of "Mother of God." It could also be said that the Word was buried with Christ because he did not forsake the human nature even when it was dead, as many Fathers clearly affirm. Gregory of Nyssa, Oration 1 On the Resurrection: "The Godhead willingly parted the soul from the body, but showed itself remaining in both": the Godhead indeed separated the soul from the body voluntarily, but plainly showed that it remained in both. Augustine, Tractate 47 on John, denies that the death of Christ did anything more than separate the body from the soul. Leo, Sermon 1 On the Resurrection: "The Godhead, which did not withdraw from either substance of the man it had assumed, joined by its power what by its power it had divided." Fulgentius, To Thrasamund, book 3, ch. 34: "God was not separated from the humanity he had assumed; he was both in his soul, so that, the pains of hell loosed, it might return victorious from hell, and in the flesh, so that by a swift resurrection it could not be corrupted."

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Τρεφόμενοι ὀργῇ. Similis phrasis occurrit hujusce libri pag. 70, θανάτῳ τρεφόμενοι, ad mortem, hoc est, ut moriantur, nutriti: quod de avibus saginatis dicitur. Item, p. 69, εἰς ὕλας τρεφομένη, nutrita ut ignis materia fiat. Iterum Paedag. lib. II, cap. 1, pag. 144: Βοσκημάτων δίκην πιαινόμενον. θανάτῳ τρέφεσθαι· pecudum more saginatum, morti nutriri.

"Nourished for wrath." A similar phrase occurs on p. 70 of this book, "nourished for death," that is, nourished so that they may die — which is said of fattened birds. Likewise p. 69, "nourished for fuel," nourished to become food for the fire. Again, Paedagogus book 2, ch. 1, p. 144: "fattened like cattle, to be nourished for death."

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Ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐκ ὀργ. Particulam δὲ non agnoscunt editt. Victorii et Sylburgii; nos tamen retinuimus, quod occurrat in Nov.

"But we [are] not [nurslings] of wrath." The editions of Victorius and Sylburg do not have the particle "but"; we have nevertheless kept it, because it occurs in Novus.

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Τί πλανᾶσθε; βροτέων παύσασθε. Desistite ab humanis, studiis scilicet, aut simile quid. A et II (continues)

"Why do you wander? Cease from mortal [pursuits]." Desist from human things — that is, pursuits — or something similar. A and II… (continues)

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Ephesians 2:3–5.

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Οἱ πέντε Ἀθηνᾶς. Locum de quinque Minervis latius ex Cicerone declarat Petrus Victorius, Var. lect., lib. II, cap. 15. Sylburg. — Julius Firmicus, De errore prof. relig.: Quinque Minervas fuisse legentibus nobis tradit antiquitas. Una est, Vulcani filia, quae Athenas condidit, quam ex agrestibus locis ad urbanae conversationis ordinem rustica turba comitata est. Fuit alia in Aegypto, Nili regis filia, textrinae artis magistra. Tertia vero, patre Saturno genita est. Sed hanc viraginem fuisse commemorant; nam nunquam se intra feminei sexus verecundiam tenuit, sed arma semper strepitumque pugnarum, et cruenta secuta est studia bellorum. Quaria, Jovis Cretici regis fuit filia, quae occisum patri detulit liberum. Quinta, Pallante, etc., quae mox sequentur.

"The five Athenas." Petrus Victorius explains the passage about the five Minervas more fully from Cicero, Variae lectiones, book 2, ch. 15. Sylburg. — Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions: "Antiquity tells us, as we read, that there were five Minervas. One is the daughter of Vulcan, who founded Athens, whom a rustic crowd accompanied from country places to the order of city life. Another was in Egypt, daughter of King Nile, teacher of the weaver's art. The third was born of Saturn as father; but they record that she was a virago, for she never kept within the modesty of the female sex, but always followed arms and the din of battles and the bloody pursuits of war. The fourth [printed "Quaria"] was the daughter of Jupiter, king of Crete, who brought Liber, slain, to her father. The fifth, of Pallas," etc., which follows shortly.

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Τὴν Διός. Τοῦ Δ., Nov.

"Her of Zeus." "Of Zeus" (with the masculine article), Novus.

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Κορυφασίαν. De Minerva Coryphasia vide P. Victorium lib. II, cap. 15, qui locum Pausaniae ex Messeniacis consentientis cum Clemente profert. Quod vero Minerva quinta patris pelle se induerit tanquam aegide, Julius Firmicus, cap. 17 De err. prof. relig.: Quinta Minerva Pallante patre et Titanide matre orta est, quae patris appellata nomine, Pallas est ab hominibus nuncupata. Haec parricidialis amentia furoris, et vesanae temeritatis instinctu, patrem Pallantem crudeli morte jugulavit. Nec simplici patris morte contenta, ut diutius malis suis frueretur, et ut de morte patris crudelius triumpharet, exuviis corporis ejus ornata est. Cicero, III De nat.: Quinta Pallantis, quae patrem dicitur interemisse, virginitatem suam violare conantem, cui pinnarum talaria affingunt. Isacius Tzetzes, in Lycophronem: Πάλλαντα τὸν ἴδιον πατέρα πτερωτὸν ὑπάρχοντα, βιάζοντα αὐτήν, ἀνεῖλε, καὶ τὸ δέρμα αὐτοῦ ὡς αἰγίδα περιεβάλετο, καὶ τὰ πτερὰ τούτου τοῖς ποσὶν αὐτῆς προσήρμοσεν. Collect.

"Coryphasia." On Minerva Coryphasia see P. Victorius, book 2, ch. 15, who cites a passage of Pausanias from the Messeniaca that agrees with Clement. That the fifth Minerva clothed herself in her father's skin as an aegis, Julius Firmicus says, ch. 17 On the Error of Profane Religions: "The fifth Minerva was born of Pallas as father and a Titanid as mother; called by her father's name, she is named Pallas by men. Driven by the parricidal madness of her fury and the impulse of insane rashness, she butchered her father Pallas by a cruel death. Not content with her father's mere death, so as to enjoy her crimes the longer and to triumph more cruelly over his death, she adorned herself with the spoils of his body." Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3: "The fifth, daughter of Pallas, who is said to have killed her father when he tried to violate her virginity; to her they give winged sandals." Isaac Tzetzes, on Lycophron: "She killed her own father Pallas, who was winged, when he was forcing her, and put his skin about her as an aegis, and fitted his wings to her feet." Collector.

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Κορύβαντος. Κύρβαντος, Nov.

"Of Corybas." "Of Cyrbas," Novus.

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Ἀναρίθμητοι. Ἐναρίθμητοι, Nov.

"Innumerable." "Counted among" (ἐναρίθμητοι), Novus.

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Ἄρες. Homeri Il., E, vers. 31. Mox eum vo- (continues)

"Ares." Homer, Iliad 5 (E), line 31. Next, [calling] him… (continues)

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Ταῦτα ἡμῖν ἡ προφητικὴ παρεγγυᾷ καὶ ποιητικὴ Σίβυλλα· παρεγγυᾷ δὲ καὶ ἀλήθεια, γυμνοῦσα τῶν καταπληκτικῶν τουτωνὶ καὶ ἐκπληκτικῶν προσωπείων, τὸν ὄχλον τῶν θεῶν, συνωνυμίαις τισὶ τὰς δοξοποιίας διελέγχουσα. Αὐτίκα γοῦν εἰσιν, οἳ τρεῖς τοὺς Ζῆνας ἀναγράφουσιν· τὸν μὲν Αἰθέρος, ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ, τὼ δὲ λοιπὼ τοῦ Κρόνου παῖδε· τούτοιν τὸν μὲν ἐν Κρήτῃ, θάτερον δὲ ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ πάλιν. Εἰσὶ δὲ, οἳ πέντε Ἀθηνᾶς ὑποτίθενται· τὴν μὲν Ἡφαίστου τὴν Ἀθηναίαν, τὴν δὲ Νείλου τὴν Αἰγυπτίαν· τρίτην τοῦ Κρόνου, τὴν πολέμου εὑρέτιν· τετάρτην τὴν Διὸς, ἣν Μεσσήνιοι Κορυφασίαν ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς ἐπικεκλήκασιν· ἐπὶ πᾶσι, τὴν Πάλλαντος καὶ Τιτανίδος τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ· ἣ, τὸν πατέρα δυσσεβῶς καταθύσασα, τῷ πατρῴῳ κεκόσμηται δέρματι, ὥσπερ κωδίῳ. Ναὶ μὴν Ἀπόλλωνα ὁ μὲν Ἀριστοτέλης πρῶτον Ἡφαίστου καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς, (ἐνταῦθα δὴ οὐκέτι παρθένος ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ·) δεύτερον ἐν Κρήτῃ, τὸν Κορύβαντος· τρίτον τὸν Διός· καὶ τέταρτον τὸν Ἀρκάδα, τὸν Σιληνοῦ· (Νόμιος οὗτος κέκληται παρ' Ἀρκάσιν·) ἐπὶ τούτοις, τὸν Λίβυν καταλέγει, τὸν Ἄμμωνος· ὁ δὲ Δίδυμος ὁ γραμματικὸς τούτοις ἕκτον ἐπιφέρει, τὸν Μάγνητος. Πόσοι δὲ καὶ νῦν Ἀπόλλωνες ; ἀναρίθμητοι, θνητοὶ, καὶ ἐπίκουροί τινες ἄνθρωποί εἰσιν, οἱ παραπλησίως τοῖς προειρημένοις ἐκείνοις κεκλημένοι. Τί δ' εἴ σοι τοὺς πολλοὺς εἴποιμι Ἀσκληπιούς ; ἢ τοὺς Ἑρμᾶς τοὺς ἀριθμουμένους, ἢ τοὺς Ἡφαίστους τοὺς μυθολογουμένους ; μὴ καὶ περιττὸς εἶναι δόξω, τὰς ἀκοὰς ὑμῶν τοῖς πολλοῖς τούτοις ἐπικλύζων ὀνόμασιν ; Αλλ' αἵγε πατρίδες αὐτοὺς, καὶ αἱ τέχναι, καὶ οἱ βίοι, πρὸς δέ γε καὶ οἱ τάφοι, ἀνθρώπους γεγονότας διελέγχουσιν. Ἄρης γοῦν, ὁ καὶ παρὰ τοῖς ποιηταῖς, ὡς οἷόν τε, τετιμημένος,
These things the prophetic and poetic Sibyl exhorts us; and truth also exhorts us, stripping the crowd of the gods of these terrifying and startling masks, refuting their figments by certain homonymies. Immediately, at any rate, there are those who record three Zeuses: the one born of Aether, in Arcadia, and the other two, sons of Cronus; of these two, the one in Crete, and the other in Arcadia again. And there are those who suppose five Athenas: the one born of Hephaestus, the Athenian; the second born of the Nile, the Egyptian; the third born of Cronus, the inventress of war; the fourth born of Zeus, whom the Messenians have called Coryphasia after her mother; and last of all, the daughter of Pallas and Titanis the daughter of Oceanus, who, having impiously slaughtered her father, is adorned with her father's skin as with a fleece. Yea, verily, Aristotle reckons the first Apollo as the son of Hephaestus and Athena (here indeed Athena is no longer a virgin); the second in Crete, the son of Corybas; the third, the son of Zeus; and the fourth, the Arcadian, the son of Silenus (this one is called Nomius among the Arcadians); besides these, he reckons the Libyan, the son of Ammon; and Didymus the grammarian adds to these a sixth, the son of Magnes. And how many Apollos are there even now? Countless, mortal men, and certain helpers, who have been called in like manner to those aforesaid. And what if I should tell you of the many Asclepiuses, or the Hermeses that are numbered, or the Hephaestuses of mythology? Shall I not seem even superfluous, flooding your ears with these many names? Yet their native lands, and their arts, and their lives, and moreover their tombs as well, convict them of having been men. Ares, at any rate, who is honoured as much as possible among the poets:
Ἄρες, Ἄρες, βροτολοιγὲ, μιαιφόνε, τειχεσιπλῆτα.
Ares, Ares, bane of mortals, blood-stained, stormer of walls (Il. 5:31).
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Ὁ ἀλλοπρόσαλλος οὗτος καὶ ἀνάρσιος, ὡς μὲν Ἐπίχαρμός φησι, Σπαρτιάτης ἦν· Σοφοκλῆς δὲ Θρᾷκα οἶδεν αὐτόν· ἄλλοι δὲ Ἀρκάδα. Τοῦτον δὲ Ὅμηρος δεδέσθαι φησὶν ἐπὶ μῆνας τρισκαίδεκα·
This fickle and implacable one, as Epicharmus says, was a Spartan; Sophocles knows him as a Thracian; and others as an Arcadian. And Homer says that this one was bound for thirteen months:
Τλῆ μὲν Ἄρης, ὅτε μιν Ὦτος κρατερός τ' Ἐφιάλτης, Παῖδες Ἀλωῆος, δῆσαν κρατερῷ ἐνὶ δεσμῷ· Χαλκέῳ δ' ἐν κεράμῳ δέδετο τρισκαίδεκα μῆνας.
Ares endured it, when Otus and mighty Ephialtes, the sons of Aloeus, bound him in a strong bond; and in a brazen jar he lay bound for thirteen months (Il. 5:385–387).
Πολλὰ κἀγαθὰ Κᾶρες σχοῖεν, οἳ καταθύουσιν αὐτῷ τοὺς κύνας ! Σκύθαι δὲ, τοὺς ὄνους ἱερεύοντες μὴ παυέσθων, ὡς Ἀπολλοδωρός φησι, καὶ Καλλίμαχος·
May the Carians have many blessings, who sacrifice dogs to him! And let not the Scythians cease sacrificing asses, as Apollodorus says, and Callimachus:
Φοῖβος Ὑπερβορέοισιν ὄνων ἐπιτέλλεται ἱροῖς.
Phoebus rises propitious to the Hyperboreans at their sacrifices of asses.
Ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ ἀλλαχοῦ·
And the same poet elsewhere:
Τέρπουσιν λιπαραὶ Φοῖβον ὀνοσφαγίαι.
Fat slaughterings of asses delight Phoebus.
Ἥφαιστος δὲ, ὃν ἔῤῥιψεν ἐξ Ὀλύμπου Ζεὺς, βηλοῦ ἀπὸ θεσπεσίοιο ἐν Λήμνῳ καταπεσὼν, ἐχάλκευε, πηρωθεὶς τὼ πόδε·
And Hephaestus, whom Zeus hurled out of Olympus, having fallen down from the divine threshold upon Lemnos, worked as a smith, maimed in both feet:
... ὑπὸ δὲ κνῆμαι ῥώοντο ἀραιαί.
and beneath him his slender lower legs moved nimbly (Il. 18:411).
Ἔχεις καὶ ἰατρὸν, οὐχὶ χαλκέα μόνον ἐν θεοῖς. Ὁ δὲ ἰατρὸς φιλάργυρος ἦν, Ἀσκληπιὸς ὄνομα αὐτῷ. Καί σοι τὸν σὸν παραθήσομαι ποιητὴν, τὸν Βοιώτιον Πίνδαρον·
You have also a physician, not only a smith, among the gods. And the physician was fond of money; Asclepius was his name. And I will set before you your own poet, the Boeotian Pindar:
Ἔτραπεν κἀκεῖνον ἀγάνορι μι-
Even him did he turn with proud re-
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Τλῆ μέν. Ex Iliad. E, v. 385. In vers. I. Ἐφιάλτης Homer.

"Endured indeed." From Iliad 5 (E), line 385. In the first line, Homer has "Ephialtes."

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Σκύθαι. Hyperboreos in Scythia Apollini asinos sacrificasse testatur Pindarus Pyth., Od. 10. Ad quem locum Scholiastes Graecus posteriorem ex his Callimachi versibus citavit. Conf. etiam Antonii Liberalis Metamorph., cap. 20, quo commemorat, quomodo Apollo Cleinidem, ejusque familiam punivit, eo quod Hyperboreorum ritu asinos ei Babylone mactare vellent.

"Scythians." Pindar, Pythian Ode 10, testifies that the Hyperboreans in Scythia sacrificed asses to Apollo. On that passage the Greek scholiast cites the second of these lines of Callimachus. Compare also Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, ch. 20, where he records how Apollo punished Cleinis and his family because they wished to slaughter asses to him at Babylon after the Hyperborean rite.

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Φοῖβος. Φόβος Nov., mendose.

"Phoebus." "Fear" (φόβος), Novus — a corruption.

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Ἐπιτέλλεται. Anna T. Fabri filia in suis ad Fragmenta Callimachi notis ait: « Pater meus amantissimus putabat legendum ἐπιτέρπεται. Vel fortasse ἐπιτέλλεται significat adest propitius et favens. » Ricardus Bentleius, ibid.: « Placet eorum conjectura, qui pro ἐπιτέλλεται scribunt ἐπιτέρπεται. Nisi sic potius interpreteris, sacra illa fieri solita esse sub solis ortum. Ergo ἐπιτέλλεται, exoritur. »

"Rises upon." Anne, daughter of T. Faber, in her notes on the Fragments of Callimachus says: "My most loving father thought one should read ἐπιτέρπεται ('takes delight'). Or perhaps ἐπιτέλλεται means 'is present, propitious and favouring.'" Richard Bentley, in the same place: "I approve the conjecture of those who write ἐπιτέρπεται for ἐπιτέλλεται — unless you rather interpret it that those rites used to be performed at sunrise. So ἐπιτέλλεται, 'rises.'"

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Ὀνοσφαγίαι. Arnobius, lib. IV De Marte: Quis ei canes ab Caribus, quis ab Scythis asinos immolari? non principaliter cum caeteris Apollodorus? Collect.

"Ass-sacrifices." Arnobius, book 4, of Mars: "Who [says] that dogs are sacrificed to him by the Carians, asses by the Scythians? Is it not Apollodorus, chief among the rest?" Collector.

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Ὃν ἔῤῥιψ. Hunc locum sic interpunxit Nov. ὃν ἔῤῥιψεν ἐξ Ὀλύμπου Ζεὺς βηλοῦ ἀπὸ θεσπεσίοιο, ἐν Λήμνῳ κατ. Quem deturbavit e limine coelesti Jupiter, cum in Lemnum cecidisset, etc. Quem sensum praebet Homerus, cujus Iliad. A, v. 590, Vulcanus de Jove haec dicit: Ἤδη γάρ με καὶ ἄλλοτ' ἀλεξέμεναι μεμαῶτα Ῥῖψε, ποδὸς τεταγὼν, ἀπὸ βηλοῦ θεσπεσίοιο. Πᾶν δ' ἦμαρ φερόμην, ἅμα δ' ἠελίῳ καταδύντι Κάππεσον ἐν Λήμνῳ· ὀλίγος δ' ἔτι θυμὸς ἐνῆεν.

"Whom he hurled." Novus punctuates the passage thus: "whom Zeus hurled out of Olympus from the divine threshold; in Lemnos [he fell]…" — whom Jupiter threw down from the heavenly threshold, when he had fallen on Lemnos, etc. Homer gives this sense, where in Iliad 1 (A), line 590, Vulcan says of Jove: "For once before, when I was eager to defend you, he seized me by the foot and hurled me from the divine threshold. All day I was borne along, and at sunset I fell on Lemnos, and little life was left in me."

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Ἐχάλκευε. Homerus Il. Σ, v. 410, de Vulcano ait: ... ἀπ' ἀκμοθέτοιο πέλωρ αἴητον ἀνέστη Χωλεύων, ὑπὸ δὲ κνῆμαι ῥώοντο ἀραιαί.

"He worked bronze." Homer, Iliad 18 (Σ), line 410, says of Vulcan: "…from the anvil-block the huge panting monster rose, limping, and beneath him his thin shanks moved nimbly."

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Ἀσκληπιός. Eo pertinent sequentes Pindari versus, ut ostendatur Aesculapius fulmine ictus, quod auro corruptus mortuum quemdam ad vitam revocasset. Pindari Scholiastes ad loc.: Λέγεται δὲ ὁ Ἀσκληπιὸς χρυσῷ δελεασθεὶς, ἀναστῆσαι Ἱππόλυτον τεθνηκότα· οἱ δὲ Τυνδάρεων· ἕτεροι Καπανέα· οἱ δὲ Γλαῦκον· οἱ δὲ Ὀρφικοὶ Ὑμέναιον. Στησίχορος δὲ ἐπὶ Καπανεῖ καὶ Λυκούργῳ· οἱ δὲ διὰ τὸ τὰς Προιτίδας ἰάσασθαι· οἱ δὲ διὰ τὸν Ὠρίωνα· Φύλαρχος, ὅτι τοὺς Φοινείδας ἰάσατο· Φερεκύδης δὲ, ὅτι τοὺς ἐν Δελφοῖς θνήσκοντας ἀναβιοῦν ἐποίει. Conf. Plato, Polit. III; Cicero, De nat. deor., l. III; Plinius, Hist. nat., l. XXIX, c. 1; Arnobius, Adv. Gent., l. IV.

"Asclepius." The following lines of Pindar bear on this, to show that Aesculapius was struck by lightning because, corrupted by gold, he had recalled a dead man to life. Pindar's scholiast on the place: "It is said that Asclepius, lured by gold, raised up Hippolytus when he was dead; others say Tyndareus; others Capaneus; others Glaucus; the Orphics, Hymenaeus. Stesichorus says it was for Capaneus and Lycurgus; others, for healing the daughters of Proetus; others, on account of Orion; Phylarchus, that he healed the sons of Phineus; and Pherecydes, that he made those dying at Delphi live again." Compare Plato, Republic 3; Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 3; Pliny, Natural History, book 29, ch. 1; Arnobius, Against the Nations, book 4.

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Ἔτραπε κἀκεῖνον. Locus est ex ode 3 Pythiorum, antist. 3, quem disposuimus, ut in editionibus vulgatis reperitur: sed illa non satis tuto vertit Hervetus, Ῥίψας δι' ἀμφοῖν ἀμπνοὰς Στέρνων, manus per ambas. N. Sudorius, qui versu reddidit, eleganter: Phoebigenae certe perstrinxit lumina fulvo Nitore, et illum blanda merces impulit, (continues)

"He turned him too." The passage is from the third Pythian ode, antistrophe 3, which we have arranged as it is found in the common editions; but Hervetus translated not safely enough the words "hurling through both [hands] the breath from his breast" as "hands through both." N. Sudorius, who rendered it in verse, elegantly: "Surely it dazzled the eyes of Phoebus' son with tawny gleam, and a winning reward drove him on," (continues)

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Ἄνδρ' ἐκ θανάτου κομίσαι ἤδη ἁλωκότα. Haec verba in prioribus Clementis editionibus omissa, tandem ex Pindaro supplevit Parisiensis. At vero, cum Athenagoras pag. 116, 117, Legat., et Cyrill. contra Julian. lib. I, pag. 101, quibus locis hos versus laudarunt, eadem omittant, nec agnoscat ms. Nov., verisimile est Clementem ea, seu memoriae lapsu, seu ut minus ad suum propositum necessaria, praeteriisse.

"To bring back from death a man already taken." These words, omitted in the earlier editions of Clement, were at last supplied from Pindar by the Paris edition. But since Athenagoras, Legatio pp. 116–117, and Cyril, Against Julian book 1, p. 101, where they quote these lines, omit the same words, and the manuscript Novus does not have them, it is likely that Clement passed them over, either by a slip of memory or as less necessary to his purpose.

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Ῥίψας. Ῥίψαις, Pindar. Mox, ἀμπνοάν, Pindar., Athenag., Cyril. Dein, καθέλεν pro καθεῖλεν, Pindar. Paulo post, ἐπέσκηψε pro ἐνέσκηψε, Cyril.

"Hurling." Ῥίψαις (Aeolic form), Pindar. Next, ἀμπνοάν (Doric), Pindar, Athenagoras, Cyril. Then, καθέλεν for καθεῖλεν, Pindar. A little after, ἐπέσκηψε for ἐνέσκηψε, Cyril.

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Εὐριπίδης. Hos versus disposuimus, ut initio Alcestidis Euripideae se habent; cum in prioribus Clementis editt. scripti essent, nulla metri ratione habita. Eos porro recitat etiam Cyrillus, loco cit. statim post Pindari versus. In secundo versu Nov. Ἀσκληπιός habet, pro Ἀσκληπιόν.

"Euripides." We have arranged these lines as they stand at the beginning of Euripides' Alcestis, since in the earlier editions of Clement they were written out with no regard for the metre. Cyril also recites them, in the place cited, immediately after Pindar's lines. In the second line Novus has Ἀσκληπιός for Ἀσκληπιόν.

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Ἰατρόν. Hoc nomen Neptuno inditum est, postquam serpentum multitudinem sustulisset. Quod memorat Hesychius Milesius in Originibus Byzant.

"Physician." This name was given to Neptune after he had destroyed a multitude of serpents, as Hesychius of Miletus records in the Origins of Byzantium.

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Κρόνον δὲ ἐπικεῖσθαι Σικελίᾳ. Legendum, Κρόνῳ δὲ ἐπικεῖσθαι Σικελίαν, Saturno autem impositam esse Siciliam, ut habet Nov. Non enim Saturnum Siciliae, sed eam Saturno impositam fuisse fabulantur. Verum in Epiphanii Ancorato Jupiter dicitur ταρταρῶσαι τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ πατέρα ἐν τῷ Καυκασίῳ ὄρει, patrem suum, Saturnum, subjecisse Caucaso monti. Item Clementin., homil. 5, cap. 23: Κρόνου γὰρ ἐν τοῖς Καυκασίοις ὄρεσιν, οὐκ ἐν οὐρανῷ, ἀλλ' ἐν γῇ, τάφος τις δείκνυται· Saturni enim in Caucasiis montibus, non in coelo, sed in terra, sepulcrum ostenditur. Mox, τεθάφθαι, pro τετάφθαι, Nov.

"That Cronus lies on Sicily." Read "that Sicily lies on Cronus" — that Sicily was placed upon Saturn — as Novus has it. For they do not fable that Saturn was placed on Sicily, but Sicily on Saturn. In Epiphanius' Ancoratus, however, Jupiter is said to have "cast his own father into Tartarus in the Caucasus mountain" — to have put his father Saturn under Mount Caucasus. Likewise the Clementine Homilies, 5.23: "For a tomb of Cronus is shown in the Caucasus mountains, not in heaven but on earth." Next, τεθάφθαι for τετάφθαι, Novus.

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Ἱστορείτων. A. rectius ἱστορεῖτον, praesenti tempore. Ibidem A. mavult genit. casu τῶν Διοσκούρων πέρι· vel duali numero, τοῖν Διοσκούροιν. Sylburg.

"Let them relate." A. more correctly has ἱστορεῖτον, in the present tense. In the same place A. prefers the genitive case, "concerning the Dioscuri," or the dual number, τοῖν Διοσκούροιν. Sylburg.

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Ὅμηρος. Iliad. Γ, vers. 243.

"Homer." Iliad 3 (Γ), line 243.

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Ὁ τὰ Κυπριακά. Stobaeus tit. 31, De verecundia, citat Stasinum in Cypriacis, Athaeneus lib. VIII et XV dubitat Cypriorum versuum auctor sitne Stasinus, an Hegesias. Collect.

"The author of the Cypria." Stobaeus, title 31, On Modesty, cites Stasinus in the Cypria; Athenaeus, books 8 and 15, is unsure whether the author of the Cyprian verses is Stasinus or Hegesias. Collector.

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Θανάτου. A legendum θάνατον δὲ οἱ αἶσα πέπρωται monuit. Sylburg.

"Of death." A. advised reading "and death is his destined lot." Sylburg.

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Φῶτα γάρ. Hic versus reperitur initio lib. Φ Odysseae, ubi narratur Iphiti mors ab Hercule occisi. Caeterum quod Hervetus substituit ἄνθρωπον in locum τοῦ εἴδωλον, Homerus, Odyss. M, vocat etiam βίην Ἡρακλείην, εἴδωλον, cum occurrit Ulyssi apud inferos; qui locus ab Homeri reprehensoribus carpitur, et Lucianus inde sumit occasionem irri- (continues)

"For a man." This line is found at the beginning of Odyssey book 21 (Φ), where the death of Iphitus, killed by Hercules, is told. As for Hervetus substituting "man" in place of "phantom": Homer, Odyssey M [as printed], also calls "the might of Heracles" a phantom when it meets Ulysses in the underworld; this passage is attacked by Homer's critics, and Lucian takes occasion from it to mock… (continues)

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σθῷ χρυσὸς ἐν χερσὶ φανεὶς, ἄνδρ' ἐκ θανάτου κομίσαι ἤδη ἑαλωκότα. Χερσὶ δ' ἄρα Κρονίων ῥίψας δι' ἀμφοῖν, ἀμπνοὰς στέρνων καθεῖλεν ὠκέως· αἴθων δὲ κεραυνὸς ἐνέσκηψε μόρον.
gold appearing in his hands, to bring back from death a man already seized. And then the son of Cronus, hurling with his hands through both, swiftly took away the breath of the breasts; and the blazing thunderbolt dashed down doom.
Καὶ Εὐριπίδης·
And Euripides:
Ζεὺς γὰρ, κατακτὰς παῖδα τὸν ἐμὸν, αἴτιος, Ἀσκληπιὸν, στέρνοισιν ἐμβαλὼν φλόγα.
For Zeus, having slain my son Asclepius, is to blame, having cast a flame upon his breast.
Οὗτος μὲν οὖν κεῖται κεραυνωθεὶς ἐν τοῖς Κυνοσούριδος ὁρίοις. Φιλόχορος δὲ, ἐν Τήνῳ Ποσειδῶνά φησι τιμᾶσθαι ἰατρόν· Κρόνον δὲ ἐπικεῖσθαι Σικελίᾳ, καὶ ἐνταῦθα αὐτὸν τετάφθαι. Πατροκλῆς τε ὁ Θούριος, καὶ Σοφοκλῆς ὁ νεώτερος ἐν τρισὶ τραγῳδίαις, ἱστορείτων τὼ Διοσκούρω πέρι· ἀνθρώπω τινὲ τούτω τὼ Διοσκούρω ἐπικήρω γενέσθην, εἴ τῳ ἱκανὸς πιστώσασθαι Ὅμηρος τὸ λελεγμένον·
This one, then, lies struck by a thunderbolt in the borders of Cynosuris. And Philochorus says that in Tenos Poseidon is honoured as a physician; and that Cronus is laid upon Sicily, and that he was buried there. And let Patrocles of Thurii and Sophocles the younger in three tragedies relate concerning the two Dioscuri; these two Dioscuri were two mortal men, if Homer is sufficient for anyone to confirm what has been said:
... τοὺς δ' ἤδη κατέχεν φυσίζοος αἶα, Ἐν Λακεδαίμονι αὖθι, φίλῃ ἐνὶ πατρίδι γαίῃ.
But them the life-generating earth already held fast, right there in Lacedaemon, in their dear native land.
Προσίτω δὲ καὶ ὁ τὰ Κυπριακὰ ποιήματα γράψας·
And let him also come forward who wrote the Cyprian poems:
Κάστωρ μὲν θνητὸς, θανάτου δέ οἱ αἶσα πέπρωται· Αὐτὰρ ὅ γ' ἀθάνατος Πολυδεύκης, ὄζος Ἄρηος.
Castor indeed is mortal, and the lot of death is fated for him; whereas Polydeuces is immortal, a scion of Ares.
Τοῦτο μὲν ποιητικῶς ἐψεύσατο· Ὅμηρος δὲ, ἀξιοπιστότερος αὐτοῦ, εἰπὼν περὶ ἀμφοῖν τοῖν Διοσκούροιν· πρὸς δὲ, καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα εἴδωλον ἐλέγξας·
This indeed he falsely invented in poetic fashion; whereas Homer is more trustworthy than he, having spoken concerning both the Dioscuri, and besides having also convicted Heracles of being a phantom:
Φῶτα γὰρ Ἡρακλέα, μεγάλων ἐπιίστορα ἔργων.
Looking upon the man Heracles, privy to great deeds.
Ἡρακλέα οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς Ὅμηρος θνητὸν οἶδεν ἄνθρωπον. Ἱερώνυμος δὲ ὁ φιλόσοφος καὶ τὴν σχέσιν αὐτοῦ
Homer himself, therefore, also knows Heracles as a mortal man. And Hieronymus the philosopher also describes the build of his
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ὑφηγεῖται τοῦ σώματος μικρὸν, φριξότριχα, ῥωστικόν· Δικαίαρχος δὲ σχιζίαν, νευρώδη, μέλανα, γρυπὸν, ὑποχαροπὸν, τετανότριχα. Οὗτος οὖν ὁ Ἡρακλῆς, δύο πρὸς τοῖς πεντήκοντα ἔτη βεβιωκὼς κατέστρεψε τὸν βίον, διὰ τῆς ἐν Οἴτῃ πυρᾶς κεκηδευμένος. Τὰς δὲ Μούσας, ἃς Ἄλκανδρος Διὸς καὶ Μνημοσύνης γενεαλογεῖ, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ποιηταὶ καὶ συγγραφεῖς ἐκθειάζουσι καὶ σέβουσιν· ἤδη δὲ καὶ ὅλαι πόλεις μουσεῖα μὲν ἵζουσιν αὐταῖς Μούσαις· οὔσας θεραπαινίδας ταύτας ἐώνηται Μεγακλὼ, ἡ θυγάτηρ Μάκαρος. Ὁ δὲ Μάκαρ Λεσβίων μὲν ἐβασίλευεν, διεφέρετο δὲ ἀεὶ πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα· ἠγανάκτει δὲ ἡ Μεγακλὼ ὑπὲρ τῆς μητρός· τί δ' οὐκ ἔμελλε; καὶ Μούσας θεραπαινίδας ταύτας, τοσαύτας τὸν ἀριθμὸν, ὠνεῖται, καὶ καλεῖ Μύσας κατὰ τὴν διάλεκτον τὴν Αἰολέων. Ταύτας ἐδιδάξατο ᾄδειν, καὶ κιθαρίζειν τὰς πράξεις τὰς παλαιὰς ἐμμελῶς. Αἱ δὲ, συνεχῶς κιθαρίζουσαι, καὶ καλῶς κατεπάδουσαι, τὸν Μάκαρα ἔθελγον, καὶ κατέπαυον τῆς ὀργῆς. Οὗ δὴ χάριν ἡ Μεγακλὼ, χαριστήριον αὐταῖς ὑπὲρ τῆς μητρὸς, ἀνέθηκε στήλας χαλκᾶς, καὶ ἀνὰ πάντα ἐκέλευσε τιμᾶσθαι τὰ ἱερά. Καὶ αἱ μὲν Μοῦσαι, τοιαίδε· ἡ δὲ ἱστορία παρὰ Μυρσίλῳ τῷ Λεσβίῳ. Ἀκούετε δὴ οὖν τῶν παρ' ὑμῖν θεῶν τοὺς ἔρωτας, καὶ τὰς παραδόξους τῆς ἀκρασίας μυθολογίας, καὶ τραύματα αὐτῶν, καὶ δεσμὰ, καὶ γέλωτας, καὶ μάχας· δουλείας τε ἔτι, καὶ συμπόσια· συμπλοκάς τ' αὖ, καὶ δάκρυα, καὶ πάθη, καὶ μαχλώσας ἡδονάς. Κάλει μοι τὸν Ποσειδῶ, καὶ τὸν χορὸν τὸν διεφθαρμένον ὑπ' αὐτοῦ, τὴν Ἀμφιτρίτην, τὴν Ἀμυμώνην, τὴν Ἀλόπην, τὴν Μελανίππην, τὴν Ἀλκυόνην, τὴν Ἱπποθόην, τὴν Χιόνην, τὰς ἄλλας τὰς μυρίας· ἐν αἷς δὴ, καὶ τοσαύταις οὔσαις, ἔτι τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος ὑμῶν ἐστενοχωρεῖτο τὰ πάθη. Κάλει μοι καὶ τὸν Ἀπόλλω· Φοῖβός ἐστιν οὗτος, καὶ μάντις ἁγνὸς, καὶ σύμβουλος ἀγαθός. Ἀλλ' οὐ ταῦτα ἡ Στερόπη λέγει, οὐδὲ ἡ Αἴθουσα, οὐδὲ ἡ Ἀρσινόη, οὐδὲ ἡ Ζευξίππη, οὐδὲ ἡ Προθόη, οὐδὲ ἡ Μάρπισσα, οὐδὲ ἡ Ὑψιπύλη· Δάφνη γὰρ ἐξέφυγε μόνη καὶ τὸν μάντιν, καὶ τὴν φθοράν. Αὐτός τε ὁ Ζεὺς ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἡκέτω,
body as small, bristling-haired, robust; and Dicaearchus as lean-splintered, sinewy, swarthy, hook-nosed, bright-eyed, straight-haired. This Heracles, therefore, having lived fifty-two years, ended his life, buried through the pyre on Oeta. And the Muses, whom Alcander traces in genealogy from Zeus and Mnemosyne, and whom the rest of the poets and prose-writers deify and revere—and already even whole cities establish Musea in honour of the Muses themselves—these, being handmaidens, Megaclo, the daughter of Macar, bought. Now Macar was king of the Lesbians, and was always at variance with his wife; and Megaclo was indignant on behalf of her mother—and why would she not be?—and she buys these Muses as handmaidens, so many in number, and calls them Mysae according to the dialect of the Aeolians. These she had taught to sing and to play on the cithara the ancient deeds melodiously. And they, continually playing the cithara and finely chanting spells, charmed Macar and stayed him from his wrath. On account of which Megaclo, as a thank-offering to them on behalf of her mother, dedicated bronze pillars, and ordered them to be honoured throughout all the sanctuaries. Such, then, are the Muses; and the history is in Myrsilus the Lesbian. Hear, then, the loves of the gods among you, and the incredible mythologies of their incontinence, and their wounds, and bonds, and laughters, and battles; and servitudes besides, and banquets; and embraces too, and tears, and passions, and lewd pleasures. Call for me Poseidon, and the chorus corrupted by him: Amphitrite, Amymone, Alope, Melanippe, Alcyone, Hippothoe, Chione, the myriad others; among whom indeed, though they were so many, the passions of your Poseidon were still cramped for room. Call for me also Apollo; this one is Phoebus, and a pure prophet, and a good counsellor. But Sterope does not say these things, nor Aethusa, nor Arsinoe, nor Zeuxippe, nor Prothoe, nor Marpissa, nor Hypsipyle; for Daphne alone escaped both the prophet and ruin. And let Zeus himself come after them all,
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Μικρόν. Pro μικρόν, legendum esse μακρόν, procerum, ex A. Gellii lib. I, cap. 1, recte monet Sylb.

"Small." Sylburg rightly advises that μακρόν, "tall," should be read for μικρόν, on the basis of Aulus Gellius, book 1, ch. 1.

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Σχιζίαν. Hervetus vertit gracilem, vel longis tibiis; quod σχίζα significet ligna fissa, quae solent, inquit, esse gracilia. Vid. ejus Commentarium. Quin etiam addit Sylburgius in Indice Graeco, suo idiomate sudes appellari, qui sunt corpore procero et macro. Sed quid hoc ad Herculem, omnium hominum robustissimum, quemque hoc loco Clemens νευρώδη vocat? Melius itaque est, quod tradit Salmasius in Tertulliani lib. De pallio, pag. 372: « Σχιζίας, inquit, est quadrati et compacti corporis. Nam σχίζα est corpus ipsum, vel corporis truncus; κορμίας eumdem appellarunt; κορμός idem quod σχίζα. »

"Schizias." Hervetus translates "slender," or "long-shanked," because σχίζα means split wood, which, he says, is usually slender (see his commentary). Sylburg even adds, in his Greek index, that in his own language people who are tall and thin are called "stakes." But what has this to do with Hercules, the most robust of all men, whom Clement here calls "sinewy"? Better, then, is what Salmasius gives on Tertullian's De pallio, p. 372: "Σχιζίας," he says, "is one of square, compact body. For σχίζα is the body itself, or the trunk of the body; they called the same man κορμίας; κορμός is the same as σχίζα."

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Μουσεῖα μὲν ἵζουσιν. Non male fortasse legerimus μουσεῖα τεμενίζουσιν αὐταῖς. Ibidem mox A, inverso verborum ordine, mavult, ταύτας θεραπαινίδας οὔσας. Sylburg.

"They set up shrines of the Muses." Perhaps we might not wrongly read "they consecrate shrines of the Muses to them." In the same place, a little after, A., inverting the word order, prefers "these, being handmaids." Sylburg.

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Μούσας. Μύσας, Nov.

"Muses." "Mysas," Novus.

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Τὴν Αἰολ. Τῶν Αἰολ., Nov.

"The Aeol[ian]" (singular article). "Of the Aeol[ians]," Novus.

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Στήλας. Omittit Nov.

"Pillars." Novus omits it.

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Κάλει μοι. Haec secutus fuisse videtur Julius Firmicus De errore prof. relig. pag. 24: Quis Amymonen, quis Menalippen, quis Chionen Hippothoenque corrupit? Nempe deus vester haec fecisse memoratur. Ubi legendum Melanippen pro Menalippen. Eadem mutatio facienda apud Theophilum Antiochen. Ad Autolyc. lib. II, pag. 85. Conf. Justinus M. Paraen. ad Graecos, Arnobius, lib. IV, Cyrillus adv. Julianum lib. VI, pag. 196.

"Call me." Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions, p. 24, seems to have followed this: "Who seduced Amymone, who Menalippe, who Chione and Hippothoe? Your god, to be sure, is recorded to have done these things." There Melanippe should be read for Menalippe. The same change is to be made in Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus book 2, p. 85. Compare Justin Martyr, Exhortation to the Greeks; Arnobius, book 4; Cyril, Against Julian book 6, p. 196.

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Τὸν διεφθαρμένον. Τῶν διεφθαρμένων Nov. Mox, τὴν Ἀλόπην, τὴν Μελανίππην, τὴν Ἀλκυόνην, omisit, ut videtur, propter voces ὁμοιοτελεύτους redeuntes, negligens librarius.

"The [chorus] corrupted." "Of the corrupted," Novus. Next, a careless copyist omitted "Alope, Melanippe, Alcyone," it seems, because of the recurring words with like endings.

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Ἀπόλλω. Julius Firmicus, loc. cit.: Ille, quem volunt veris oculis errantium hominum peccata corrigere, Steropen amat, Aethusam rapit, Zeuxippen stuprat, quaerit Prothoen, et Arsinoae adultera cupiditate blanditur. Sed ex isto corruptarum mulierum grege una puella amatorem deum et vitavit et vicit. Daphnen enim divinans et futura praedicens, nec invenire potuit, nec stuprare. Tatianus, Orat. ad Graec., (continues)

"Apollo." Julius Firmicus, in the place cited: "He whom they would have correct the sins of erring men with true eyes loves Sterope, carries off Aethusa, debauches Zeuxippe, seeks Prothoe, and courts Arsinoe with adulterous desire. But out of that herd of corrupted women one girl both avoided and overcame the god her lover: for though he divined and foretold the future, he could neither find Daphne nor debauch her." Tatian, Oration to the Greeks, (continues)

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Πατήρ. Homeri hemistichium, quod occurrit Iliad. A, vers. 544, et saepe alias.

"Father." A half-line of Homer, which occurs at Iliad 1 (A), line 544, and often elsewhere.

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Ὁ Θμουιτῶν τράγος. Had. Junius, cent. III, 93. Thmuitarum hircus de mulieroso homine, in quem adhinniunt quodammodo scorta, ad unius nutum parata. D. Clemens, Protreptico, loquens de Apolline, ὁ Θμουιτῶν τράγος. Est autem, Thmuis, oppidum Aegypti, Stephano teste. Eusebius et Nicephorus Phileae meminerunt Thmuitarum episcopi. D. Hieronymus, II adversus Jovinianum, urbes ait in Aegypto ex animalium vocabulis nuncupari, Leonto, Busiris, Thmuis, quod interpretatur hircus. Collect. Ὀθμουιτῶν τράγος Nov., mendose.

"The he-goat of the Thmuites." Hadrianus Junius, Century 3, 93: "The he-goat of the Thmuites," said of a woman-mad man at whom harlots, as it were, whinny, ready at his single nod. St Clement, in the Protrepticus, speaking of Apollo: "the he-goat of the Thmuites." Thmuis is a town of Egypt, on the testimony of Stephanus. Eusebius and Nicephorus mention Phileas, bishop of the Thmuites. St Jerome, Against Jovinian book 2, says that cities in Egypt are named from the names of animals — Leonto, Busiris, Thmuis, which is interpreted "he-goat." Collector. Novus has "Othmuiton tragos," a corruption.

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Ἦ, καί. Ex Iliad. A, v. 527.

"He spoke, and…" From Iliad 1 (A), line 527.

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Ἐλέλιξαν. A. ἐλέλιξεν, torsit. Sylburg.

"They shook." A. has "he shook" (ἐλέλιξεν), "he whirled." Sylburg.

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Τὸν κεστόν. Intelligit cestum Junoni a Venere datum, quo sibi amorem Jovis conciliaret. Eum copiose describit Homerus, Iliad. Ξ.

"The cestus." He means the girdle given to Juno by Venus, by which she would win Jove's love for herself. Homer describes it at length, Iliad 14 (Ξ).

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Νύκτες αἱ ἐννέα. Plerique Jovem tres noctes cum Alcmena concubuisse referunt: unde Lycophron Herculem ex illo concubitu genitum, τριέσπερον vocat, Cassandrae v. 33, et Justinus in Paraenesi; Ternoctem Herculeam dixit Statius Theb. XII. Seneca, in Agamemnone duas noctes refert; quem numerum habet etiam Propertius lib. II, Martianus Capella lib. II, Hieronymus, adv. Vigilantium, etc. Arnobius novem noctes numerat, Clementem secutus, lib. IV: Deus Hercules natus est, qui in rebus hujusmodi patris sui transiret exsuperaretque virtutes: ille noctibus vix novem unam prolem extundere, concinnare, etc. Item Cyrillus, adv. Julian. lib. VI, p. 196: Γεγράφθω δὲ καὶ Ἀλκμήνη, μεθ' ἧς τὰς ἐννέα διατετέλεκε νύκτας ὁ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄγαν αἰσχροῖς κόρον οὐκ ἔχων. Pingatur etiam Alcmena, cum qua novem exegit noctes, etiam in extrema turpitudine satietatem non expertus.

"The nine nights." Most relate that Jove lay with Alcmena three nights; hence Lycophron, Cassandra line 33, calls Hercules, begotten of that union, "of the triple night," as does Justin in the Exhortation; Statius, Thebaid 12, said "the three-night Herculean." Seneca, in the Agamemnon, gives two nights, a number also found in Propertius book 2, Martianus Capella book 2, Jerome Against Vigilantius, etc. Arnobius, following Clement, counts nine nights, book 4: "The god Hercules was born, who in such matters was to surpass and outdo the powers of his father: the latter in scarcely nine nights could beat out and put together one offspring," etc. Likewise Cyril, Against Julian book 6, p. 196: "Let Alcmena too be painted, with whom he who has no satiety even in the most shameful things spent the nine nights."

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Γεννώμενος. Legi potest etiam γενόμενος, natus. Sylburg.

"Being begotten." One may also read γενόμενος, "born." Sylburg.

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Πεντήκοντα. Conf. Pausanias Boeoticis cap. 27; Athenaeus, lib. XIII; Arnobius, loc. cit.; Tatian., c. 36; Suidas, v. Θεστιάδες, etc.

"Fifty." Compare Pausanias, Boeotica ch. 27; Athenaeus, book 13; Arnobius, in the place cited; Tatian, ch. 36; Suidas, under "Thestiades," etc.

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Σχέτλιον. Respicit Iliad. E, vers. 403, quo de Hercule dicit poeta: Σχέτλιος, ὀβριμοεργὸς, ὃς οὐκ ὄθετ' αἴσυλα ῥέζων.

"Wretch." He has in view Iliad 5 (E), line 403, where the poet says of Hercules: "Reckless, doer of violent deeds, who cared not that he did wicked things."

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Ὕλου. Ὕλα Nov. Item Clementinorum auctor homil. 5, cap. 15, quo de deorum amoribus agens; Ὁ Ζεὺς, inquit, Γανυμήδους ἐρᾷ· Ποσειδῶν Πέλοπος. Ἀπόλλων Κινύρου, Ζακύνθου, Ὑακίνθου, Φόρβαντος, Ὕλα, Ἀδμήτου, etc. Jupiter Ganymedem amat, Neptunus Pelopem; Apollo, Cinyram, Zacynthum, Hyacinthum, Phorbantem, Hylam, Admetum. Plerique Hylam Herculis amasium faciunt.

"Of Hylus." "Of Hylas," Novus. So too the author of the Clementines, homily 5, ch. 15, where, treating of the loves of the gods, he says: "Zeus loves Ganymede; Poseidon, Pelops; Apollo, Cinyras, Zacynthus, Hyacinthus, Phorbas, Hylas, Admetus," etc. Most make Hylas the beloved of Hercules.

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Ὁ δὲ Πέλοπος. Julius Firmicus: Pelops in deliciis amatoriis fuit, et diu prostituti pudoris damna sustinuit. Tatianus, contra Graec.: Καὶ παρ' ὑμῖν δὲ ὁ Πέλοψ δεῖπνον τῶν θεῶν γίνεται καὶ Ποσειδῶνος ἐρώμενος. Pindarus, Od. I Olymp.: Πέλοπος, τοῦ μεγασθενὴς ἐράσσατο Ποσειδῶν. Aelianus, Var. hist. lib. XIII, c. 5, Chrysippum filium Pelopis rapuisse Laium tradit; et Athenaeus, lib. XIII: Laius apud Pelopem diversatus, adamavit ejus filium Chrysippum et cum raptum imposuisset currui, aufugit. Praxilla Sicyonia Chrysippum a Jove raptum fuisse inquit. Collect. — Arnobius, lib. IV, aperte Clementem compilavit: Ille Pelopis desideriis flagrat, hic in Chrysippum suspirat ardentius, etc.

"Another of Pelops." Julius Firmicus: "Pelops was a darling of love, and long bore the loss of a prostituted modesty." Tatian, Against the Greeks: "And among you Pelops becomes a dinner for the gods and the beloved of Poseidon." Pindar, Olympian Ode 1: "Pelops, whom mighty Poseidon loved." Aelian, Varia historia book 13, ch. 5, relates that Laius carried off Chrysippus, son of Pelops; and Athenaeus, book 13: "Laius, lodging with Pelops, fell in love with his son Chrysippus, and having seized him and put him in his chariot, fled." Praxilla of Sicyon says Chrysippus was carried off by Jove. Collector. — Arnobius, book 4, has openly pillaged Clement: "That one burns with desire for Pelops, this one sighs more ardently for Chrysippus," etc.

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ὁ πατὴρ καθ' ὑμᾶς ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε· ὃς τοσοῦτος περὶ τὰ ἀφροδίσια ἐξεχύθη, ὡς ἐπιθυμεῖν μὲν πασῶν, ἐκπληροῦν δὲ εἰς πάσας τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν. Ἐνεπίμπλατο γοῦν γυναικῶν, οὐχ ἧττον ἢ αἰγῶν ὁ Θμουϊτῶν τράγος. Καὶ σοῦ, ὦ Ὅμηρε, τεθαύμακα τὰ ποιήματα·
the father, according to you, of both men and gods; who was so poured out towards venereal lusts as to desire all women, and to fulfil his desire upon all. He took his fill, at any rate, of women, no less than the he-goat of the Thmuitans did of she-goats. And I have marvelled at your poems, O Homer:
Ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ' ὀφρύσι νεῦσε Κρονίων· Ἀμβρόσιαι δ' ἄρα χαῖται ἐπεῤῥώσαντο ἄνακτος Κρατὸς ἀπ' ἀθανάτοιο, μέγαν δ' ἐλέλιξαν Ὄλυμπον.
He spoke, and nodded with his dark brows, the son of Cronus; and the ambrosial locks of the king waved from his immortal head, and shook great Olympus.
Σεμνὸν ἀναπλάττεις, Ὅμηρε, τὸν Δία, καὶ νεῦμα περιάπτεις αὐτῷ τετιμημένον. Ἀλλ' ἐὰν ἐπιδείξῃς μόνον, ἄνθρωπε, τὸν κεστὸν, ἐξελέγχεται καὶ ὁ Ζεὺς, καὶ ἡ κόμη καταισχύνεται. Εἰς ὅσον διελήλακεν ἀσελγείας ὁ Ζεὺς ἐκεῖνος, ὁ μετ' Ἀλκμήνης τοσαύτας ἡδυπαθήσας νύκτας; Οὐδὲ γὰρ αἱ νύκτες αἱ ἐννέα τῷ ἀκολάστῳ μακραί· ἅπας δὲ ἔμπαλιν ὁ βίος ἀκρασίᾳ βραχὺς ἦν, ἵνα δὴ ἡμῖν τὸν ἀλεξίκακον σπείρῃ θεόν. Διὸς υἱὸς Ἡρακλῆς, Διὸς ὡς ἀληθῶς, ὁ ἐκ μακρᾶς γεννώμενος νυκτός· τοὺς μὲν ἄθλους τοὺς δώδεκα, πολλῷ ταλαιπωρησάμενος χρόνῳ· τὰς δὲ πεντήκοντα Θεστίου θυγατέρας νυκτὶ διαφθείρας μιᾷ, μοιχὸς ὁμοῦ καὶ νυμφίος τοσούτων γενόμενος παρθένων· οὔκουν ἀπεικότως οἱ ποιηταὶ σχέτλιον τοῦτον καὶ αἰσυλοεργὸν ἀποκαλοῦσιν. Μακρὸν δ. ἂν εἴη, μοιχείας αὐτοῦ παντοδαπὰς, καὶ παίδων διηγεῖσθαι φθοράς. Οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ παίδων ἀπέσχοντο οἱ παρ' ὑμῖν θεοί· ὁ μέν τις Ὕλλου, ὁ δὲ Ὑακίνθου, ὁ δὲ Πέλοπος, ὁ δὲ Χρυσίππου, ὁ δὲ Γανυμήδους ἐρῶντες. Τούτους ὑμῶν αἱ γυναῖκες προσκυνούντων
Revered do you fashion Zeus, O Homer, and you invest him with an honoured nod. But if you only show the cestus-girdle, O man, Zeus too is exposed, and his hair is put to shame. To what a pitch of licentiousness did that Zeus advance, who spent so many nights in voluptuous pleasure with Alcmena? For not even the nine nights were long to the profligate; on the contrary, a whole lifetime was short for his incontinence, in order that he might beget for us the evil-averting god. A son of Zeus is Heracles, of Zeus in very truth, he who was begotten of a long night; having accomplished the twelve labours with much toil over a long time, yet having corrupted the fifty daughters of Thestius in a single night, becoming at once adulterer and bridegroom of so many maidens; not unreasonably, therefore, do the poets call this one ruthless and a worker of outrage. It would be long to recount his manifold adulteries and corruptions of boys. For the gods among you did not abstain even from boys, one being in love with Hyllus, another with Hyacinthus, another with Pelops, another with Chrysippus, and another with Ganymede. Let your wives worship these
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τοὺς θεούς· τοιούτους δὲ εὐχέσθων εἶναι τοὺς ἄνδρας τοὺς ἑαυτῶν, οὕτω σώφρονας, ἵνα ὦσιν ὅμοιοι τοῖς θεοῖς, τὰ ἴσα ἐζηλωκότες. Τοιούτους ἐθιζόντων οἱ παῖδες ὑμῶν σέβειν, ἵνα καὶ ἄνδρες γενήσωνται, εἰκόνα πορνείας ἐναγῆ τοὺς θεοὺς παραλαμβάνοντες. Ἀλλ' οἱ μὲν ἄῤῥενες αὐτοῖς τῶν θεῶν ἴσως μόνοι ᾅττουσι περὶ τὰ ἀφροδίσια·
gods; and let them pray that their own husbands be such, so temperate, that they may be like the gods, having emulated the same things. Let your boys be accustomed to revere such ones, that they too may become men, receiving the gods as an accursed image of fornication. Yet perhaps only the males among their gods rush into venereal lusts:
Θηλύτεραι δὲ θεαὶ μένον αἰδοῖ οἴκοι ἑκάστη,
But the female goddesses remained through shame each at home,
φησὶν Ὅμηρος, αἰδούμεναι αἱ θεαὶ διὰ σεμνότητα Ἀφροδίτην ἰδεῖν μεμοιχευμένην. Αἱ δὲ ἀκολασταίνουσιν ἐμπαθέστερον ἐν τῇ μοιχείᾳ δεδεμέναι· Ἠὼς ἐπὶ Τιθωνῷ, Σελήνη ἐπὶ Ἐνδυμίωνι, Νηρηῒς ἐπὶ Αἰακῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ Πηλεῖ Θέτις· ἐπὶ δὲ Ἰάσωνι Δημήτηρ, καὶ ἐπὶ Ἀδώνιδι Φερσέφαττα. Ἀφροδίτη δὲ, ἐπ' Ἄρεϊ κατησχυμένη, μετῆλθεν ἐπὶ Κινύραν, καὶ Ἀγχίσην ἔγημεν· καὶ Φαέθοντα ἐλόχα, καὶ ἤρα Ἀδώνιδος· ἐφιλονείκει δὲ τῇ βοώπιδι, καὶ ἀποδυσάμεναι διὰ μῆλον αἱ θεαὶ, γυμναὶ προσεῖχον τῷ ποιμένι, εἴ τις αὐτῶν δόξει καλή. Ἴθι δὴ καὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐν βραχεῖ περιοδεύσωμεν, καὶ τὰς ἐπιτυμβίους ταυτασὶ πανηγύρεις καταλύσωμεν, Ἴσθμιά τε, καὶ Νέμεα, καὶ Πύθια, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις Ὀλύμπια. Πυθοῖ μὲν οὖν ὁ δράκων ὁ Πύθιος θρησκεύεται, καὶ τοῦ ὄφεως ἡ πανήγυρις καταγγέλλεται Πύθια· Ἰσθμοῖ δὲ σκύβαλον προσέπτυσεν ἐλεεινὸν ἡ θάλασσα· καὶ Μελικέρτην ὀδύρεται τὰ Ἴσθμια· Νεμεάσι δὲ ἄλλο παιδίον Ἀρχέμο-
says Homer, the goddesses being ashamed out of modesty to see Aphrodite taken in adultery. Yet these act the profligate more passionately, bound fast in adultery: Eos over Tithonus, Selene over Endymion, the Nereid over Aeacus, and Thetis over Peleus; and Demeter over Jason, and Phersephatta over Adonis. And Aphrodite, after being put to shame over Ares, went over to Cinyras, and married Anchises; and she waylaid Phaethon, and loved Adonis; and she vied with the ox-eyed one, and stripping themselves on account of an apple, the goddesses naked gave heed to the shepherd, whether any of them would seem fair. Come now, let us also briefly make the round of the games, and put an end to these funereal festivals, the Isthmian, and Nemean, and Pythian, and the Olympian besides these. At Pytho, then, the Pythian dragon is worshipped, and the festival of the serpent is proclaimed as the Pythian; and at the Isthmus the sea spat up a pitiable piece of refuse, and the Isthmian games bewail Melicertes; and at Nemea another young child, Archemo-
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Ἐθιζόντων. Rectius, opinor, passiva forma ἐθιζέσθωσαν, consuefiant. Sylburg. — Mox, γένωνται pro γενήσωνται, Nov.

"Of those accustoming." More correctly, I think, the passive form ἐθιζέσθωσαν, "let them become accustomed." Sylburg. — Next, γένωνται for γενήσωνται, Novus.

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Θηλύτεραι. Odyss. Θ, v. 324. Caeterum pro μένον, quod apud Homerum occurrit, et Nov. primae Clementis editt. habent μόνον.

"The female [goddesses]." Odyssey 8 (Θ), line 324. Instead of μένον ("remained"), which occurs in Homer, Novus and the first editions of Clement have μόνον ("alone").

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Ἐπὶ Ἐνδυμίωνι. Ἐπὶ abest a vulg. edit. et Nov. Inserendam esse, perspicuum est e sequentibus. Ibidem mox pro Ἰάσωνι scribendum Ἰασίωνι ut apud Diodorum Siculum 237, 7: Ἐκ Δήμητρος καὶ Ἰασίωνος γενέσθαι παῖδα Πλοῦτον, et Ovidium, Metam. IX: —— queritur canescere mitem Iasiona Ceres. —— Sylburg.

"Over Endymion." "Over" is absent from the common edition and from Novus; that it must be inserted is clear from what follows. In the same place, a little after, one should write Ἰασίωνι for Ἰάσωνι, as in Diodorus Siculus 237, 7: "that from Demeter and Iasion a son, Plutus, was born"; and Ovid, Metamorphoses 9: "Ceres complains that her gentle Iasion is growing grey." Sylburg.

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Ἀδώνιδι. Pro Ἀδώνιδι reponendum esse Ἀϊδωνεῖ, cum aliunde liquet, tum ex p. 14, l. 23, et Athenaei loco modo citato. Sylburg. Perinde apud Justinum M., cujus haec sunt verba Apol. I, c. 23: Περσεφόνην καὶ Ἀφροδίτην, τὰς διὰ τὸν Ἄδωνιν οἰστρηθείσας· Proserpinam et Venerem, propter Adonidem in furorem actas: Sylburg. scribere jussit: Τὴν μὲν διὰ τὸν Ἄδωνιν, τὴν δὲ διὰ τὸν Ἀϊδωνέα οἰστρηθεῖσαν· Hanc quidem propter Adonin, illam vero propter Aidonea in furorem actam: « Nam Venus quidem, inquit, Adonin deperiit; Proserpina vero ab Aidoneo, seu Plutone, rapta fuit. » Id quidem nimis audacter, Justini et Clementis codicibus receptam lectionem unanimiter tuentibus. Quin alii etiam Adonin a Proserpina, idque apud inferos, adamatum fuisse referunt. Theocritus, Idyll. 15, v. 86: Ὁ τριφίλατος Ἄδωνις, ὁ κὴν Ἀχέροντι φιλεῖται. Ter amabilis Adonis, qui etiam apud inferos amatur. Ubi scholiastes, τριφίλατος, inquit, ὁ πολυφίλητος, ὡς καὶ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ· Ἀσπασίη τριφίλητος· ἢ ὅτι ὑπὸ τριῶν ἐφιλήθη, Διὸς, Ἀφροδίτης, καὶ Περσεφόνης ἐν ᾅδῃ.

"Over Adonis." That Ἀϊδωνεῖ (Aidoneus, Hades) should be restored for Ἀδώνιδι is clear both from other places and from p. 14, line 23, and the passage of Athenaeus just cited. Sylburg. Likewise in Justin Martyr, whose words in Apology 1, ch. 23, are: "Persephone and Aphrodite, driven mad on account of Adonis," Sylburg bade us write: "the one driven mad on account of Adonis, the other on account of Aidoneus." "For Venus," he says, "was madly in love with Adonis, while Proserpina was carried off by Aidoneus, that is, Pluto." That is too bold, since the codices of Justin and of Clement unanimously defend the received reading. Indeed others relate that Adonis was loved by Proserpina too, and that in the underworld. Theocritus, Idyll 15, line 86: "Thrice-beloved Adonis, who is loved even in Acheron." There the scholiast says: "Thrice-beloved: much-loved, as also in Homer, 'welcome, thrice-loved'; or because he was loved by three — Zeus, Aphrodite, and Persephone in Hades."

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Φαέθοντα. Theodorus Canterus lib. I, cap. 19, Var. lect., in hunc locum Arnobii lib. IV: Nonne vestris cautum est litteris, post Vulcanum, Phaonem, Martem, in Anchisae nuptias Aeneadum matrem arsisse? Hoc loco suspicabar, pro Phaonem, Phaeonem scribendum esse; sed in eo non acquievi; verum, consulens exemplar Romanum, longe aliam lectionem inveni, nimirum hanc, post Vulcanum Phaethontem; quae lectio prima fronte alienissima visa est: tandem consului Clementem, ubi haec respexi, καὶ Φαέθοντα ἐλόχα· quare hic locus Arnobii non emendationem, sed observationem requirit. Haec ille. Athenaeus tamen lib. II sub finem: Κρατῖνος δέ φησι, Φάωνος ἐρασθεῖσαν τὴν Ἀφροδίτην, ἐν καλαῖς θριδακίναις αὐτὸν ἀποκρύψαι· Μαρούας δὲ ἐν χλόῃ κριθῶν. Aelianus lib. XII, c. 18, Var. hist.: Phaonem omnibus hominibus elegantia formae praestantem Venus in lactucis abscondit. Legendum itaque in utroque videtur Phaonem. Collect.

"Phaethon." Theodorus Canterus, Variae lectiones book 1, ch. 19, on this passage of Arnobius book 4: "Is it not set down in your writings that after Vulcan, Phaon and Mars, the mother of the Aeneadae burned for marriage with Anchises?" "In this place I suspected that Phaeon should be written for Phaonem; but I did not rest in that. Consulting the Roman copy, I found a very different reading, namely 'after Vulcan, Phaethon'; at first sight it seemed utterly out of place, but at last I consulted Clement, where I saw these words, 'and she lay in wait for Phaethon'; so this passage of Arnobius needs not emendation but observation." So he. Yet Athenaeus, near the end of book 2: "Cratinus says that Aphrodite, in love with Phaon, hid him among fine lettuces; Marouas [as printed], in green barley." Aelian, Varia historia book 12, ch. 18: "Phaon, who surpassed all men in beauty of form, Venus hid among lettuces." So it seems "Phaon" should be read in both. Collector.

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Μῆλον. Μᾶλλον, Nov. mendose.

"Apple." "Rather" (μᾶλλον), Novus — a corruption.

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Εἴ τις. Pro εἴ τις aptius forsan ἥτις, quaenam. Sylburg.

"If any." For "if any," perhaps "who" (ἥτις), "which woman," would be more fitting. Sylburg.

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Ἴθι δή. Ἴθι δέ, Joan. Etenim hunc locum de sacrorum certaminum institutione recitat Eusebius, Praep. evangel., lib. II, cap. 6. Mox, περιουδεύσωμεν pro περιοδεύσωμεν, Joan.

"Come then." "But come," John. For Eusebius recites this passage on the founding of the sacred games, Praeparatio evangelica book 2, ch. 6. Next, περιουδεύσωμεν for περιοδεύσωμεν ("let us go round"), John.

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Καταγγέλλεται. A. καταλέγεται· sed καταγγέλλεται agnoscit etiam Eusebius. Sylburg.

"Is proclaimed." A. has "is enrolled"; but Eusebius too has "is proclaimed." Sylburg.

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Νεμέασι δὲ ἄλλο. Scholiastes Pindari in praefatione Nemeorum: Τὰ Νέμεα φασὶν ἄγεσθαι ἐπὶ Ὀφέλτῃ. Paulo post, Ὄφις ἀνεῖλε τὸν παῖδα· Ἀμφιάραος δὲ τούτοις μαντευόμενος, Ἀρχέμορον αὐτὸν ἐκάλεσεν, ὅτι ἀρχὴ μόρου ἐγένετο ὁ τοῦ παιδὸς θάνατος. Sed hunc Eupheti et Creusae, non Lycurgi et Eurydices filium dici adverte. Caeterum necesse non fuit mutare lectionem apud Clementem, Καὶ τοῦ Πέλοπος τὰς χοὰς τὰ Ὀλύμπια ὁ Φειδίου σφετερίζεται Ζεύς. Collect.

"And at Nemea another." Pindar's scholiast, in the preface to the Nemeans: "They say the Nemean games are held for Opheltes." A little after: "A serpent killed the boy; and Amphiaraus, prophesying to them, called him Archemorus, because the boy's death was the beginning of doom." But note that he is called the son of Euphetes and Creusa, not of Lycurgus and Eurydice. For the rest, there was no need to change the reading in Clement, "And Phidias' Zeus appropriates the Olympic games, the libations to Pelops." Collector.

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Παιδίον. Πεδίον, Joan. mendose. Nam αι et ε propter soni similitudinem εὐμετάβολοι sunt.

"Little boy." "Plain" (πεδίον), John — a corruption. For αι and ε are easily interchanged because of the likeness of their sound.

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Ὁ ἐπιτάφιος. Ὁ omittit Joan. Porro ἐπιτάφιον ἀγῶνα intelligit auctor, non funebrem orationem, ut putavit Hervetus. Itaque paulo post: Μυστήρια, inquit, ἦσαν ἄρα οἱ ἀγῶνες ἐπὶ νεκροῖς διαθλούμενοι.

"The funeral [contest]." John omits the article. Further, the author means a funeral contest, not a funeral oration, as Hervetus thought. Hence a little after he says: "The contests, then, were mysteries performed over the dead."

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Πῖσα δὲ ὑμῖν τάφος ἐστίν. Πῖσσα δ' ἐστὶν ἐν ὑμῖν τάφος, Euseb., Joan.

"Pisa is a tomb for you." "Pissa is among you a tomb," Eusebius, John.

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Τὰ μὲν ἐπὶ Σάγρα μυστήρια. Meursius Eleusin. cap. 6, his verbis recitatis, ait: Lege, Τὰ μὲν ἐπὶ Ἄγρα μυστήρια. Nam τὰ μικρὰ μυστήρια Agris, ut majora Eleusine, habebantur. Stephanus, Ἄγρα καὶ Ἄγραι χωρίον, ἑνικῶς καὶ πληθυντικῶς· ἔστι δὲ καὶ τῆς Ἀττικῆς πρὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἐν ᾧ τὰ μικρὰ μυστήρια ἀποτελεῖται. Eustathius in Iliad. B: Ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ἀγροτέρα Ἄρτεμις, ὡς καὶ κωμικὸς δηλοῖ, ἡ καὶ Ἀγραία παρὰ Πλάτωνι κατὰ Παυσανίαν, ἀπὸ χώρας πρὸς τῷ Ἰλισσῷ, ἧ κλῆσις Ἄγρα καὶ Ἄγραι· οὗ τὰ μικρὰ ἤγετο, φησὶ, μυστήρια, ἃ ἐλέγετο τὰ ἐν Ἄγραις.

"The mysteries at Sagra." Meursius, Eleusinia ch. 6, having quoted these words, says: Read "the mysteries at Agra." For the Lesser Mysteries were held at Agrae, as the Greater at Eleusis. Stephanus: "Agra and Agrae, a place, in the singular and the plural; there is also one in Attica before the city, in which the Lesser Mysteries are performed." Eustathius on Iliad 2 (B): "Further, Artemis Agrotera, as the comic poet shows, who is also Agraia in Plato according to Pausanias, from a place by the Ilissus whose name is Agra and Agrae; where, he says, the Lesser Mysteries were held, which were called 'those at Agrae.'"

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Πρόσυμνος τοὔνομα. P. Leopardus lib. III, cap. 20. Omnia haec habent Arnobius lib. V et Theodoretus in Curatione Graec. affect. Meminerunt etiam Hyginus, Lycophronis scholiastes, et Phavorinus in v. Ἐνόρχης, sed in nomine variant: nam quem Clemens, Arnobius et Gregorius Prosymnum, eumdem Theodoretus et Lycophronis interpres Πολύυμνον vocant, Varinus Πολύσυννον, Hyginus mendose Hypolipnum vel Hypolymnum, Pausanias Πόλυμνον. Collect. — Πολύυμνος est Tzetzae in Lycophronis vers. 212, quo loco nos e codd. mss. Πολύσυμνον posuimus. Wouwerius et Munckerus in Hygini Poet. Astronom. cap. 5, Πολύϋπνον scribendum existimant.

"Prosymnus by name." P. Leopardus, book 3, ch. 20. Arnobius, book 5, and Theodoret in the Cure of Greek Maladies have all this. Hyginus, the scholiast on Lycophron, and Phavorinus under the word "Enorches" also mention it, but they differ on the name: the man Clement, Arnobius and Gregory call Prosymnus, Theodoret and Lycophron's interpreter call Polyhymnus, Varinus Polysynnus, Hyginus — corruptly — Hypolipnus or Hypolymnus, Pausanias Polymnus. Collector. — Tzetzes has Polyhymnus on line 212 of Lycophron, where we have set Polysymnus from the manuscript codices. Wouwer and Muncker, on Hyginus' Poetica astronomica ch. 5, think Polyhypnus should be written.

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Καὶ ὕμνεον ᾆσμα. Scribe et distingue, καὶ ὕμνεον ᾄσματα αἰδοίοισιν ἀναιδέστατα, εἴργαστο ἄν. Ne interpretatio quidem nobis satisfacit. Ithiphallica intelligit, quae recte vocat ᾄσματα ἀναιδέστατα. Nam nisi illa canerentur in laudem pudendorum, plane actum erat. Hoc volebat Heraclitus. Heinsius.

"And sang a song." Write and punctuate: "and sang most shameless songs to the private parts, it would have been [a shameful thing] done." Not even the translation satisfies us. He means the ithyphallic songs, which he rightly calls "most shameless songs." For unless they were sung in praise of the private parts, it was all over. This is what Heraclitus meant. Heinsius.

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Ἀΐδης καὶ Διόνυσος. Ἀΐδης dicitur Bacchus, quod apud inferos agens, inconspicuus fuerit. Nam ἀΐδης exp. ἀφανής.

"Hades and Dionysus." Bacchus is called Hades because, while among the dead below, he was unseen; for ἀΐδης is explained as "invisible."

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Ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τῶν Εἱλώτων καλ. Scribe totum hunc locum, et distingue hoc modo, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τῶν Εἱλώτων τῶν παρὰ Λακεδαιμονίοις δουλικώτεροι. Deinde, δούλειον ὑπεισῆλθε ζυγὸν Ἀπόλλων. Heinsius.

"But even by the so-called Helots." Write this whole passage and punctuate it thus: "but more slavish even than the Helots among the Lacedaemonians." Then: "Apollo went under the yoke of slavery." Heinsius.

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Ἀπόλλων Ἀδμήτῳ. De Apollinis servitute prolixe Euripides Alcestide, et Plutarchus Erotico. De Herculis servitute apud Omphalen Diodorus Siculus, p. 165. Plutarchus in lib. An seni capienda resp. et Terentius, Eunuchi act. V, sc. VIII. H. Sylburg.

"Apollo to Admetus." On Apollo's servitude, at length, Euripides in the Alcestis and Plutarch in the Amatorius. On Hercules' servitude to Omphale, Diodorus Siculus, p. 165; Plutarch in the book Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs; and Terence, Eunuch act 5, scene 8. H. Sylburg.

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Καθάπερ ἀχρεῖος οἰκέτης. Respicit veterem (continues)

"Like a useless servant." He has in view the old… (continues)

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ρος κεκήδευται, καὶ τοῦ παιδίου ὁ ἐπιτάφιος προσαγορεύεται Νέμεα. Πίσα δὲ ὑμῖν τάφος ἐστὶν, ὦ πανέλληνες, ἡνιόχου Φρυγός· καὶ τοῦ Πέλοπος τὰς χοὰς τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ὁ Φειδίου σφετερίζεται Ζεύς. Μυστήρια ἦσαν ἄρα, ὡς ἔοικεν, οἱ ἀγῶνες ἐπὶ νεκροῖς διαθλούμενοι, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ λόγια, καὶ δεδήμευνται ἄμφω. Ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἐπὶ Σάγρᾳ μυστήρια, καὶ τὰ ἐν Ἀλιμοῦντι τῆς Ἀττικῆς, Ἀθήνησι περιώρισται· αἶσχος δὲ δὴ κοσμικὸν οἵ τε ἀγῶνες καὶ οἱ φαλλοὶ οἱ Διονύσῳ ἐπιτελούμενοι, κακῶς ἐπινενεμημένοι τὸν βίον. Διόνυσος γὰρ κατελθεῖν εἰς ᾅδου γλιχόμενος, ἠγνόει τὴν ὁδόν· ὑπισχνεῖται δ' αὐτῷ φράσειν, Πρόσυμνος τοὔνομα οὐκ ἀμισθεί. Ὁ δὲ μισθὸς οὐ καλὸς, ἀλλὰ Διονύσῳ καλός· καὶ ἀφροδίσιος ἦν ἡ χάρις ὁ μισθὸς, ὃν ᾐτεῖτο Διόνυσος. Βουλομένῳ δὲ τῷ θεῷ γέγονεν ἡ αἴτησις. Καὶ δὴ ὑπισχνεῖται παρέξειν αὐτῷ, εἰ ἀναζεύξοι, ὅρκῳ πιστωσάμενος τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν. Μαθὼν, ἀπῆρεν, ἐπανῆλθεν αὖθις· οὐ καταλαμβάνει τὸν Πρόσυμνον· ἐτεθνήκει γάρ. Ἀφοσιούμενος τῷ ἐραστῇ ὁ Διόνυσος, ἐπὶ τὸ μνημεῖον ὁρμᾷ, καὶ πασχητιᾷ. Κλάδον οὖν συκῆς, ὡς ἔτυχεν, ἐκτεμὼν, ἀνδρείου μορίου σκευάζεται τρόπον· ἐφέζεταί τε τῷ κλάδῳ, τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν ἐκτελῶν τῷ νεκρῷ. Ὑπόμνημα τοῦ πάθους τούτου μυστικὸν φαλλοὶ κατὰ πόλεις ἀνίστανται Διονύσῳ· Εἰ μὴ γὰρ Διονύσῳ πομπὴν ἐποιοῦντο, καὶ ὕμνεον ᾆσμα, αἰδοίοισιν ἀναιδέστατα εἴργασται, φησὶν Ἡράκλειτος. Οὗτος δὲ Ἀΐδης καὶ Διόνυσος, ὅτεῳ μαίνονται καὶ ληναΐζουσιν οὐ διὰ τὴν μέθην τοῦ σώματος, ὡς ἐγὼ οἶμαι, τοσοῦτον, ὅσον διὰ τὴν ἐπονείδιστον τῆς ἀσελγείας ἱεροφαντίαν. Εἰκότως ἄρα οἱ τοιοίδε ὑμῶν θεοὶ δοῦλοι παθῶν γεγονότες. Ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς τῶν Εἱλώτων καλουμένων, τῶν παρὰ Λακεδαιμονίοις, δούλειον ὑπεισῆλθε ζυγὸν, Ἀπόλλων Ἀδμήτῳ ἐν Φεραῖς, Ἡρακλῆς ἐν Σάρδεσιν Ὀμφάλῃ· Λαομέδοντι δ' ἐθήτευε Ποσειδῶν καὶ Ἀπόλλων, καθάπερ ἀχρεῖος οἰκέτης, μηδὲ ἐλευθερίας δήπουθεν δυνηθεὶς τυχεῖν
rus lies buried, and the funeral contest of the young child is called Nemea. And Pisa among you, O Panhellenes, is the tomb of a Phrygian charioteer; and the Olympian games, the drink-offerings of Pelops, the Zeus of Phidias appropriates to himself. Mysteries, then, as it seems, were the games contested over dead men, just like the oracles too, and both have been made public. Now the mysteries at Sagra, and those at Halimus in Attica, have been confined to Athens; whereas a cosmic disgrace indeed are both the games and the phalli celebrated in honour of Dionysus, having wickedly overrun human life. For Dionysus, longing to go down to Hades, did not know the way; and a man named Prosymnus promises to tell him, not without a reward. And the reward was not an honourable one, though honourable to Dionysus; and the venereal favour was the reward which Dionysus was asked for. And the request was to the god's liking. And so he promises to grant it to him if he should return, confirming the promise with an oath. Having learned the way, he set off, and came back again; he does not find Prosymnus, for he had died. Acquitting himself of his religious duty to his lover, Dionysus rushes to the monument and lusts for passive lewdness. Cutting off, therefore, a branch of a fig-tree as it chanced, he fashions it in the manner of a male member; and he sits upon the branch, fulfilling his promise to the dead man. As a mystic memorial of this passion phalli are set up to Dionysus throughout the cities. For if they were not making a procession to Dionysus and singing a song to the shameful parts, most shamelessly would it have been done, says Heraclitus. And this Hades and Dionysus are the same, for whom they rave and keep the Lenaea, not so much on account of the drunkenness of the body, as I think, as on account of the shameful hierophancy of licentiousness. Reasonably, then, have such gods of yours become slaves of passions. Moreover, beyond the so-called Helots among the Lacedaemonians, Apollo entered under the servile yoke to Admetus in Pherae, and Heracles to Omphale in Sardis; and Poseidon and Apollo served Laomedon for hire, just like a useless domestic servant, not even having been able, forsooth, to obtain freedom
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παρὰ τοῦ προτέρου δεσπότου. Τότε καὶ τὰ Ἰλίου τείχη ἀνῳκοδομησάτην τῷ Φρυγί. Ὅμηρος δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν οὐκ αἰσχύνεται παραφαίνειν λέγων τῷ Ὀδυσσεῖ, χρύσεον λύχνον ἔχουσαν ἐν χεροῖν. Τὴν δὲ Ἀφροδίτην ἀνέγνωμεν, οἷον ἀκόλαστόν τι θεραπαινίδιον, παραθεῖναι φέρουσαν τῇ Ἑλένῃ τὸν δίφρον τοῦ μοιχοῦ κατὰ πρόσωπον, ὅπως αὐτὸν εἰς συνουσίαν ὑπαγάγηται. Πανύασις γὰρ, πρὸς τούτοις, καὶ ἄλλους παμπόλλους ἀνθρώποις λατρεῦσαι θεοὺς ἱστορεῖ, ὧδέ πως γράφων·
from his former master. Then too the two of them rebuilt the walls of Ilium for the Phrygian. And Homer is not ashamed to say that Athena holds a light beside Odysseus, having a golden lamp in her hands. And we have read that Aphrodite, like some wanton little waiting-maid, brought and set the chair for Helen opposite the adulterer, so as to lure him into intercourse. For Panyasis, besides these, relates that very many other gods also served men as hired servants, writing somewhat thus:
Τλῆ μὲν Δημήτηρ, τλῆ δὲ κλυτὸς Ἀμφιγυήεις, Τλῆ δὲ Ποσειδάων, τλῆ δ' ἀργυρότοξος Ἀπόλλων Ἀνδρὶ παρὰ θνητῷ θητευσέμεν εἰς ἐνιαυτόν. Τλῆ δὲ καὶ ὀ βριμόθυμος Ἄρης, ὑπὸ πατρὸς ἀνάγκης·
Demeter endured, and the famed Lord of both lame feet endured, and Poseidon endured, and silver-bowed Apollo endured to serve for hire beside a mortal man for a year. And fierce-spirited Ares also endured, under compulsion from his father;
καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις. Τούτοις οὖν εἰκότως ἕπεται, τοὺς ἐρωτικοὺς ὑμῶν καὶ παθητικοὺς τούτους θεοὺς ἀνθρωποπαθεῖς ἐκ παντὸς εἰσάγειν τρόπου· Καὶ γὰρ ἔην κείνοις θνητὸς χρώς. Τεκμηριοῖ δὲ Ὅμηρος μάλα ἀκριβῶς, Ἀφροδίτην ἐπὶ τῷ τραύματι παρεισάγων ὀξὺ καὶ μέγα ἰάχουσαν· αὐτόν τε τὸν πολεμικώτατον Ἄρη ὑπὸ τοῦ Διομήδους κατὰ τοῦ κενεῶνος οὐτασμένον διηγούμενος. Πολέμων δὲ, καὶ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ὑπὸ Ὀρνύτου τρωθῆναι λέγει· ναὶ μὴν καὶ τὸν Ἀϊδωνέα ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέους τοξευθῆναι Ὅμηρος λέγει· καὶ τὸν Ἠλεῖον Αὐγέαν Πανύασις ἱστορεῖ· ἤδη δὲ καὶ τὴν Ἥραν τὴν ζυγίαν ἱστορεῖ ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἡρακλέους ὁ αὐτὸς οὗτος Πανύασις ἐν Πύλῳ ἠμαθόεντι· Σωσίβιος δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα πρὸς τῶν Ἱπποκοωντιδῶν κατὰ τῆς χειρὸς οὐτασθῆναι λέγει. Εἰ δὴ τραύματα, καὶ αἵματα· οἱ γὰρ ἰχῶρες οἱ ποιητικοὶ εἰδεχθέστεροι καὶ τῶν αἱμάτων· σῆψις γὰρ αἵματος ἰχὼρ νοεῖται. Ἀνάγκη τοίνυν θεραπείας καὶ τροφὰς παρεισάγειν αὐτοῖς, ὧν εἰσιν ἐνδεεῖς. Διὸ τράπεζαι, καὶ μέθαι, καὶ γέλωτες, καὶ συνουσίαι, οὐκ ἂν ἀφροδισίοις χρωμένων ἀνθρώπως, οὐδὲ παιδοποιουμένων, οὐδὲ μὴν ὑπνωσόντων, εἰ ἀθάνατοι, καὶ ἀνενδεεῖς, καὶ ἀγήρως ὑπῆρχον. Μετέλαβε δὲ καὶ τραπέζης ἀνθρωπίνης παρὰ τοῖς Αἰθίοψιν, ἀπανθρώπου δὲ καὶ ἀθέσμου, αὐτὸς ὁ Ζεὺς, παρὰ Λυκάονι τῷ Ἀρκάδι ἑστιώμενος. Ἀνθρωπείων γοῦν ἐνεφορεῖτο σαρκῶν, οὐχ ἑκών· ἠγνόει γὰρ ὁ θεὸς, ὡς ἄρα Λυκάων ὁ Ἀρκὰς, ὁ ἑστιάτωρ αὐτοῦ, τὸν παῖδα κατασφάξας τὸν αὑτοῦ,
and what follows upon these. Upon these things, therefore, it reasonably follows that you introduce in every way these amorous and passible gods of yours as subject to human passions: For they too had mortal flesh. And Homer furnishes proof very accurately, introducing Aphrodite shrieking shrill and loud over her wound, and recounting how the most warlike Ares himself was wounded in the flank by Diomedes. And Polemon says that Athena too was wounded by Ornytus; yea, verily, Homer says that Aidoneus also was shot with an arrow by Heracles; and Panyasis relates the same of the Elean Augeas; and moreover this same Panyasis relates that Hera too, the goddess of marriage, was wounded by the same Heracles in sandy Pylos; and Sosibius says that Heracles too was wounded in the hand by the sons of Hippocoon. Now if there are wounds, there is also blood; for the poetic ichors are even more loathsome than blood, since ichor is understood as a putrefaction of blood. Consequently it is necessary to introduce medical treatments and nourishment for them, of which they stand in need. Wherefore there are banquets, and carousals, and laughters, and sexual unions, whereas they would not indulge in venereal pleasures in human fashion, nor beget children, nor indeed go to sleep, if they were immortal, and free from need, and ageless. And Zeus himself also partook of a human table among the Ethiopians, and an inhuman and lawless one, when feasted at the house of Lycaon the Arcadian. At any rate, he took his fill of human flesh, though not willingly; for the god did not know that Lycaon the Arcadian, his host, having slaughtered his own child,
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Θητευσέμεν. Accipiendum pro aoristo θητεῦσαι, aut praesenti tempore θητευέμεν. Sylburg.

"To serve for hire." To be taken for the aorist θητεῦσαι, or for the present tense θητευέμεν. Sylburg.

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Καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις. Sic recte Nov. et posteriores Clementis editiones. Sed τά omittunt Florent. Sylburg.

"And what follows on these." So, rightly, Novus and the later editions of Clement. But the Florentine omits τά. Sylburg.

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Ὅμηρος. Conf. de Venere Iliad. E, vers. 343; de Plutone, v. 395; de Marte, v. 855.

"Homer." Compare, on Venus, Iliad 5 (E), line 343; on Pluto, line 395; on Mars, line 855.

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Τὸν Ἠλεῖον Αὐγέαν. Τὸν Ἡλίου Αὐγέαν, Solis filium Augeam, Nov. Utrumque tolerari potest; erat enim Augeas, Eleus, et Solis filius. Sed cur Augeam inter deos numeret, ratio non liquet. Legendum potius τὰς Ἡλίου αὐγάς, Solis radios. Herculem enim iratum ferunt sagittis suis Solem ipsum percussisse: Apollodorus, Bibliothec. lib. II, cap. 10: Θερμαινόμενος δὲ ὑπὸ Ἡλίου κατὰ τὴν πορείαν, τὸ τόξον ἐπὶ τὸν θεὸν ἐνέτεινεν· Ubi vero in itinere Solis radiis calefieret, arcum in deum ipsum intendit. Quod ignorans scriptor aliquis in poeticis fabulis minus versatus, τὸν ἡλίου, vel Ἠλεῖον Αὐγέαν substituisse videtur.

"Augeas the Elean." "Augeas, son of the Sun," Novus. Either can be tolerated, for Augeas was an Elean and a son of the Sun. But why he should count Augeas among the gods is not clear. Rather read "the rays of the Sun." For they say that Hercules in anger struck the Sun himself with his arrows: Apollodorus, Bibliotheca book 2, ch. 10: "Being scorched by the Sun on his journey, he bent his bow at the god" — when he was heated by the Sun's rays on the road, he aimed his bow at the god himself. A scribe ignorant of this, and little versed in the poets' fables, seems to have substituted "Augeas of the Sun," or "the Elean."

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Ἀνθρώποις. Rectius ἀνθρώπων. Sylburg. — Idem deinde pro ὑπνωσόντων, legere mavult ὑπνωσσόντων. Mox legendum ἀγήρῳ. Hesiod. ἀθάνατοι καὶ ἀγήρῳ.

"For men." More correctly "of men." Sylburg. — The same scholar then prefers to read ὑπνωσσόντων for ὑπνωσόντων ("sleeping"). Next, read ἀγήρῳ ("ageless"); Hesiod has "immortal and ageless."

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Λυκάονι. Λυκάωνι, Nov. Mox, ἐνεφερεῖτο pro ἐνεφορεῖτο. Idem.

"Lycaon" (dative). Λυκάωνι (another spelling), Novus. Next, ἐνεφερεῖτο for ἐνεφορεῖτο ("was filled"). The same.

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Προτροπαῖος. Ἀποτρόπαιος scribi vult Hervet.; προστρόπαιος, scelerum vindex, Nov. Recte.

"Protropaios." Hervetus wants "Apotropaios" ("averter") written; Novus has "prostropaios," "avenger of crimes." Rightly.

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Ὁ ἄδικος. Articulum ὁ, qui abfuit ab exemplari, inserendum esse declarant commata sequentia. Sylburg.

"The unjust one." The clauses that follow show that the article ὁ, which was missing from the exemplar, should be inserted. Sylburg.

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Τοιοῦτος ἦν ὅτε. Haec e Nov. propter ὅτε repetitum excidisse videntur.

"Such he was when." These words seem to have dropped out of Novus because ὅτε ("when") is repeated.

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Νῦν δὲ ἤδη. Conf. Cyprianus, De idolorum vanitate; Tatianus, Orat., cap. 37; Theophilus, principio lib. II ad Autolyc.; Minucius Felix, pag. 217, Edit. Hackian.; Lactantius, lib. I, c. 16; Athenagoras, Legat., cap. 26.

"But now already." Compare Cyprian, On the Vanity of Idols; Tatian, Oration, ch. 37; Theophilus, beginning of book 2 To Autolycus; Minucius Felix, p. 217 of Hack's edition; Lactantius, book 1, ch. 16; Athenagoras, Legatio, ch. 26.

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Καὶ ἔτι. Scribe ex Nov. καὶ νῦν ἔτι.

"And still." Write, from Novus, "and even now still."

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Δαί. Δέ cum in hac, tum in sequenti pericope habet Nov.

"Then" (δαί). Novus has δέ both in this passage and in the next.

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Καλλίμαχος. Callimachi versus hodieque exstat hymno in Jovem. Chrysostomus tamen, commentario in Epistolam ad Titum, et proverbialem illum versum, Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται, κακὰ θηρία, γαστέρες ἀργαί, et hos Callimachi, Epimenidi Cretensi tribuit: sic enim ibi, Ἐπιμενίδης οὖν ἐστιν ὁ εἰρηκώς, Κρὴς καὶ αὐτὸς ὤν. Ἔχει δὲ οὕτως· Οἱ Κρῆτες τάφον ἔχουσι τοῦ Διὸς, ἐπιγράφοντα τοῦτο· ΕΝΤΑΥΘΑ ΖΑΝ ΚΕΙΤΑΙ ΟΝ ΔΙΑ ΚΙΚΑΗΣΚΟΥΣΙ. Διὰ ταύτην οὖν τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν ὁ ποιητὴς ψεύστας τοὺς Κρῆτας κωμῳδῶν, προϊὼν, πάλιν ἐπάγει, αὔξων μᾶλλον τὴν κωμῳδίαν· ... καὶ γὰρ τάφον, ὦ ἄνα, σεῖο.... Κρῆτες ἐτεκτήναντο· σὺ δ' οὐ θάνες· ἐσσὶ γὰ[ρ] αἰεί. Aut memoria igitur Chrysostomum fefellit, aut du[o] hi poetae idem scripserunt; quod ab aliis quoqu[e] factum docet Clemens infra in Strom. VI haud pro[cul] ab initio. H. Sylburg.

"Callimachus." Callimachus' line still survives in the hymn to Jove. Chrysostom, however, in his commentary on the Epistle to Titus, attributes both that proverbial line, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies," and these lines of Callimachus to Epimenides the Cretan. For he says there: "It is Epimenides, then, who said it, himself a Cretan. The matter is thus: the Cretans have a tomb of Zeus, inscribed thus: HERE LIES ZAN, WHOM THEY CALL ZEUS [printed ΚΙΚΑΗΣΚΟΥΣΙ for ΚΙΚΛΗΣΚΟΥΣΙ]. On account of this inscription, then, the poet, mocking the Cretans as liars, goes on and adds, heightening the mockery: '…for the Cretans, O lord, built a tomb for you; but you did not die, for you are for ever.'" So either Chrysostom's memory deceived him, or these two poets wrote the same thing — which Clement shows below, Stromata 6, not far from the beginning, that others did too. H. Sylburg.

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ δρυός. Versus est Odyss. T, v. 163: Ἀλλὰ καὶ ὥς μοι εἰπὲ τεὸν γένος, ὁππόθεν ἐσσί· Οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ δρυός ἐσσι παλαιφάτου... Alia lectio παλαιφάγου. Verba sunt Penelopes a[d] Ulyssem. Reperitur et similis sententia Iliad. X[,] estque proverbium, quod magnus ille Chiliasta, chi[l.] I, c. 8, 17, inde ductum ait, quod antiquitus [in] cavis quercubus habitarent homines, atque inde na[ti] fingebantur; ideo et creditum est a Deucalione pro[]jectis e saxis natum mortalium genus. Alio ite[m] loco sibi ipsi non constat, et pejorem rationem re[d]dit, chil. III, c. 7, 76. At Eustathius: Ὅτε νομάδα βί[ον] εἶχον οἱ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ ὀρεινόμου, καὶ δρυῶν κ[αὶ] λίθων κοιλότησιν ἐπίστευον, τὰ νεογνὰ ἐκτιθέμε[νοι] διὰ πενίαν τὰ φίλτατα. Ὅθεν καὶ φήμη διεσπάρη [...] τῶν εὑρισκόντων τὰ ἔκθετα βρέφη, ὡς ἄρα ἐκ δρυ[ῶν] καὶ λίθων γεννῶνται ἄνθρωποι. Usurpatur prov[er]bium in eos, qui non carent genealogia, vel agres[ti]bus non sunt moribus, ut a Sexto Empirico sub [fi]nem operis contra Mathematicos, et 438. 40. C[...]

"For not from an oak." The line is Odyssey 19 (T), line 163: "But even so tell me your race, whence you are; for you are not from an oak of ancient story…" Another reading is παλαιφάγου ("ancient-eating"). The words are Penelope's to Ulysses. A similar saying is found in Iliad 22 (X), and it is a proverb, which that great Chiliast [Tzetzes], Chiliades 1, ch. 8, 17, says was drawn from the fact that in ancient times men lived in hollow oaks and so were imagined to be born of them; and hence too it was believed that the race of mortals was born of the stones thrown by Deucalion. In another place he is inconsistent and gives a worse reason, Chiliades 3, ch. 7, 76. But Eustathius: "When men lived a nomadic life ranging the mountains, and, out of poverty, exposing their newborn — their dearest — they entrusted them to the hollows of oaks and rocks; whence the report was spread by those who found the exposed infants that men are born of oaks and stones." The proverb is used of those who are not without a pedigree, or not of boorish manners, as by Sextus Empiricus near the end of his work Against the Mathematicians, and 438. 40. C[ollector?]…

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Ἐσσί. Εἰσί hic, et in sequenti v. habet N[ov.] [line end cut off in the image]

"You are." Novus has "they are" here and in the next line. [line end cut off]

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(Νύκτιμος ὄνομα αὐτοῦ·) παραθείη ὄψον τῷ Διί. Καλός γε ὁ Ζεὺς, ὁ μαντικὸς, ὁ ξένιος, ὁ ἱκέσιος, ὁ μειλίχιος, ὁ πανομφαῖος, ὁ προτροπαῖος· μᾶλλον δὲ ὁ ἄδικος, ὁ ἄθεσμος, ὁ ἄνομος, ὁ ἀνόσιος, ὁ ἀπάνθρωπος, ὁ βίαιος, ὁ φθορεὺς, ὁ μοιχὸς, ὁ ἐρωτικός. Ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν ἦν ὅτε τοιοῦτος ἦν, ὅτε δὴ ἄνθρωπος ἦν· νῦν δὲ ἤδη μοι δοκοῦσι καὶ οἱ μῦθοι ἡμῖν γεγηρακέναι· δράκων ὁ Ζεὺς οὐκέτι, οὐ κύκνος ἐστὶν, οὐκ ἀετὸς, οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ἐρωτικός· οὐχ ἵπταται θεὸς, οὐ παιδεραστεῖ, οὐ φιλεῖ, οὐ βιάζεται, καίτοι πολλαὶ καὶ καλαὶ καὶ ἔτι γυναῖκες, καὶ Λήδας εὐπρεπέστεραι, καὶ Σεμέλης ἀκμαιότεραι· μειράκια δὲ ὡραιότερα καὶ πολιτικώτερα τοῦ Φρυγίου βουκόλου. Ποῦ νῦν ἐκεῖνος ὁ ἀετός; ποῦ δαὶ ὁ κύκνος; ποῦ δαὶ αὐτὴς ὁ Ζεύς; Γεγήρακε μετὰ τοῦ πτεροῦ· οὐ γὰρ δήπου μετανοεῖ τοῖς ἐρωτικοῖς, οὐδὲ παιδεύεται σωφρονεῖν. Γυμνοῦται δὲ ὑμῖν ὁ μῦθος, ἀπέθανεν ἡ Λήδα, ἀπέθανεν ὁ κύκνος, ἀπέθανεν ὁ ἀετός. Ζήτει σου τὸν Δία· μὴ τὸν οὐρανὸν, ἀλλὰ τὴν γῆν πολυπραγμόνει. Ὁ Κρής σοι διηγήσεται, παρ' ᾧ καὶ τέθαπται, Καλλίμαχος ἐν Ὕμνοις·
(his name was Nyctimus) had set him before Zeus as a dish of meat. A fine god indeed is Zeus, the prophetic, the protector of guests, the protector of suppliants, the mild, the author of all omens, the avenger of guilt; or rather the unjust, the lawless, the iniquitous, the unholy, the inhuman, the violent, the corrupter, the adulterer, the amorous. Yet it was at that time that he was such, when indeed he was a man; whereas now it seems to me that even your myths have grown old for us: Zeus is no longer a serpent, nor is he a swan, nor an eagle, nor an amorous man; the god does not fly, does not corrupt boys, does not kiss, does not use force, and yet there are still many fair women, both more comely than Leda and more blooming than Semele, and striplings more beautiful and more refined than the Phrygian neat-herd. Where now is that eagle? Where now the swan? Where now Zeus himself? He has grown old along with his feathers; for surely he does not repent of his amorous deeds, nor is he taught to be temperate. Rather, the myth is stripped bare before you: Leda has died, the swan has died, the eagle has died. Seek your Zeus; busy yourself not with heaven, but with the earth. The Cretan will recount to you, among whose people he also lies buried—Callimachus in his Hymns:
... καὶ γὰρ τάφον, ὦ ἄνα, σεῖο Κρῆτες ἐτεκτήναντο.
for even your tomb, O king, the Cretans fashioned.
Τέθνηκε γὰρ ὁ Ζεὺς, μὴ δυσφόρει, ὡς Λήδα, ὡς κύκνος, ὡς ἀετὸς, ὡς ἄνθρωπος ἐρωτικὸς, ὡς δράκων. Ἤδη δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ φαίνονται οἱ δεισιδαίμονες, ἄκοντες μὲν, ὅμως δ' οὖν συνιέντες τὴν πλάνην, τὴν περὶ τοὺς θεούς·
For Zeus is dead—do not take it hard—like Leda, like the swan, like the eagle, like the amorous man, like the serpent. And already even the superstitious themselves appear, unwillingly indeed, yet nonetheless, to understand the error concerning the gods:
Οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ δρυός ἐσσι παλαιφάτου, οὐδ' ἀπὸ πέτρης, Ἀλλ' ἀνδρῶν γένος ἐσσί.
For you are not from the oak of ancient story, nor from a rock, but you are of the race of men.
Μικρὸν δὲ ὕστερον καὶ δρύες ὄντες εὑρεθήσονται, καὶ
Yet a little later they will be found to be oaks too, and
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πέτραι. Ἀγαμέμνονα γοῦν τινα Δία ἐν Σπάρτῃ τιμᾶσθαι Στάφυλος ἱστορεῖ· Φανοκλῆς δὲ ἐν Ἔρωσιν τοῖς Καλοῖς, Ἀγαμέμνονα τὸν Ἑλλήνων βασιλέα, Ἀργύννου νεὼν Ἀφροδίτης ἵστασθαι, ἐπ' Ἀργήννῳ τῷ ἐρωμένῳ. Ἄρτεμιν δὲ Ἀρκάδες, Ἀπαγχομένην καλουμένην, προτρέπονται, ὥς φησι Καλλίμαχος ἐν Αἰτίοις· καὶ Κονδυλῖτις ἐν Μηθύμνῃ ἑτέρα τετίμηται Ἄρτεμις. Ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ποδάγρας ἄλλης Ἀρτέμιδος ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ ἱερὸν, ὥς φησι Σωσίβιος. Πολέμων δὲ κεχηνότος Ἀπόλλωνος οἶδεν ἄγαλμα· καὶ ὀψοφάγου πάλιν Ἀπόλλωνος ἄλλο ἐν Ἤλιδι τιμώμενον. Ἐνταῦθα Ἀπομυίῳ Διὶ θύουσιν Ἠλεῖοι· Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ, Ἀπομυίῳ Ἡρακλεῖ, καὶ Πυρετῇ δὲ καὶ Φόβῳ θύουσιν· οὓς καὶ αὐτοὺς μετὰ τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἐγγράφουσιν. Ἐῶ δὲ Ἀργείους, οἳ Ἀφροδίτην τυμβωρύχον θρησκεύουσιν· (Ἀργεῖοι καὶ Λάκωνες καὶ Χελύτιδα δὲ Ἄρτεμιν Σπαρτιᾶται σέβουσιν· ἐπεὶ τὸ βήττειν χελύττειν καλοῦσιν. Οἴει πόθεν παραγέγραπταί σοι ταῦτα; Κομίζεται τὰ ὑφ' ὑμῶν παρατιθέμενα· οὐδὲ τοὺς σοὺς γνωρίζειν ἔοικας συγγραφεῖς, οὓς ἐγὼ μάρτυρας ἐπὶ τὴν σὴν ἀπιστίαν καλῶ· ἀθέου χλεύης, ὦ δείλαιοι, τὸν πάντα ὑμῶν ἀβίωτον ὄντως βίον ἐμπεπληκότες. Οὐχὶ μέν τοι Ζεὺς φαλακρὸς ἐν Ἄργει, τιμωρὸς δὲ ἄλλος ἐν Κύπρῳ τε-
rocks. Staphylus, at any rate, relates that a certain Agamemnon Zeus is honoured in Sparta; and Phanocles, in his Fair Loves, relates that Agamemnon the king of the Greeks set up a temple of Argynnus Aphrodite in honour of Argynnus his beloved. And the Arcadians supplicate an Artemis called the Strangled, as Callimachus says in his Aetia; and in Methymna another Artemis, Condylitis, has been honoured. And there is also a sanctuary of another Artemis, Podagra, in Laconia, as Sosibius says. And Polemon knows of a statue of Yawning Apollo, and again another of Gluttonous Apollo honoured in Elis. There the Eleans sacrifice to Fly-averting Zeus; and the Romans sacrifice to Fly-averting Heracles, and also to Fever and to Fear, whom they likewise enrol among the companions of Heracles. And I pass over the Argives, who worship Grave-robbing Aphrodite (both Argives and Lacedaemonians; and the Spartans also revere Coughing Artemis, since they call coughing chelyttein. From where do you suppose these things have been cited for you? The things set forth by you yourselves are brought forward; and you do not even seem to know your own writers, whom I call as witnesses against your unbelief—you who have filled your whole truly unlivable life, O wretched ones, with godless mockery. Have not indeed a Bald Zeus in Argos, and another, an Avenger, in Cyprus, been
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Ἀγαμέμνονα. Agamemnonem Jovem a Spartanis coli refert Athenagoras principio Legat. Apud Lycophron., v. 1123, Cassandra de Agamemnone: Ἐμὸς δὲ ἀκοίτης, δμωΐδος νύμφης ἄναξ, Ζεὺς Σπαρτιάταις αἱμύλοις κληθήσεται. Meus autem maritus, captivae dominus sponsae, Jupiter a Spartanis fallacibus vocabitur. Conf. ejusdem poematis vers. 335, et utroque loco annotata. Porro Staphyli meminit Athenaeus lib. II; Plinius, Nat. hist., lib. V, cap. 31; Sextus Empiricus, Adv. mathem., lib. I, cap. 2; Scholiastes in Apollonii Argon., lib. I et IV; Harpocration, Homeri scholiastes, etc. Quae adnotavi propter Hervetum, qui de Staphylo vel Agamemnone Jove se quidquam legisse negat.

"Agamemnon." Athenagoras, at the beginning of the Legatio, relates that Agamemnon was worshipped as Jove by the Spartans. In Lycophron, line 1123, Cassandra says of Agamemnon: "My husband, lord of a captive bride, shall be called Zeus by the wily Spartans." Compare line 335 of the same poem, and the notes at both places. Further, Staphylus is mentioned by Athenaeus, book 2; Pliny, Natural History book 5, ch. 31; Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians book 1, ch. 2; the scholiast on Apollonius' Argonautica, books 1 and 4; Harpocration; Homer's scholiast; etc. I have noted these because of Hervetus, who says he has read nothing of a Staphylus or of an Agamemnon-Jove.

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Φανοκλῆς. Hunc locum emendarunt P. Leopardus, lib. IV, cap. 4, et Giraldus ab Herveto citatus; sed in eo differunt, quod ille legat ἐν Ἔρωσιν ἢ Καλοῖς, in Cupidinibus vel Formosis, et Ἀργυννίδος νεὼν Ἀφροδίτης, templum Veneris Argynnidis. Profert etiam locum Stephani de Urbibus, ex quo liquet hunc Argynnum filium fuisse Pisidicae Leuconis filiae, Athamantis neptis filii Sisyphi. At A. pro Ἔρωσι, mavult Ἥρωσι. Sylburg., Collect. — Φανοκλῆς δὲ ἐν Ἔρωσιν τοῖς καλοῖς Ἀγαμέμνονα, Nov. mendose: siquidem ipse Clemens veram lectionem indicat esse, Φανοκλῆς δὲ ἐν Ἔρωσιν ἢ Καλοῖς, Strom. VI, p. 627, quo loco hunc Phanoclis librum iterum citavit.

"Phanocles." P. Leopardus, book 4, ch. 4, and Giraldus, cited by Hervetus, emended this passage; but they differ in that the former reads "in the Loves, or the Beautiful Ones," and "the temple of Aphrodite Argynnis." He also cites a passage of Stephanus' On Cities, from which it is clear that this Argynnus was the son of Pisidice, daughter of Leucon, granddaughter of Athamas son of Sisyphus. But A. prefers "Heroes" (Ἥρωσι) to "Loves" (Ἔρωσι). Sylburg; Collector. — "Phanocles in the Loves, the beautiful, [says] Agamemnon," Novus — a corruption; for Clement himself shows that the true reading is "Phanocles in the Loves, or the Beautiful Ones," Stromata 6, p. 627, where he cites this book of Phanocles again.

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Ἀργύννου. Mox Ἀργήννῳ· sed ibi Ἀργύνῳ habet Nov. Sunt, qui utrobique malint Ἄργεννος per ε, quo nomine insula quaedam legitur, et tria promontoria: significat autem Ἄργεννος, Aeolica forma, idem quod ἀργεινός, albus, candidus. Hesychius, ἀργεννοῖς, λαμπραῖς, λευκαῖς. Ἄργυννον, Agamemnonis amasium; et Ἀργυννίδα Ἀφροδίτην agnoscit etiam Stephanus: sed addit, eamdem Ἀργεννίδα dici, ab Aristophane vero Ἀργεινίδα per diphthongum.

"Of Argynnus." Next, "to Argennus"; but there Novus has "to Argynus." Some prefer "Argennus," with ε, in both places — the name of a certain island and of three promontories; Argennos, an Aeolic form, means the same as ἀργεινός, "white, shining." Hesychius: "argennois: bright, white." Stephanus too recognizes Argynnus, Agamemnon's beloved, and Aphrodite Argynnis; but he adds that she is also called Argennis, and by Aristophanes Argeinis, with the diphthong.

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Προτρέπονται. Scribe ex Nov. προστρέπονται, ut bis superius προστροπαίους pro προτροπαίους. Hesychius, προστρεπόμενοι, σέβοντες, τιμῶντες, προσκυνοῦντες. Eidem vero προτρέπεσθαι est παρακαλεῖν. Quorum illud prius huic loco convenit.

"They urge on." Write, from Novus, "they supplicate," as twice above "prostropaious" for "protropaious." Hesychius: "prostrepomenoi: revering, honouring, worshipping." For him, however, protrepesthai is "to exhort." The former of these suits this place.

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Ἐν Ἤλιδι . . . Ἡρακλεῖ. Ἐν Ἤλισι (sed Ἤλιδι supra id scriptum est) τιμώμενον· ἐνταῦθα Ἀπομυίῳ Ἡρακλεῖ, Nov. omissis scilicet intermediis vocibus a parum diligenti scriptore propter Ἀπομυίῳ repetitum.

"In Elis … to Heracles." "Honoured in Elisi (but Elidi is written above it); there to Heracles the Fly-averter," Novus — the intervening words having been omitted, that is, by a careless copyist because "Fly-averter" recurs.

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Πυρετῇ δὲ καὶ Φόβῳ. Πυρετῷ, Nov. Sed verisimile est Clementem Πυρετὴν scripsisse, quod Romanis Febris femina sit. Lactantius, lib. I, cap. 20: Pavorem, Palloremque Tullus Hostilius figuravit, et coluit. Paulo post: Mala sua pro diis habent, ut Romani Rubiginem, ac Febrem. Minutius Octavio, Pavorem Hostilius atque Pallorem. Mox a nescio quo Febris dedicata. Aelianus Πυρετόν appellat, Graecorum idioma secutus, qui Πυρετὴν dicere non solent; Var. hist., lib. XII, cap. 11: Ῥωμαῖοι ὑπὸ τῷ λόφῳ τῷ Παλλαντίῳ, Πυρετοῦ καὶ νεὼν καὶ βωμὸν ἱδρύσαντο· Romani sub Palatio colle Febris et templum et aram aedificaverunt. Conf. Cicero, De legib., lib. II; Plautus, Asin. II, 2, 2; Livius, lib. I, c. 27; Valerius Maximus, lib. II, c. 5; Plinius, lib. II, c. 7; Augustinus, De civit. Dei, pluribus locis, etc.

"To Fever and to Fear." "To Fever" (masculine), Novus. But it is likely Clement wrote the feminine, because to the Romans Febris is female. Lactantius, book 1, ch. 20: "Tullus Hostilius represented and worshipped Fear and Pallor." A little after: "They hold their own ills for gods, as the Romans do Mildew and Fever." Minucius, in the Octavius: "Hostilius [set up] Fear and Pallor. Later Fever was dedicated by someone or other." Aelian calls it Pyretos (masculine), following Greek idiom, since the Greeks do not usually say Pyrete; Varia historia book 12, ch. 11: "The Romans, under the Palatine hill, set up both a temple and an altar of Fever." Compare Cicero, Laws book 2; Plautus, Asinaria 2.2.2; Livy, book 1, ch. 27; Valerius Maximus, book 2, ch. 5; Pliny, book 2, ch. 7; Augustine, City of God, in several places, etc.

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Ἀργεῖοι καὶ Λάκωνες. Commation hoc e margine in contextum irrepsisse videtur; eoque sublato melius constat et structura, et sententia. Sylburg.

"Argives and Laconians." This little phrase seems to have crept into the text from the margin; with it removed, both the construction and the sense stand better. Sylburg.

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Βήττειν. Hesychius, Χελούειν, βήσσειν· καὶ χελούσσειν ὁμοίως.

"To cough." Hesychius: "chelouein: to cough; and chelousein likewise."

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Οἴει πόθεν παραγέγραπταί σοι, etc. Vetus lectio erat, Οἴει πόθεν παραγέγραπται ταῦτά σοι κομίζεσθαι, τὰ ὑφ' ἡμῶν παρατιθέμενα. Quam sic correxit Heinsius: Πόθεν οἴει παραγέγραπται ταῦτά σοι; κομίζεται τὰ ὑφ' ὑμῶν· Unde putas, inquit, haec deprompta esse? Vestris, o miseri et caeci, armis pugnamus. Vestri scriptores ista suppeditarunt nobis.

"Do you think from where it has been written for you," etc. The old reading was: "Do you think from where these things have been noted down for you to be brought — the things set forth by us?" Heinsius corrected it thus: "Whence do you think these things have been noted down for you? They are brought from you." "Where do you think," he says, "these things were drawn from? We fight, O wretched and blind, with your own weapons. Your own writers supplied us with them."

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Καλῶ· ἀθέου χλ. Hunc locum sic distinxi. Antea scriptum erat, καλῶ, ἀθέου χλεύης. Ὦ δείλαιοι, τὸν πάντα ὑμῶν ἀβίωτον ὄντως βίον ἐμπεπληκότες. Arcerius et Sylburgius, inverso verborum ordine, sic scribunt, καλῶ· ὦ δείλαιοι, τὸν πάντα ὑμῶν ἀβίωτον βίον ἀθέου χλεύης ἐμπεπ. Sed ea transpositione opus esse non videtur.

"I call; of godless mock[ery]." I have punctuated this passage thus. Previously it was written: "I call, of godless mockery. O wretches, who have filled your whole life, truly no life at all…" Arcerius and Sylburg, inverting the word order, write: "I call. O wretches, who have filled your whole unlivable life with godless mockery." But that transposition does not seem necessary.

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Τετίμησθον. Honorati sunt, pro τετιμήσθων. Sic enim postulat grammatica regula: et ejusmodi anomalia notata etiam supra. Sylburg.

"Tetimesthon." "They have been honoured" — for τετιμήσθων; for so the rule of grammar requires; and an anomaly of this kind was noted above too. Sylburg.

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Οὐχὶ δὲ Ἀφροδίτῃ περιβασίῃ. P. Leopardus, lib. VIII, cap. 25. Veneris περιβασίας meminerunt Clemens Alex. et Hesychius, Περιβασώ, Ἀφροδίτην. Scholia in Clementem ἀσχημοποιόν interpretantur. Haec ille. — Ipsum quoque verbum ἐμβαίνειν referunt ad turpia viri docti, exponentes illud ἐμβασικοίτης uspiam: Περιβασὼ autem decurtatum forte est ex Περιβασίῃ, ut Περσὼ ex Περσεφόνη, Συρακὼ ex Συράκουσα, Tarentino idiomate. Caeterum spurcum illud Dionysii epithetum, quod paulo post affert, παρὰ τὸ ψάλλειν, ἢ κόπτειν, ἢ τίλλειν, deducit Aeschyli Scholiastes in Persas sub finem Tragoediae. Collect. — Περιβασίη forsan a promiscua obambulatione, ut ἡ πάνδημος. Alioqui et Παραιβασίη legi posset: ut quae connubii leges saepe transiliat. Hervetus Ἐπιβασίη cur maluerit, nescio. Quibusdam Περιβασὼ dicitur παρὰ τὸ περιβῆναι, a divaricandis cruribus, hinc divaricatrix. Suidae, Περιβὰς est ἐποχούμενος.

"And not to Aphrodite Peribasia?" P. Leopardus, book 8, ch. 25: "Clement of Alexandria and Hesychius mention Venus Peribasia — 'Peribaso: Aphrodite.' The scholia on Clement interpret it 'she who causes indecency.'" So he. — Learned men also refer the verb ἐμβαίνειν itself to obscene things, explaining the word ἐμβασικοίτης somewhere; and Peribaso is perhaps shortened from Peribasia, as Perso from Persephone and Syraco from Syracusa, in the Tarentine idiom. As for that filthy epithet of Dionysus which he brings in a little later, the scholiast on Aeschylus' Persians, near the end of the tragedy, derives it from ψάλλειν, κόπτειν or τίλλειν. Collector. — Peribasia perhaps from promiscuous walking about, like "the Pandemos." Otherwise Paraibasia could also be read, as one who often overleaps the laws of marriage. Why Hervetus preferred Epibasia I do not know. Some say Peribaso comes from περιβῆναι, from spreading the legs — hence "divaricatrix." In Suidas, περιβάς means "mounted."

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Καλλιπύγῳ. Scriptum erat καλλιπύργῳ, sed καλλιπύγῳ legendum declarat synonymum epitheton καλλίγλουτος. Item εὐπυγίαν affectare dicuntur feminae in Alexidis quodam loco infra. Monuit de eodem errore Brodaeus quoque Miscell. lib. I, cap. 19, ex Athenaei lib. XII. Sylburg.

"Of the beautiful buttocks." It was written καλλιπύργῳ ("of the beautiful towers"), but the synonymous epithet καλλίγλουτος shows that καλλιπύγῳ should be read. Likewise, in a passage of Alexis below, women are said to affect shapely buttocks. Brodaeus too pointed out the same error, Miscellanea book 1, ch. 19, from Athenaeus book 12. Sylburg.

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Λέγειν ἔτι. Post ἔτι distingue, non ante. Id.

"To say still." Put the stop after "still," not before. The same.

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Συηνῖται. Pro Εὐηνῖται, quod prius exstabat, Ortelius et Canterus Συηνῖται legendum esse docuerunt ex Aeliano et Plutarcho. Sylburg. — Evenitas non facilius, opinor, reperias, quam Osirim Aegyptii: quamobrem hic fortean legendum non Εὐηνῖται, sed Συηνῖται, Syenitae. Facilius enim mutatur Συ in Ευ. Aelianus, lib. X De animalib., cap. 19: Τοὺς ἰχθῦς τοὺς φαγροὺς Συηνῖται μὲν Αἰγυπτίων ἱεροὺς νομίζουσιν· οἱ δὲ οἰκοῦντες τὴν Ἐλεφαντίνην καλουμένην τοὺς μαιώτας. Deinde causam addit, quod pisces isti accessum inundantis Nili suo adventu praenuntient. Idem scribit Plutarchus, De Iside et Osiride, agens de Oxyrinchitis: Σεβόμενοι γὰρ τὸν ὀξύρυγχον ἰχθὺν, δεδίασι μήποτε τὸ ἄγκιστρον καθαρόν ἐστιν ὀξυρύγχου περιπεσόντος αὐτῷ, Συηνῖται δὲ φάγρου. Hunc ipsum Strabo φαγρόριον appellat et φάγρον, unde Phagroriopolis, lib. XVII, in Arabici sinus recessu. Ibidem meminit et insulae Elephantinae in Nilo; et Plinius, lib. XVI, c. 21, ut circa Memphim Aegypti, et in Elephantine Thebaidis nulli arbori decidant folia, ne vitibus quidem. Athenaeus, lib. VII, maeotas numerat inter Nili pisces. Collect.

"Syenites." For Εὐηνῖται, which stood before, Ortelius and Canterus showed from Aelian and Plutarch that Συηνῖται should be read. Sylburg. — You would not, I think, find "Evenites" more easily than the Egyptians find Osiris; so perhaps one should read here not Εὐηνῖται but Συηνῖται, Syenites, for Συ is easily changed into Ευ. Aelian, On Animals book 10, ch. 19: "Of the Egyptians, the Syenites hold the fish called phagros sacred, and those who live in the place called Elephantine the maiotas." Then he adds the reason: that these fish by their coming announce the rising of the flooding Nile. Plutarch writes the same in On Isis and Osiris, treating of the Oxyrhynchites: "For since they revere the oxyrhynchus fish, they are afraid lest the hook be unclean when an oxyrhynchus has fallen upon it; and the Syenites likewise of the phagros." Strabo calls this very fish phagrorios and phagros — whence Phagroriopolis, book 17, in a recess of the Arabian Gulf. In the same place he mentions the island of Elephantine in the Nile; and Pliny, book 16, ch. 21, says that around Memphis in Egypt and at Elephantine in the Thebaid no tree sheds its leaves, not even vines. Athenaeus, book 7, counts maeotae among the fish of the Nile. Collector.

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Ὃς ἄλλος. Ὃς redundat.

"Who another." "Who" is redundant.

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Τὸν Ἆπιν. Conf. Strom. I, p. 322, 323; Herodotus, lib. II, cap. 65 et seq., Diodorus Siculus, lib. II. Auctor Constit. apost., lib. V, cap. 12: Ὡς παρ' Αἰγυπτίοις τὸν Ἆπιν, καὶ τὸν Μενδήσιον τράγον· Ut apud Aegyptios Apim, et hircum Mendesium. Recognit. Clementis, lib. V, cap. 20, de Aegyptiis ait, Alii eorum bovem, qui Apis dicitur, colendum tradidere, alii hircum, alii cattas; nonnulli ibin; quidam serpentem; piscem quoque, etc. Eadem fere habes Clementinorum homil. 10, cap. 16. De hirco Mendesiorum conf. Herodotus, lib. II, cap. 46.

"Apis." Compare Stromata 1, pp. 322–323; Herodotus, book 2, ch. 65 ff.; Diodorus Siculus, book 2. The author of the Apostolic Constitutions, book 5, ch. 12: "As among the Egyptians Apis and the Mendesian he-goat." The Clementine Recognitions, book 5, ch. 20, say of the Egyptians: "Some of them have handed down that the ox called Apis is to be worshipped, others the he-goat, others cats; some the ibis; some a serpent; a fish too," etc. You have almost the same in the Clementine Homilies 10, ch. 16. On the he-goat of the Mendesians compare Herodotus, book 2, ch. 46.

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Τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους . . . γελῶντες. Simili ratione utitur Petrus in Recognit., lib. V, cap. 21, et Clementin. hom. 10, cap. 17.

"Laughing at the Egyptians…" Peter uses a similar argument in the Recognitions, book 5, ch. 21, and in the Clementine Homilies 10, ch. 17.

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Θηβαῖοι δέ. Aelianus, lib. XII, cap. 5, De animalibus: Καὶ Θηβαῖοι δὲ σέβουσιν Ἕλληνες ὄντες, ὡς ἀκούω, γαλῆν. Thebani, quanquam Graeci, mustelam religiose venerantur; quia nimirum nutrix Herculis fuit, aut quod cum Herculem Alcmena parturiret, et parere non posset, ea praetercurrens pariendi vincula dissolvit. Ibidem etiam mures idem (continues)

"And the Thebans." Aelian, On Animals book 12, ch. 5: "And the Thebans, though they are Greeks, worship, as I hear, the weasel" — the Thebans, though Greeks, religiously venerate the weasel; because, namely, it was Hercules' nurse, or because, when Alcmena was in labour with Hercules and could not give birth, the weasel ran past and loosed the bonds of childbirth. In the same place the same [author says that] mice… (continues)

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τίμησθον; Οὐχὶ δὲ Ἀφροδίτῃ Περιβασίῃ μὲν Ἀργεῖοι, Ἑταίρᾳ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ Καλλιπύγῳ θύουσιν Συρακούσιοι; ἣν Νίκανδρος ὁ ποιητὴς καλλίγλουτόν που κέκληκεν. Διόνυσον δὲ ἤδη σιωπῶ τὸν χοιροψάλην· Σικυώνιοι τοῦτον προσκυνοῦσιν, ἐπὶ τῶν γυναικείων τάξαντες τὸν Διόνυσον μορίων, ἔφορον αἴσχους, καὶ τῆς ὕβρεως σεβάζοντες ἀρχηγόν. Τοιοίδε μὲν αὐτοῖς οἱ θεοί· τοιοίδε καὶ αὐτοὶ παίζοντες ἐν θεοῖς, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐμπαίζοντες καὶ ἐνυβρίζοντές σφισιν αὐτοῖς. Καὶ πόσῳ βελτίους Αιγύπτιοι, κωμηδὸν καὶ κατὰ πόλεις τὰ ἄλογα τῶν ζώων ἐκτετιμηκότες, ἤπερ Ἕλληνες, τοιούτους προσκυνοῦντες θεούς ! Τὰ μὲν γὰρ, εἰ καὶ θηρία, ἀλλ' οὐ μοιχικὰ, ἀλλ' οὐ μάχλα, παρὰ φύσιν δὲ θηρεύει ἡδονὴν οὐδὲ ἕν. Οἱ δὲ ὁποῖοι, τί καὶ χρὴ λέγειν ἔτι, ἀποχρώντως αὐτῶν διεληλεγμένων; Ἀλλ' οὖν γε Αἰγύπτιοι, ὧν νῦν δὴ ἐμνήσθην, κατὰ τὰς θρησκείας τὰς σφῶν ἐσκέδανται· σέβουσι δὲ αὐτῶν Συηνῖται, φάγρον τὸν ἰχθύν· μαιώτην δὲ, ὃς ἄλλος οὗτος ἰχθὺς, οἱ τὴν Ἐλεφαντίνην οἰκοῦντες· Ὀξυριγχῖται τὸν φερώνυμον τῆς χώρας αὐτῶν ὁμοίως ἰχθύν· ἔτι γε μὴν Ἡρακλεοπολῖται ἰχνεύμονα· Σαῖται δὲ καὶ Θηβαῖοι πρόβατον· Λυκοπολῖται δὲ λύκον· Κυνοπολῖται δὲ κύνα· τὸν Ἄπιν Μεμφῖται· Μενδήσιοι τὸν τράγον· ὑμεῖς δὲ, οἱ πάντ' ἀμείνους Αἰγυπτίων, (ὀκνῶ δὲ εἰπεῖν χείρους·) οἱ τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους ὁσημέραι γελῶντες, οὐ παύεσθε, ὁποῖοί τινες καὶ περὶ τὰ ἄλογα ζῶα; Θεσσαλοὶ μὲν ὑμῶν τοὺς πελαργοὺς τετιμήκασι διὰ τὴν συνήθειαν· Θηβαῖοι δὲ τὰς γαλᾶς, διὰ τὴν Ἡρακλέους γένεσιν. Τί δὲ οὐ πά-
honoured? And do not the Argives sacrifice to Straddling Aphrodite, the Athenians to Courtesan Aphrodite, and the Syracusans to Fair-buttocked Aphrodite, whom the poet Nicander has somewhere called kalligloutos? And I now pass over in silence Dionysus the pudenda-plucker; the Sicyonians worship this one, having set Dionysus over the female parts, revering him as overseer of disgrace and author of outrage. Such, then, are their gods; and such too are they themselves, jesting over the gods, or rather mocking and insulting their own selves. And how much better are the Egyptians, who in villages and throughout cities have highly honoured the irrational animals, than the Greeks, who worship such gods! For those creatures, even if they are beasts, yet are not adulterous, nor lewd, and not a single one of them pursues pleasure contrary to nature. Whereas of what sort these gods are, what need is there to say further, now that they have been sufficiently convicted? However, the Egyptians, whom I just now mentioned, are divided according to their forms of worship: the Syenites among them revere the phagrus-fish; and those who inhabit Elephantine revere the maeotes, which is another fish; the Oxyrhynchites likewise revere the fish named after their district; and furthermore the Heracleopolites revere the ichneumon; the Saites and Thebans, a sheep; the Lycopolites, a wolf; the Cynopolites, a dog; the Memphites, Apis; the Mendesians, the he-goat. But you, who are in all things better than the Egyptians (for I shrink from saying worse), who laugh at the Egyptians every day without ceasing, of what sort are you too with regard to irrational animals? The Thessalians among you have honoured storks on account of custom; and the Thebans weasels, on account of the birth of Heracles. And why again are the
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λιν Θετταλοὶ μύρμηκας ἱστοροῦνται σέβειν, ἐπεὶ τὸν Δία μεμαθήκασιν ὁμοιωθέντα μύρμηκι, τῇ Κλήτορος θυγατρὶ Εὐρυμεδούσῃ μιγῆναι, καὶ Μυρμηδόνα γεννῆσαι; Πολέμων δὲ τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὴν Τρωάδα κατοικοῦντας ἱστορεῖ τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους μῦς, οὓς σμίνθους καλοῦσι, θρησκεύειν, ὅτι τὰς νευρὰς τῶν πολεμίων διέτρωγον τῶν τόξων· καὶ Σμίνθιον Ἀπόλλωνα ἀπὸ τῶν μυῶν ἐκείνων ἐπεφήμισαν. Ἡρακλείδης δὲ ἐν Κτίσεσιν ἱερῶν περὶ τὴν Ἀκαρνανίαν φησὶν, ἔνθα τὸ Ἄκτιον ἐστὶν ἀκρωτήριον, καὶ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ Ἀκτίου τὸ ἱερὸν, ταῖς μυίαις προθύεσθαι βοῦν. Οὐδὲ μὴν Σαμίων ἐκλήσομαι· πρόβατον, ὥς φησιν Εὐφορίων, σέβουσι Σάμιοι· οὐδέ γε τῶν τὴν Φοινίκην Σύρων κατοικούντων, ὧν οἱ μὲν τὰς περιστερὰς, οἱ δὲ τοὺς ἰχθῦς οὕτω σέβουσι περιττῶς, ὡς Ἠλεῖοι τὸν Δία. Εἶεν δὴ, ἐπειδὴ οὐ θεοὶ, οὓς θρησκεύετε, αὖθις ἐπισκέψασθαί μοι δοκεῖ, εἰ ὄντως εἶεν δαίμονες, δευτέρᾳ ταύτῃ, ὡς ὑμεῖς φατε, ἐγκαταλεγόμενοι τάξει. Εἰ γὰρ οὖν δαίμονες λίχνοι τε καὶ μιαροὶ, ἔστι μὲν ἐφευρεῖν καὶ ἀναφανδὸν οὕτω κατὰ πόλεις δαίμονας ἐπιχωρίους, τιμὴν ἐπιδρεπομένους· παρὰ Κυθνίοις μὲν Ἔδημον· παρὰ Τηνίοις Καλλισταγόραν· παρὰ
Thessalians not related to revere ants, since they have learned that Zeus, having likened himself to an ant, mingled with Eurymedusa the daughter of Cletor and begot Myrmidon? And Polemon relates that those who dwell around the Troad worship the native mice, which they call sminthoi, because they gnawed through the bowstrings of the enemies' bows; and they named Apollo Sminthian from those mice. And Heraclides, in his Foundations of Sanctuaries, says that around Acarnania, where the headland of Actium is and the sanctuary of Actian Apollo, an ox is sacrificed beforehand to the flies. Nor indeed will I forget the Samians: the Samians, as Euphorion says, revere a sheep; nor yet the Syrians who inhabit Phoenicia, of whom some revere doves and others fishes as extravagantly as the Eleans revere Zeus. Well then, since those whom you worship are not gods, it seems good to me to examine again whether they are truly demons, enrolled in this second rank, as you say. For if indeed demons are greedy and impure, one may discover even openly thus throughout the cities local demons reaping honour: among the Cythnians, Edemus; among the Tenians, Callistagoras; among
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Τί δὲ, οὐ π. Hanc lectionem exhibuit primum Heinsius, et post eum reliquae Clementis editiones. Vetus lectio erat, Τί δαὶ πάλιν Θετταλοὶ μύρμηκας ἱστοροῦνται σέβειν; quam quidem exhibent Flor. et Sylburg. Nec opus erat ea verba mutare, modo sic distinguantur, ut sit apud Nov. Τί δαὶ πάλιν οἱ Θετταλοί; μύρμηκας ἱστοροῦνται σέβειν, ἐπεὶ τὸν Δία, etc. Quid autem rursus Thessali? formicas referuntur colere, quia Jovem, etc.

"And what, not ag[ain]…" Heinsius first gave this reading, and after him the remaining editions of Clement. The old reading was: "Why again are the Thessalians related to worship ants?" — which the Florentine and Sylburg give. There was no need to change those words, provided they are punctuated as in Novus: "And what again of the Thessalians? They are related to worship ants, since Zeus," etc.

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Τῇ Κλήτορος θυγ. Εὐρυμεδούσῃ. Clitoris filiam dixit Arnobius. At Recognit., lib. X, c. 22, refertur Jupiter corrupisse Eurymedusam Achelai, mutatus in formicam; ex qua nascitur Myrmidon. Acheloi filiam dicunt Clementina.

"Eurymedusa, daughter of Cletor." Arnobius called her the daughter of Clitor. But in the Recognitions, book 10, ch. 22, Jupiter is said to have seduced Eurymedusa [daughter] of Achelaus, changed into an ant, and from her Myrmidon was born. The Clementines call her the daughter of Achelous.

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Καλοῦσι. Post καλοῦσι recte cum A inseruimus σέβεσθαι, θρησκεύειν, vel simile quid. Sylburg.

"They call." After "they call," we have rightly inserted, with A., "to revere, to worship," or something similar. Sylburg.

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Οὐδὲ μὴν Σαμίων ἐκλήσομαι. Aelianus, lib. XII, cap. 40: Τιμῶσι δὲ ἄρα Δελφοὶ μὲν λύκον, Σάμιοι δὲ πρόβατον. Lupum Delphi colunt, Samii ovem venerantur. Deinde causam addit, quod Samiis furto sublatum aurum ovis invenit. Ideo Mandrobulus Junoni ovem consecravit, ut Aristoteles tradit. Idem, lib. XI, cap. 8: In Leucade promontorium est excelsum et sacrum, in eo Apollinis Actii fanum; cujus honori dedicatum tempus festum cum instat, in quo saltando etiam certant, bovem muscis mactant: cujus illae sanguine saturatae recedunt, veluti munere ad id faciendum persuasae. Euphorionem citat etiam idem lib. XVII, cap. 28, et Athenaeus multis in locis. Collect.

"Nor will I forget the Samians." Aelian, book 12, ch. 40: "The Delphians honour the wolf, the Samians the sheep." Then he adds the reason: that a sheep found the gold stolen from the Samians; so Mandrobulus consecrated a sheep to Juno, as Aristotle relates. The same author, book 11, ch. 8: "On Leucas there is a lofty, sacred promontory, and on it a shrine of Actian Apollo. When the feast dedicated to his honour comes round, in which they also compete in dancing, they sacrifice an ox to the flies; and the flies, glutted with its blood, go away, as if persuaded to do so by the gift." The same author also cites Euphorion, book 17, ch. 28, and Athenaeus does so in many places. Collector.

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Οὐδέ γε τῶν τὴν Φοινίκ. P. Victorius, lib. XII, cap. 15. Tibullus in quadam elegia superstitionis Syrorum meminit, qui columbas consecrabant, timebantque violare, ita canens: Quid referam, ut volitet crebras intacta per urbes Alba Palaestino sancta columba Syro? Alii legunt suo. Id quoque memoriae prodidit Xenophon, in Exped. Cyri; narrat enim copias illas venisse ad fluvium Chalum, plenum magnorum piscium ac mansuetorum, quos Syri deos putarent, nec sinerent violari; quod etiam tribuebant columbis. Cicero, III De nat. deorum: Piscem Syri venerantur. Porphyrius, lib. IV Περὶ ἀποχῆς, Menandri comici versus ponit, quibus exponitur quo humilitatis descendant Syri, ut deum placent, si forte aliquando incontinentia ducti piscem comederint. Collect. — Conf. Diodorus Sic., lib. II.

"Nor of those [who inhabit] Phoenicia." P. Victorius, book 12, ch. 15: "Tibullus, in one of his elegies, mentions the superstition of the Syrians, who consecrated doves and feared to harm them, singing thus: 'Why should I tell how the white dove, sacred to the Palestinian Syrian, flies unharmed through crowded cities?' Others read 'to his own.' Xenophon too recorded this in the Expedition of Cyrus; for he relates that the army came to the river Chalus, full of large, tame fish which the Syrians held to be gods and would not let be harmed — which they also ascribed to doves. Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3: 'The Syrians venerate the fish.'" Porphyry, On Abstinence book 4, gives lines of the comic poet Menander which set out to what depths of abasement the Syrians go to appease the god if ever, led by incontinence, they have eaten a fish. Collector. — Compare Diodorus Siculus, book 2.

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Αὖθις. Omittit Nov.

"Again." Novus omits it.

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Αἶχνοι. Recte posteriores Clementis editt. λίχνοι habent; quam lectionem firmat Nov., λύχνοι, Flor., Sylb. Tatianus λίχνους καὶ ἀσώτους vocat, p. 48.

"Aichnoi." The later editions of Clement rightly have λίχνοι ("gluttons"), a reading Novus confirms; λύχνοι ("lamps"), the Florentine and Sylburg. Tatian calls them "gluttons and profligates," p. 48.

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Παρὰ Κυθνίοις μὲν Ἔδημον. A. C. παρὰ Κυθνίοις Μενέδημον. Item mox, pro παρὰ δ' Ἠλείοις Ἄνιον, legendum παρὰ Δηλίοις Ἄνιον. Anium certe Deli et regem fuisse, et sacerdotem, ex Dionysio Halicarnasseo et Virgilio clarum est; ex ipso etiam Clemente infra. Sylburg. — Et quidem Μενέδημον habet Nov.; unde, quin Clemens ita scripserit, haud potest dubitari. Caeterum de Anio, Eliensium deo, haec dicit Vossius, De orig. et progress. idol., lib. I, cap. 13: « Elienses Anium pro deo habuere, teste Clemente, Admonitione ad gentes. Sed cum conditores urbium soleant in deos referri, suspicio mihi oborta, Alium legi debere. Nam Eliorum urbs ab Elio, sive Alio, condita; unde et ipsi Dorice Plauto (continues)

"Among the Cythnians, Edemus." A. and C.: "among the Cythnians, Menedemus." Likewise just after, for "among the Eleans, Anius," read "among the Delians, Anius." That Anius was both king and priest of Delos is clear from Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Virgil, and from Clement himself below. Sylburg. — And indeed Novus has Menedemus, so there can be no doubt that Clement wrote it so. As for Anius, god of the Eleans, Vossius says this, On the Origin and Progress of Idolatry book 1, ch. 13: "The Eleans held Anius for a god, on the testimony of Clement in the Exhortation to the Gentiles. But since the founders of cities are commonly made gods, the suspicion occurred to me that Alius should be read. For the city of the Eleans was founded by Elius, or Alius; whence in Plautus too they themselves, in the Doric form, (continues)

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Ἀστράβακον. Ὀστράβακον, Nov. Sed Pausanias receptam lectionem firmat. Nam ille, in Laconicis, p. 191 edit. Hanov., dicit: Πλησίον δὲ Ἀστραβάκου καλούμενόν ἐστιν ἡρῷον· Hic proximum est heroicum monimentum, quod Astrabaci esse dicitur. Quis porro fuerit hic Astrabacus, paulo post declarat.

"Astrabacus." "Ostrabacus," Novus. But Pausanias confirms the received reading; for in the Laconica, p. 191 of the Hanover edition, he says: "Near by is what is called the hero-shrine of Astrabacus." Who this Astrabacus was he explains a little later.

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Τρὶς γάρ. Hesiodi Oper. et Dier, l. I, v. 250. Caeterum pro τρίς Nov. habet τρεῖς. In secundo versu, Ἀθάνατοι Ζηνός, pro δαίμονες ἀθάνατοι, Hesiod.

"For thrice." Hesiod, Works and Days, book 1, line 250. Novus, however, has "three" for "thrice." In the second line Hesiod has "immortals of Zeus" for "immortal daemons."

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Λοιβῆς. Homeri Iliad. Δ, v. 49. Clemens eodem allusit, p. 15. Solent autem veteres Ecclesiae Patres ethnicis e suis poetis exprobrare, quod eorum dii victimarum nidoribus inhient; quin etiam eorum non pauci daemonas, ut terrenos spiritus, ejusmodi rebus delectari credebant. Tatianus Orat., cap. 20: Οἱ δαίμονες, οὓς ὑμεῖς οὕτω φατὲ, σύμπηξιν ἐξ ὕλης λαβόντες, κτησάμενοί τε πνεῦμα τὸ ὑπ' αὐτῆς, ἄσωτοι καὶ λίχνοι γεγόνασιν· Daemones, qui a vobis dicti sunt, ex materia concreti, et spiritu ex ea sumpto, luxuriosi et delicati evaserunt. Athenagoras, cap. 23: Οἱ περὶ τὴν ὕλην δαίμονες λίχνοι, περὶ τὰς κνίσσας καὶ τὸ τῶν ἱερείων αἷμα ὄντες· Daemones materiae dediti, nidorum et sanguinis victimarum avidi. Origenes, in Celsum, lib. III, pag. 133: Πάντες μὲν οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν εἰσι δαιμόνια λίχνα, καὶ περὶ τὰς θυσίας, καὶ τὰ αἵματα, καὶ τὰς ἀπὸ θυσιῶν ἀποφορὰς καλινδούμενα. Omnes dii gentium sunt daemonia, victimarum cruorisque avida, et circa nidores versantia. Et lib. VII, pag. 354, dicit inde apparere terrenos esse daemones, quod τοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν θυσιῶν ἀναθυμιάμασι, καὶ ταῖς ἀπὸ τῶν αἱμάτων, καὶ ὁλοκαυτωμάτων ἀποφοραῖς τρεφόμενα αὐτῶν τὰ σώματα φιληδονούντων· Sacrificiorum nidoribus, et sanguinis ac victimarum halitibus eorum corpora voluptati deditorum nutriantur. Scilicet ex eorum sententia daemones tenuia corpora habebant. Qua de re alius forte dicendi locus erit.

"Of libation." Homer, Iliad 4 (Δ), line 49. Clement alluded to the same line on p. 15. The ancient Fathers of the Church were wont to reproach the heathen out of their own poets that their gods gaped after the savour of victims; indeed not a few of them believed that daemons, as earthly spirits, took pleasure in such things. Tatian, Oration ch. 20: "The daemons, as you call them, having taken a compacted form from matter and acquired a spirit from it, have become profligate and gluttonous" — the daemons so called by you, formed from matter and with a spirit taken from it, turned out luxurious and dainty. Athenagoras, ch. 23: "The daemons bound to matter are gluttonous, busy about the savour of sacrifices and the blood of victims" — daemons given to matter, greedy for the savour and blood of victims. Origen, Against Celsus book 3, p. 133: "All the gods of the nations are gluttonous demons, rolling about the sacrifices and the blood and the reek from the sacrifices" — all the gods of the gentiles are demons, greedy for victims and gore, and hovering about the savours. And in book 7, p. 354, he says it is evident from this that the daemons are earthly: that "the bodies of these pleasure-lovers are fed on the fumes of the sacrifices and the exhalations from the blood and the burnt offerings." That is, in their opinion daemons had subtle bodies — on which there will perhaps be another occasion to speak.

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Φέρε δὴ οὖν. Φέρ' οὖν δὴ, Euseb. Praep. ev. lib. IV, cap. 16, quo haec recitata invenies; sed φέρε δὴ οὖν Joan. Mox, ὑμῖν οἱ θεοί, Euseb., pro quo mendose, (continues)

"Come then, now." "Come now, then," Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelica book 4, ch. 16, where you will find this passage recited; but the St John's manuscript (Joan.) has "come then, now." Next, "your gods," Eusebius, for which, corruptly, (continues)

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CAPUT III.

CHAPTER III.

Sacrificiorum diis mactatorum crudelitatem ac feritatem perstringit.

He censures the cruelty and savagery of the sacrifices slain to the gods.

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δ' Ἠλείοις Ἀνίον· παρὰ Λάκωσιν Ἀστράβακον· τιμᾶται δέ τις καὶ Φαληροῖ κατὰ πρύμναν ἥρως· καὶ ἡ Πυθία συνέταξε θύειν Πλαταιεῦσιν Ἀνδροκράτει, καὶ Δημοκράτει, καὶ Κυκλαίῳ, καὶ Λεύκωνι, τῶν Μηδικῶν ἀκμαζόντων ἀγώνων. Ἔστι καὶ ἄλλους παμπόλλους συνιδεῖν δαίμονας, τῷγε καὶ σμικρὸν διαθρεῖν δυναμένῳ·
the Eleans, Anius; among the Laconians, Astrabacus. And a certain hero at the stern is also honoured at Phalerum; and the Pythia enjoined the Plataeans to sacrifice to Androcrates, and Democrates, and Cyclaeus, and Leucon, when the Median struggles were at their height. And it is possible to perceive very many other demons as well, for anyone who is able to look into the matter even a little:
Τρὶς γὰρ μύριοι εἰσὶν ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ Δαίμονες ἀθάνατοι, φύλακες μερόπων ἀνθρώπων.
For thrice ten thousand are there upon the much-nourishing earth, immortal demons, guardians of articulate-speaking men.
Τίνες εἰσὶν οἱ φύλακες, ὦ Βοιώτιε, μὴ φθονήσῃς λέγειν. Ἢ δῆλον ὡς οὗτοι, καὶ οἱ τούτων ἐπιτιμότεροι, οἱ μεγάλοι δαίμονες, ὁ Ἀπόλλων, ἡ Ἄρτεμις, ἡ Λητὼ, ἡ Δημήτηρ, ἡ Κόρη, ὁ Πλούτων, ὁ Ἡρακλῆς, αὐτὸς ὁ Ζεύς. Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀποδρᾶναι ἡμᾶς φυλάττουσιν, Ἀσκραῖε· μὴ ἁμαρτάνειν δὲ ἴσως, οἱ ἁμαρτιῶν δῆτα οὐ πεπειραμένοι. Ἐνταῦθα δὴ τὸ παροιμιῶδες ἐπιφθέγξασθαι ἁρμόττει·
Who the guardians are, O Boeotian, do not grudge to tell. Or is it plain that they are these, and those more honoured than these, the great demons: Apollo, Artemis, Leto, Demeter, Kore, Pluto, Heracles, Zeus himself? Yet they do not guard us so that we may not run away, O Ascraean; perhaps rather so that we may not sin—they who have, forsooth, no experience of sins! Here indeed it is fitting to utter the proverbial saying:
Πατὴρ ἀνουθέτητος παῖδα νουθετεῖ.
An unchastened father chastens his son.
Εἰ δ' ἄρα καὶ εἰσὶ φύλακες οὗτοι, οὐκ εὐνοίᾳ τῇ πρὸς ἡμᾶς περιπαθεῖς, τῆς δὲ ὑμεδαπῆς ἀπωλείας ἐχόμενοι, κολάκων δίκην, ἐγχρίμπτονται τῷ βίῳ, δελεαζόμενοι καπνῷ. Αὐτοί που ἐξομολογοῦνται οἱ δαίμονες τὴν γαστριμαργίαν τὴν αὐτῶν·
And if indeed these are guardians, not being passionately affected with goodwill towards us, but clinging to your ruin, after the manner of flatterers they press close upon human life, allured by smoke. The demons themselves somewhere confess their own gluttony:
Λοιβῆς τε, κνίσσης τε· τὸ γὰρ λάχομεν γέρας ἡμεῖς,
Of drink-offering and of burnt-fat savour; for that is the privilege we were allotted,
λέγοντες. Τίνα δ' ἂν φωνὴν ἄλλην, εἰ φωνὴν λάβοιεν Αἰγυπτίων θεοὶ, οἷα αἴλουροι καὶ γαλαι, προήσονται, ἢ τὴν Ὁμηρικήν τε καὶ ποιητικὴν, τῆς κνίσσης τε καὶ ὀψαρτυτικῆς φίλην; τοιοίδε μέν τοι παρ' ὑμῖν οἵ τε δαίμονες καὶ οἱ θεοὶ, καὶ εἴ τινες ἡμίθεοι, ὥσπερ ἡμίονοι, κέκληνται· οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ ὀνομάτων ὑμῖν πενία πρὸς τὰς τῆς ἀσεβείας συνθέσεις.
as they say. And what other voice, if the gods of the Egyptians—such as cats and weasels—should receive a voice, will they utter than the Homeric and poetic one, fond of burnt-fat savour and cookery? Such indeed among you are both the demons and the gods, and any who are called demigods, just like half-asses; for you have no poverty of names either for the compositions of impiety.
Φέρε δὴ οὖν καὶ τοῦτο προσθῶμεν, ὡς ἀπάν-
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θρωποι καὶ μισάνθρωποι δαίμονες εἶεν ὑμῶν οἱ θεοὶ, καὶ οὐχὶ μόνον ἐπιχαίροντες τῇ φρενοβλαβείᾳ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, πρὸς δὲ καὶ ἀνθρωποκτονίας ἀπολαύοντες· νυνὶ μὲν τὰς ἐν σταδίοις ἐνόπλους φιλονεικίας, νυνὶ δὲ τὰς ἐν πολέμοις ἀναρίθμους φιλοτιμίας, ἀφορμάς σφισιν ἡδονῆς ποριζόμενοι, ὅπως ὅτι μάλιστα ἔχοιεν ἀνθρωπείων ἀνέδην ἐμφορεῖσθαι φόνων· ἤδη δὲ κατὰ πόλεις καὶ ἔθνη, οἱονεὶ λοιμοὶ ἐπισκήψαντες, σπονδὰς ἀπῄτησαν ἀνημέρους. Ἀριστομένης γοῦν ὁ Μεσσήνιος τῷ Ἰθωμήτῃ Διὶ τριακοσίους ἀπέσφαξε, τοσαύτας ὁμοῦ καὶ τοιαύτας καλλιερεῖν οἰόμενος ἑκατόμβας· ἐν οἷς καὶ Θεόπομπος ἦν ὁ Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεὺς, ἱερεῖον εὐγενές. Ταῦροι δὲ τὸ ἔθνος, οἱ περὶ τὴν Ταυρικὴν χεῤῥόνησον κατοικοῦντες, οὓς ἂν τῶν ξένων παρ' αὐτοῖς ἕλωσι, τούτων δὴ τῶν κατὰ θάλασσαν ἐπταικότων, αὐτίκα μάλα τῇ Ταυρικῇ καταθύουσιν Ἀρτέμιδι· ταύτας σου τὰς θυσίας Εὐριπίδης ἐπὶ σκηνῆς τραγῳδεῖ. Μόνιμος δ' ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῇ τῶν θαυμασίων Συναγωγῇ, ἐν Πέλλῃ τῆς Θετταλίας Ἀχαιὸν ἄνθρωπον Πηλεῖ καὶ Χείρωνι καταθύεσθαι· Λυκτίους γὰρ, Κρητῶν δὲ ἔθνος εἰσὶν, οὕτως Ἀντικλείδης ἐν Νόστοις ἀποφαίνεται ἀνθρώπους ἀποσφάττειν τῷ Διί· καὶ Λεσβίους Διονύσῳ τὴν ὁμοίαν προσάγειν θυσίαν, Δωσίδας λέγει. Φωκαεῖς δὲ (οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτοὺς παραπέμψομαι τοιούτους)· Πυθοκλῆς ἐν τρίτῳ Περὶ ὁμονοίας, τῇ Ταυροπόλῳ Ἀρτέμιδι ἄνθρωπον ὁλοκαεῖν ἱστορεῖ. Ἐρεχθεὺς δὲ ὁ Ἀττικὸς καὶ Μάριος ὁ Ῥωμαῖος, τὰς αὐτῶν ἐθυσάτην θυγατέρας· ὧν ὁ μὲν τῇ Φερσεφάττῃ, ὡς Δημάρατος ἐν πρώτῃ Τραγῳδουμένων· ὁ δὲ τοῖς
man and man-hating demons your gods are, not only rejoicing in the madness of men, but also taking delight in human slaughter; now procuring for themselves the armed rivalries in stadiums, and now the numberless ambitions in wars as occasions of pleasure, so that they may as much as possible take their fill without restraint of human murders; and already throughout cities and nations, having swooped down like plagues, they have demanded savage drink-offerings. Aristomenes the Messenian, at any rate, slaughtered three hundred men to Ithometan Zeus, thinking that he offered auspiciously so many and such hecatombs at once; among whom was also Theopompus the king of the Lacedaemonians, a noble victim. And the nation of the Tauri, who dwell around the Tauric Chersonese, whatever strangers they capture among themselves—those who have come to grief at sea—they straightway sacrifice on the spot to Tauric Artemis; these sacrifices of yours Euripides represents tragically upon the stage. And Monimus relates in his Collection of Marvels that in Pella of Thessaly an Achaean man is sacrificed to Peleus and Chiron; for the Lyctians—and they are a nation of Cretans—Anticlides in his Returns declares thus to slaughter men to Zeus; and Dosidas says that the Lesbians offer the like sacrifice to Dionysus. And as for the Phocaeans—for I will not pass them over either, being such—Pythocles in the third book of his On Concord relates that they burn a man whole to Tauropolos Artemis. And Erechtheus the Athenian and Marius the Roman sacrificed their own daughters: of whom the former sacrificed her to Phersephatta, as Demaratus says in the first book of his Tragic Subjects; and the latter to the
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Ἀναρίθμους. Ἐναρίθμους, Joan.

"Countless." "Counted among," John.

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Ἀνέδην. Ἀναίδην, Euseb., sed ἀνέδην Joan. Et quidem rectius. Nil porro est frequentius quam harum vocum confusio.

"Freely." "Shamelessly," Eusebius; but John has "freely," and rightly. Nothing is more frequent than the confusion of these words.

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Τῷ Ἰθωμήτῃ Διΐ. Eusebius habet Ἰθωμίτῃ, sed melius vel Ἰθωμαίῳ, vel Ἰθωμήτῃ, ut Stephanus, et alii; vel etiam, ut Pausanias, Ἰθωμάτῃ, aut Ἰθωμάτᾳ, quod Doricum, et plane Messenicum est; ab Ithoma, Messeniae monte, ubi oppidum ejusdem nominis, situ opereque munitissimum. Viger.

"To Zeus of Ithome." Eusebius has Ἰθωμίτῃ; but better either Ἰθωμαίῳ or Ἰθωμήτῃ, as Stephanus and others have; or even, as in Pausanias, Ἰθωμάτῃ or Ἰθωμάτᾳ, which is Doric and thoroughly Messenian — from Ithome, a mountain of Messenia, where there is a town of the same name, very strongly fortified by site and by works. Viger.

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Ὁ Λακ. Particulam ὁ inseruit Sylburgius, omissam in edit. Flor., ut etiam in ms. Nov.

"The Lac[onian]." Sylburg inserted the article ὁ, which is omitted in the Florentine edition, as also in the manuscript Novus.

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Τούτων. Τοσοῦτον Joan. Mox, θάλατταν, Euseb., Joan.

"Of these." "So much," John. Next, θάλατταν ("sea," Attic spelling), Eusebius, John.

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Εὐριπίδης ἐπ. Ἐπὶ σκηνῆς τραγῳδεῖ ὁ Εὐριπίδης, inverso verborum ordine. Euseb.

"Euripides on [the stage]." "On the stage Euripides tells in tragedy," with the word order inverted. Eusebius.

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Μόνιμος. De hoc scriptore, ejusque ἀνθρωποθυσίᾳ nihil legi. Forte in Achillis immaturo fato rapti memoriam Peleo ejus parenti, et Chironi nutritio scelus hoc institutum fuerit. Viger. — Mox Θαλαττίας, pro Θετταλίας, Joan. Mendose.

"Monimus." I have read nothing of this writer or of his human sacrifice. Perhaps this crime was instituted in memory of Achilles, snatched away by an untimely fate, for Peleus his father and Chiron his foster-father. Viger. — Next, "of the sea" for "of Thessaly," John — a corruption.

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Λυκτίους. Prius scriptum erat Λυκίους, quod habet etiam Nov. Verum P. Leopardus lib. IV, c. 3, 3. Emend. restituendum ex Eusebio Λυκτίους monet; et addendum Eusebio nomen libri Ἐν Νόστοις, in Reditibus, seu Reversionibus, ut constat ex codice Eusebii Graeco, Lutetiae edito. Citatur hic auctor ab Athenaeo lib. IX, et alibi, et Atheniensis dicitur. Collect. — Suidas, Ἀντικλείδης· οὗτος ἔγραψε περὶ νόστων. Viger. — Spanhemius Observat. in Callimachi hymn. in Apoll., v. 33, contendit nec Λυκίους, nec Λυκτίους legi debere, sed Λυττίους, quippe cum Cretae urbs Λύττος appellata fuerit.

"Lyctians." Previously "Lycians" was written, which Novus also has. But P. Leopardus, book 4, ch. 3 [of his] Emendationes, advises restoring "Lyctians" from Eusebius, and adding, from Eusebius, the title of the book, "In the Returns" (Reditus, or Reversiones), as is clear from the Greek codex of Eusebius printed at Paris. This author is cited by Athenaeus, book 9 and elsewhere, and is called an Athenian. Collector. — Suidas: "Anticlides: he wrote on the Returns." Viger. — Spanheim, in his Observations on Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo, line 33, argues that neither "Lycians" nor "Lyctians" should be read, but "Lyttians," since the Cretan city was called Lyttos.

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Κρητῶν δὲ ἔθνος εἰσίν, οὕτως Ἀντ. Leg. Κρητῶν δὲ ἔθνος εἰσὶν οὗτοι, Ἀντικλ. ex Euseb., Joan.

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Φωκαεῖς. Φωκεῖς. Joan., mendose. Intelligit auctor Phocaeenses, non Phocenses. Nam Φωκαεῖς, Phocaeae, urbis Ioniae, cives: Φωκεῖς, incolae Phocidis, Phocenses. Collect. — Φώκαια, Phocaea, urbs Ioniae; cujus cives Φωκαεῖς, interdum etiam Φωκαιεῖς, ut Πλαταιεῖς, Phocaeenses, aut Phocaei. Horatius, epod. 16: Phocaeorum velut profugit exsecrata civitas. Φωκίς, Phocis, Achaiae regio: incolae Φωκεῖς, Phocenses. Thucydidis Scholiastes, lib. I: Φωκεῖς, inquit, οἱ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἀπὸ Φωκίδος πόλεως· Φωκαιεῖς, οἱ τῆς Ἰωνίας, ἀπὸ Φωκαίας πόλεως. Pomponius Mela Phocidem Ioniae urbem nominat, librariorum, opinor, vitio; cum Phocaeam, ut Graeci omnes, scribere debuisset.

"Phocaeans." "Phocians," John — a corruption. The author means the Phocaeans, not the Phocians. For Φωκαεῖς are citizens of Phocaea, a city of Ionia; Φωκεῖς are the inhabitants of Phocis, the Phocians. Collector. — Phocaea is a city of Ionia, whose citizens are Φωκαεῖς, sometimes also Φωκαιεῖς (like Πλαταιεῖς), Phocaeans or Phocaei. Horace, Epode 16: "as the city of the Phocaeans fled under a curse." Phocis is a region of Achaia; its inhabitants are Φωκεῖς, Phocians. The scholiast on Thucydides, book 1: "Phocians," he says, "are those of Greece, from the city of Phocis; Phocaeans those of Ionia, from the city of Phocaea." Pomponius Mela names Phocis as a city of Ionia — by the copyists' fault, I think — when he should have written Phocaea, as all the Greeks do.

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Οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτ. Οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτοὺς παραπέμψομαι, τούτους Πυθοκλ., Nov., Euseb., Joan., nisi quod hic ἀποπέμψομαι habeat.

"For not even them." "For I shall not pass over them; these, Pythocles [says]…," Novus, Eusebius, John — except that the last has ἀποπέμψομαι ("dismiss").

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Ὁλοκαεῖν. Ὁλοκαυτεῖν, Euseb., ὁλοκαυτοῦν Joan., quae magis in usu sunt, quam ὁλοκαεῖν.

"To burn whole." Ὁλοκαυτεῖν, Eusebius; ὁλοκαυτοῦν, John — forms more in use than ὁλοκαεῖν.

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Ἐρεχθεὺς δέ. Plutarchus, in Historiis parallelis Graecis et Romanis, has duas narrat historias conjunctas, numero 20. Erechtheus cum Eumolpo bellum gerens, cum didicisset victorem futurum se, si filiam immolaret; re cum uxore Praxithea communicata, puellam mactavit: cujus rei Euripides in Erechtheo meminit. Marius, cum Cimbris bellum gerens, cum inferior illis esset, in somnio praemonitus est, victoriam se consecuturum, si filiam prius victimam offerret, Calpurniam nomine. Patriae igitur charitati natura postposita, eo facto victoriam reportavit. Dorotheus IV Rer. Ital. Collect.

"And Erechtheus." Plutarch, in the Parallel Greek and Roman Stories, number 20, tells these two stories together. Erechtheus, waging war with Eumolpus, learned that he would be victor if he sacrificed his daughter; having shared the matter with his wife Praxithea, he slew the girl — which Euripides mentions in the Erechtheus. Marius, waging war with the Cimbri, when he was getting the worse of it, was warned in a dream that he would win the victory if he first offered his daughter, Calpurnia by name, as a victim. So, setting nature below love of country, he did it and won the victory. Dorotheus, Italian Histories book 4. Collector.

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Δημάρατος ἐν π. Τρ. Reinesius, Var. lect. lib. I, pag. 3, ait: « Demaratus ἐν πρώτῃ Τραγῳ- (continues)

"Demaratus in the first [book of] Tr[agic Themes]." Reinesius, Variae lectiones book 1, p. 3, says: "Demaratus in the first [book of] Tragic [Themes]… (continues)

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Ὁ Μάριος. Fallor, ni glossema est istud ὁ Μάριος. Nec vero ante dixit, ὁ μὲν Φερσεφάττῃ ὁ Ἐρεχθεύς. Quid? quod barbara est haec loquendi ratio. Quid? quod face opus non erat, ut posteriorem hunc Marium esse videremus, qui Dorotheum in Rerum Italicarum libris citari audiremus. Viger.

"Marius." I am mistaken if "Marius" is not a gloss. Nor indeed did he say before, "the one, Erechtheus, to Persephone." What of the fact that this manner of speaking is barbarous? What of the fact that we needed no torch to see that this latter was Marius, when we hear Dorotheus cited in the books of Italian Histories? Viger.

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Πῶς δὲ οὐχ ὅσιοι ἀναλόγως. Eusebius habet ἀνόσιοι, sed omittit ἀναλόγως· sed alter ex mss.: Πῶς δὲ οὐκ ἀνόσιοι ἀλόγως. Forte, πῶς δὲ οὐκ ἂν ὅσιοι ἀναλόγως. Utraque interrogatio ironica est. Et bene ἀναλόγως, videtur enim quaedam ἀναλογία daemones inter et δεισιδαίμονας intercedere; cui ut quoquo modo servirem, δεισιδαίμονας hoc loco daemonum mancipia, quam superstitiosos, vertere malui. Viger. — Ἀνόσιοι ἀλόγως, Joan. — Dein, σωτῆρας, Euseb., Joan.

"And how are they not holy, proportionately?" Eusebius has "unholy," but omits "proportionately"; but one of the manuscripts has "And how are they not unholy, irrationally?" Perhaps: "and how would they not be holy, proportionately?" Both questions are ironic. And "proportionately" is good, for there seems to be a certain analogy between the daemons and the δεισιδαίμονες ("daemon-fearers"); to preserve it in some way I preferred to translate δεισιδαίμονας here as "slaves of the daemons" rather than "the superstitious." Viger. — "Unholy, irrationally," John. — Then, "saviours," Eusebius, John.

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Εὐφημούμενοι. Εὐφημούμενοι, Joan., sed aliquis εὐφημούμενοι in margine posuit. Mox, ἀναιτούμενοι, pro αἰτούμενοι, idem.

"Being praised." "Εὐφημούμενοι," John [the variant is printed identically to the lemma], but someone put "εὐφημούμενοι" in the margin. Next, ἀναιτούμενοι for αἰτούμενοι, the same.

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Ἡ ὀργῇ καὶ φιλαργυρίᾳ. Hervetus, quam irae, et avaritiae, et aliis similibus daemonibus, etc. Pessimi sane daemones ira et pecuniae sitis: sed aliam Clementis hoc loco mentem esse arbitror; alioqui scribendum fuit, καὶ ἄλλοις ὁμοί. Corruptus locus est, qui ut sanetur, primum ex Clemente apud Eusebium ὁμοίοις pro ὁμοίως reponendum videtur: nam similibus quidem, non tamen similiter, in loco sacro pietatis causa, et in triviis impellente vel iracundia vel avaritia, homines jugularentur. Deinde, post ἄνθρωπον, distinguendum. Postremo legi possit, ἀποσφάττοι ἂν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἱερὸν ἂν ἱερεῖον ἐπιφημίσαι. Quorum verborum sententiam reddidi: tunc enim ἐπιφημίσαι ἄν, erit proprie, appellare jure possit; vel sola metathesi τοῦ ἄν, sic, ἀποσφάττοι ἂν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἱερὸν ἱερεῖον ἐπιφημίσας· ut ἀπὸ κοινοῦ intelligatur, ἱερὸν γίνεται ὁ φόνος. Viger. — Pro φιλαργυρίᾳ, Joan. habet φλυαρίᾳ. Mox, ὁμοίως pro ὁμοίοις, idem. Dein, Lowthius legi vult, τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἱερεῖον ἐπιφημίσας, ἱερόν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ φόνος καὶ ἀνδροκτ. Forte vox ἱερεῖον ad marginem adnotata, in textum irrepsit. Nam eo sublato, nihil est, quod de sensu auctoris, aut ejus verborum constructione laboremus.

"Than to anger and avarice." Hervetus: "than to anger and avarice and other like daemons," etc. Anger and thirst for money are indeed the worst of daemons; but I think Clement's meaning here is different — otherwise he would have had to write "and to other like [daemons]." The passage is corrupt. To heal it, first, from Clement as quoted in Eusebius, ὁμοίοις ("to like ones") seems to need restoring for ὁμοίως ("likewise"): for men were slaughtered for like [daemons], but not in like manner — in a sacred place for piety's sake, and at the crossroads at the urging of wrath or avarice. Next, a stop should be put after "the man." Finally one might read: "he would slay the man, [and] might call him a holy victim." I have rendered the sense of these words; for then ἐπιφημίσαι ἄν will properly mean "could rightly call"; or, by merely moving ἄν: "he would slay the man, calling him a holy victim," so that "the murder becomes holy" is understood in common. Viger. — For φιλαργυρίᾳ ("avarice") John has φλυαρίᾳ ("nonsense"). Next, ὁμοίως for ὁμοίοις, the same. Then Lowth wants to read: "the man, calling him a victim — is it holy? No, but murder and manslaughter." Perhaps the word ἱερεῖον ("victim"), noted in the margin, crept into the text; for with it removed, there is nothing to trouble us about the author's sense or the construction of his words.

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Περιφεύγομεν. Rectius, opinor, quam quod Eusebius habet, πεφεύγαμεν, tametsi praeteritum illud aoristorum more, pro praesenti usurpari possit, vel per verbum, soleo, explicari. Viger. — Hunc porro locum sic scribit Eusebius, τὰ μὲν θηρία πεφεύγαμεν τὰ ἀνήμερα, κἂν που περιτύχ. Eamdem lectionem habet Joan. Τὰ μὲν θηρία περιφεύγομεν τὰ ἀνήμερα, κἂν που περιτύχ., Nov. Quam lectionem caeteris praetulerim.

"We flee from." More correctly, I think, than what Eusebius has, "we have fled," although that perfect may be used for the present in the manner of the aorists, or be explained with the verb "we are wont." Viger. — Further, Eusebius writes this passage thus: "the wild beasts we have fled, if anywhere we meet them." John has the same reading. "The wild beasts we flee from, if anywhere we meet them," Novus — a reading I would prefer to the others.

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Ἄρκτῳ. Ἢ ἄρκτῳ, Euseb.

"A bear." "Or a bear," Eusebius.

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Ὡς δ' ὅτε τις. Homerus, Iliad. Γ, v. 33. Notum et illud Aeneid. II: Improvisum aspris. Sed malui Graecam sententiam fidelius reddere. Viger.

"As when a man." Homer, Iliad 3 (Γ), line 33. Well known too is that line of Aeneid 2: "[as one who has trodden on a snake] unseen among the rough [briars]." But I preferred to render the Greek sentence more faithfully. Viger.

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Βήσσῃσιν. Βήσσῃς, Euseb., expuncta paragoge Ionica. Sylburg.

"In the glens." Βήσσῃς, Eusebius, with the Ionic lengthening struck out. Sylburg.

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Οὐκ ἐκτρέπεσθε. Melius, quam quod apud Eusebium est, οὐκ ἐντρέπεσθε· nam et praecessit (continues)

"You do not turn aside." Better than what is in Eusebius, "you do not respect"; for there also preceded… (continues)

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ἀποτροπαίοις, ὁ Μάριος, ὡς Δωρόθεος ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ Ἰταλικῶν ἱστορεῖ. Φιλάνθρωποί γε ἐκ τούτων καταφαίνονται οἱ δαίμονες· πῶς δὲ οὐχ ὅσιοι ἀναλόγως οἱ δεισιδαίμονες; οἱ μὲν σωτῆρες εὐφημούμενοι, οἱ δὲ σωτηρίαν αἰτούμενοι παρὰ τῶν ἐπιβούλων σωτηρίας· καλλιερεῖν γοῦν τοπάζοντες αὐτοῖς, σφᾶς αὐτοὺς λελήθασιν ἀποσφάττοντες ἀνθρώπους. Οὐ γὰρ οὖν παρὰ τὸν τόπον ἱερεῖον γίνεται ὁ φόνος· οὐδ' εἰ Ἀρτέμιδί τις καὶ Διὶ ἐν ἱερῷ δῆθεν χωρίῳ, μᾶλλον ἢ ὀργῇ καὶ φιλαργυρίᾳ, ἄλλοις ὁμοίοις δαίμοσιν, ἐπὶ βωμοῖς ἢ ἐν ὁδοῖς ἀποσφάττοι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἱερὸν ἱερεῖον ἐπιφημίσας· ἀλλὰ φόνος ἐστὶ καὶ ἀνδροκτασία ἡ τοιαύτη θυσία. Τί δὴ οὖν, ὦ σοφώτατοι τῶν ἄλλων ζώων ἄνθρωποι, τὰ μὲν θηρία περιφεύγομεν, τὰ δὲ ἀνήμερα, κἄν που περιτύχωμεν, ἄρκτῳ ἢ λέοντι, ἐκτρεπόμεθα,
Averting gods—namely Marius—as Dorotheus relates in the fourth book of his Italian History. Humane indeed from these examples do the demons appear! And how are not the superstitious proportionally pious? The former being acclaimed with fair names as saviours, and the latter begging for safety from those who plot against safety; at any rate, supposing that they offer auspicious sacrifices to them, they are unaware that they themselves are slaughtering men. For surely murder does not become a sacrificial victim on account of the place, not even if someone should slaughter a man to Artemis and Zeus in a supposedly sacred spot, rather than to anger and avarice, other similar demons, upon altars or on highways, pronouncing him a sacred victim; rather, such a sacrifice is murder and manslaughter. Why then, O men, wisest of the other living creatures, do we flee around wild beasts, and turn aside from savage creatures if anywhere we chance upon a bear or a lion—
Ὡς δ' ὅτε τίς τε δράκοντα ἰδὼν παλίνορσος ἀπέστη Οὔρεος ἐν βήσσῃσιν, ὑπό τε τρόμος ἔλλαβε γυῖα, Ἄψ τ' ἀνεχώρησεν·
And as when a man, having seen a serpent, starts back in the glens of a mountain, and trembling seizes his limbs beneath him, and he shrinks back again—
δαίμονας δὲ, ὀλεθρίους καὶ ἀλιτηρίους, ἐπιβούλους τε καὶ μισανθρώπους, καὶ λυμεῶνας ὄντας προαισθόμενοι καὶ συνιέντες, οὐκ ἐκτρέπεσθε, οὐδὲ ἀποστρέφεσθε; Τί δ' ἂν καὶ ἀληθεύσαιεν οἱ κακοὶ, ἢ τίνα ἂν ὠφελήσαιεν; Αὐτίκα γοῦν ἔχω σοι βελτίονα τῶν ὑμεδαπῶν τούτων θεῶν, τῶν δαιμόνων, ἐπιδεῖξαι τὸν
yet when you perceive beforehand and understand that demons are destructive and accursed, plotting against men and hating mankind, and destroyers, you do not turn aside from them nor turn away? And in what could the wicked even speak the truth, or whom could they benefit? Straightway, at any rate, I can show you a man better than these gods of yours, the demons:
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ἄνθρωπον· τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ μαντικοῦ, τὸν Κῦρον καὶ τὸν Σόλωνα. Φιλόδωρος ὑμῶν ὁ Φοῖβος, ἀλλ' οὐ φιλάνθρωπος. Προὔδωκε τὸν Κροῖσον τὸν φίλον, καὶ τοῦ μισθοῦ ἐκλαθόμενος· οὕτω φιλόδοξος ἦν· ἀνήγαγε τὸν Κροῖσον διὰ τοῦ Ἅλυος ἐπὶ τὴν πυράν. Οὕτω φιλοῦντες οἱ δαίμονες ὁδηγοῦσιν εἰς τὸ πῦρ. Ἀλλ' ὦ φιλανθρωπότερε καὶ ἀληθέστερε τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος ἄνθρωπε, τὸν ἐπὶ τῆς πυρᾶς οἴκτειρον δεδεμένον. Καὶ σὺ μὲν, ὦ Σόλων, μάντευσαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν· σὺ δὲ, ὦ Κῦρε, κέλευσον ἀποσβεσθῆναι τὴν πυράν. Σωφρόνησον ὕστατον γοῦν, ὦ Κροῖσε, τῷ πάθει μεταμαθών· ἀχάριστός ἐστιν, ὃν προσκυνεῖς· λαμβάνει τὸν μισθὸν, καὶ μετὰ τὸ χρυσίον ψεύδεται. Ὦ Σόλων, ὅρα πάλιν τέλος· ἄρα οὐχ ὁ δαίμων, ἀλλὰ ὁ ἄνθρωπός σοι λέγει. Οὐ λοξὰ μαντεύεται Σόλων, τοῦτον εὖ θήσεις. Ἀληθῆ μόνον, ὦ βάρβαρε, τὸν χρησμὸν τοῦτον ἐπὶ τῆς πυρᾶς δοκιμάσεις. Ὅθεν ἔπεισί μοι θαυμάζειν, τίσι ποτὲ φαντασίαις ἀπαχθέντες οἱ πρῶτοι πεπλανημένοι, δεισιδαιμονίαν ἀνθρώποις κατήγγειλαν, δαίμονας ἀλιτηρίους νομοθετοῦντες σέβειν· εἴτε Φορωνεὺς ἐκεῖνος ἦν, εἴτε Μέροψ, εἴτε ἄλλος τις, οἳ νεὼς καὶ βωμοὺς ἀνέστησαν αὐτοῖς, πρὸς δὲ καὶ θυσίας παραστῆσαι πρῶτοι μεμύθευνται. Καὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ κατὰ χρόνους ὕστερον ἀνέπλαττον θεοὺς, οἷς προσκυνοῖεν· ἀμέλει τὸν Ἔρωτα τοῦτον, ἐν τοῖς πρεσβυτάτοις τῶν θεῶν εἶναι λεγόμενον, ἐτίμα πρότερον οὐδ' εἷς, πρὶν ἢ Χαρμὸν μειράκιόν τι ἑλεῖν, καὶ βωμὸν ἱδρύσασθαι ἐν Ἀκαδημίᾳ, χαριέστερον ἐπιτελοῦς γένομενης ἐπιθυμίας· καὶ τῆς νόσου τὴν ἀσέλγειαν Ἔρωτα κεκλήκασι, θεοποιοῦντες ἀκόλαστον ἐπιθυμίαν. Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ οὐδὲ τὸν Πᾶνα ᾔδεσαν ὅστις ἦν, πρὶν ἢ Φιλιππίδην εἰπεῖν αὐτοῖς. Εικότως ἄρα ἀρχήν ποθεν ἡ δεισιδαιμονία λαβοῦσα, κακίας ἀνοήτου γέγονε πηγή· εἶτα δὲ μὴ ἀνακοπεῖσα, ἀλλ' εἰς ἐπίδοσιν ἐλθοῦσα,
Cyrus and Solon better than the prophetic Apollo. Fond of gifts is your Phoebus, but not fond of mankind. He betrayed his friend Croesus, and forgetting his reward—so fond of glory was he—he led Croesus across the Halys to the pyre. Loving thus, the demons guide men into the fire. But O man, more humane and more truthful than Apollo, pity him who is bound upon the pyre! And do you, O Solon, prophesy the truth; and do you, O Cyrus, command the pyre to be quenched! Come to your senses at the very last at least, O Croesus, having learned anew through suffering: ungrateful is he whom you worship; he takes the reward, and after the gold he lies. O Solon, look again to the end! Truly not the demon, but the man tells you this. Solon does not prophesy crooked riddles; this man you will set right. This oracle alone, O barbarian, you will prove true upon the pyre. Whence it comes over me to wonder by what fancies the first men who went astray were led away when they proclaimed superstition to mankind, legislating that men should revere accursed demons—whether that man was Phoroneus, or Merops, or someone else, who set up temples and altars to them, and besides are fabled to have been the first to present sacrifices. For indeed in later times too men fashioned gods whom they might worship; at all events this Eros, who is said to be among the oldest of the gods, not a single person honoured previously, before Charmus won a certain stripling and founded an altar in the Academy as a thank-offering for a desire brought to fulfilment; and the licentiousness of the disease they have called Eros, deifying unbridled desire. And the Athenians did not even know who Pan was before Philippides told them. Reasonably, then, superstition, having taken a beginning from somewhere, has become a fountain of senseless wickedness; and then, not having been checked, but having come to an increase,
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(continued) τὸ ἐκτρεπόμεθα, et sequitur, οὐδὲ ἀποστρέφεσθε. Quid, quod minus erga daemones convenit illa pudoris verecundiaeque significatio? VIGER.

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Οὕτω φιλόδοξος ἦν. Adeo gloriae cupidus erat, nam φιλοδοξία Clementi semper est gloriae cupiditas, pag. 217, 239, 240, 255, 262, 271, etc. Verum haec significatio hujus loci non est, nisi Clemens Apollinem ironice φιλόδοξον dixerit, quia famae suae tam male consuluit. Videtur tamen φιλόδοξος esse, qui se amicum simulat, cum non sit: quo sensu dicendum potius erat δοξόφιλος, vel δοχησίφιλος, quemadmodum a Clemente, aliisque dici solent δοξόσοφος, et δοκησίσοφοι, qui sapientiam prae se ferunt, quam non habent; sed cum φίλου, et φιλοδώρου, et φιλανθρώπου mentio praecesserat, simili forma φιλόδοξον dicere maluit. Porro historiam de Croeso memorant Herod. lib. I, et Plut. in Solone.

Οὕτω φιλόδοξος ἦν, "so eager for glory was he"; for φιλοδοξία in Clement always means desire for glory, pp. 217, 239, 240, 255, 262, 271, etc. But that is not the sense in this place, unless Clement called Apollo φιλόδοξος ironically, because he took such poor care of his own reputation. Yet φιλόδοξος seems to mean one who pretends to be a friend when he is not; in that sense he ought rather to have said δοξόφιλος or δοκησίφιλος, just as Clement and others call those who make a show of wisdom they do not have δοξόσοφος and δοκησίσοφοι; but since mention of φίλος, φιλόδωρος and φιλάνθρωπος had gone before, he preferred to say φιλόδοξος, a word of like form. The story of Croesus is told by Herodotus, book 1, and Plutarch in the Solon.

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Εἰς τὸ πῦρ. Alludit ad πῦρ τῆς γεέννης.

Εἰς τὸ πῦρ, "into the fire": he alludes to the fire of Gehenna.

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Ὦ Σόλων, ὅρα πάλιν τέλος. Notum est, Solonem Croeso consuluisse, ut finem respiceret. Sed illa verba, ὦ Σόλων, redundare videntur: nec ea agnoscit Nov. Itaque verisimile est in textum irrepsisse, postquam aliquis juxta ἄνθρωπος, in seq. linea, Solonis nomen adnotasset.

Ὦ Σόλων, ὅρα πάλιν τέλος, "O Solon, look again to the end." It is well known that Solon advised Croesus to look to the end. But the words ὦ Σόλων seem redundant, and the Nov[atian codex?] does not have them. So it is likely that they crept into the text after someone had noted Solon's name beside ἄνθρωπος in the next line.

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Τοῦτο εὖ θήσεις. Ἀληθῆ μόνον. Guil. Cant., in Emend. Syntagm., pag. 52, conjuncte legit, τοῦτον εὑρήσεις ἀληθῆ μόνον. SYLBURG.

Τοῦτο εὖ θήσεις. Ἀληθῆ μόνον. William Canter, in his Syntagma of emendations, p. 52, reads them joined: τοῦτον εὑρήσεις ἀληθῆ μόνον ("you will find this one alone true"). SYLBURG.

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Φορωνεύς. Tatianus: Μετὰ δὲ Ἴναχον ὑπὸ Φορωνέως μόλις τοῦ θηριώδους βίου καὶ νομάδος περιγραφὴ γέγονε, καὶ μετεκοσμήθησαν οἱ ἄνθρωποι. Post Inachum vix tandem sub Phoroneo, ferina et pastoralis vita mitior et elegantior facta est. Eum Argivis leges tulisse refert Clemens hujus libri p. 67, et Eusebius, in Chronico. Conf. Arnobius, lib. VI, quo loco Clementem compilavit, ut ei mos erat.

Φορωνεύς. Tatian: "After Inachus, under Phoroneus, the bestial and nomadic life was at last with difficulty brought within bounds, and men were reformed." After Inachus, at long last under Phoroneus, the savage and pastoral life became gentler and more refined. That he gave laws to the Argives is reported by Clement on p. 67 of this book, and by Eusebius in the Chronicle. Compare Arnobius, book 6, where he pillaged Clement, as was his habit.

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Μέροψ. Josephus Scaliger ait, manifesto legendum esse Κέκροψ, in not. ad procemium Chron. can. Eusebii, qui eo loco de Cecrope dicit: Hic primus omnium Jovem appellavit, simulacra reperit, aram statuit, victimas immolavit, nequaquam istiusmodi rebus in Graecia unquam visis. Interea receptam lectionem mutare non ausim, cum eam Arnobius tueatur lib. VI. Merops quidam erat Arisbae Priami uxoris, pater, vir superstitioni addictus; de quo Apollodor., Biblioth., lib. III, cap. 5. Meropem Coi insulae regem, a quo homines dicti Meropes, memorat Hyginus, Poet. astron., cap. 16.

Μέροψ. Joseph Scaliger, in his notes on the preface to Eusebius's Chronological Canon, says Κέκροψ is plainly to be read; for there Eusebius says of Cecrops: "He first of all named Jupiter, invented images, set up an altar, sacrificed victims, such things never having been seen in Greece." Meanwhile I would not dare to change the received reading, since Arnobius supports it in book 6. There was a Merops, father of Arisba, wife of Priam, a man given to superstition; on him see Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, book 3, ch. 5. Hyginus, Poetic Astronomy, ch. 16, mentions a Merops king of the island of Cos, from whom men were called Meropes.

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Πρῶτοι. Μόνοι, Nov.

Πρῶτοι, "first": Nov. reads Μόνοι, "alone."

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Χαρμόν. Χάρμον, Nov. Χαρῖνον dictat Scaliger loco superius dicto.

Χαρμόν: Nov. reads Χάρμον. Scaliger, in the place cited above, prescribes Χαρῖνον.

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Φιλιππίδην. Sic eum vocat Pausanias, in Atticis et Arcadicis. Herodotus, aliique Φειδιππίδην appellant. Conf. ejus lib. VI, cap. 105.

Φιλιππίδην: so Pausanias calls him, in the Attica and Arcadica. Herodotus and others call him Φειδιππίδης. Compare his book 6, ch. 105.

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Εἰκότως. Quae sequuntur usque ad Homeri versum, recitat Eusebius, Praep. evang., lib. II, c. 6. Maximam eorum partem laudavit Cyrill. adv. Julian., lib. X, pag. 342. Eadem Arnobius pro more suo in libro VI Adv. gentes transcripsit. Idem porro argumentum tractat Athenagoras, Legat., p. 115 seq.

Εἰκότως: what follows, up to the verse of Homer, is quoted by Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book 2, ch. 6. Cyril quoted the greatest part of it, Against Julian, book 10, p. 342. Arnobius, after his custom, copied the same into book 6 of Against the Nations. Athenagoras treats the same argument, Plea, p. 115 ff.

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Εἶτα δὲ μή. Ἔπειτα μή, Euseb., Joan.

Εἶτα δὲ μή: Eusebius and Joan. read Ἔπειτα μή.

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Καὶ πολλὴ δὴ ῥυεῖσα. Haec omittit Nov. propter vocum ἐλθοῦσα et ῥυεῖσα, ut videtur, τὸ ὁμοιοτέλευτον. Πολὺ δὴ ῥυεῖσα, Joan. Πολὺ δὲ ῥυεῖσα, Euseb. Legendum videtur, καὶ πολὺ δὴ ῥυεῖσα. Mox, ποιοῦσα pro θύουσα, Euseb., Joan. Dein, ἀνιστῶσα pro ἀνιστᾶσα, iidem.

Καὶ πολλὴ δὴ ῥυεῖσα: Nov. omits these words, apparently because ἐλθοῦσα and ῥυεῖσα end alike. Joan. has Πολὺ δὴ ῥυεῖσα; Eusebius Πολὺ δὲ ῥυεῖσα. It seems we should read καὶ πολὺ δὴ ῥυεῖσα. Next, Eusebius and Joan. have ποιοῦσα for θύουσα; then the same have ἀνιστῶσα for ἀνιστᾶσα.

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Οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τούτους. Οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῦτο, Euseb., Joan. Οὐ γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο, Cyrill. Et quidem verisimile est Clementem τοῦτο potius quam τούτους scripsisse. Mox, αὐτὸ ἐλέγξω, pro τούτους ἐξελέγξω, Euseb., Joan. Ἐλέγξωεν, habet Cyrill.

Οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τούτους: Eusebius and Joan. have Οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῦτο; Cyril Οὐ γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο. And indeed it is likely that Clement wrote τοῦτο rather than τούτους. Next, Eusebius and Joan. have αὐτὸ ἐλέγξω for τούτους ἐξελέγξω; Cyril has Ἐλέγξωεν [sic].

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Ἡμεῖς. Leg. ὑμεῖς, quod habent Euseb., Joan.

Ἡμεῖς: read ὑμεῖς, which Eusebius and Joan. have.

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Νεῷ. Ναῷ, Euseb., Joan., Cyrill., eamdemque lectionem mox tuentur, ubi Clemens νεῷ repetit.

Νεῷ: Eusebius, Joan. and Cyril have Ναῷ, and they keep the same reading shortly after, where Clement repeats νεῷ.

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Ἐν τῇ ἀκρ. Ἐν omittit Cyrill., quod ei ex Clemente restitui debet. Arnob.: In templo rursus ejusdem (Minervae) quod in arce Larissae est, conditus scribitur atque indicatur Acrisius.

Ἐν τῇ ἀκρ[οπόλει]: Cyril omits Ἐν, which should be restored to him from Clement. Arnobius: "Again, in the temple of the same (Minerva), which is in the citadel of Larissa, Acrisius is recorded and shown to be buried."

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Ἐν ἀκροπ. Ἐν τῇ ἀκροπ., Euseb., Joan.

Ἐν ἀκροπ[όλει]: Eusebius and Joan. have Ἐν τῇ ἀκροπ[όλει].

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Τῶν Ἱστοριῶν. Τῆς Ἱστορίας, Joan. Mox, τί δέ pro τί δαί, Nov., Euseb., Joan.

Τῶν Ἱστοριῶν: Joan. has Τῆς Ἱστορίας. Next, Nov., Eusebius and Joan. have τί δέ for τί δαί.

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Ἴμμαρος δὲ ὁ Εὐμ. Ἴσμαρος δὲ Εὐμ., Euseb. Ἴσμαρος etiam habet Joan. Ἰμμάραδος Cyrill., quam lectionem secutus est Arnob. Dairas, inquit, et Immaradus fratres. Pausanias eumdem Immaradum vocat. Mox Cyrill. Δαρίας pro Δαείρας habet.

Ἴμμαρος δὲ ὁ Εὐμ[όλπου]: Eusebius has Ἴσμαρος δὲ Εὐμ.; Joan. also has Ἴσμαρος. Cyril has Ἰμμάραδος, the reading Arnobius followed: "Dairas," he says, "and Immaradus, brothers." Pausanias calls the same man Immaradus. Next, Cyril has Δαρίας for Δαείρας.

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Οὐχὶ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τετάφαται. Ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τετάφαται, Euseb., Joan., Cyrill. Porro unde factum, ut τετάφαται, quod tum omnes Clementis codices, tum alii, qui hunc locum recitant, tuentur, mutatum sit a Paris. editore in ἐθάψαντο, haud proclive dictu.

Οὐχὶ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τετάφαται: Eusebius, Joan. and Cyril have Ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τετάφαται. How it came about that τετάφαται, which all the manuscripts of Clement and the others who quote this place support, was changed by the Paris editor into ἐθάψαντο, is not easy to say.

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Τί σοι καταλέγω τὰς Ὑπερβορέων. Τί σοι λέγω τὰς Ὑπ., Nov. Τί σοι καταλέγω τὰς ἐξ Ὑπερβορέου, Euseb., Joan. Τί σοι καταγγέλλω τὰς ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων, Cyrill.

Τί σοι καταλέγω τὰς Ὑπερβορέων: Nov. has Τί σοι λέγω τὰς Ὑπ.; Eusebius and Joan. Τί σοι καταλέγω τὰς ἐξ Ὑπερβορέου; Cyril Τί σοι καταγγέλλω τὰς ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων.

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Τὰς Ὑπερβορέων, etc. Hervetus verbum κέκλησθον quasi superfluum delevit. Ita ergo vertendum: Quid tibi enumerem illas Hyperboreorum uxores (Hyperoche et Laodice nominabantur) quae in Dianae delubro, quod in Apollinis templo situm est, sepultae sunt? Has enim esse feminas ex Hyperboreorum finibus advectas, ait Arnobius paulo ante. Immarus, filius Eumolpi et Dairae, Graece est Ἴμμαρος δὲ, ὁ Εὐμόλπου, καὶ Δαείρας· Immarus, filius Eumolpi, et Dairas, nam Dairas frater ejus, non mater. ARNOB. Similisque error in Trapezuntio, qui vertit, Eumolpi et Dianae filius, apud Eusebium. In Arnobio item legendum videtur Cleomachum, non Cleochum, neque hic fortasse Clearchum; nam apud Eusebium Κλεόμαχον habetur. COLLECT.

Τὰς Ὑπερβορέων, etc.: Hervetus struck out the word κέκλησθον as superfluous. It should therefore be rendered: "Why should I list for you those wives of the Hyperboreans (they were named Hyperoche and Laodice), who are buried in the shrine of Diana, which stands within the temple of Apollo?" For Arnobius says a little earlier that these were women brought from the lands of the Hyperboreans. "Immarus, son of Eumolpus and Daira": the Greek is Ἴμμαρος δὲ, ὁ Εὐμόλπου, καὶ Δαείρας, "Immarus, son of Eumolpus, and Dairas"; for Dairas was his brother, not his mother. ARNOBIUS. A like error is in Trapezuntius [George of Trebizond], who renders, in Eusebius, "son of Eumolpus and Diana." In Arnobius likewise it seems we should read Cleomachus, not Cleochus, and here perhaps not Clearchus either; for in Eusebius Κλεόμαχον is found. COLLECT[ANEA].

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[printed (9.)] Ἀρτεμισίῳ ἐν. Ἀρτεμισίῳ δὲ ἐν, Cyrill.

Ἀρτεμισίῳ ἐν: Cyril has Ἀρτεμισίῳ δὲ ἐν.

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Λεάνδριος. Λεάνδρειος, Cyrill. Leandrus, Arnob. Κλέανδρος, Joan. Diogenes Laertius in Thalete, Λέανδρον vocat. Solet autem hic scriptor Λέανδρος et Λεάνδριος promiscue dici. Clemens noster Strom. I, p. 300, Λέανδρον vocat; Strom. VI, p. 629, iterum Λεάνδριον. Erat porro Milesius, et de Mileto ac Milesiis commentarium reliquit. Mox, Μιλήσῳ pro Μιλήτῳ, Joan. Mendose. Dein, τετάφθαι pro τεθάφθαι, Joan., Cyrill. Recte.

Λεάνδριος: Cyril has Λεάνδρειος; Arnobius Leandrus; Joan. Κλέανδρος. Diogenes Laertius, in the Thales, calls him Λέανδρος. This writer is called Λέανδρος and Λεάνδριος indifferently. Our Clement calls him Λέανδρος in Stromata 1, p. 300, and Λεάνδριος again in Stromata 6, p. 629. He was a Milesian, and left a treatise on Miletus and the Milesians. Next, Joan. has Μιλήσῳ for Μιλήτῳ, wrongly. Then Joan. and Cyril have τετάφθαι for τεθάφθαι, rightly.

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Λευκοφρύνης. Λευκοφροσύνης, Nov. Dein, μνῆμα pro μνημεῖον, Cyrill., Euseb., Joan.

Λευκοφρύνης: Nov. has Λευκοφροσύνης. Then Cyril, Eusebius and Joan. have μνῆμα for μνημεῖον.

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Ἐπομένους Z. Ἑπομένη Ζήνωνι τῷ Μυνδίῳ (μὲν δίῳ Joan.) ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, Euseb. Mox, particulam ἢ omittit Joan.

Ἐπομένους Z[ήνωνι]: Eusebius has Ἑπομένη Ζήνωνι τῷ Μυνδίῳ (Joan. μὲν δίῳ) ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ. Next, Joan. omits the particle ἢ.

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Ζήνωνι τῷ Μυνδίῳ. Fuit is grammaticus ex Myndo, urbe Cariae pervetusta. Stephani Mutilat. in voce Μύνδος, ait, Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Ζήνων, Μύνδιοι γραμματικοί. VIGER.

Ζήνωνι τῷ Μυνδίῳ: he was a grammarian from Myndus, a very ancient city of Caria. The abridged Stephanus, under the word Μύνδος, says: "Apollonius and Zeno, grammarians of Myndus." VIGER.

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Οὐδὲ μὴν τὸν ἐν. Dubitationem Herveti tollit Th. Canterus, lib. II, cap. 1, dum ita legit apud Arnob., lib. VI: Sub Apollinis arula, quae Telmessi apud oppidum visitur, Telmessum esse conditum vatem, non scriptis constantibus indicatur? Agesarchi Ptolemaeus de Philopatore quem edidit primo, Cinyram regem Paphi, etc. Nullus igitur Ptolemaeus Philopator, sed Ptolemaeus filius Agesarchi scripsit historiam de Philopatore, quam saepe citat Athenaeus, ut lib. V: Πτολεμαῖος δὲ, ὁ τοῦ Ἀγησάρχου, Μεγαλοπολίτης γένος, ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν περὶ τὸν Φιλοπάτορα ἱστοριῶν. COLLECT.

Οὐδὲ μὴν τὸν ἐν: Theodore Canter, book 2, ch. 1, removes Hervetus's doubt by reading thus in Arnobius, book 6: "Is it not shown by consistent writings that the seer Telmessus is buried beneath the little altar of Apollo seen at the town of Telmessus? Ptolemy son of Agesarchus, in the first book he published On Philopator, [says that] Cinyras king of Paphos," etc. So no Ptolemy Philopator, but Ptolemy son of Agesarchus wrote the history of Philopator, which Athenaeus often cites, as in book 5: "Ptolemy son of Agesarchus, a Megalopolitan by birth, in the second book of his histories of Philopator." COLLECT[ANEA].

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Ἐν Τελμισσῷ. Ἐν Τελμησσῷ, Cyrill. Ἐν τῷ Τελμισσῷ, Euseb., Joan. Mox, τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος βωμόν, inverso verborum ordine, Euseb., Joan.

Ἐν Τελμισσῷ: Cyril has Ἐν Τελμησσῷ; Eusebius and Joan. Ἐν τῷ Τελμισσῷ. Next, Eusebius and Joan. have τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος βωμόν, with the order of the words reversed.

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καὶ πολλὴ δὴ ῥυεῖσα, δημιουργὸς πολλῶν καθίσταται δαιμόνων, ἑκατόμβας θύουσα, καὶ πανηγύρεις ἐπιτελοῦσα, καὶ ἀγάλματα ἀνιστᾶσα, καὶ νεὼς ἀνοικοδομοῦσα· οὓς δὴ (οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τούτους σιωπήσομαι, πρὸς δὲ καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐξελέγξω·) νεὼς μὲν εὐφήμως ὀνομαζομένους, τάφους δὲ γενομένους, τουτέστι τοὺς τάφους νεὼς ἐπικεκλημένους. Ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀλλὰ κἂν νῦν δεισιδαιμονίας ἐκλάθεσθε τοὺς τάφους τιμᾷν αἰσχυνόμενοι. Ἐν τῷ νεῷ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἐν Λαρίσσῃ ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει τάφος ἐστὶν Ἀκρισίου· Ἀθήνησι δὲ ἐν ἀκροπόλει Κέκρωπος, ὥς φησιν Ἀντίοχος ἐν τῷ ἐννάτῳ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν. Τί δαὶ Ἐριχθόνιος; οὐχὶ ἐν τῷ νεῷ τῆς Πολιάδος κεκήδευται; Ἴμμαρος δὲ ὁ Εὐμόλπου καὶ Δαείρας οὐχὶ ἐν τῷ περιβόλῳ τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου, τοῦ ὑπὸ τῇ ἀκροπόλει; αἱ δὲ Κελεοῦ θυγατέρες οὐχὶ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τετάφαται; Τί σοι καταλέγω τὰς Ὑπερβορέων γυναῖκας; Ὑπερόχη καὶ Λαοδίκη κέκλησθον· ἐν τῷ Ἀρτεμισίῳ ἐν Δήλῳ κεκήδευσθον· τὸ δὲ ἐν τῷ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ Δηλίου ἐστὶν ἱερῷ. Λεάνδριος δὲ Κλέαρχον ἐν Μιλήτῳ τεθάφθαι ἐν τῷ Διδυμαίῳ φησίν. Ἐνταῦθα τῆς Λευκοφρύνης τὸ μνημεῖον οὐκ ἄξιον παρελθεῖν, ἑπομένους Ζήνωνι τῷ Μυνδίῳ· ἣ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἐν Μαγνησίᾳ κεκήδευται· οὐδὲ μὴν τὸν ἐν Τελμισσῷ βωμὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, ὃν μνῆμα
and having flowed in a great stream, it becomes the maker of many demons, sacrificing hecatombs, and celebrating festivals, and setting up statues, and building temples—which indeed (for I will not pass these over in silence either, but will convict them as well), though euphemistically named temples, have in fact been tombs, that is to say, tombs called temples. Do you, however, even now at last forget superstition, feeling ashamed to honour tombs. In the temple of Athena in Larissa on the acropolis is the tomb of Acrisius; and at Athens on the acropolis is that of Cecrops, as Antiochus says in the ninth book of his Histories. And what of Erichthonius? Is he not buried in the temple of Athena Polias? And is not Immarus the son of Eumolpus and Daeira buried in the enclosure of the Eleusinium which is beneath the acropolis? And are not the daughters of Celeus buried in Eleusis? Why should I recount to you the women of the Hyperboreans? They are called Hyperoche and Laodice; they are buried in the Artemisium in Delos, and that is in the sanctuary of Delian Apollo. And Leandrius says that Clearchus was buried in Miletus in the Didymaeum. Here it is not right to pass by the monument of Leucophryne, following Zeno of Myndus—she who lies buried in the sanctuary of Artemis in Magnesia—nor yet the altar of Apollo in Telmissus, which story relates to be a monument
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εἶναι καὶ τοῦτον Τελμισσέως τοῦ μάντεως ἱστοροῦσι. Πτολεμαῖος δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ἀγησάρχου ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν περὶ τὸν Φιλοπάτορα ἐν Πάφῳ λέγει ἐν τῷ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἱερῷ Κινύραν τε καὶ τοὺς Κινύρου ἀπογόνους κεκηδεῦσθαι. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐπιόντι μοι τοὺς προσκυνουμένους ὑμῖν τάφους, ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδ' ὁ πᾶς ἂν ἀρκέσῃ χρόνος· ὑμᾶς δὲ εἰ μὴ ὑπεισέρχεταί τις αἰσχύνη τῶν τολμωμένων, νεκροὶ ἄρα τέλεον ὄντες, νεκροῖς ὄντως πεπιστευκότες, περιέρχεσθε.
of Telmisseus the prophet as well. And Ptolemy the son of Agesarchus, in the first book of his History of Philopator, says that in Paphos in the sanctuary of Aphrodite both Cinyras and the descendants of Cinyras lie buried. But indeed, were I to go over the tombs worshipped by you, not even all time would suffice for me; whereas if no shame for your audacities steals over you, then you go about utterly dead, having truly put your trust in dead men.
Ἆ δειλοὶ, τί κακὸν τόδε πάσχετε; νυκτὶ μὲν ὑμῶν Ειλύαται κεφαλαί...
Ah, wretched ones, what evil is this that you suffer? In night your heads are wrapped...
Ει δ' ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις φέρων ὑμῖν τὰ ἀγάλματα αὐτὰ ἐπισκοπεῖν παραθείην, ἐπιόντες ὡς ἀληθῶς λῆρον εὑρήσετε τὴν συνήθειαν, ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀναίσθητα προτρεπόμενοι. Πάλαι μὲν οὖν οἱ Σκύθαι τὸν ἀκινάκην· οἱ Ἄραβες τὸν λίθον, οἱ Πέρσαι τὸν ποταμὸν προσεκύνουν· καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων, οἱ ἔτι παλαιότεροι, ξύλα ἱδρύοντο περιφανῆ, καὶ κίονας ἵστων ἐκ λίθων· ἃ δὴ καὶ ξόανα προσηγορεύετο, διὰ τὸ ἀπάξεσθαι τῆς ὕλης. Ἀμέλει ἐν Ἰκάρῳ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος τὸ ἄγαλμα ξύλον ἦν οὐκ εἰργασμένον· καὶ τῆς Κιθαιρωνίας Ἥρας ἐν Θεσπίᾳ πρέμνον ἐκκεκομμένον· καὶ τὸ τῆς Σαμίας Ἥρας, ὥς φησιν Ἀέθλιος, πρότερον
And if in addition to these things I should bring and set before you the statues themselves to inspect, as you go over them you will find your custom to be truly nonsense, when you supplicate senseless works of men's hands. Of old, then, the Scythians worshipped the akinakes-sword, the Arabs the stone, the Persians the river; and of the rest of men, those still more ancient set up conspicuous pieces of wood and erected pillars of stone, which indeed were called xoana because the material was scraped smooth. At all events, in Icarus the statue of Artemis was an unwrought piece of wood; and that of Cithaeronian Hera in Thespia was a felled tree-trunk; and that of Samian Hera, as Aethlius says, formerly
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CAPUT IV.

CHAPTER IV.

Simulacra quam absurda et turpia sint, quibus deos suos colunt.

How absurd and shameful are the images with which they worship their gods.

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Ὃν μνῆμα εἶναι. Ὃν omittunt Nov., Euseb., Joan., Cyrill., quorum auctoritate, sensu quoque exigente, delendum est. Porro μνημεῖα pro μνῆμα habet Nov. Dein, καὶ τοῦ Τελμισσέως, Joan. Τελμησσοῦ, Cyrill. Telmessum vatem dicit Arnobius.

Ὃν μνῆμα εἶναι: Nov., Eusebius, Joan. and Cyril omit Ὃν, and on their authority, the sense also requiring it, it should be struck out. Nov. has μνημεῖα for μνῆμα. Then Joan. has καὶ τοῦ Τελμισσέως, Cyril Τελμησσοῦ. Arnobius speaks of the seer Telmessus.

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Ὁ τοῦ. Ὁ deest in Cyrill.

Ὁ τοῦ: Ὁ is missing in Cyril.

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Ἀρκέσῃ. Ἀρκέσαι Euseb., Joan. Mox, τολμημάτων pro τολμωμένων Euseb., Joan. Dein, νεκροὶ ἄρα τελέως νεκροῖς πεπιστευκότες, Euseb., Joan.

Ἀρκέσῃ: Eusebius and Joan. have Ἀρκέσαι. Next, Eusebius and Joan. have τολμημάτων for τολμωμένων. Then Eusebius and Joan. have νεκροὶ ἄρα τελέως νεκροῖς πεπιστευκότες.

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Ἆ δειλοί. Hanc exclamatiunculam H. cum sequentibus, quam cum antecedentibus, conjungere mavult. V. SYLB. Eusebius cum praecedentibus connectit. Est porro ex Homeri Odyss. Υ, vers. 351. Ὦ δειλοί, Euseb., Joan.

Ἆ δειλοί: H[ervetus] prefers to join this little exclamation to what follows rather than to what precedes. See SYLB[URG]. Eusebius connects it with what precedes. It is from Homer's Odyssey, book 20 (Υ), line 351. Eusebius and Joan. have Ὦ δειλοί.

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Τὸν ἀκινάκην. Brodaeus, Miscell., lib. V, cap. 5. Tametsi ἀκινάκης vocabulum sit Persicum, ensem significans, ut tradit in Polyhymnia Herodotus, Καὶ τὸ Περσικὸν ξίφος ἀκινάκην καλέουσι, Graeci tamen etiam pro gladio Scythico usurpare solent, quem sicut deum quemdam gens illa observaret et coleret: Clemens, Σκυθῶν οἱ Σαυρομάται ἀκινάκην σέβουσιν. Ammianus Marcell. lib. XXXI: Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum, ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum; sed gladius barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eumque ut Martem, regionum, quas circumeunt, praesulem, verecundius colunt. Lucian., in Jove Tragoedo: Σκύθαι μὲν ἀκινάκῃ θύοντες, καὶ Θρᾷκες Ζαμόλξιδι. COLLECT. — Paulo ante, leg. προστρεπόμενοι pro προτρεπόμενοι.

Τὸν ἀκινάκην: Brodaeus, Miscellanies, book 5, ch. 5. Although ἀκινάκης is a Persian word meaning a sword, as Herodotus records in the Polyhymnia ("and they call the Persian sword an akinakes"), the Greeks also use it for the Scythian sword, which that nation revered and worshipped as a kind of god: Clement, "Of the Scythians, the Sauromatae worship the akinakes." Ammianus Marcellinus, book 31: "No temple is seen among them, nor shrine, not even a hut thatched with straw; but a naked sword is fixed in the ground in barbarian fashion, and they worship it with reverence as Mars, the guardian of the regions they roam." Lucian, in Zeus the Tragedian: "the Scythians sacrificing to a sword, and the Thracians to Zamolxis." COLLECT[ANEA]. — A little before, read προστρεπόμενοι for προτρεπόμενοι.

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Οἱ Πέρσαι. Herodotus, lib. I, cap. 138, de Persis dicit: Ἐς ποταμὸν δὲ οὔτε ἐνουρέουσι, οὔτε ἐμπτύουσι, οὔτε χεῖρας ἐναπονίζονται, οὐδὲ ἄλλο τι οὐδὲν ποιοῦσι, ἀλλὰ σέβονται ποταμοὺς τῶν πάντων μάλιστα. In flumen nec immeiunt, nec inspuunt, nec manus abluunt, nec denique simile quidpiam faciunt, sed flumina inter omnia religiosissime colunt.

Οἱ Πέρσαι: Herodotus, book 1, ch. 138, says of the Persians: "Into a river they neither urinate nor spit, nor wash their hands in it, nor do anything else of the kind, but they revere rivers most of all things." They do not urinate in a river nor spit in it nor wash their hands in it, nor in short do anything of the sort, but worship rivers most devoutly of all things.

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Ξύλα. Latius hoc refert ac probat Clemens, Strom. I, p. 348, 349. Tertullian. Ad Nation. lib. I, cap. 12: Pallas Attica, et Ceres Pharia, quae sine forma, rudi palo et solo staticulo ligni informis repraesentatur. Eadem dicit Apolog., cap. 16.

Ξύλα, "wooden posts": Clement relates and proves this more fully in Stromata 1, pp. 348, 349. Tertullian, To the Nations, book 1, ch. 12: "Attic Pallas and Pharian Ceres, who without form are represented by a rough stake and a mere upright of shapeless wood." He says the same in the Apology, ch. 16.

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Ἀπάξεσθαι τῆς ὕλης. Pro corrupto ἀπάξεσθαι legendum puto ἀπεξέσθαι, vel praesenti tempore ἀποξεῖσθαι: ut ξόανα sic dicta sint παρὰ τὸ ξέεσθαι, sicut delubra proprie quidam dicta volunt, quae ex delibratis stipitibus facta essent simulacra. SYLBURG. — Ἀποξέσθαι Nov., quae vox proinde retinenda est. Hesychius, Ξόανα ἀγάλματα.... κυρίως τὰ ἐκ ξύλων ἐξεσμένα, ἢ λίθων.

Ἀπάξεσθαι τῆς ὕλης: for the corrupt ἀπάξεσθαι I think we should read ἀπεξέσθαι, or in the present tense ἀποξεῖσθαι, so that ξόανα are so called from ξέεσθαι, "to be scraped," just as some hold that delubra were properly so named as images made from stripped (delibrati) stakes. SYLBURG. — Nov. has Ἀποξέσθαι, a word that should therefore be kept. Hesychius: "Ξόανα: images… properly those scraped out of wood, or of stone."

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Ἰκάρῳ. Ἰκαρίῳ, Nov. Mox, πέτρον pro πρέμνον, idem. Mendose.

Ἰκάρῳ: Nov. has Ἰκαρίῳ. Next, the same has πέτρον for πρέμνον, wrongly.

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Τῆς Σαμίας Ἥρας. Theod. Canterus, lib. II, c. 25, ex hoc loco illum Arnobii corrigit, Puteum Samios pro Junone, legitque pluteum. Eusebius, De Praep. evang., lib. III, cap. 3: Οὔπω σκέλμιον ἔργον εἰς ξόανον, Ἥρας δὲ καὶ ξύλινον εἶχον εἶδος. Tertullianus, adv. Gentes: Sed et qui crucis religiosos nos putat, consectaneus erit noster, cum lignum aliquod propitiatur. Et tamen, quanto distinguitur a crucis stipite Pallas Attica, et Ceres Pharia, quae sine effigie, rudi palo et informi ligno, prostat? Lucanus, lib. III: .... Simulacraque maesta deorum / Arte carent, caesisque exstant informia truncis. Athenaeus, lib. XIV: Parmeniscus Metapontius risit Latonae imaginem ligneam in Delo insula, cum eum (continues)

Τῆς Σαμίας Ἥρας: Theodore Canter, book 2, ch. 25, corrects from this place the passage of Arnobius, "the Samians [worshipped] a well (puteum) for Juno," and reads "a plank (pluteum)." Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book 3, ch. 3: "not yet a carved work made into an image, but they had Hera's form also of wood." Tertullian, Against the Gentiles: "But he who thinks us devotees of the cross will be our fellow, when he propitiates some piece of wood. And yet how much does Attic Pallas differ from the stock of a cross, or Pharian Ceres, who stands exposed without likeness, a rough stake and a shapeless log?" Lucan, book 3: "…and the gloomy images of the gods lack art, and stand shapeless, from hewn trunks." Athenaeus, book 14: "Parmeniscus of Metapontum laughed at the wooden image of Leto on the island of Delos, when he (continues)

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(continued) statuam putaret esse. Et apud Arnobium legendum non Ethedius, sed Aethlius. Citatur ab Athenaeo lib. XIV. Ἀέθλιος. COLLECT.

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Ἤρξατο. Ἤρξαντο, Nov. Mox, ἐκαρπώσαντο pro ἐκαρπώσατο, idem.

Ἤρξατο: Nov. has Ἤρξαντο. Next, the same has ἐκαρπώσαντο for ἐκαρπώσατο.

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Βρέτη. Hesychius, βρέτας, ξόανον, εἴδωλον, ὁμοίωμά τι, παρὰ τὸ βροτῷ ἐοικέναι, ὅπερ φασὶν οἱ νεώτεροι τὸ θείκελον. Quod etymon Grammatici fere omnes tradunt.

Βρέτη: Hesychius: "βρέτας: a wooden image, an idol, a likeness, from its resembling a mortal (βροτός); which later writers call θείκελον." Almost all the grammarians give this etymology.

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Ἐν Ῥώμῃ. Scaliger in Varronem: Videtur non longe ab his quae ex Varrone affert Clemens, quod apud Nonium citatur ex lib. De vita populi Rom.: Quid inter hos Joves intersit, et eos qui ex marmore, ebore, auro nunc fiunt, potes animo advertere, et horum temporum divitias, et illorum paupertates. Ovid.: Juppiter angusta vix totus stabat in aede. Paulo post, imagines in Neapecha. P. Leopardus corrigit ex Graeco ἀγάλματα ἐννεαπήχη, statuae novem cubitorum, lib. II, c. 11, Emendat. COLLECT.

Ἐν Ῥώμῃ: Scaliger on Varro: "Not far from what Clement cites from Varro seems to be what Nonius quotes from the book On the Life of the Roman People: 'What difference there is between these Jupiters and those now made of marble, ivory and gold, you can observe, and the riches of these times and the poverty of those.'" Ovid: "Jupiter scarcely stood whole in his narrow shrine." A little after, "images in Neapecha": P. Leopardus, Emendations, book 2, ch. 11, corrects it from the Greek ἀγάλματα ἐννεαπήχη, "statues nine cubits high." COLLECT[ANEA].

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Τὸν μὲν οὖν. Hoc argumentum tractat Athenagoras Legat. pag. 61.

Τὸν μὲν οὖν: Athenagoras treats this argument, Plea, p. 61.

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Κάλως. Calo statuarii, qui mediam Eumenidum sculpsisse dicitur, meminit praeter Pausaniam etiam Plinius, et Quintilianus, lib. XII, cap. 10. A. V. SYLBURG.

Κάλως: Calo the sculptor, said to have carved the middle one of the Eumenides, is mentioned not only by Pausanias but also by Pliny and Quintilian, book 12, ch. 10. A. V. SYLBURG.

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Ἃ Φειδίας πάλιν ἐκεῖνα τὰ ἀγάλματα. Lowthius ἃ delendum judicat, ut etiam ἐκεῖνα τὰ ἀγάλματα. Mihi potius videtur, quod et Herveto olim visum est, ἃ mutandum esse in εἰ.

Ἃ Φειδίας πάλιν ἐκεῖνα τὰ ἀγάλματα: Lowth judges that ἃ should be struck out, and also ἐκεῖνα τὰ ἀγάλματα. To me it seems rather, as it once seemed to Hervetus too, that ἃ should be changed to εἰ.

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Βρύξιος. A. et H. Βρυάξιος, ut mox. SYLB. Bryaxin vocant etiam Pausanias, Plinius lib. XXXIV, cap. 7, et lib. XXXVI, cap. 5, et Tatianus, pag. 117.

Βρύξιος: A. and H. have Βρυάξιος, as just after. SYLB[URG]. Pausanias, Pliny (book 34, ch. 7, and book 36, ch. 5) and Tatian, p. 117, also call him Bryaxis.

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Ἐν Τίρυνθι τῆς Ἥρας. Euseb., lib. III, cap. 8, ex Plutarcho, Λέγεται δὲ Πείρας ὁ πρῶτος Ἀργολίδος Ἥρας ἱερὸν εἰσάμενος, τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα Καλλίθυιαν ἱέρειαν καταστήσας, ἐκ τῶν περὶ Τίρυνθα δένδρων ὄγχνην τεμὼν, Ἥρας ἄγαλμα μορφῶσαι. Corrigendus autem est Euseb. in Chronicis ad ann. mundi 3560: In Argis primus sacerdotio functus est Callithyas, filius Pyrantis. Manuscriptus Christianiss. Regg. matris, In Argis prima sacerdotio functa est Callitias, filia Spirantis. Meminit et Clemens lib. I Strom. Callithoes, sacerdotis Junonis Argivae. COLLECT.

Ἐν Τίρυνθι τῆς Ἥρας: Eusebius, book 3, ch. 8, from Plutarch: "It is said that Peiras, who first founded a temple of Argive Hera and made his own daughter Callithyia priestess, cut a pear tree from the trees about Tiryns and shaped an image of Hera." Eusebius must be corrected in the Chronicle at the year of the world 3560: "At Argos Callithyas, son of Pyras, first held the priesthood." The manuscript of the Most Christian Queen Mother has: "At Argos Callitias, daughter of Spiras, first held the priesthood." Clement too, in Stromata 1, mentions Callithoe, priestess of Argive Juno. COLLECT[ANEA].

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Διοπετές. Epicurei, cum plurimum tribuerent Epicuri libro Περὶ κριτηρίου, non humano ingenio, sed divino confectum, atque de coelo delapsum ostendere ipsum volentes, διοπετῆ appellabant, ut refert Plutarchus contra Coloten: quod verbum Cicero expressit lib. De finibus bonor., dicens delapsum de coelo. D. Lucas, Act. XIX, διοπετές appellat Dianae simulacrum, quod ipsum Numa Romanis persuasit de ancili, de quo Ovid. III lib. Fast., de Palladio lib. VI. Guilbertus Cognatus cent. 2, (continues)

Διοπετές, "fallen from Zeus": the Epicureans, setting the greatest store by Epicurus's book On the Criterion, and wishing to show that it was produced not by human wit but by divine, and had fallen from heaven, called it διοπετής, as Plutarch reports against Colotes; Cicero rendered the word in his book On the Ends of Goods, saying "fallen from heaven." St Luke, Acts 19, calls the image of Diana διοπετές; and Numa persuaded the Romans of the same thing about the ancile, on which see Ovid, Fasti book 3, and on the Palladium book 6. Gilbert Cousin, century 2, (continues)

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μὲν ἦν σανὶς, ὕστερον δὲ ἐπὶ Προκλέους ἄρχοντος ἀνδριαντοειδὲς ἐγένετο. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀνθρώποις ἀπεικονίζεσθαι τὰ ξόανα ἤρξατο, βρέτη τὴν ἐκ βροτῶν ἐπωνυμίαν ἐκαρπώσατο. Ἐν Ῥώμῃ δὲ τὸ παλαιὸν δόρυ φησὶν γεγονέναι τοῦ Ἄρεως τὸ ξόανον Οὐάῤῥων ὁ συγγραφεὺς, οὐδέπω τῶν τεχνιτῶν ἐπὶ τὴν εὐπρόσωπον ταύτην κακοτεχνίαν ὡρμηκότων· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἤνθησεν ἡ τέχνη, ηὔξησεν ἡ πλάνη. Ὡς μὲν οὖν τοὺς λίθους, καὶ τὰ ξύλα, καὶ, συνελόντι φάναι, τὴν ὕλην ἀγάλματα ἀνδρείκελα ἐποιήσατε, οἷς ἐπιμορφάζετε εὐσέβειαν, συκοφαντοῦντες τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἤδη μὲν αὐτόθεν δῆλον· οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποδείξεως ποσῆς ἐπιδεομένου τοῦ τόπου, οὐ παραιτητέον. Τὸν μὲν οὖν Ὀλυμπιάσι Δία καὶ τὸν Ἀθήνησι Πολιάδα ἐκ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἐλέφαντος κατασκευάσαι Φειδίαν, παντί που σαφές· τὸ δὲ ἐν Σάμῳ τῆς Ἥρας ξόανον σμίλῃ τῇ Εὐκλείδου πεποιῆσθαι, Ὀλύμπιχος ἐν Σαμιακοῖς ἱστορεῖ. Μὴ οὖν ἀμφιβάλλετε, εἰ τῶν Σεμνῶν Ἀθήνησι καλουμένων θεῶν τὰς μὲν δύο Σκοπᾶς ἐποίησεν ἐκ τοῦ καλουμένου λυχνέως λίθου· Κάλως δὲ, ἣν μέσην αὐταῖν ἱστοροῦνται ἔχουσαι, Πολέμωνα δεικνύναι ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν πρὸς Τίμαιον· μηδὲ τὰ ἐν Πατάροις τῆς Λυκίας ἀγάλματα Διὸς καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος, ἃ Φειδίας πάλιν ἐκεῖνα τὰ ἀγάλματα, καθάπερ τοὺς λέοντας τοὺς σὺν αὐτοῖς ἀνακειμένους, εἴργασται· εἰ δὲ, ὥς φασί τινες, Βρύξιος ἦν τέχνη, οὐ διαφέρομαι, ἔχεις καὶ τοῦτον ἀγαλματουργόν· ὁπότερον αὐτοῖν βούλει, ἐπίγραφε. Καὶ μὴν Τελεσίου τοῦ Ἀθηναίου, ὥς φησι Φιλόχορος, ἔργον εἰσὶν ἀγάλματα ἐννεαπήχη Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Ἀμφιτρίτης ἐν Τήνῳ προσκυνούμενα. Δημήτριος γὰρ ἐν δευτέρῳ τῶν Ἀργολικῶν τοῦ ἐν Τίρυνθι τῆς Ἥρας ξοάνου καὶ τὴν ὕλην ὄγχνην, καὶ τὸν ποιητὴν Ἄργον ἀναγράφει. Πολλοὶ δ' ἂν τάχα που θαυμάσειαν, εἰ μάθοιεν τὸ Παλλάδιον, τὸ Διοπετὲς καλούμενον,
was a plank, and later in the time of Procles as archon it became statue-like in form. And when the xoana began to be fashioned in the likeness of men, they reaped the surname brete from brotoi, mortals. And in Rome of old the writer Varro says that the xoanon of Ares was a spear, since craftsmen had not yet rushed into this specious evil art; but when the art flourished, the error increased. That you have therefore made stones, and pieces of wood, and, to speak concisely, matter into human-like statues, before which you play-act piety while slandering the truth, is already plain from the thing itself; nevertheless, since the topic requires some measure of proof, we must not decline it. Now that Phidias constructed the Zeus at Olympia and the Polias at Athens out of gold and ivory is doubtless clear to everyone; and Olympichus in his Samian History relates that the xoanon of Hera in Samos was made by the chisel of Euclides. Do not doubt, therefore, that Polemon shows in the fourth book of his Reply to Timaeus that of the so-called Revered Goddesses at Athens Scopas made the two out of the stone called lychneus, and Calos the one which they are related to have in the middle between those two; nor doubt concerning the statues of Zeus and Apollo in Patara of Lycia, which same statues Phidias again wrought, just like the lions dedicated along with them; or if, as some say, it was the work of Bryxis, I do not dispute it—you have this man too as a sculptor; inscribe whichever of the two you wish. Moreover, the nine-cubit statues of Poseidon and Amphitrite worshipped in Tenos are the work of Telesius the Athenian, as Philochorus says. For Demetrius, in the second book of his Argolic History, records both the material of the xoanon of Hera in Tiryns as pear-wood, and its maker as Argus. And many would perhaps wonder if they should learn that the Palladium, the one called Diopetes,
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ὁ Διομήδης καὶ Ὀδυσσεὺς ἱστοροῦνται μὲν ὑφελέσθαι ἀπὸ Ἰλίου, παρακαταθέσθαι δὲ Δημοφῶντι, ἐκ τῶν Πέλοπος ὀστῶν κατεσκευάσθαι, καθάπερ τὸν Ὀλύμπιον ἐξ ἄλλων ὀστῶν Ἰνδικοῦ θηρίου. Καὶ δὴ τὸν ἱστοροῦντα Διονύσιον ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ μέρει τοῦ Κύκλου παρίστημι. Ἀπελλᾶς δὲ ἐν τοῖς Δελφικοῖς δύο φησὶ γεγονέναι τὰ Παλλάδια, ἄμφω δ' ὑπ' ἀνθρώπων δεδημιουργῆσθαι. Ἀλλ' ὅπως μηδεὶς ὑπολάβῃ καὶ ταῦτά με ἀγνοίᾳ παρηκέναι, παραθήσομαι, τοῦ Μορύχου Διονύσου τὸ ἄγαλμα Ἀθήνησι γεγονέναι μὲν ἐκ τοῦ Φελλάτα καλουμένου λίθου, ἔργον δὲ εἶναι Σίμωνος τοῦ Εὐπαλάμου, ὥς φησι Πολέμων ἔν τινι ἐπιστολῇ. Ἐγενέσθην δὲ καὶ ἄλλω τινὲ δύω, Κρητικὼ, οἶμαι, ἀνδριαντοποιώ· Σκύλης καὶ Δίποινος ὠνομαζέσθην· τούτω δὲ τὰ ἐν Ἄργει τοῖν Διοσκούροιν ἀγάλματα κατεσκευασάτην, καὶ τὸν ἐν Τίρυνθι Ἡρακλέους ἀνδριάντα καὶ τὸ τῆς Μουνυχίας Ἀρτέμιδος ξόανον ἐν Σικυῶνι. Καὶ τί περὶ ταῦτα διατρίβω, ἐξὸν αὐτὸν τὸν μεγαλοδαίμονα ὑμῖν ἐπιδεῖξαι, ὅστις ἦν; ὃν δὴ κατ' ἐξοχὴν πρὸς πάντων σεβασμοῦ κατηξιωμένον ἀκούομεν· τοῦτον ἀχειροποίητον εἰπεῖν τετολμήκασι, τὸν Αἰγύπτιον Σάραπιν. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἱστοροῦσι χαριστήριον ὑπὸ Σινωπέων Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ Φιλαδέλφῳ τῷ Αἰγυπτίων πεμφθῆναι βασιλεῖ· ὃς λιμῷ τρυχομένους αὐτοὺς, ἀπ' Αἰγύπτου μεταπεμψάμενος σῖτον ὁ Πτολεμαῖος, ἀνεκτήσατο· εἶναι δὲ τὸ ξόανον τοῦτο, ἄγαλμα Πλούτωνος· ὃς, δεξάμενος τὸν ἀνδριάντα, καθίδρυσεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἄκρας, ἣν νῦν Ῥακῶτιν καλοῦσιν· ἔνθα καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τετίμηται τοῦ Σαράπιδος· γειτνιᾷ δὲ τοῖς τό-
Diomedes and Odysseus are recorded to have carried off from Ilium and entrusted to Demophon, was fashioned out of the bones of Pelops, just as the Olympian [Zeus was fashioned] out of other bones of an Indian beast. And indeed I produce Dionysius, who records this in the fifth part of the Cycle. And Apellas in his Delphica says that the Palladia were two, and that both were wrought by men. But lest anyone suppose that through ignorance I have passed over these things also, I will add that the statue of Dionysus Morychus at Athens was made out of the stone called Phellatas, and is the work of Simon the son of Eupalamus, as Polemon says in a certain letter. There were also two other sculptors, Cretans, I believe; they were named Scyles and Dipoenus; and these two fashioned the statues of the Dioscuri at Argos, and the statue of Heracles in Tiryns, and the carved image of Munychian Artemis in Sicyon. Yet why do I linger over these things, when it is possible to show you the great daemon himself, who he was, whom we hear to have been deemed worthy of veneration pre-eminently by all? This one they have dared to call not made with hands—the Egyptian Sarapis. For some record that he was sent as a thank-offering by the people of Sinope to Ptolemy Philadelphus, the king of the Egyptians, who, when they were distressed by famine, won their gratitude by sending for corn from Egypt—Ptolemy, that is—and that this carved image is a statue of Pluto; and he, having received the statue, set it up upon the headland which they now call Rhacotis, where also the temple of Sarapis is held in honour; and neighbouring the
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(continued) proverb. 172. Locum Suidae ascribere ex ms. non pigebit, quod auctior sit et emendatior: Διοπετὲς, ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατερχόμενον· ὅτι οἱ παρ' Ἕλλησι τὰ ξόανα κατασκευάζοντες, φόβον ἐμποιῆσαι βουλόμενοι (Ald. φόρον) τοῖς ὁρῶσιν, ἔφασκον, ὅτι τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ παρὰ τοῦ Διὸς ἐπέμφθη, καὶ κατέπτη, κρεῖττον ὑπάρχον πάσης ἀνθρωπίνης χειρὸς καὶ ἀνάλωτον· ὅθεν καὶ Διοπετὲς αὐτὸ καὶ οὐράνιον βρέτας ἐκάλουν παρὰ τὸ βροτῷ ἐοικέναι. Idem antea Clemens hoc ipso in libro. Addit Suidas addenda impresso, Ὅπερ χ' οὕτως ἦν· ἡ περὶ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων ματαία καὶ πεπλανημένη δόξα, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἀγαλματοποιοὺς ἢ ἀποκτείνοντες, etc. In extremo est, ἄξιον μισθὸν τῆς κακουργίας κομισάμενοι· Solebant Graeci profani, ut simulacra commendarent, dicere ea a Jove missa, ut immortalia: quamobrem et solebant statuarios in exsilium mittere, aut enecare, ne manu facta viderentur. Exemplum affert simulacri Alexandriae; Ptolemaeus enim artifices, eo confecto, et ingenti fossa excavata, ac tabulatis impositis, dolo occultato, jussit, ut in eis epularentur; tum in medio convivio subsidente pavimento conciderunt, atque ita oppressi sunt. Arnobius lib. IV: Quis ex reliquiis Pelopis compactum esse Palladium prodidit? Julius Firmicus, De errore prof. relig.: Palladii etiam quid sit numen, audite. Simulacrum est ex ossibus Pelopis factum. Hoc avarus Scytha fecisse perhibetur; jam quale sit considerate, quod barbarus Scytha consecravit. COLLECT. — Quo pertinere Cassandrae verba apud Lycophronem vers. 53, Meursius existimat: Λεύσσω σε, τλῆμον, δεύτερον πυρουμένην, / Ταῖς τ' Αἰακείοις χερσὶ, τοῖς τε Ταντάλου / Λαίτριαν οἰκουροῦσι λειψάνοις πυρός / Παιδὸς καταβροχθέντος αἰθάλῳ δέμας.

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Ἰνδικοῦ θηρίου. Id est elephantis: nam eburneum erat Olympii Jovis simulacrum.

Ἰνδικοῦ θηρίου, "of the Indian beast": that is, of the elephant; for the image of Olympian Jupiter was of ivory.

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Τὸν ἱστοροῦντα. Prius legebatur ἱστοροῦντες, verum B. H. et Sylburgius reposuerunt ἱστοροῦντα, quam lectionem firmat etiam ms. nov.

Τὸν ἱστοροῦντα: formerly the reading was ἱστοροῦντες, but B., H. and Sylburg restored ἱστοροῦντα, a reading the new manuscript also confirms.

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Διονύσιον. Διόνυσον, Nov. mendose. Nam Clemens intelligit Dionysium Milesium, quem Suidas testatur scripsisse praeter alia, Κύκλον ἱστορικὸν ἐν βιβλίοις ἑπτά, Cyclum historicum in libris septem.

Διονύσιον: Nov. has Διόνυσον, wrongly. For Clement means Dionysius of Miletus, who, Suidas attests, wrote among other things "a historical cycle in seven books."

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Παρηκέναι. Usitatus παρεικέναι. SYLBURG.

Παρηκέναι: the usual form is παρεικέναι. SYLBURG.

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Σίμωνος. Σίχωνος prius legebatur, sed rectius Σίμωνος. Ex Pausania. V., SYLB. Ejusdem meminit Laertius in Simone.

Σίμωνος: Σίχωνος was formerly read, but Σίμωνος is more correct, from Pausanias. See SYLB[URG]. Laertius mentions the same man in the Simon.

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Ἐγενέσθην. Γενέσθην, Nov.

Ἐγενέσθην: Nov. has Γενέσθην.

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Σκύλης καὶ Δίποινος. Prius scriptum erat Ἐχύλης· verum rectius aut Σκύλης legimus, aut Σκύλλις· Scyllidis sane ac Dipoeni fratrum mentio apud Pausaniam duobus in locis, itemque apud Plinium: qua de re C. quoque monuit. SYLBURG. — Conf. Herveti Commentarium.

Σκύλης καὶ Δίποινος: formerly Ἐχύλης was written; but we read more correctly either Σκύλης or Σκύλλις. The brothers Scyllis and Dipoenus are indeed mentioned by Pausanias in two places, and likewise by Pliny; C[anter] also noted this. SYLBURG. — Compare Hervetus's commentary.

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Τὸν Αἰγύπτιον Σάραπιν. De accito Serapidis simulacro e Ponto per Ptolemaeum Philadelphum, ut Clemens, vel Soterem, ut alii, conf. Tacitus paulo ante finem Histor. lib. IV, Pausanias in Atticis, Eusebius Chron. an. 1730. Plutarchus lib. De Iside et Osiride, et in fine lib. De solertia animal. Eustathius, in Dionysii Περιήγησιν, aliique plures.

Τὸν Αἰγύπτιον Σάραπιν: on the image of Serapis fetched from Pontus by Ptolemy Philadelphus, as Clement says, or by Soter, as others say, compare Tacitus a little before the end of Histories book 4, Pausanias in the Attica, Eusebius, Chronicle, year 1730, Plutarch in the book On Isis and Osiris and at the end of the book On the Cleverness of Animals, Eustathius on Dionysius's Periegesis, and many others.

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Μεταπεμψάμενος. Rectius μεταπεμψαμένους. Sequens commation, ὁ Πτολεμαῖος, A. redundare putat. Sed admodum familiares Clementi sunt ejusmodi pleonasmi, ut item Pausaniae. SYLBURG.

Μεταπεμψάμενος: more correctly μεταπεμψαμένους. A. thinks the following little phrase, ὁ Πτολεμαῖος, is redundant. But pleonasms of this kind are very familiar in Clement, as also in Pausanias. SYLBURG.

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  • marginal letters: A Argum. Multis vero; B duo fuerunt statuarii; C dum ad eos; D (24) Σκύλης καὶ Δίποινος.
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Αἰγυπτίων. Αἰγυπτίῳ Nov.

Αἰγυπτίων: Nov. has Αἰγυπτίῳ.

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Ὀσίριδος καὶ τοῦ Ἄπιος. Sic etiam Lactantius, lib. I, c. 21. At Serapin quasi Σορόαπιν dictum vult Clemens Strom. I, pag. 322, 323, a σορός, tumulus, et Apis, propter rationem ibi redditam. Quod etymon Augustin. De civit. Dei, lib. XVIII, c. 5, ex Varrone, aliique plurimi tradunt. Verisimilius est, quod refert Plutarchus, lib. De Iside et Osiride, hunc deum Sinopenses, a quibus ad Aegyptios profectus est, pro Plutone coluisse: ac proinde Aegyptios eo nomine illum appellasse, quo ipsi Plutonem vocabant.

Ὀσίριδος καὶ τοῦ Ἄπιος: so also Lactantius, book 1, ch. 21. But in Stromata 1, pp. 322, 323, Clement would have Serapis named as if Σορόαπις, from σορός, "tomb," and Apis, for the reason given there. Augustine, City of God, book 18, ch. 5, from Varro, and very many others give this etymology. More likely is what Plutarch reports in the book On Isis and Osiris: that the people of Sinope, from whom this god came to the Egyptians, worshipped him as Pluto, and that the Egyptians therefore called him by the name by which they themselves called Pluto.

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Σεβασμίως. Lowthius σεβάσμιον legendum esse putat.

Σεβασμίως: Lowth thinks σεβάσμιον should be read.

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Ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων. Adrianus: ut in Dionis epitome tradit Xiphilinus, et Chrysostomus in II Cor. XII, pag. 81, H. V. SYLBURG. — De Antinoo mentio est apud Justinum M. Apol. I, pag. 59; Tatianum, pag. 40, 41; Athenagor., Legat. pag. 121; Theophilum, ad Autolycum, lib. III, pag. 122; Tertullian. Apol., cap. 13; Euseb., Eccles. hist., lib. IV, cap. 8; Origenem in Cels. lib. III, p. 133; Pausaniam in Arcadicis, p. 469, 470. Edit. Hanov. Spartianum in Adriano, aliosque plurimos. Porro Clementis de Antinoo verborum partem primam et postremam recitat Eusebius, Praepar. evang., lib. II, cap. 6.

Ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων: Hadrian, as Xiphilinus records in his epitome of Dio, and Chrysostom on 2 Corinthians 12, p. 81. H. V. SYLBURG. — Antinous is mentioned by Justin Martyr, Apology 1, p. 59; Tatian, pp. 40, 41; Athenagoras, Plea, p. 121; Theophilus, To Autolycus, book 3, p. 122; Tertullian, Apology, ch. 13; Eusebius, Church History, book 4, ch. 8; Origen, Against Celsus, book 3, p. 133; Pausanias in the Arcadica, pp. 469, 470, Hanau edition; Spartianus in the Hadrian; and very many others. Eusebius quotes the first and last part of Clement's words on Antinous, Preparation for the Gospel, book 2, ch. 6.

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Ῥωμαίων. Ὁρωμένων Nov. mendose, ut videtur, pro ὁ Ῥωμαίων.

Ῥωμαίων: Nov. has Ὁρωμένων, wrongly as it seems, for ὁ Ῥωμαίων.

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Ὡραίων τῶν σφόδρα. Sic Heinsius, et post eum editores Paris., nulla, ut videtur, auctoritate freti; nam ὡραῖον τῶν σφόδρα exhibent Flor., Sylb.; ὡραιότατον σφόδρα, Euseb., Joan., qui hanc sententiam sic proferunt, ὡραιότατον σφόδρα γενόμενον Ἀντίνοον, ἀνιέρωσεν οὗτος, ὡς Γ.

Ὡραίων τῶν σφόδρα: so Heinsius, and after him the Paris editors, relying, it seems, on no authority; for the Florentine and Sylburg give ὡραῖον τῶν σφόδρα, and Eusebius and Joan. ὡραιότατον σφόδρα, giving the sentence thus: ὡραιότατον σφόδρα γενόμενον Ἀντίνοον, ἀνιέρωσεν οὗτος, ὡς Γ[ανυμήδην].

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Τί δαί. Τί δέ, Nov.

Τί δαί: Nov. has Τί δέ.

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Ὕβρει μεμαραμμένον. Haud scio an aptius legerimus μεμολυσμένον, aut μεμιασμένον? SYLBURG.

Ὕβρει μεμαραμμένον, "withered by outrage": perhaps we might more fitly read μεμολυσμένον or μεμιασμένον ("defiled")? SYLBURG.

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ποις τὸ χωρίον· Βλίστιχιν δὲ τὴν παλλακίδα τελευτήσασαν ἐν Κανώβῳ, μεταγαγὼν ὁ Πτολεμαῖος, ἔθαψεν ὑπὸ τὸν προδεδηλωμένον σηκόν. Ἄλλοι δέ φασιν Ποντικὸν εἶναι βρέτας τὸν Σάραπιν, μετῆχθαι δὲ εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, μετὰ τιμῆς πανηγυρικῆς. Ἰσίδωρος μόνος παρὰ Σελευκέων τῶν πρὸς Ἀντιόχειαν τὸ ἄγαλμα μεταχθῆναι λέγει, ἐν σιτοδείᾳ καὶ αὐτῶν γενομένων, καὶ ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου διατραφέντων. Ἀλλ' ὅ γε Ἀθηνόδωρος ὁ τοῦ Σάνδωνος, ἀρχαΐζειν τὸν Σάραπιν βουληθεὶς, οὐκ οἶδ' ὅπως περιέπεσεν, ἐλέγξας αὐτὸν ἄγαλμα εἶναι γεννητόν· Σέσωστρίν φησι τὸν Αἰγύπτιον βασιλέα, τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν παρ' Ἕλλησι παραστησάμενον ἐθνῶν, ἐπανελθόντα εἰς Αἴγυπτον, ἐπαγαγέσθαι τεχνίτας ἱκανούς. Τὸν οὖν Ὄσιριν, τὸν προπάτορα τὸν αὑτοῦ, δαιδαλθῆναι ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸς πολυτελῶς· κατασκευάζει δὲ αὐτὸν Βρύαξις ὁ δημιουργὸς, οὐχ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος, ἄλλος δέ τις ὁμώνυμος ἐκείνῳ τῷ Βρυάξιδι· ὃς ὕλῃ κατακέχρηται εἰς δημιουργίαν μικτῇ καὶ ποικίλῃ. Ῥίνημα γὰρ χρυσοῦ ἦν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀργύρου, χαλκοῦ τε, καὶ σιδήρου, καὶ μολίβδου, πρὸς δὲ καὶ κασσιτέρου· λίθων δὲ Αἰγυπτίων, ἐνέδει οὐδὲ εἷς, σαπφείρου καὶ αἱματίτου θραύσματα, σμαράγδου τε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοπαζίου. Λεάνας οὖν τὰ πάντα καὶ ἀναμίξας, ἔχρωσε κυάνῳ· οὗ δὴ χάριν μελάντερον τὸ χρῶμα τοῦ ἀγάλματος· καὶ τῷ ἐκ τῆς Ὀσίριδος καὶ τοῦ Ἄπιος κηδείας ὑπολελειμμένῳ φαρμάκῳ φυράσας τὰ πάντα, διέπλασε τὸν Σάραπιν· οὗ καὶ τοὔνομα αἰνίττεται τὴν κοινωνίαν τῆς κηδείας, καὶ τὴν ἐκ τῆς ταφῆς δημιουργίαν, σύνθετον ἀπό τε Ὀσίριδος καὶ Ἄπιος γενόμενον Ὀσίραπις. Καινὸν δὲ ἄλλον ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ὀλίγου δεῖν καὶ παρ' Ἕλλησι, σεβασμίως τεθείακε θεὸν ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων, τὸν ἐρώμενον, ὡραιότατον τῶν σφόδρα γενόμενον Ἀντίνοον, ὃν ἀνιέρωσεν οὕτως, ὡς Γανυμήδην ὁ Ζεύς· οὐ γὰρ κωλύεται ῥᾳδίως ἐπιθυμία, φόβον οὐκ ἔχουσα· καὶ νύκτας ἱερὰς τὰς Ἀντινόου προσκυνοῦσιν ἄνθρωποι νῦν, ἃς αἰσχρὰς ἠπίστατο ὁ συναγρυπνήσας ἐραστής. Τί μοι θεὸν καταλέγεις, τὸν πορνείᾳ τετιμημένον; Τί δὲ καὶ ὡς υἱὸν θρηνεῖσθαι προσέταξας; Τί δαὶ καὶ τὸ κάλλος αὐτοῦ διηγῇ; Αἰσχρόν ἐστι τὸ κάλλος ὕβρει μεμαραμμένον. Μὴ τυραννήσῃς, ἄνθρωπε, τοῦ κάλλους, μηδὲ ἐνυβρίσῃς
places is the spot; and when Blistichis the concubine died in Canopus, Ptolemy brought her over and buried her beneath the aforementioned shrine. Others say that Sarapis is a Pontic image, and was transferred to Alexandria with festive honour. Isidore alone says that the statue was brought over from the Seleucians near Antioch, when they too were in a dearth of corn and were sustained by Ptolemy. Yet Athenodorus the son of Sandon, wishing to make Sarapis ancient, somehow or other stumbled into proving him to be a fabricated statue: he says that Sesostris the Egyptian king, having subjugated most of the nations among the Greeks, on returning to Egypt brought back with him a good number of craftsmen. Accordingly, he himself ordered Osiris, his own forefather, to be cunningly wrought at lavish expense; and Bryaxis the craftsman fashions him—not the Athenian, but another of the same name as that Bryaxis—who made use of mixed and varied material for the workmanship. For he had filings of gold and of silver, of bronze too, and of iron, and of lead, and in addition of tin; and of Egyptian stones not even one was lacking, fragments of sapphire and haematite, of emerald too, and also of topaz. Having therefore ground all these things fine and mixed them together, he stained them with dark blue, on account of which the colour of the statue is rather dark; and having kneaded the whole with the embalming drug left over from the funeral rites of Osiris and Apis, he moulded Sarapis; whose very name hints at the fellowship of the funeral rites and the fashioning out of burial, Osirapis having been compounded from Osiris and Apis. And another new god in Egypt, and almost among the Greeks too, the king of the Romans has reverently deified: his favourite, Antinous, who was exceedingly comely, whom he consecrated just as Zeus did Ganymede; for desire is not easily restrained when it has no fear; and men now worship the sacred nights of Antinous, which the lover who kept vigil with him knew to be shameful. Why do you reckon among the gods for me one honoured by fornication? And why did you order him to be mourned as a son? And why too do you recount his beauty? Shameful is beauty withered by outrage. Do not play the tyrant, O man, over beauty, nor outrage
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  • running head: CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI 140
  • marginal letters: A ποις τὸ χωρίον·; B λευσεν αὐτὸς πολυτελῶς·; C καὶ Ἄπιος γενόμενον; D Theophilum, ad Autolycum,
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ἀνθοῦντι τῷ νέῳ· τήρησον αὐτὸ καθαρὸν, ἵνα ᾖ καλόν. Βασιλεὺς τοῦ κάλλους γενοῦ, μὴ τύραννος. Ἐλεύθερος μεινάτω· τότε σου γνωρίσω τὸ κάλλος, ὅτι καθαρὰν τετήρηκας τὴν εἰκόνα· τότε προσκυνήσω τὸ κάλλος τὸ ἀληθινὸν, ὃ ἀρχέτυπόν ἐστι τῶν καλῶν. Ἤδη δὲ, τάφος ἐστὶ τοῦ ἐρωμένου· νεώς ἐστιν Ἀντινόου καὶ πόλις. Καθάπερ γὰρ, οἶμαι, οἱ ναοὶ, οὕτω δὲ καὶ οἱ τάφοι θαυμάζονται, πυραμίδες καὶ Μαυσώλια, καὶ λαβύρινθοι, ἄλλοι ναοὶ τῶν νεκρῶν, ὡς ἐκεῖνοι τάφοι τῶν θεῶν. Διδάσκαλον δὲ ὑμῖν παραθήσομαι τὴν προφῆτιν Σίβυλλαν·
the youth in his bloom; keep it pure, that it may be fair. Become king of beauty, not tyrant. Let him remain free; then I shall recognize your beauty, because you have kept the image pure; then I shall worship the true beauty, which is the archetype of things fair. Now, however, there is a tomb of the favourite; there is a temple of Antinous and a city. For just as, I suppose, temples are admired, so too are tombs—pyramids and Mausolea and labyrinths, other temples of the dead, as those others are tombs of the gods. And as an instructor for you I will bring forward the prophetess Sibyl:
Οὐ ψεῦδος Φοίβου χρησμηγόρον, ὅν τε μάταιοι Ἄνθρωποι θεὸν εἶπον, ἐπεψεύσαντο δὲ μάντιν· Ἀλλὰ Θεοῦ μεγάλοιο, τὸν οὐ χέρες ἔπλασαν ἀνδρῶν, Εἰδώλοις ἀλάλοισι λιθοξέστοισιν ὅμοιον.
Not the false oracle-utterer of Phoebus, whom vain men called a god, and falsely named a seer; but of the great God, Whom the hands of men did not fashion like unto speechless idols hewn of stone.
Αὕτη μέντοι ἐρείπια τοῦ νεὼ προαγορεύει, τὸν μὲν τῆς Ἐφεσίας Ἀρτέμιδος χάσμασι καὶ σεισμοῖς καταποντίσεσθαι, προμηνύουσα οὕτως·
She, however, foretells the ruins of the temple, forewarning thus that that of Ephesian Artemis shall be engulfed by chasms and earthquakes:
Ὑπτία δ' οἰμώξει Ἔφεσος κλαίουσα παρ' ὄχθαις, Καὶ νηὸν ζητοῦσα τὸν οὐκέτι ναιετάοντα·
And prostrate Ephesus shall wail, weeping by the banks, and seeking the temple that is no longer inhabited;
Τὸν δὲ Ἴσιδος καὶ Σαράπιδος ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ κατενεχθήσεσθαί φησι, καὶ ἐμπρησθήσεσθαι·
And that of Isis and Sarapis in Egypt she says shall be cast down and burned up:
Ἶσι, θεὰ τριτάλαινα, μενεῖς ἐπὶ χεύμασι Νείλου Μούνη, μαινὰς, ἄναυδος, ἐπὶ ψαμάθοις Ἀχέροντος.
Isis, thrice-wretched goddess, you shall remain by the streams of the Nile alone, frenzied, speechless, upon the sands of Acheron.
Εἶτα ὑποβᾶσα·
Then, proceeding further:
Καὶ σὺ, Σάραπι, λίθους ἀργοὺς ἐπικείμενε πολλοὺς, Κείσῃ πτῶμα μέγιστον ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τριταλαίνῃ.
And you, Sarapis, resting upon many idle stones, shall lie a mightiest ruin in thrice-wretched Egypt.
Σὺ δὲ ἀλλ' εἰ μὴ προφήτιδος ἐπακούεις, τοῦ γε σοῦ ἄκουσον φιλοσόφου τοῦ Ἐφεσίου Ἡρακλείτου, τὴν ἀναισθησίαν ὀνειδίζοντος τοῖς ἀγάλμασι· Καὶ ἀγάλμασι τουτέοισιν εὔχονται, ὁκοῖον εἴ τις δόμοις λεσχηνεύοιτο. Ἦ γὰρ οὐχὶ τερατώδεις οἱ λίθους προστρεπόμενοι, εἶτα μέντοι καὶ πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν ἱστάντες αὐτοὺς, ὡς ἐνεργεῖς; Ἑρμῆν προσ-
But if you do not hearken to a prophetess, hear at least your own philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus, when he reproaches the statues with insensibility: And to these statues they pray, just as if one were to chatter to houses. For are they not indeed monstrous who supplicate stones, and then nevertheless set them before their gates as though active? Hermes they wor-
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  • running head: 141 COHORTATIO AD GENTES.
  • marginal letters: A ἀνθοῦντι τῷ νέῳ·; B Οὐ ψεῦδος (38) Φοίβου; C Ἶσι, θεὰ τριτάλαινα,; D πυλῶν ἱστάντες αὐτοὺς,
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  • other: three full-width lines of facing Latin after Σίβυλλαν· (Nunc catamiti ... Magistram vobis afferam fatidicam Sibyllam 15 :), cut off at the right edge, not set; last word προσ- split across column break to col. 144 (προσκυνοῦσιν)
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Ὁ ἀρχ. Ὁ omittit Nov.

Ὁ ἀρχ[…]: Nov. omits Ὁ.

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Ἤδη δὲ τάφ. Scribe, ex Euseb. et Joan., Ἤδη δὲ ὁ τάφος τοῦ ἐρωμένου, νεώς ἐστιν Ἀντινόου, καὶ πόλις· καθάπερ γὰρ οἶμαι, οἱ ναοὶ, οὕτω καὶ οἱ τ. Quod in versione expressum est.

Ἤδη δὲ τάφ[ος]: write, from Eusebius and Joan., "And now the tomb of the beloved Antinous is a temple, and a city; for, I think, as the temples, so also the t[ombs]." This is what the translation renders.

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Μαυσώλια. Μαυσῶλα Euseb., Joan. Μαυσώλειον dixit Strabo lib. V.

Μαυσώλια: Eusebius and Joan. have Μαυσῶλα. Strabo, book 5, said Μαυσώλειον.

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Οὐ ψεῦδος. Vulg. Sibyllini, pag. 253, habent Οὐ ψευδοῦς Φοίβου χρησμήτορος. SYLBURG. Primo versu, χρησμογόρον, Nov. Ultimo, ἀλάλοις, idem. Mox, ἐρείπια τοὺς νεὼς προσαγορεύει, editt. Florent., Sylburg., quam lectionem mutavit Heinsius, non infeliciter, verum sine auctoritate.

Οὐ ψεῦδος: the common Sibylline books, p. 253, have Οὐ ψευδοῦς Φοίβου χρησμήτορος. SYLBURG. In the first line Nov. has χρησμογόρον; in the last, the same has ἀλάλοις. Next, the Florentine and Sylburg editions have ἐρείπια τοὺς νεὼς προσαγορεύει, a reading Heinsius changed, not unhappily, but without authority.

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Μενεῖς ἐπὶ χεύμασι. Μενεῖς ἐπὶ χεύματα Nov. Mox, ἐπιβᾶσα pro ὑποβᾶσα. Idem.

Μενεῖς ἐπὶ χεύμασι: Nov. has Μενεῖς ἐπὶ χεύματα. Next, the same has ἐπιβᾶσα for ὑποβᾶσα.

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Καὶ ἀγάλμασι. Origenes contra Cels., lib. I, pag. 6: Ἐκτίθεται Ἡρακλείτου λέξιν, τὴν λέγουσαν, Ὅμοια, ὡς εἴτις τοῖς δόμοις λεσχηνεύοιτο, ποιεῖν τοὺς προσιόντας ὡς θεοῖς ἀψύχοις· Exponit Heracliti dictum, eos, qui deos inanimes adeunt, perinde facere ac si fabulentur cum parietibus. Plenius hanc sententiam recitat lib. VII, pag. 373: Καὶ μὴν καὶ Ἡράκλειτος ὧδέ πως ἀναφαίνεται· Καὶ τοῖς ἀγάλμασι τουτέοισιν εὔχονται, ὁποῖον εἴτις τοῖς δόμοισι λεσχηνεύοιτο. Atqui Heraclitus sic de his pronuntiat: Ita preces offerunt istis simulacris, ac si quis fabuletur cum parietibus. Quibus testimoniis constat, perperam a nonnullis substitui δοκοῖσι stipitibus, pro δόμοισι. Porro legendum apud Clementem, τοῖς ἀγάλμασι τουτέοισιν, ex Origen. et Nov. Dein, δόμοισι pro δόμοις, ex Origen. Nam Heraclitus Ionica dialecto usus est.

Καὶ ἀγάλμασι: Origen, Against Celsus, book 1, p. 6: "He sets out the saying of Heraclitus, that those who approach lifeless things as gods act like one who chats with houses." He sets out Heraclitus's saying that those who go to lifeless gods act just as if they were talking with walls. He quotes the saying more fully in book 7, p. 373: "And indeed Heraclitus declares somewhat thus: 'And they pray to these images as if one were to chat with houses.'" But Heraclitus pronounces thus on these things: so they offer prayers to these images, as if one were talking with walls. By these testimonies it is clear that some wrongly substitute δοκοῖσι, "posts," for δόμοισι. In Clement we should read τοῖς ἀγάλμασι τουτέοισιν, from Origen and Nov.; then δόμοισι for δόμοις, from Origen. For Heraclitus wrote in the Ionic dialect.

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  • running head: COHORTATIO AD GENTES. 142
  • marginal letters: A mul cum puero; B Non oracla quidem; C Isi, dea infelix,; D quasi vita atque
  • old-edition numerals: 15 after Sibyllam
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Ἀγυιέα. Ἀγλέα Nov., mendose.

Ἀγυιέα: Nov. has Ἀγλέα, wrongly.

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Τούτους. Τούτοις Flor., Sylb., quod Heinsius mutavit in τούτους· idque firmat Nov.

Τούτους: the Florentine and Sylburg have Τούτοις, which Heinsius changed to τούτους; and Nov. confirms it.

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Μέλει, οὐ κν. Μέλλει· οὐ κνίσσης, οὐχ αἵματος καπνοῦ, Nov.

Μέλει, οὐ κν[ίσσης]: Nov. has Μέλλει· οὐ κνίσσης, οὐχ αἵματος καπνοῦ.

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Σπάλακες. Ἀσπάλακες Nov., quorum utrumque in usu est.

Σπάλακες, "moles": Nov. has Ἀσπάλακες; both forms are in use.

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Ἢ ἁπτικήν. Omittit Nov.

Ἢ ἁπτικήν, "or of touch": Nov. omits it.

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Ἀλλὰ ζῇ γε. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ζῇ, Nov.

Ἀλλὰ ζῇ γε: Nov. has Ἀλλὰ καὶ ζῇ.

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Κωφὴν μέν. Respicit Iliad. Ω, v. 54: Κωφὴν γὰρ δὴ γαῖαν ἀεικίζει μενεαίνων. Surdam enim terram probro afficit prae furore.

Κωφὴν μέν: he has in view Iliad 24 (Ω), line 54: "For in his fury he dishonours the senseless earth." For in his rage he outrages the deaf earth.

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Ὑπὸ τῆς τέχνης, καὶ πρ. Ὑπὸ τῆς τέχνης προσκυνεῖν ἀναπείθοντες, arte ut adorent inducentes, Nov.

Ὑπὸ τῆς τέχνης, καὶ πρ[οσκυνεῖν]: Nov. has Ὑπὸ τῆς τέχνης προσκυνεῖν ἀναπείθοντες, "inducing them by their art to worship."

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Τὰ ἀγάλματα, ὅπερ ἐστίν. C., inverso ordine, legendum putat ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα. SYLBURG.

Τὰ ἀγάλματα, ὅπερ ἐστίν: C[anter] thinks we should read, in reversed order, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα. SYLBURG.

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Ἡμῖν δέ. Vetus lectio est, Ἡμῖν δὲ, οὐχ ὕλης αἰσθητῆς αἰσθητόν· νοητὸν δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστι νοητὸν, οὐχ αἰσθητόν ἐστι τὸ ἄγαλμα. Ubi e margine in contextum irrepsisse videntur ista verba, νοητόν, οὐχ αἰσθητόν ἐστι τὸ ἄγαλμα· uti ex iis expunctis legendum sit, ἡμῖν δὲ οὐχ ὕλης αἰσθητῆς αἰσθητὸν, νοητὸν δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστιν, ὁ Θεός. SYLBURG. — Recte irrepsisse aliquid notat Sylburgius. Veram lectionem pete ex interpretatione. Nempe, ἡμῖν δὲ οὐχ ὕλης αἰσθητῆς αἰσθητὸν, νοητὸν δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμα· νοητὸν οὐχ αἰσθητόν ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς, etc. Caetera repetuntur, et sensum turbant: quare ejiciantur. HEINSIUS. — P. Faber cap. 2 Dodecameni haec habet: Verum Deum esse aut solum, vel unum Deum esse dicitur, idolorum daemonumque falso Dei nomen usurpantium habita ratione, ut scilicet ea nequaquam pro diis habenda esse doceatur; eoque pertinet, quod apud Clementem scriptum est, τὸν ὄντα ὄντως μὴ γνωρίζοντες Θεόν. Item quod aliquanto post, ubi nullum sensile simulacrum, quale gentibus, esse Christianis, sed verum Deum ipsa mente atque cognitione comprehendi docet. His enim verbis exprimit, ἡμῖν δὲ οὐχ ὕλης αἰσθητῆς αἰσθητὸν, νοητὸν δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστι νοητὸν, οὐχ αἰσθητόν ἐστι τὸ ἄγαλμα· ὁ Θεὸς μόνος ὄντως Θεός. Sed haec obscura et mendosa ita, meo quidem animo, correxeris, si pro priore νοητόν legeris νοητοῦ, et posterius illud αἰσθητόν ἐστι τὸ ἄγαλμα, tanquam superfluum, et a librario, vel a Scholiaste quodam, repetitum, expunxeris: neque enim dubito, quin ita prorsus Clemens exararit: ἡμῖν δὲ οὐχ ὕλης αἰσθητῆς αἰσθητὸν, νοητοῦ δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστι νοητὸν ὁ Θεὸς ὁ μόνος ὄντως Θεός. Atque ut antiquitus Judaei, Romana etiam vigente republica, Deum ineffabilem et invisibilem existimantes, nullo simulacro adhibito co- (continues)

Ἡμῖν δέ: the old reading is "But for us, not a sensible thing of sensible matter; the image is intelligible, intelligible, not sensible is the image." Here the words "intelligible, not sensible is the image" seem to have crept from the margin into the text, so that with them struck out we should read: "But for us the image is not a sensible thing of sensible matter, but intelligible: God." SYLBURG. — Sylburg rightly notes that something has crept in. Seek the true reading from the translation: namely, "But for us the image is not a sensible thing of sensible matter, but intelligible; God is intelligible, not sensible," etc. The rest is repetition and confuses the sense; so let it be thrown out. HEINSIUS. — P. Faber, ch. 2 of the Dodecamenon, has this: God is said to be the true God, or the only or one God, with regard to the idols and demons that falsely usurp the name of God, so as to teach that they are by no means to be held gods; and to this belongs what is written in Clement, "not knowing him who truly is God." Likewise what comes somewhat later, where he teaches that Christians have no sensible image such as the Gentiles have, but that the true God is grasped by the mind itself and by knowledge. For he expresses it in these words: [the old reading, as above]; "God alone is truly God." But in my judgement you will correct these obscure and faulty words if for the first νοητόν you read νοητοῦ, and strike out the later "is a sensible image" as superfluous and repeated by a copyist or some scholiast; for I do not doubt that Clement wrote exactly thus: "But for us the image is not a sensible thing of sensible matter, but an intelligible thing of the intelligible: God, the only true God." And as in ancient times the Jews, even while the Roman republic flourished, holding God to be ineffable and invisible, wor[shipped him] without the use of any image (continues)

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  • running head: 143 CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI
  • marginal letters: A quippe Mercurium quasi; B divinis affici honoribus; C praeterea una cum; D (45) Ἢ ἁπτικήν.
  • old-edition numerals: (none)
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κυνοῦσιν ὡς θεὸν, καὶ τὸν Ἀγυιέα, θυρωρὸν ἱστάντες. Εἰ γὰρ ὡς ἀναισθήτους ὑβρίζουσι, τί προσκυνοῦσιν ὡς θεούς; εἰ δὲ αἰσθήσεως αὐτοὺς μετέχειν οἴονται, τί τούτους ἱστᾶσι θυρωρούς; Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ τὰ μέγιστα κατορθώματα τῇ τύχῃ ἀνατιθέντες, καὶ ταύτην μεγίστην οἰόμενοι θεὸν, φέροντες εἰς τὸν κοπρῶνα ἀνέθηκαν αὐτὴν, ἄξιον νεὼν τὸν ἀφεδρῶνα νείμαντες τῇ θεῷ. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἀναισθήτῳ λίθῳ, καὶ ξύλῳ, καὶ χρυσίῳ πλουσίῳ, οὐθ' ὁτιοῦν μέλει, οὐ κνίσσης, οὐχ αἵματος, οὐ καπνοῦ, ᾧ δὴ τιμώμενοι καὶ τυφόμενοι, ἐκμελαίνονται· ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τιμῆς, οὐχ ὕβρεως· τὰ δὲ καὶ παντός ἐστιν ἀτιμότερα ζῴου, τὰ ἀγάλματα. Καὶ ὅπως γε τεθείασται τὰ ἀναίσθητα, ἀπορεῖν ἔπεισί μοι, καὶ κατελεεῖν τοὺς πλανωμένους τῆς ἀνοίας, ὡς δειλαίους· εἰ γὰρ καί τινα τῶν ζώων οὐχὶ πάσας ἔχει τὰς αἰσθήσεις, ὥσπερ εὐλαὶ καὶ κάμπαι, καὶ ὅσα διὰ τῆς πρώτης γενέσεως εὐθὺς ἀνάπηρα φαίνεται, καθάπερ οἱ σπάλακες, καὶ ἡ μυγάλη, ἥν φησιν ὁ Νίκανδρος τυφλήν τε σμερδνήν τε· ἀλλά γε ἀμείνους εἰσὶ τῶν ξοάνων τούτων καὶ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων, τέλεον ὄντων κωφῶν· ἔχουσι γὰρ αἴσθησιν μίαν γέ τινα, φέρε εἰπεῖν ἀκουστικὴν, ἢ ἁπτικὴν, ἢ τὴν ἀναλογοῦσαν τῇ ὀσφρήσει, ἢ τῇ γεύσει· τὰ δὲ οὐδὲ μιᾶς αἰσθήσεως μετέχει τὰ ἀγάλματα. Πολλὰ δέ ἐστι τῶν ζώων, ὅσα οὐδὲ ὅρασιν ἔχει, οὔτε ἀκοὴν, οὔτε μὴν φωνὴν, οἷον καὶ τὸ τῶν ὀστρέων γένος, ἀλλὰ ζῇ γε, καὶ αὔξεται, πρὸς δὲ καὶ τῇ σελήνῃ συμπάσχει. Τὰ δὲ ἀγάλματα ἀργὰ, ἄπρακτα, ἀναίσθητα, προσδεῖται, καὶ προσκαθηλοῦται, καὶ προσπήγνυται, χωνεύεται, ῥινᾶται, πρίεται, περιξέεται, γλύφεται. Κωφὴν μὲν δὴ γαῖαν ἀεικίζουσιν οἱ ἀγαλματοποιοὶ, τῆς οἰκείας ἐξιστάντες φύσεως ὑπὸ τῆς τέχνης προσκυνεῖν ἀναπείθοντες· προσκυνοῦσι δὲ οἱ θεοποιοὶ οὐ θεοὺς καὶ δαίμονας, κατά γε αἴσθησιν τὴν ἐμὴν, γῆν δὲ καὶ τέχνην, τὰ ἀγάλματα ὅπερ ἐστίν. Ἔστι γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς τὸ ἄγαλμα ὕλη νεκρὰ, τεχνίτου χειρὶ μεμορφωμένη. Ἡμῖν δὲ οὐχ
ship as a god, and set up Aguieus as a doorkeeper. For if they insult them as insensible, why do they worship them as gods? And if they think that they partake of sensation, why do they set them up as doorkeepers? And the Romans, attributing their greatest successes to Fortune, and thinking her the greatest goddess, bore her off and set her up in the privy, assigning the latrine as a worthy temple for the goddess. Yet indeed for insensible stone, and wood, and rich gold, there is not the slightest care either for the savour of burnt sacrifice, or for blood, or for smoke, wherewith being honoured and kippered they are blackened utterly; nay, nor for honour, nor for insult; and the statues are more dishonourable than any living creature whatsoever. And how insensible things have been deified, it comes over me to wonder, and to pity for their folly those who go astray, how wretched they are; for even if some living creatures do not have all the senses, such as maggots and caterpillars, and such as through their first generation appear maimed from the outset, like moles and the shrew-mouse, which Nicander calls both blind and terrible, yet at least they are better than these carved images and statues, which are utterly deaf and dumb; for they have some one sense at least, say that of hearing, or of touch, or that which corresponds to smell, or to taste; whereas the statues partake of not even a single sense. And there are many living creatures which have neither sight, nor hearing, nor yet voice, such as the race of oysters, yet they live and grow, and moreover are affected in sympathy with the moon. But the statues, idle, inactive, insensible, are bound fast, and nailed down, and riveted, melted, filed, sawn, scraped around, carved. Deaf earth in truth do the statue-makers maltreat, displacing it from its proper nature by their art and persuading men to worship it; and the god-makers worship not gods and daemons, according to my perception at least, but earth and art, which is just what the statues are. For in very truth the statue is dead matter, shaped by a craftsman's hand. But for us it is not
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ὕλης αἰσθητῆς αἰσθητόν· νοητὸν δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστιν, ὁ θεὸς, ὁ μόνος ὄντως Θεός. Καὶ δὴ ἔμπαλιν ἐν αὐταῖς που ταῖς περιστάσεσιν οἱ δεισιδαίμονες, οἱ τῶν λίθων προσκυνηταὶ, ἔργῳ μαθόντες ἀναίσθητον ὕλην μὴ σέβειν, αὐτῆς ἡττώμενοι τῆς χρείας, ἀπόλλυνται ὑπὸ δεισιδαιμονίας· καταφρονοῦντες δ' ὅμως τῶν ἀγαλμάτων, φαίνεσθαι δὲ μὴ βουλόμενοι αὐτῶν ὅλως περιφρονοῦντες, ἐλέγχονται ὑπ' αὐτῶν τῶν θεῶν, οἷς δὴ τὰ ἀγάλματα πεφήμισται. Διονύσιος μὲν γὰρ ὁ τύραννος, ὁ νεώτερος, θοἰμάτιον τὸ χρύσεον περιελόμενος τοῦ Διὸς ἐν Σικελίᾳ, προσέταξεν αὐτῷ ἐρεοῦν περιτιθέναι, χαριέντως φήσας, τοῦτο ἄμεινον εἶναι τοῦ χρυσίου, καὶ θέρους κουφότερον, καὶ κρύους ἀλεεινότερον. Ἀντίοχος δὲ ὁ Κυζικηνὸς, ἀπορούμενος χρημάτων, τοῦ Διὸς τὸ ἄγαλμα τὸ χρυσοῦν, πεντεκαίδεκα πηχῶν τὸ μέγεθος ὂν, προσέταξε χωνεῦσαι, καὶ τῆς ἄλλης τῆς ἀτιμοτέρας ὕλης ἄγαλμα παραπλήσιον ἐκείνῳ, πετάλοις κεχρυσωμένον, ἀναθεῖναι πάλιν. Αἱ δὲ χελιδόνες, καὶ τῶν ὀρνέων τὰ πλεῖστα, κατεξαιροῦσιν αὐτῶν τῶν ἀγαλμάτων εἰσπετόμενα, οὐδὲν φροντίσαντα οὔτε Ὀλυμπίου Διὸς, οὔτε Ἐπιδαυρίου Ἀσκληπιοῦ, οὐδὲ μὴν Ἀθηνᾶς Πολιάδος, ἢ Σαράπιδος Αἰγυπτίου· παρ' ὧν οὐδὲ αὐτῶν τὴν ἀναισθησίαν τῶν ἀγαλμάτων ἐκμανθάνετε. Ἀλλ' εἰσὶ μὲν κακοῦργοί τινες ἢ πολέμιοι ἐπιθέμενοι, οἳ δι' αἰσχροκέρδειαν ἐδήωσαν τὰ ἱερὰ, καὶ τὰ ἀναθήματα ἐσύλησαν, ἢ καὶ αὐτὰ ἐχώνευσαν τὰ ἀγάλματα· καὶ εἰ Καμβύσης τις, ἢ Δαρεῖος, ἢ ἄλλος μαινόμενος τοιαῦτα ἄττα ἐπεχείρησεν, καὶ εἰ τὸν Αἰγύπτιόν τις ἀπέκτεινεν Ἄπιν, γελῶ μὲν, ὅτι τὸν θεὸν ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτῶν, ἀγανακτῶ δὲ, εἰ κέρδους χάριν ἐπλημμέλει. Ἑκὼν οὖν ἐκλήσομαι τῆσδε τῆς κακουργίας, πλεονεξίας ἔργα, οὐχὶ δὲ ἀδρανείας τῶν εἰδώλων ἔλεγχον νομίζων. Ἀλλ' οὔτιγε τὸ πῦρ καὶ οἱ σεισμοὶ κερδαλέοι, οὐδὲ μὴν φοβοῦνται ἢ δυσωποῦνται, οὐ τοὺς δαίμονας, οὐ τὰ ἀγάλματα,
a perceptible image made of perceptible matter, but that which is intelligible—God, Who alone is truly God. And indeed, conversely, in the very circumstances of distress the superstitious, the worshippers of stones, having learned in actual fact not to revere insensible matter, yet being overcome by need itself, perish through superstition; and though they despise the statues, yet not wishing to appear to slight them altogether, they are refuted by the very gods after whom the statues are named. For Dionysius the tyrant, the younger, having stripped the golden cloak from Zeus in Sicily, ordered a woollen one to be put around him, wittily saying that this was better than gold, being both lighter in summer and warmer in frost. And Antiochus of Cyzicus, being in want of money, ordered the golden statue of Zeus, which was fifteen cubits in size, to be melted down, and a statue like that one, of other, baser matter gilded with plates, to be set up again. And swallows and most birds fly in and void their excrement upon the very statues, paying no heed either to Olympian Zeus, or to Epidaurian Asclepius, nor yet to Athena Polias, or Egyptian Sarapis; from whom not even so do you learn thoroughly the insensibility of the statues. Yet there are certain malefactors or enemies who have made an attack, who for shameful gain have laid waste the temples and plundered the votive offerings, or even melted down the statues themselves; and if some Cambyses, or Darius, or other madman attempted some such things, and if someone slew the Egyptian Apis, I laugh indeed because he slew their god, but I am indignant if he transgressed for the sake of gain. Willingly therefore I shall forget this wickedness, accounting such deeds works of covetousness and not a proof of the impotence of idols. Yet by no means are fire and earthquakes greedy of gain, nor yet do they fear or stand in awe of either the daemons or the statues,
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(continued) luere; sic hodie Christianis nullum intelligibilis Dei simulacrum esse scripsit, sed intelligibile duntaxat, eum scilicet (ut equidem sentio, nam hoc a Clemente non explicatur) qui revera ipse Deus est, Filium Dei unigenitum. COLLECT.

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Πεφήμισται. Ἐπιπεφήμισται, Nov.

Πεφήμισται: Nov. has Ἐπιπεφήμισται.

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Ἀντίοχος δέ. Arnobius, lib. VI contra Gentes: Antiochum Cyzicenum ferunt quindecim cubitorum (sic enim in Romana editione correctum est) Jovem ex delubro aureum sustulisse, et ex aere bracteolis substituisse fucatum. Fuit hic Antiochus Syriae rex, Sidetis filius; regnavitque annos XVIII. Josephus, Antiq. lib. XIII, cap. 19; Eusebius et Justinus. Paulo post Arnob. secutus est Clementem, qui ante tribuit juniori Dionysio, quod alii seniori. Deinde, ut notat P. Victorius, lib. XXI, cap. 10, Cicero, lib. III De nat. deor., id factum in Peloponneso ait, Clemens in Sicilia: sed vereor, inquit, ne hoc M. Tullio imposuerit, quod legens hoc factum in fano Jovis Olympii, ob dignitatem Peloponnesii fani putarit id in Peloponneso commissum. Sed in Sicilia quoque Jovis Olympii fanum fuisse T. Livius auctor est, lib. XXIV; et Diodorus Siculus. Liberalis Dionysii vertit Hervetus paulo post Graec. Διονύσου τοῦ Ἐλευθερέως. Arnobius: Ubi Liber Eleutherius cum Athenis? Ab Eleutheris, urbe Boeotiae, cujus civis Ἐλευθερεύς. COLLECT.

Ἀντίοχος δέ: Arnobius, Against the Gentiles, book 6: "They say that Antiochus of Cyzicus took from its shrine a golden Jupiter fifteen cubits high (for so it was corrected in the Roman edition), and put in its place one of bronze painted over with thin gold leaf." This Antiochus was king of Syria, son of Sidetes, and reigned eighteen years: Josephus, Antiquities, book 13, ch. 19; Eusebius and Justin. A little after, Arnobius followed Clement, who earlier attributes to the younger Dionysius what others attribute to the elder. Then, as P. Victorius notes, book 21, ch. 10, Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 3, says this was done in the Peloponnese, Clement in Sicily: "but I fear," he says, "that this misled Marcus Tullius, that reading it was done in the temple of Olympian Jupiter, he supposed, because of the fame of the Peloponnesian temple, that it was committed in the Peloponnese." But Livy, book 24, and Diodorus Siculus attest that there was a temple of Olympian Jupiter in Sicily too. A little after, Hervetus renders the Greek Διονύσου τοῦ Ἐλευθερέως "of the liberal Dionysus." Arnobius: "Where was Liber Eleutherius at Athens?" From Eleutherae, a city of Boeotia, whose citizen is an Ἐλευθερεύς. COLLECT[ANEA].

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Αἱ δὲ χελιδόνες. Tertullian., Apol., cap. 12: Igitur si statuas, et imagines frigidas mortuorum suorum simillimas, non adoramus, quas milvi, et mures, et araneae intelligunt, nonne laudem magis quam poenam merebatur repudium agniti erroris? Minutius, Octavio: Quanto verius de diis vestris animalia muta naturaliter judicant? mures, hirundines, milvi, non sentire eos sciunt, rodunt, inculcant, insident, ac nisi abigatis, in ipso dei vestri ore nidificant, etc. Conf. Arnobius, lib. VI; Lactantius, lib. II, cap. 4; Augustinus, in psalm. CXIII. Simile est illud Horatii lib. I, sat. 8, vers. 37, De Priapo: Mentior at si quid, merdis caput inquiner albis / Corvorum.

Αἱ δὲ χελιδόνες, "and the swallows": Tertullian, Apology, ch. 12: "If then we do not worship statues and cold images, very like their dead, which kites and mice and spiders understand, did not the rejection of an error once recognized deserve praise rather than punishment?" Minucius, Octavius: "How much more truly do dumb animals naturally judge of your gods? Mice, swallows, kites know they have no feeling; they gnaw them, trample them, perch on them, and unless you drive them off, they nest in the very mouth of your god," etc. Compare Arnobius, book 6; Lactantius, book 2, ch. 4; Augustine on Psalm 113. Like it is Horace, book 1, satire 8, line 37, on Priapus: "But if I lie in anything, may my head be fouled with the white droppings of crows."

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Κατεξαιροῦσιν. Quod saepius dictum est, αι et ε a librariis confundi solere, id hoc loco repetendum; nam Clemens procul dubio scripsit κατεξερῶσιν, alvum exonerant in simulacra: sic in Ranis Aristophanes κατατιλᾷ τῶν Ἑκαταίων.

Κατεξαιροῦσιν: what has often been said, that copyists commonly confuse αι and ε, must be repeated here; for Clement no doubt wrote κατεξερῶσιν, "they void their bowels on the images": so Aristophanes in the Frogs, κατατιλᾷ τῶν Ἑκαταίων ("befouls the shrines of Hecate").

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Καμβύσης. Herodotus lib. III refert, quomodo Cambyses Apin Aegyptium occiderit. Quin etiam satis notum est, Persas, cum Graeciam oppugnabant, obvia quaeque templa combussisse: Cicero lib. II De legibus: Nec sequor, inquit, magos Persarum, quibus auctoribus Xerxes inflammasse templa Graeciae dicitur, quod parietibus includerent deos, quibus omnia deberent esse patentia et libera.

Καμβύσης: Herodotus, book 3, tells how Cambyses killed the Egyptian Apis. It is well known too that the Persians, when they attacked Greece, burned every temple in their way. Cicero, On the Laws, book 2: "Nor do I follow," he says, "the magi of the Persians, at whose instigation Xerxes is said to have set fire to the temples of Greece, because they shut up within walls the gods, for whom all things ought to be open and free."

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Σεισμοὶ κερδαλέοι. Lowthius mavult σεισμοὶ σμερδαλέοι. Verum σεισμοὺς κερδαλέους dixit, quemadmodum paulo post πῦρ σωφρονοῦν.

Σεισμοὶ κερδαλέοι, "crafty earthquakes": Lowth prefers σεισμοὶ σμερδαλέοι, "dreadful earthquakes." But he said "crafty earthquakes" just as a little later he says "a fire that shows good sense."

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Τοῖς κύμασιν. Τὰ κύματα, Nov. Mox, ἰατρικόν pro ἰατικόν, idem.

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Σὺν καὶ τῇ ἱερείᾳ κατέφλεξεν Χρυσίδι. Paulus Leopard. lib. VI, cap. 11; Adv. Jovinianum, lib. I, apud D. Hieron. Recte legitur, nec est Chryseïda legendum, ut quidam arbitrantur, tametsi apud Pausaniam legatur τὴν ἱέρειαν Χρυσηΐδα· auctores habeo Thucydiden in II et IV: Templum Junonis apud Argos deflagravit Chryside sacerdote, cum lucernam ardentem coronis apposuisset, illic ita soporata, ut incensa omnia non sentiret: propter quod Argivos verita, protinus in Phliuntem nocte confugit. Clementem item Alexandr. et Arnobium, lib. VI: Ubi Juno regina, cum inclytum ejus fanum sacerdotemque Chrysidem eadem vis flammae Argiva in civitate deleret? Ubi Serapis Aegyptius, cum consimili casu jacuit, solutus in cinerem cum mysteriis omnibus atque Iside? COLLECT.

Σὺν καὶ τῇ ἱερείᾳ κατέφλεξεν Χρυσίδι, "burned up together with the priestess Chrysis": Paulus Leopardus, book 6, ch. 11; Against Jovinian, book 1, in St Jerome. The reading is right, and we should not read Chryseis, as some think, although in Pausanias we read τὴν ἱέρειαν Χρυσηΐδα. My authorities are Thucydides in books 2 and 4: "The temple of Juno at Argos burned down when the priestess Chrysis had set a burning lamp near the garlands and fallen so fast asleep there that she did not notice everything catching fire; for which reason, fearing the Argives, she at once fled by night to Phlius"; likewise Clement of Alexandria, and Arnobius, book 6: "Where was Queen Juno, when the same force of flame destroyed her famous shrine and her priestess Chrysis in the city of Argos? Where was the Egyptian Serapis, when by a like mishap he lay dissolved into ash with all his mysteries and Isis?" COLLECT[ANEA].

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Χρυσίδι. Arnobius et Thucydides Chrysidem vocant; Pausanias vero Χρυσηΐδα in Corinthiacis, p. 115, quo loco refert eam non quidem, ut ait Clemens, cum templo conflagrasse, sed in Arcadiam ad Tegeatas confugisse, ibique in templo Minervae Aleae religione loci se tutatam esse adversus Argivos, qui eam ad poenas exposcebant, quod ejus somnolentia templum Junonis conflagrasset.

Χρυσίδι: Arnobius and Thucydides call her Chrysis; but Pausanias, in the Corinthiaca, p. 115, calls her Χρυσηΐς, and there reports that she did not, as Clement says, burn with the temple, but fled to Arcadia, to the Tegeans, and there in the temple of Minerva Alea protected herself by the sanctity of the place against the Argives, who demanded her for punishment because through her sleepiness the temple of Juno had burned.

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Πῦρ σωφρονοῦν. Tertullianus, Scorpiaco: Sapiens ignis effigiem vituli defundit illis, sugillans illic cor habentes, ubi et thesaurum. Minutius Felix Octavio: Illic sapiens ignis membra urit et reficit, carpit et nutrit, sicut ignes fulmine corpora tangunt, nec absumunt. COLLECT.

Πῦρ σωφρονοῦν, "a fire that shows good sense": Tertullian, Scorpiace: "A wise fire pours out for them the image of a calf, rebuking those who have their heart where their treasure is." Minucius Felix, Octavius: "There the wise fire burns the limbs and restores them, consumes and feeds them, as the fires of lightning touch bodies and do not consume them." COLLECT[ANEA].

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Ὁ μὲν Ἀθηναῖος. Arnobius sexto: Inter significes ille memoratus Phidias et primus, cum Olympiam formam Jovis molimine operis extulisset immensi, super Dei digito Pantauches (leg. Pantarces) inscripsit, Pulcher: nomen autem fuerit amati ab se pueri, atque obscena cupiditate dilecti. Idem iterum: Quis Praxitelen nescit, Posidippum si relegat, ad formam Cratinae meretricis, quam infelix perdite diligebat, os Veneris Gnidiae solertiarum coegisse certamine? Sed sola est haec Venus, cui de scorti vultu translatitium decus auctum est? Phryne illa Thespiaca (sicut illi referunt, qui negotia Thespiaca scriptitarunt) cum in acumine ipso esset pulchritudinis, venustatis, et floris, exemplarium fuisse perhibetur cunctarum, quae in opinione sunt, Venerum, sive per urbes Graias, sive istic quo fluxit amor talium cupiditasque signorum, etc. Ibidem rursus: Quis est enim, qui ignoret, Athenienses illos Hermas Alcibiadis ad corporis similitudinem fabricatos? Haec scilicet Arnobius pro more suo ex Clemente.

Ὁ μὲν Ἀθηναῖος: Arnobius in book 6: "That famous Phidias, first among sculptors, when he had raised the Olympian form of Jupiter with the effort of an immense work, inscribed on the god's finger Pantauches (read Pantarces), 'Fair': and this was the name of a boy he loved and cherished with obscene desire." Again: "Who does not know, if he reads Posidippus again, that Praxiteles, with all the rivalry of his skill, made the face of the Cnidian Venus to the shape of the courtesan Cratina, whom the wretch loved to distraction? But is this the only Venus on whom a borrowed beauty was conferred from a harlot's face? That Phryne of Thespiae (as those report who wrote of Thespian affairs), when she was at the very height of beauty, charm and bloom, is said to have been the model of all the Venuses that are in repute, whether through the cities of Greece or here, whither love and desire of such statues has flowed," etc. Again in the same place: "For who does not know that those Athenian Herms were made in the likeness of Alcibiades's body?" Arnobius took these things, of course, from Clement, after his custom.

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Περὶ Κνίδου. Sic legendum ut prius, potius quam περὶ Κνιδίου. SYLBURG.

Περὶ Κνίδου: so it should be read, as formerly, rather than περὶ Κνιδίου. SYLBURG.

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Τὴν Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην. A. et H. τὴν τοῦ Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην. C. τὴν ὑπὸ Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην. In exemplari perperam erat τὴν ὁ Πρ. ἐρωμένην. Nostrae lectionis exemplum mox. ID.

Τὴν Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην: A. and H. have τὴν τοῦ Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην; C. τὴν ὑπὸ Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην. In the copy it was wrongly τὴν ὁ Πρ. ἐρωμένην. An example of our reading follows shortly. THE SAME [Sylburg].

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Ἀνέδην. Ἀναίδην, Nov. Solent autem hae voces inter se commutari, ut superius adnotatum est. Huic loco ἀναίδην magis convenire videtur.

Ἀνέδην, "freely": Nov. has Ἀναίδην, "shamelessly." These words are commonly interchanged, as was noted above. Ἀναίδην seems to suit this place better.

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Ἀπηθανατίσθαι. Ἀπαθανατίσαι, Nov. Sed aliquis in margine adnotavit ἀπηθανατῆσθαι.

Ἀπηθανατίσθαι: Nov. has Ἀπαθανατίσαι. But someone noted ἀπηθανατῆσθαι in the margin.

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Κῆϋξ μὲν Αἰόλου. Κῆϋξ μὲν ὁ Αἰόλου, Nov. (continues)

Κῆϋξ μὲν Αἰόλου: Nov. has Κῆϋξ μὲν ὁ Αἰόλου. (continues)

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  • running head: 147 CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI
  • marginal letters: A sin vero turpis; B delubrum Athenis diruit ;; C spiaca meretrix cum; D sacerdotemque Chrysidem eadem
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οὐ μᾶλλον ἢ τὰς ψηφῖδας, τὰς παρὰ τοῖς αἰγιαλοῖς σεσωρευμένας τοῖς κύμασιν. Οἶδα ἐγὼ πῦρ ἐλεγκτικὸν καὶ δεισιδαιμονίας ἰατρικόν. Εἰ βούλει παύσασθαι τῆς ἀνοίας, φωταγωγήσει σε τὸ πῦρ. Τοῦτο τὸ πῦρ καὶ τὸν ἐν Ἄργει νεὼν σὺν καὶ τῇ ἱερείᾳ κατέφλεξε Χρυσίδι· καὶ τὸν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, δεύτερον μετὰ Ἀμαζόνας, καὶ τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ Καπιτώλιον ἐπινενέμηται πολλάκις· οὐκ ἀπέσχετο δὲ οὐδὲ τοῦ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρέων πόλει Σαράπιδος ἱεροῦ, Ἀθήνησι γὰρ τοῦ Διονύσου τοῦ Ἐλευθερέως κατήρειψε τὸν νεὼν, καὶ τὸν ἐν Δελφοῖς τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος πρότερον ἥρπασεν θύελλα, ἔπειτα ἠφάνισε πῦρ σωφρονοῦν. Τοῦτό σοι προοίμιον ἐπιδείκνυται, ὧν ὑπισχνεῖται τὸ πῦρ. Οἱ δὲ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων δημιουργοὶ οὐ δυσωποῦσιν ὑμῶν τοὺς ἔμφρονας, τῆς ὕλης καταφρονεῖν; ὁ μὲν Ἀθηναῖος Φειδίας ἐπὶ τῷ δακτύλῳ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου ἐπιγράψας, ΠΑΝΤΑΡΚΗΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ· οὐ γὰρ καλὸς αὐτῷ ὁ Ζεὺς, ἀλλ' ὁ ἐρώμενος ἦν· ὁ Πραξιτέλης δὲ, ὡς Ποσίδιππος ἐν τῷ περὶ Κνίδου διασαφεῖ, τὸ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἄγαλμα τῆς Κνιδίας κατασκευάζων, τῷ Κρατίνης τῆς ἐρωμένης εἴδει παραπλήσιον πεποίηκεν αὐτὴν, ἵν' ἔχοιεν οἱ δείλαιοι τὴν Πραξιτέλους ἐρωμένην προσκυνεῖν. Φρύνη δὲ ὁπηνίκα ἤνθει ἡ ἑταίρα ἡ Θεσπιακὴ, οἱ ζωγράφοι πάντες τῆς Ἀφροδίτης εἰκόνας πρὸς τὸ κάλλος ἀπεμιμοῦντο Φρύνης, ὥσπερ αὖ καὶ οἱ λιθοξόοι τοὺς Ἑρμᾶς Ἀθήνῃσιν πρὸς Ἀλκιβιάδην ἀπείκαζον. Ὑπολείπεται τῆς σῆς κρίσεως τὸ ἔργον ἐπάξαι, εἰ βούλει, καὶ τὰς ἑταίρας προσκυνεῖν. Ἐντεῦθεν, οἶμαι, κινηθέντες οἱ βασιλεῖς οἱ παλαιοὶ, καταφρονοῦντες τῶν μύθων τούτων, ἀνέδην, διὰ τὸ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἀκίνδυνον, σφᾶς αὐτοὺς θεοὺς ἀνηγόρευον· ταύτῃ κἀκείνους διὰ τὴν δόξαν ἀπηθανατίσθαι διδάσκοντες· Κῆϋξ μὲν Αἰόλου, Ζεὺς
any more than of the pebbles heaped up by the waves along the beaches. I know a fire that convicts and that cures superstition. If you wish to cease from folly, the fire will guide you with its light. This fire also burned down the temple in Argos together with the priestess Chrysis; and that of Artemis in Ephesus, the second after the Amazons, and the Capitol in Rome it has devoured many times; nor did it spare even the temple of Sarapis in the city of the Alexandrians; for at Athens it demolished the temple of Dionysus Eleuthereus, and that of Apollo at Delphi a tempest first swept away, and afterwards a sobering fire destroyed utterly. This is shown to you as a prelude of what the fire promises. And do not the makers of the statues shame the sensible among you into despising matter? Phidias the Athenian, on the one hand, having inscribed upon the finger of Olympian Zeus, PANTARCES IS FAIR—for fair in his eyes was not Zeus, but his favourite; and Praxiteles, on the other, as Posidippus makes clear in his book on Cnidus, when fashioning the statue of Cnidian Aphrodite, made her like in form to his mistress Cratine, in order that the wretched folk might have the mistress of Praxiteles to worship. And when Phryne the Thespian courtesan was in her bloom, all the painters imitated the images of Aphrodite after the beauty of Phryne, just as on the other hand the stone-carvers at Athens modelled the Hermae after Alcibiades. It remains for the work of your judgement to bring yourself, if you wish, to worship the courtesans also. Moved from this source, I suppose, the ancient kings, despising these myths, openly, because there was no danger from men, proclaimed themselves gods, teaching hereby that those others too had been immortalized on account of glory: Ceyx the son of Aeolus, called Zeus
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ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀλκυόνης τῆς γυναικός· Ἀλκυόνη δὲ αὖθις, ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς Ἥρα προσαγορευομένη. Πτολεμαῖος δὲ ὁ τέταρτος, Διόνυσος ἐκαλεῖτο· καὶ Μιθριδάτης ὁ Ποντικὸς, Διόνυσος καὶ αὐτός· ἐβούλετο δὲ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος Ἄμμωνος υἱὸς εἶναι δοκεῖν, καὶ κερασφόρος ἀναπλάττεσθαι πρὸς τῶν ἀγαλματοποιῶν, τὸ καλὸν ἀνθρώπου ὑβρίσαι σπεύδων κέρατι. Καὶ οὔτι γε βασιλεῖς μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἰδιῶται θείαις προσηγορίαις σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἐσέμνυνον, ὡς Μενεκράτης ὁ ἰατρὸς, Ζεὺς οὗτος ἐπικεκλημένος. Τί με δεῖ καταλέγειν Ἀλέξαρχον; γραμματικὸς οὗτος τὴν ἐπιστήμην γεγονὼς, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Ἄριστος ὁ Σαλαμίνιος, αὑτὸν κατεσχημάτιζεν εἰς ἥλιον. Τί δεῖ καὶ Νικαγόρου μεμνῆσθαι; Ζελείτης τὸ γένος ἦν, κατὰ τοὺς Ἀλεξάνδρου γεγονὼς χρόνους· Ἑρμῆς προσηγορεύετο ὁ Νικαγόρας, καὶ τῇ στολῇ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἐκέχρητο, ὡς αὐτὸς μαρτυρεῖ· ὅπου γε καὶ ὅλα ἔθνη καὶ πόλεις αὔτανδροι, κολακείαν ὑποδυόμεναι, ἐξευτελίζουσι τοὺς μύθους περὶ τῶν θεῶν, ἰσοθέους ἄνθρωποι κατασχηματίζοντες ἑαυτοὺς, ὑπὸ δόξης πεφυσημένοι, ἐπιψηφιζόμενοι τιμὰς ἑαυτοῖς ὑπερόγκους· νῦν μὲν τὸν Μακεδόνα τὸν ἐκ Πέλλης τὸν Ἀμύντορος Φίλιππον ἐν Κυνοσάργει νομοθετοῦντες προσκυνεῖν, τὸν τὴν κλεῖν κατεαγότα, καὶ τὸ σκέλος πεπηρωμένον, ὃς ἐξεκόπη τὸν ὀφθαλμόν· αὖθις δὲ τὸν Δημήτριον, θεὸν καὶ αὐτὸν ἀναγορεύοντες· καὶ ἔνθα μὲν ἀπέβη τοῦ ἵππου Ἀθήναζε εἰσιὼν Καταιβάτου ἱερόν ἐστι Δημητρίου· βωμοὶ δὲ πανταχοῦ, καὶ γάμος ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων αὐτῷ ὁ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ηὐτρεπίζετο. Ὁ δὲ τὴν μὲν θεὸν ὑπερηφάνει, τὸ ἄγαλμα γῆμαι μὴ δυνάμενος· Λαμίαν δὲ τὴν ἑταίραν ἔχων, εἰς ἀκρόπολιν ἀνῄει, καὶ τῷ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἐνεφύρετο παστῷ, τῇ παλαιᾷ παρθένῳ τὰ τῆς νέας ἐπιδεικνὺς ἑταίρας σχήματα. Οὐ
by his wife Alcyone, and Alcyone in turn addressed as Hera by her husband. And Ptolemy the Fourth was called Dionysus; and Mithridates of Pontus, he too was Dionysus; and Alexander also wished to be thought the son of Ammon, and to be fashioned horned by the sculptors, eager to outrage the beauty of man with a horn. And by no means kings only, but private persons also glorified themselves with divine appellations, as Menecrates the physician, who was surnamed Zeus. Why need I reckon up Alexarchus? He, having been a grammarian by profession, as Aristus of Salamis records, arrayed himself as the sun. Why need one also make mention of Nicagoras? He was a Zelite by race, having lived in the times of Alexander: Nicagoras was addressed as Hermes, and used the robe of Hermes, as he himself testifies; whereas even whole nations and cities with all their men, putting on flattery, cheapen the myths concerning the gods, men fashioning themselves as equals of the gods, puffed up by vainglory, voting extravagant honours to themselves: now enacting a law to worship in Cynosarges the Macedonian from Pella, Philip the son of Amyntor, who had his collar-bone broken and his leg maimed, and who had his eye struck out; and again proclaiming Demetrius, him too, a god; and where he dismounted from his horse on entering Athens there is a temple of Demetrius the Descender; and altars are everywhere, and a marriage with Athena was prepared for him by the Athenians. However, he disdained the goddess, not being able to marry the statue; but taking the courtesan Lamia, he went up to the Acropolis, and befouled himself in the bridal chamber of Athena, displaying to the ancient virgin the postures of the young courtesan. No
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(continued) Apollodorus, Bibliothec. lib. I, cap. 2, Halcyonen inter Aeoli filias numerat; Ceyca, Luciferi filium, Aeoli autem generum, ducta Halcyone, facit, cap. 3: Ἀλκυόνην δὲ Κῆϋξ ἔγημεν, Ἑωσφόρου παῖς. Οὗτοι δὲ δι' ὑπερηφανίαν ἀπώλοντο· ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὴν γυναῖκα ἔλεγεν Ἥραν, ἡ δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα Δία. Ζεὺς δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπωρνέωσε· καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀλκυόνην ἐποίησε, τὸν δὲ κήϋκα. Caeterum Alcyonen Ceyx, Luciferi filius, sibi in matrimonium duxit. Hi ob superbiam exstincti fuerunt. Ille enim conjugem suam, Junonem: haec vero virum suum, Jovem appellabat. Utrumque autem Jupiter in aves, illam in alcyonem, hunc in mergum, mutavit.

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Πτολεμαῖος δέ. P. Victorius lib. VII, cap. 4, locum ex oratione pro Flacco indicat, et Mithridatem, deum, illum patrem, illum conservatorem Asiae, illum Dionysium Bacchum Liberum nominabant. Athenaeus, lib. V: Obviam processisse artifices Bacchi, et libationes factas, cum Athenio regis Mithridatis praetextu per Atticam circumferretur. Vide eumdem Victorium cap. 7, 19. Ptolemaeo, Auletae filio, Cleopatrae fratri, cognomen Dionysii tribuunt Eusebius in Chronico, et alii passim. COLLECT.

Πτολεμαῖος δέ: P. Victorius, book 7, ch. 4, points to a passage of the speech for Flaccus: "and they called Mithridates god, that father, that saviour of Asia, that Dionysus, Bacchus, Liber." Athenaeus, book 5: "that the artists of Bacchus went out to meet him and libations were made, when Athenion was carried about through Attica under the pretext of King Mithridates." See the same Victorius, chs. 7, 19. Eusebius in the Chronicle and others here and there give the surname Dionysus to Ptolemy, son of Auletes and brother of Cleopatra. COLLECT[ANEA].

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Τὸ κ. ἀνθρ. ὑβρ. Τὸ κ. τοῦ ἀνθρ. Nov.

Τὸ κ[…] ἀνθρ[…] ὑβρ[…]: Nov. has Τὸ κ. τοῦ ἀνθρ.

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Τί με δεῖ. Athenaeus lib. III meminit Alexarchi cujusdam, Cassandri Macedoniae regis fratris, qui dicebatur Uranopolidis conditor, et loquendi peculiares formas invexerat. Itaque ad Cassandri duces scripserat, Alexarchus bellator primipilos Solis filios salvere jubet. Idem lib. VII Menecratis meminit, ejusque epistolam ad Philippum affert, cujus hoc initium est: Tu quidem in Macedonia regnas, at ego in Medicina. Recitat et versus cujusdam, qui ait Nicostratum se Herculem dixisse, et alium quemdam se Mercurium autumasse chlamide ornatum, caduceo, et alis, Nicagoram scilicet Zelitem, qui patriae tyrannidem occupavit. COLLECT.

Τί με δεῖ: Athenaeus, book 3, mentions one Alexarchus, brother of Cassander king of Macedonia, who was called the founder of Uranopolis and had introduced peculiar forms of speech. So he had written to Cassander's officers: "Alexarchus the warrior bids the first centurions, sons of the Sun, greeting." In book 7 he mentions Menecrates and gives his letter to Philip, which begins: "You reign in Macedonia, but I in Medicine." He quotes also the verses of someone who says that Nicostratus called himself Hercules, and that another fancied himself Mercury, decked with cloak, caduceus and wings, namely Nicagoras of Zela, who seized tyranny over his country. COLLECT[ANEA].

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Ἀλέξαρχον. Ἀνάξαρχον, Nov.

Ἀλέξαρχον: Nov. has Ἀνάξαρχον.

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Ὅπου γε καὶ ὅλα ἔθνη. Asteriscum praefigi his verbis curavimus, ut lector meminerit aliquid deesse. Desunt autem haec sine dubio, aut ejusdem sententiae, ἀλλὰ τί ταῦτα λέγων ὅπου γε, etc. HEINSIUS. Mihi vero non apparet quidquam deesse: proinde asteriscum Heinsianum delevi.

Ὅπου γε καὶ ὅλα ἔθνη: "We have had an asterisk set before these words, so that the reader may remember that something is missing. What is missing is no doubt this, or something of the same sense: ἀλλὰ τί ταῦτα λέγων ὅπου γε, etc." HEINSIUS. To me nothing seems to be missing; so I have deleted Heinsius's asterisk.

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Μύθους περί. Μύθους τοὺς περί, Nov. Recte.

Μύθους περί: Nov. has Μύθους τοὺς περί, rightly.

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Ὑπερηφάνει. Ὑπερηφανεῖ Nov. Hoc verbum Clemens accusativo alias etiam connectit. Strom. II, pag. 367: ὑπερηφάνησεν...διδόμενα αὐτῷ· contempsit, quae ei dabantur. Ignatius, ad Smyrnaeos, cap. 10: ἃ οὐχ ὑπερηφανήσατε, οὐδὲ ἐπαισχύνθητε· quae non despexistis, nec erubuistis. Suidas: Ὑπερηφανῶ αἰτιατικῇ· accusativo gaudet. Origenes, adv. Cels., lib. VIII, p. 412: Ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοῖς τινα ἐπιφάνειαν γεγονέναι, τὰ μὲν τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης τέχνης ὑπερηφάνεισαν, ἀναβαίνειν δὲ πειραθεῖσι τῷ λογισμῷ ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὸν ἐπὶ πᾶσι Θεόν. Sed eis se aliquo modo ostendere, qui, spretis simulacris humana arte factis, conati sunt ad altissimum Deum ratione ascendere. Quo loco in margine adnotatum est ὑπερφρονήσασιν; sed legendum facili litterarum permutatione, ὑπερηφανήσασιν.

Ὑπερηφάνει: Nov. has Ὑπερηφανεῖ. Clement elsewhere too joins this verb with the accusative. Stromata 2, p. 367: "he disdained… the things given him." Ignatius, To the Smyrnaeans, ch. 10: "which you did not despise nor were ashamed of." Suidas: "Ὑπερηφανῶ takes the accusative." Origen, Against Celsus, book 8, p. 412: "But that some manifestation came to those who despised the works of human art and tried to ascend by reason to the very God over all." But that he shows himself in some way to those who, scorning images made by human art, tried by reason to ascend to the most high God. In that place ὑπερφρονήσασιν is noted in the margin; but by an easy exchange of letters we should read ὑπερηφανήσασιν.

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Ἐνεφύρετο. Ἐνεφυρᾶτο, Nov.

Ἐνεφύρετο: Nov. has Ἐνεφυρᾶτο.

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Θεοῖσιν ἴσον ἐποίησεν. Herodianus, lib. IV in principio; Suetonius, in Claudio, cap. 45; Cornelius Tacitus Annal. XV, extremo; Eutropius, in Joviano. R. SYLBURG. — Mox, παρ' ὑμῶν pro παρ' ὑμῖν Nov.

Θεοῖσιν ἴσον ἐποίησεν, "made equal to the gods": Herodian, at the beginning of book 4; Suetonius, Claudius, ch. 45; Cornelius Tacitus, Annals 15, at the end; Eutropius, in the Jovian. R. SYLBURG. — Next, Nov. has παρ' ὑμῶν for παρ' ὑμῖν.

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Φιλεῖ γάρ. Sententiam hanc de praesentium neglectu, tractat etiam Maximus Tyrius, p. 172 et 197, ac Plutarchus item Περὶ εὐθυμίας. H. SYLB.

Φιλεῖ γάρ: this thought on the neglect of present things is treated also by Maximus of Tyre, pp. 172 and 197, and likewise by Plutarch in On Tranquillity of Mind. H. SYLB[URG].

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Ὤ μοι ἐγώ. Ἐγὼν habet Homer. Iliad. Π, v. 433. Versus, quos Clemens paulo post recitat, occurrunt Iliad. Α, v. 221.

Ὤ μοι ἐγώ: Homer has Ἐγών, Iliad 16 (Π), line 433. The verses Clement quotes a little after occur at Iliad 1 (Α), line 221.

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Πῶς οὖν ἔτι θεοί. Scribe, πῶς οὖν ἔτι θεοὶ τὰ εἴδωλα, καὶ οἱ θεοὶ καὶ οἱ δαίμονες, βδελυρὰ ὄντως καὶ ἀκάθαρτα πνεύματα; HEINS.

Πῶς οὖν ἔτι θεοί: write, "How then are the idols still gods, both the gods and the demons, truly abominable and unclean spirits?" HEINS[IUS].

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Περὶ ἃ δή. Nescio an rectius περὶ ᾅδη, ut infernales umbrae intelligantur. H. divise legit περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὑποφαίνονται. SYLBURG. — Περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὑποφαίνονται ἀμυδρῶς, σκ., circa quae quidem obscure apparent, Nov., recte. Quam lectionem firmat Platonis locus, quem Clemens haec verba scribens imitatus est: is exstat Phaedon., p. 61, ubi de pravorum hominum animabus agens: Ἐμβριθὲς δέ γε, ὦ φίλε, inquit, τοῦτο οἴεσθαι χρὴ εἶναι, καὶ βαρὺ, καὶ γεῶδες, καὶ ὁρατόν· ὃ δὴ ἔχουσα ἡ τοιαύτη ψυχὴ, βαρύνεταί τε καὶ ἕλκεται πάλιν εἰς τὸν ὁρατὸν τόπον φόβῳ τοῦ ἀειδοῦς τε καὶ ᾅδου, ὥσπερ λέγεται, περὶ τὰ μνήματά τε καὶ τοὺς τάφους καλινδουμένη· περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὤφθη ἄττα ψυχῶν σκιοειδῆ φαντάσματα, οἷα παρέχονται αἱ τοιαῦται ψυχαὶ εἴδωλα, αἱ μὴ καθαρῶς ἀπολυθεῖσαι, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ὁρατοῦ μετέχουσαι· διὸ καὶ ὁρῶνται. Ponderosum vero, o amice, id putandum est, et grave, terrenumque, et visibile, quod anima ejusmodi secum trahit: ideoque ab eo gravatur, et rursus ad visibilem trahitur locum metu invisibilis atque occulti: et, quemadmodum (continues)

Περὶ ἃ δή: perhaps more correctly περὶ ᾅδη, so that the shades of the underworld are meant. H. reads it divided, περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὑποφαίνονται. SYLBURG. — Nov. has Περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὑποφαίνονται ἀμυδρῶς, σκ[ιοειδῆ], "around which indeed they faintly appear," rightly. This reading is confirmed by the passage of Plato that Clement imitated in writing these words; it stands in the Phaedo, p. 61, where, treating of the souls of wicked men, he says: "This, my friend, one must suppose to be heavy and weighty and earthy and visible; and such a soul, having it, is weighed down and dragged back into the visible region by fear of the unseen and of Hades, as it is said, wandering about the tombs and graves; around which indeed certain shadowy phantoms of souls have been seen, such images as souls of this kind present, which have not been released in purity but share in the visible; and that is why they are seen." Weighty, my friend, one must think it, and heavy, earthy and visible, what such a soul drags with it; and so it is weighed down by it, and dragged back to the visible place by fear of the invisible and hidden; and, as (continues)

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  • marginal letters: A ingrederetur, Demetrii Descensoris; B temporis diuturnitas, tum; C Superata est Jovis; D versantur? quibus etiam
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νέμεσις τοίνυν οὐδὲ Ἱππωνι, ἀπαθανατίζοντι τὸ θάνατον τὸν ἑαυτοῦ· ὁ Ἵππων γὰρ οὗτος ἐπιγραφῆναι ἐκέλευσεν τῷ μνήματι τῷ ἑαυτοῦ τόδε τὸ ἐλεγεῖον·
indignation, then, should be felt even against Hippon, when he immortalizes his own death; for this Hippon ordered this elegiac couplet to be inscribed upon his own monument:
Ἵππωνος τόδε σῆμα, τὸν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν Ἴσον ἐποίησεν μοῖρα καταφθιμένον.
This is the tomb of Hippon, whom destiny made equal to the immortal gods when he perished.
Εὖγε, Ἵππων, ἐπιδεικνύεις ἡμῖν τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην πλάνην. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ λαλοῦντί σοι μὴ πεπιστεύκασι, νεκροῦ γενέσθωσαν μαθηταί. Χρησμὸς οὗτός ἐστιν Ἵππωνος· νοήσωμεν αὐτόν. Οἱ προσκυνούμενοι παρ' ὑμῖν ἄνθρωποι γενόμενοί ποτε, εἶτα μέντοι τεθνᾶσιν· τετίμηκε δὲ αὐτοὺς ὁ μῦθος, καὶ ὁ χρόνος· φιλεῖ γάρ πως, τὰ μὲν παρόντα, συνηθείᾳ καταφρονεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ παρῳχηκότα, τοῦ παραυτίκα ἐλέγχου κεχωρισμένα χρόνων ἀδηλίᾳ, τετιμῆσθαι τῷ πλάσματι, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἀπιστεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ θαυμάζεσθαι. Αὐτίκα γοῦν οἱ παλαιοὶ νεκροὶ τῷ πολλῷ τῆς πλάνης χρόνῳ σεμνυνόμενοι τοῖς ἔπειτα νομίζονται θεοί. Πίστις ὑμῖν τῶνδε, αὐτὰ ὑμῶν τὰ μυστήρια, αἱ πανηγύρεις, δεσμὰ καὶ τραύματα, καὶ δακρύοντες θεοί·
Well done, Hippon! You point out to us human error. For even if they did not believe you when you spoke, let them become disciples of a dead man. This is the oracle of Hippon; let us understand it. Those who are worshipped among you were once men, and then, however, died; and myth and time have honoured them; for somehow things present are wont to be despised through familiarity, whereas things past, being separated from immediate refutation by the obscurity of times, are wont to be honoured through fiction, and the former to be disbelieved, but the latter even to be marvelled at. Straightway, at any rate, the ancient dead, revered through the long duration of error, are accounted gods by posterity. The proof for you of these things is your very mysteries, your solemn assemblies, bonds and wounds, and weeping gods:
Ὤ μοι ἐγὼ, ὅτε μοι Σαρπηδόνα, φίλτατον ἀνδρῶν, Μοῖρ' ὑπὸ Πατρόκλοιο Μενοιτιάδαο δαμῆναι.
Woe is me, when it is fated that Sarpedon, dearest of men to me, be subdued beneath Patroclus the son of Menoetius!
Κεκράτηται τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Διὸς, καὶ ὁ Ζεὺς ὑμῖν διὰ Σαρπηδόνα οἰμώζει νενικημένος. Εἴδωλα γοῦν εἰκότως αὐτοὺς, καὶ δαίμονας ὑμεῖς αὐτοὶ κεκλήκατε· ἐπεὶ καὶ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν αὐτὴν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους θεοὺς, κακίᾳ τιμήσας Ὅμηρος, δαίμονας προσηγόρευσεν·
The will of Zeus has been overcome, and your Zeus wails, defeated on account of Sarpedon. Reasonably, therefore, have you yourselves called them idols and daemons; since Homer also, honouring Athena herself and the other gods with malice, addressed them as daemons:
... Ἡ δ' Οὔλυμπόνδε βεβήκει Δώματ' ἐς αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς μετὰ δαίμονας ἄλλους.
And she had gone to Olympus, to the mansions of aegis-bearing Zeus among the other daemons.
Πῶς οὖν ἔτι θεοὶ τὰ εἴδωλα καὶ οἱ δαίμονες, βδελυρὰ ὄντως καὶ πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα, πρὸς πάντων ὁμολογούμενα γήϊνα, καὶ δεισαλέα, κάτω βρίθοντα, περὶ τοὺς τάφους καὶ τὰ μνημεῖα καλινδούμενα; περὶ ἃ δὴ καὶ ὑποφαίνονται, ἀμυδρῶς σκιοειδῆ φαντάσματα. Ταῦθ' ὑμῶν οἱ θεοὶ, τὰ εἴδωλα, αἱ
How then are the idols and the daemons still gods, being in truth abominable and unclean spirits, acknowledged by all to be earthy and filthy, weighed down below, wallowing about tombs and monuments, about which indeed they also dimly appear as shadowy phantoms? These are your gods, the idols, the
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σκιαὶ, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις χωλαὶ ἐκεῖναι καὶ ῥυσαὶ, παραβλῶπες ὀφθαλμῶν, αἱ Λιταὶ, αἱ Θερσίτου μᾶλλον αἱ Διὸς θυγατέρες. Ὥστε μοι δοκεῖν χαριέντως φάναι τὸν Βίωνα· Πῶς ἂν ἐνδίκως οἱ ἄνθρωποι παρὰ τοῦ Διὸς αἰτήσωνται τὴν εὐτεκνίαν, ἣν οὐθ' αὑτῷ παρασχεῖν ἴσχυσεν; Οἴμοι τῆς ἀθεότητος! Τὴν ἀκήρατον οὐσίαν, τὸ ὅσον ἐφ' ὑμῖν, κατορύττετε· καὶ τὸ ἄχραντον ἐκεῖνο, καὶ τὸ ἅγιον, τοῖς τάφοις ἐπικεχώκατε, τῆς ἀληθῶς ὄντως οὐσίας συλήσαντες τὸ θεῖον. Τί δὴ οὖν τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῖς οὐ θεοῖς προσενείματε γέρα; τί δαὶ, καταλιπόντες τὸν οὐρανὸν, τὴν γῆν τετιμήκατε; Τί δ' ἄλλο χρυσὸς, ἢ ἄργυρος, ἢ ἀδάμας, ἢ σίδηρος, ἢ χαλκὸς, ἢ ἐλέφας, ἢ λίθοι τίμιοι, οὐχὶ γῆ τε καὶ ἐκ γῆς; Οὐχὶ δὲ μιᾶς μητρὸς ἔκγονα τῆς γῆς τὰ πάντα ταῦτα ὅσα ὁρᾷς; Τί δὴ οὖν, ὦ μάταιοι καὶ κενόφρονες (πάλιν γὰρ δὴ ἐπαναλήψομαι), τὸν ὑπερουράνιον βλασφημήσαντες τόπον, εἰς τοὔδαφος κατεσύρατε τὴν εὐσέβειαν, χθονίους ὑμῖν ἀναπλάττοντες θεούς· καὶ τὰ γεννητὰ ταῦτα πρὸ τοῦ ἀγεννήτου μετιόντες Θεοῦ, βαθυτέρῳ περιπεπτώκατε ζόφῳ; Καλὸς ὁ Πάριος λίθος, ἀλλ' οὐδέπω Ποσειδῶν· καλὸς ὁ ἐλέφας, ἀλλ' οὐδέπω Ὀλύμπιος· ἐνδεὴς ἀεί ποτε ἡ ὕλη τῆς τέχνης· ὁ Θεὸς δὲ ἀνενδεής. Προῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα· ἡ ὕλη καὶ τὸ πλούσιον τῆς οὐσίας πρὸς μὲν τὸ κέρδος ἀγώγιμον, μόνῳ δὲ τῷ σχήματι γίνεται σεβάσμιον. Χρυσός ἐστι τὸ ἄγαλμά σου, ξύλον ἐστὶ, λίθος ἐστὶ, γῆ ἐστιν, ἐὰν ἄνωθεν νοήσῃς, μορφὴν παρὰ τοῦ τεχνίτου προσλαβοῦσα. Γῆν δὲ ἐγὼ πατεῖν, οὐ προσκυνεῖν μεμελέτηκα· οὐ γάρ μοι θέμις ἐμπιστεῦσαί ποτε τοῖς ἀψύχοις τὰς τῆς ψυχῆς ἐλπίδας. Ἰτέον οὖν, ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα, ἐγγυτάτω τῶν ἀγαλμάτων, ὡς οἰκεία ἡ
shadows, and in addition to these those lame and wrinkled ones, askance of eyes, the Prayers, the daughters of Thersites rather than of Zeus. So that Bion seems to me to have said wittily: How could men justly ask of Zeus goodly offspring, which he was not able to provide even for himself? Alas for the godlessness! The incorruptible substance, so far as in you lies, you bury in the earth; and that undefiled and holy thing you have heaped over with tombs, robbing the Divine of its truly real essence. Why then have you assigned the honours of God to those that are no gods? And why, having forsaken heaven, have you honoured earth? For what else is gold, or silver, or adamant, or iron, or bronze, or ivory, or precious stones, if not earth and of earth? And are not all these things that you see the offspring of one mother, the earth? Why then, O vain and empty-minded ones (for once again I will repeat it), having blasphemed the supercelestial region, have you dragged piety down to the ground, fashioning for yourselves earthy gods, and pursuing these created things in preference to the unbegotten God, have you fallen into a deeper darkness? Fair is the Parian stone, yet not Poseidon; fair is the ivory, yet not the Olympian; matter is ever in need of art, whereas God is in need of nothing. Art came forth, the figure has been cast about it; the matter and the richness of its substance is negotiable for gain, but becomes venerable by its figure alone. Gold is your statue, it is wood, it is stone, it is earth, if you consider it from its origin, having received form from the craftsman. But I have practised treading upon earth, not worshipping it; for it is never lawful for me to entrust the hopes of the soul to soulless things. We must therefore go as close as possible to the statues, in order that from their very appearance it may be shown how congenial the
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(continued) fertur, circa monumenta sepulcraque versatur, circa quae jam nonnulla apparuerunt animarum umbrosa phantasmata, qualia praeferunt simulacra tales animae, quae videlicet non purae decesserunt a corpore, sed visibile aliquid trahentes: quo fit, ut videri possint. Eumdem locum respicit Origenes, contra Cels., lib. VII, pag. 334: Ἡ δὲ φαύλη, καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτάδων καθελκομένη ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ μηδ' ἀναπνεῦσαι (forte l. ἀνανεῦσαι) δυναμένη, τῇδε φέρεται καὶ κυλινδεῖται, ἡ μέν τις ἐπὶ τὰ μνήματα, ἔνθα καὶ ὤφθη σκιοειδῶν ψυχῶν φαντάσματα, ἡ δέ τις ἁπαξαπλῶς περὶ τὴν γῆν· ποδαπὰ χρὴ νομίζειν εἶναι πνεύματα τὰ ὅλους, ἵν' οὕτως ὀνομάσω, αἰῶνας προσδεθέντα, ὥσπερ εἴτε μαγγανείαις τισὶν, εἴτε καὶ διὰ τὴν σφετέραν κακίαν, οἰκοδομαῖς καὶ τόποις; Quaecumque autem mala est anima, in terram depressa peccatorum onere, sine respiratione agitatur et volutatur huc illuc, quaedam circa monumenta, ubi etiam umbrosa quaedam animarum spectra interdum conspiciuntur, aliae circa terram passim volitantes: quales esse spiritus eos censendum est, qui tot integris, ut ita dicam, saeculis, sive aliquibus incantationibus, sive suapte malitia, sunt alligati certis locis et aedificiis. Putabant scilicet animas atque etiam reliquos spiritus seu materia concretos esse, seu materiali vehiculo inclusos. Conf. quae adnotata sunt pag. 35.

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Χωλαὶ ἐκ. Respicit Iliad. I, v. 499: Καὶ γάρ τε Λιταί εἰσι Διὸς κοῦραι μεγάλοιο / Χωλαί τε, ῥυσσαί τε, παραβλῶπές τ' ὀφθαλμώ. Sunt enim Litae Jovis filiae magni, / Claudae, rugosaeque, et strabis oculis. E quo loco scribendum apud Clementem παραβλῶπες ὀφθαλμώ, pro παραβλῶπες ὀφθαλμῶν.

Χωλαὶ ἐκ[…]: he has in view Iliad 9 (I), line 499 [498]: "For the Prayers are daughters of great Zeus, lame and wrinkled and squinting of eye." For the Litae are daughters of great Jupiter, lame, wrinkled, and with squinting eyes. From this place we should write in Clement παραβλῶπες ὀφθαλμώ for παραβλῶπες ὀφθαλμῶν.

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Μᾶλλον αἱ Διὸς θυγ. C. A. et H. μᾶλλον ἢ ὡς Διὸς θυγ. magis quam Jovis filiae. SYLBURG. Vel, μᾶλλον ἢ Διός.

Μᾶλλον αἱ Διὸς θυγ[ατέρες]: C., A. and H. have μᾶλλον ἢ ὡς Διὸς θυγ., "rather than as daughters of Jupiter." SYLBURG. Or μᾶλλον ἢ Διός.

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Βίωνα. Aliquis in margine Nov. adnotavit juxta hoc nomen, ἱστορικὸς οὗτος ἐγένετο, hic erat historiae scriptor. Porro Clemens intelligit Bionem Boristhenitem, philosophum e schola Theodori, deorum contemptoris.

Βίωνα: someone noted beside this name in the margin of Nov. "this man was a historian." But Clement means Bion of Borysthenes, a philosopher of the school of Theodorus, the despiser of the gods.

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Κατορύττετε. Κατόρυττε, Nov.

Κατορύττετε: Nov. has Κατόρυττε.

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Τῆς ἀληθῶς ὄντως οὐσίας. B. et A. τῆς ἀληθῶς οὔσης οὐσίας. SYLB. Malim τῆς ἀληθῶς ὄντως οὐσίας.

Τῆς ἀληθῶς ὄντως οὐσίας: B. and A. have τῆς ἀληθῶς οὔσης οὐσίας. SYLB[URG]. I should prefer τῆς ἀληθῶς ὄντως οὐσίας.

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Συλήσαντες τὸ... προσενείματε γέρα. Haec omittit Nov.

Συλήσαντες τὸ… προσενείματε γέρα: Nov. omits these words.

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Λίθοι τίμιοι. Λίθος τίμιος, Nov.

Λίθοι τίμιοι: Nov. has Λίθος τίμιος.

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Προῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα. Deus nulla re indiget; idola arte indigent et certa figura. Utrumque enim illis additur, ut fiant id quod sunt, hoc est dii, ex opinione miserorum gentilium. Scribe, προσῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα, accessit ars, circumjecta est figura. Nisi quod interpres legisse videatur προσβέβληται· quod optime convenit cum altero: προσῆλθεν, προσβέβληται· utrumque enim notat accessisse aliquid; idque τῷ ἀνενδεεῖ, qui est Deus. HEINS. — Legendum iisdem verbis manentibus, sola interpunctione mutata, προῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα ἡ ὕλη· καὶ τ., prodiit, vel praecessit, ars, figuram induit materia, etc. Sic paulo post: Τὸ ἄγαλμα.... γῆ ἐστιν, ἐὰν ἄνωθεν νοήσῃς, μορφὴν παρὰ τοῦ τεχνίτου προσλαβοῦσα.

Προῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα: God needs nothing; idols need art and a definite shape. For both are added to them, that they may become what they are, namely gods, in the opinion of the wretched Gentiles. Write προσῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα, "art has come to it, the shape has been put round it." Except that the translator seems to have read προσβέβληται, which agrees excellently with the other: προσῆλθεν, προσβέβληται; for both mark that something has been added, and that to the one who needs nothing, who is God. HEINS[IUS]. — We should read with the same words kept and only the punctuation changed: προῆλθεν ἡ τέχνη, περιβέβληται τὸ σχῆμα ἡ ὕλη· καὶ τ., "art came forth (or went first); the matter put on a shape," etc. So a little after: "The image… is earth, if you consider it from its origin, having received its form from the craftsman."

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Ἐλέγχεται. Scribi possit ἐλέγχηται.

Ἐλέγχεται: one could write ἐλέγχηται.

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Ἀπὸ τῆς σ.... τριαίνης. Haec omittit Nov.

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Ὁ Κύπριος. Arnobius paulo ante finem lib. VI: Philostephanus in Cypriacis auctor est, Pygmalionem, regem Cypri, simulacrum Veneris, quod sanctitatis apud Cyprios et religionis habebatur antiquae, adamasse, ut feminam, mente, anima, lumine rationis judiciique caecatis: solitumque dementem, tanquam si uxoria res esset, sublevato in lectulum numine copularier et amplexibus atque ore; resque alias agere libidinis vacuae imaginatione frustrabiles. Consimili ratione Posidippus, in eo libro quem scripserat super Gnido, superque rebus ejus, adolescentem haud ignobilem memorat, sed vocabulum ejus obscurat, correptum amoribus Veneris, propter quam Gnidus in nomine est, amatorias et ipsum miscuisse lascivias, cum ejusdem numinis signo genialibus fusum toris, et voluptatum consequentium finibus. Pygmalionem alii, non regem, sed statuarium fuisse, et a se factae statuae amore arsisse referunt. Conf. Ovid. Metam., lib. X, v. 245. Pygmalionis statuarii meminit Philostratus, in Vita Apollon., lib. V, cap. 5. De Veneris Gnidiae amoribus conf. Plin. Hist. nat., lib. XXXVI, cap. 4 et 5; Valer. Maxim., lib. VIII, cap. 11; Philostratus, De vita Apollonii, lib. VI, cap. 40. Similium amorum alia quaedam exempla memorat Aelianus, Var. hist., lib. IX, c. 39.

Ὁ Κύπριος: Arnobius, a little before the end of book 6: "Philostephanus in his Cypriaca records that Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, fell in love with an image of Venus, held by the Cypriots in ancient sanctity and reverence, as if with a woman, his mind, soul and the light of reason and judgement blinded; and that the madman used, as though it were a wife, to lift the deity onto his couch and couple with it in embraces and kisses, and do other things, frustrated by the imagination of an empty lust. In like manner Posidippus, in the book he had written on Gnidus and its affairs, tells of a young man of good birth, though he suppresses his name, who, seized with love of the Venus for whom Gnidus is famous, likewise indulged his amorous wantonness, lying with the statue of that same deity on the marriage bed, to the end of the pleasures that follow." Others report that Pygmalion was not a king but a sculptor, and burned with love for a statue he had made himself. Compare Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 10, line 245. Philostratus mentions the sculptor Pygmalion in the Life of Apollonius, book 5, ch. 5. On the loves for the Cnidian Venus compare Pliny, Natural History, book 36, chs. 4 and 5; Valerius Maximus, book 8, ch. 11; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius, book 6, ch. 40. Aelian, Varied History, book 9, ch. 39, records some other examples of like loves.

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Μίγνυται τῇ λίθῳ. Τῇ λίθῳ scripsit auctor: sexus exprimendi gratia usus est eo genere: q. d. τῇ λιθίνῃ Ἀφροδίτῃ. SYLB.

Μίγνυται τῇ λίθῳ: the author wrote τῇ λίθῳ; he used that gender to express the sex, as if to say "with the stone Aphrodite." SYLB[URG].

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Προσαγωγός. Προαγωγός Nov., quod praetulerim licet utrumque tolerari possit. Paulo post προσάγουσα habet Nov., quo loco alii codd. προάγουσα.

Προσαγωγός: Nov. has Προαγωγός, which I should prefer, though both can be tolerated. A little after, Nov. has προσάγουσα, where other manuscripts have προάγουσα.

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Οὐδὲ μὴν τ. κ. λ. β. Οὐδὲ μὴν οὐδὲ τοὺς κατὰ λόγον βεβιωκότας, Nov., quod plenius est.

Οὐδὲ μὴν τ[οὺς] κ[ατὰ] λ[όγον] β[εβιωκότας]: Nov. has Οὐδὲ μὴν οὐδὲ τοὺς κατὰ λόγον βεβιωκότας, which is fuller.

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Περιστεραῖς. Περιστεραί, Nov.

Περιστεραῖς: Nov. has Περιστεραί.

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Ἵπποις. Aelianus, Var. hist. lib. II, cap. 3, meminit τοῦ ἵππου χρεμετίσαντος πρὸς τὸν ἵππον τὸν ἐν τῇ εἰκόνι, equi adhinnientis equo picto ab Apelle. Valer. Maxim., loco cit. cum de amore Cnidiae Veneris egisset, addit: Quo excusabilior est error equi qui, visa pictura equae, hinnitum edere coactus est: et canum latratus, aspectu picti canis incitatus; taurusque ad amorem et concubitum aeneae vaccae Syracusis nimiae similitudinis irritamento compulsus.

Ἵπποις: Aelian, Varied History, book 2, ch. 3, mentions the horse that neighed at the horse in the picture, a horse neighing at a horse painted by Apelles. Valerius Maximus, in the place cited, having treated of the love for the Cnidian Venus, adds: "All the more excusable is the error of the horse that, on seeing the picture of a mare, was driven to neigh; and the barking of dogs, roused by the sight of a painted dog; and the bull at Syracuse, driven to love and coupling with a bronze cow by the provocation of its too great likeness."

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Νεκρᾷ. Νεκρῷ, Nov.

Νεκρᾷ: Nov. has Νεκρῷ.

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Προσκυνεῖν· τὰ δὲ ἀγάλμ. H. προσκυνεῖν τά τε ἀγάλματα καὶ τὰς γραφάς. SYLBURG. — Quam emendationem firmat Nov. Paulo ante, προσάγουσα, pro προάγουσα. Idem.

Προσκυνεῖν· τὰ δὲ ἀγάλμ[ατα]: H. has προσκυνεῖν τά τε ἀγάλματα καὶ τὰς γραφάς. SYLBURG. — Nov. confirms this emendation. A little before, the same has προσάγουσα for προάγουσα.

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Ὡς ἀλήθεια. Ἕστηκε. Ὡς ἀληθείᾳ ἕστηκεν conjuncte, Nov.

Ὡς ἀλήθεια. Ἕστηκε: Nov. has Ὡς ἀληθείᾳ ἕστηκεν, joined.

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  • running head: 155 CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI
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πλάνη κἀκ τῆς προσόψεως ἐλέγχεται· ἐναπομέμακται γὰρ πάνυ δὴ σαφῶς τὰ εἴδη τῶν ἀγαλμάτων τὴν διάθεσιν τῶν δαιμόνων. Εἰ γοῦν τις τὰς γραφὰς καὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα περινοστῶν θεῷτο, γνωριεῖ ὑμῶν παραυτίκα τοὺς θεοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἐπονειδίστων σχημάτων· τὸν Διόνυσον ἀπὸ τῆς στολῆς· τὸν Ἥφαιστον ἀπὸ τῆς τέχνης· τὴν Δηὼ ἀπὸ τῆς συμφορᾶς· ἀπὸ τοῦ κρηδέμνου τὴν Ἰνώ· ἀπὸ τῆς τριαίνης τὸν Ποσειδῶ· ἀπὸ τοῦ κύκνου τὸν Δία· τὸν δὲ Ἡρακλέα δείκνυσιν ἡ πυρά· κἂν γυμνὴν ἴδῃ τις ἀνάγραπτον γυναῖκα, τὴν χρυσῆν Ἀφροδίτην νοεῖ. Οὕτως ὁ Κύπριος, ὁ Πυγμαλίων ἐκεῖνος, ἐλεφαντίνου ἠράσθη ἀγάλματος· τὸ ἄγαλμα Ἀφροδίτης ἦν καὶ γυμνὴ ἦν· νικᾶται ὁ Κύπριος τῷ σχήματι, καὶ συνέρχεται τῷ ἀγάλματι· καὶ τοῦτο Φιλοστέφανος ἱστορεῖ. Ἀφροδίτη δὲ ἄλλη ἐν Κνίδῳ, λίθος ἦν, καὶ καλὴ ἦν· ἕτερος ἠράσθη ταύτης, καὶ μίγνυται τῇ λίθῳ· Ποσίδιππος ἱστορεῖ· ὁ μὲν πρότερος ἐν τῷ περὶ Κύπρου, ὁ δὲ ἕτερος ἐν τῷ περὶ Κνίδου. Τοσοῦτον ἴσχυσεν ἀπατῆσαι τέχνη, προσαγωγὸς ἀνθρώποις ἐρωτικοῖς εἰς βάραθρον γενομένη. Δραστήριος μὲν ἡ δημιουργικὴ, ἀλλ' οὐχ οἵα τε ἀπατῆσαι λογικὸν, οὐδὲ μὴν τοὺς κατὰ λόγον βεβιωκότας. ζωγραφίᾳ μὲν γὰρ, δι' ὁμοιότητα σκιαγραφίας, περιστεραῖς προσέπτησαν πελειάδες· καὶ ἵπποις καλῶς γεγραμμέναις προσεχρεμέτισαν ἵπποι. Ἐρασθῆναι κόρην εἰκόνος λέγουσι· καὶ νέον καλὸν Κνιδίου ἀγάλματος. Ἀλλ' ἦσαν τῶν θεατῶν αἱ ὄψεις ἠπατημέναι ὑπὸ τῆς τέχνης· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν θεᾷ τις συνεπλάκη, οὐδ' ἂν νεκρᾷ τις συνετάφη, οὐδ' ἂν ἠράσθη δαίμονος καὶ λίθου ἄνθρωπος σωφρονῶν. Ὑμᾶς δὲ ἄλλῃ γοητείᾳ ἀπατᾷ ἡ τέχνη, εἰ καὶ μὴ ἐπὶ τὸ ἐρᾷν προσάγουσα, ἀλλὰ ἐπὶ τὸ τιμᾷν καὶ προσκυνεῖν· τὰ δὲ ἀγάλματα, καὶ τὰς γραφάς. Ὁμοία γε ἡ γραφή. Ἐπαινείσθω μὲν ἡ τέχνη, μὴ ἀπατάτω δὲ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὡς ἀλήθεια. Ἕστηκεν ὁ ἵππος ἡσυχῆ· ἡ πελειὰς, ἀτρεμής· ἀργὸν τὸ πτερόν· ἡ δὲ βοῦς ἡ Δαιδάλου, ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ξύλου πεποιημένη, ταῦρον
error is! For the forms of the statues have very clearly indeed stamped upon themselves the disposition of the daemons. If, at any rate, one should go about and view the paintings and the statues, he will straightway recognize your gods from their shameful figures: Dionysus from his robe; Hephaestus from his craft; Deo from her calamity; Ino from her veil; Poseidon from his trident; Zeus from the swan; and the pyre shows Heracles; and if anyone sees a woman depicted naked, he understands it to be golden Aphrodite. Thus the Cyprian, that famous Pygmalion, fell in love with an ivory statue; the statue was of Aphrodite, and she was naked; the Cyprian is overcome by the figure, and unites with the statue; and this Philostephanus records. And another Aphrodite in Cnidus was of stone, and was fair; another man fell in love with her, and mingles with the stone; Posidippus records it—the former in his book on Cyprus, the latter in his book on Cnidus. Such power had art to deceive, becoming for amorous men a pandar leading to the pit. Potent indeed is the craftsman's art, yet not able to deceive a rational being, nor yet those who have lived according to reason. For through the likeness of perspective painting, pigeons flew towards painted doves, and horses neighed towards well-painted mares. They say that a maiden fell in love with an image, and a comely youth with the Cnidian statue. Yet it was the eyes of the spectators that were deceived by the art; for no man in his senses would ever have embraced a goddess, nor been entombed together with a dead woman, nor fallen in love with a daemon and a stone. But you art deceives with another sorcery, even if not leading you on to lust after them, yet to honour and worship both the statues and the paintings. The painting is indeed like. Let art be praised, yet let it not deceive man as though it were truth. The horse stands still; the pigeon is motionless; idle is its wing; and the cow of Daedalus, the one made out of wood, lured a wild
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εἷλεν ἄγριον, καὶ κατηνάγκασε τὸ θηρίον ἡ τέχνη πλανήσασα, ἐρώσης ἐπιβῆναι γυναικός. Τοσοῦτον οἶστρον αἱ τέχναι κακοτεχνοῦσαι τοῖς ἀνοήτοις ἐνεποίησαν. Ἀλλὰ τοὺς μὲν πιθήκους οἱ τούτων τροφεῖς καὶ μελεδωνοὶ τεθαυμάκασιν, ὅτι τῶν κηρίνων ἢ πηλίνων ὁμοιωμάτων καὶ κοροκοσμίων ἀπατᾷ τούτους οὐδέν· ὑμεῖς δὲ ἄρα καὶ πιθήκων χείρους γενήσεσθε, λιθίνοις καὶ ξυλίνοις, καὶ χρυσέοις, καὶ ἐλεφαντίνοις ἀγαλματίοις καὶ γραφαῖς προσανέχοντες; Τοσοῦτον ὑμῖν οἱ δημιουργοὶ ἀθυρμάτων ὀλεθρίων, οἱ λιθοξόοι, καὶ οἱ ἀνδριαντοποιοὶ, γραφεῖς τε αὖ καὶ τέκτονες, καὶ ποιηταὶ πολύν τινα καὶ τοιοῦτον ὄχλον παρεισάγοντες, κατ' ἀγροὺς μὲν, Σατύρους καὶ Πᾶνας, ἀνὰ δὲ τὰς ὕλας Νύμφας, τὰς Ὀρειάδας, καὶ τὰς Ἁμαδρυάδας· καὶ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τὰ ὕδατα, καὶ περὶ τοὺς ποταμοὺς, καὶ τὰς πηγὰς, τὰς Ναΐδας· καὶ περὶ τὴν θάλασσαν, τὰς Νηρεΐδας· μάγοι δὲ ἤδη, ἀσεβείας τῆς σφῶν αὐτῶν ὑπηρέτας δαίμονας αὐχοῦσιν, οἰκέτας αὐτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς καταγράψαντες, τοὺς κατηναγκασμένους, δούλους ταῖς ἐπαοιδαῖς πεποιηκότες. Γάμοι τε οὖν ἔτι, καὶ παιδοποιίαι, καὶ λοχεῖαι θεῶν μνημονευόμεναι, καὶ μοιχεῖαι ᾀδόμεναι, καὶ εὐωχίαι κωμῳδούμεναι, καὶ γέλωτες παρὰ τόπον εἰσαγόμενοι, προτρέπουσι δέ με ἀνακραγεῖν, κἂν σιωπῆσαι θέλω· Οἴμοι τῆς ἀθεότητος! Σκηνὴν πεποιήκατε τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ τὸ θεῖον ὑμῖν δρᾶμα γεγένηται, καὶ τὸ ἅγιον προσωπείοις δαιμονίων κεκωμῳδήκατε, τὴν ἀληθῆ θεοσέβειαν δεισιδαιμονίᾳ σατυρίσαντες.
bull, and art by its deceit compelled the beast to mount an amorous woman. Such a frenzy have the arts, practising their evil craft, implanted in the foolish. Yet the keepers and attendants of apes have marvelled at them, because none of the waxen or clay likenesses and puppets deceives them; will you then prove worse even than apes, giving heed to stone and wooden and golden and ivory figurines and paintings? So great a crowd of this sort do the makers of baneful toys—the stone-carvers, and the sculptors, and painters in turn, and carpenters, and poets—bring in upon you: in the fields, Satyrs and Pans, and throughout the woods Nymphs, the Oreads and the Hamadryads; and moreover about the waters also, and about the rivers and the springs, the Naiads; and about the sea, the Nereids; and magicians now boast of daemons as ministers of their own impiety, having enrolled them as household servants for themselves, having made them slaves compelled by their incantations. Marriages, therefore, furthermore, and begettings of children, and childbed deliveries of gods commemorated, and adulteries sung of, and banquets turned into comedy, and bursts of laughter introduced out of place, urge me on to cry aloud, even though I wish to keep silent: Alas for the godlessness! You have made heaven a stage, and the Divine has become for you a drama, and that which is holy you have turned into a comedy under the masks of daemons, having travestied true piety into a satyr-play by superstition.
Αὐτὰρ ὁ φορμίζων ἀνεβάλλετο καλὸν ἀείδειν.
Moreover, playing upon the lyre, he struck up to sing fairly.
ᾎσον ἡμῖν, Ὅμηρε, τὴν φωνὴν τὴν καλήν·
Sing to us, Homer, that fair strain:
Ἀμφ' Ἄρεως φιλότητος ἐϋστεφάνου τ' Ἀφροδίτης· Ὡς τὰ πρῶτα μίγησαν ἐν Ἡφαίστοιο δόμοισι Λάθρῃ· πολλὰ δ' ἔδωκε, λέχος δ' ᾔσχυνε καὶ εὐνὴν Ἡφαίστοιο ἄνακτος.
Concerning the love of Ares and of fair-crowned Aphrodite, how they first mingled in the halls of Hephaestus in secret; and he gave many gifts, and shamed the couch and bed of lord Hephaestus.
Κατάπαυσον, Ὅμηρε, τὴν ᾠδήν· οὐκ ἔστι καλή· μοιχείαν διδάσκει· πορνεύειν δὲ ἡμεῖς καὶ τὰ ὦτα παρῃτήμεθα· ἡμεῖς γὰρ, ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν οἱ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ περιφέροντες ἐν τῷ ζῶντι καὶ κινουμένῳ τούτῳ ἀγάλματι, τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, σύνοικον εἰκόνα, σύμβουλον, συνόμιλον, συνέστιον, συμπαθῆ, ὑπερπαθῆ·
Cease, Homer, from the song; it is not fair; it teaches adultery; and we have declined to prostitute even our ears; for we—we are they who bear about the image of God in this living and moving statue, man: an indwelling image, a counsellor, a companion, a sharer of our hearth, sympathetic with us, feeling for us beyond measure;
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  • running head: 157 COHORTATIO AD GENTES.
  • marginal letters: A εἷλεν ἄγριον, καὶ; B καὶ περὶ τὰ ὕδατα,; C Αὐτὰρ (6) ὁ φορμίζων; D Profusissimus autem excitatus
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Γυναικός. Pasiphaës. De Tauro autem. seu Minotauro, Philo quoque pag. 536. Greg. Naz., Carm. κατὰ γυναικῶν καλλωπιζομένων, v. 165. Diodorus Siculus, pag. 155, et Plutarchus γαμικῶν παραγγελμάτων initio. H. SYLBURG.

Γυναικός, "of a woman": of Pasiphae. On the Bull, or Minotaur, see also Philo, p. 536; Gregory Nazianzen, the poem Against Women Who Adorn Themselves, line 165; Diodorus Siculus, p. 155; and Plutarch at the beginning of the Marriage Precepts. H. SYLBURG.

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Κηρίνων. Κηρίων, Nov.

Κηρίνων: Nov. has Κηρίων.

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Τοσοῦτον. Τοσούτων, Nov. non male.

Τοσοῦτον: Nov. has Τοσούτων, not badly.

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Παρὰ τόπον. Scribe ex ms. Nov. παρὰ πότον, inter pocula. Quam emendationem ante nos factam esse a C. A. H. docet Sylburgius. Respicit autem Clemens Homeri Iliad. A, v. 599: Ἄσβεστος δ' ἄρ' ἐνῶρτο γέλως μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν, / Ὡς ἴδον Ἥφαιστον διὰ δώματα ποιπνύοντα. Profusissimus autem excitatus est risus beatis diis, / Ut viderunt Vulcanum in domibus ministrantem pocula.

Παρὰ τόπον: write, from the manuscript Nov., παρὰ πότον, "over the cups." Sylburg shows that this emendation was made before us by C., A. and H. Clement has in view Homer, Iliad 1 (Α), line 599: "And unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods, when they saw Hephaestus bustling through the halls." The most abundant laughter was stirred among the blessed gods, when they saw Vulcan serving the cups in the halls.

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Δέ με. Scribe δή με. SYLBURG.

Δέ με: write δή με. SYLBURG.

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Σκηνὴν πεπ. Julius Firmicus, De err. prof. relig.: O infelicis imitationis cruenta meditatio! Scenam de coelo fecistis, et errantes animas per abrupta praecipitia crudeli calamitate duxistis, cum hominibus peccare cupientibus facinorum via de deorum monstratur exemplis.

Σκηνὴν πεπ[οιήκατε], "you have made [heaven] a stage": Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions: "O bloody contrivance of an unhappy imitation! You have made a stage of heaven, and by a cruel calamity led wandering souls over steep precipices, when to men who desire to sin the way of crime is shown from the examples of the gods."

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Αὐτάρ. Ex Homeri Odyss. Θ, v. 266.

Αὐτάρ: from Homer, Odyssey 8 (Θ), line 266.

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Λάθρῃ. Omittit Nov.

Λάθρῃ, "secretly": Nov. omits it.

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Εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ. De Dei in nobis imagine conf. pag. 62, et quae ad eam annotabuntur.

Εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ, "the image of God": on the image of God in us compare p. 62 and what will be noted on it.

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  • running head: COHORTATIO AD GENTES. 158
  • marginal letters: A praeterea fallaciis et; B deteriores eritis, dum; C Caeterum ille, cithara; D Profusissimus autem excitatus
  • old-edition numerals: 18 after carminibus; ✠ before atque poetae (keyed to the line ✠ P. 52 ED. POTTER, 40 ED. PARIS. printed under col. 157)
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1 Petr. II, 9, 10.

1 Peter 2:9–10.

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Joan. VIII, 23.

John 8:23.

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Ibid. III, 31.

Ibid. [John] 3:31.

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Ibid. IV, 25.

Ibid. [John] 4:25.

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Rom. VI, 4.

Romans 6:4.

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Πινακίοις. Πινάκιος, Nov. mendose.

Πινακίοις: Nov. has Πινάκιος, wrongly.

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Ἀποδεχόμενοι τ. γ. Ἀποδεχόμενοι, τὴν γραφὴν ἀποτυπ. Nov. De insignibus annulorum, etc., conf. Paed. lib. III, c. 11, p. 247.

Ἀποδεχόμενοι τ[ὴν] γ[ραφήν]: Nov. has Ἀποδεχόμενοι, τὴν γραφὴν ἀποτυπ[ούμενοι]. On the devices of rings, etc., compare the Paedagogus, book 3, ch. 11, p. 247.

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Τὰ Φιλαινίδος σχήματα. Athenaeus, lib. VIII, p. 115 Aldinae edit.: Καὶ βιβλία τά τε Φιλαινίδος, καὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἀρχεστράτου γαστρονομίαν, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τὰς θεραπαίνας ἐμπείρους τοιῶνδε κινήσεών τε καὶ σχημάτων. Et paulo ante, turpissimum ait de rebus venereis opus illi ascriptum, sed falso honestissimae feminae per calumniam id tribuisse Polycratem, ut testatur Aeschrion Samius. Meminit ejusdem lib. X. Vide H. Junium proverb. Philaenidis commentarii. COLLECT. Justinus M., Apol. 2, extrema: Σωταδείοις, καὶ τοῖς Φιλαινιδείοις, καὶ ὀρχηστικοῖς, καὶ Ἐπικουρείοις, καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῖς τοιούτοις ποιητικοῖς διδάγμασιν· Sotadiis, et Philaenidiis, et saltatoriis, et Epicureis, aliisque id genus poeticis institutionibus. Meminit etiam Tatianus: Φιλαινίδος καὶ Ἐλεφαντίδος τῶν ἀῤῥήτων ἐπινοιῶν. Philaenidis et Elephantidis infandorum commentorum, pag. 122, 123. Ea qualia fuerint, explicat Suidas: Ἀστυάνασσα, Ἑλένης τῆς Μενελάου θεράπαινα· ἥτις πρώτη τὰς ἐν τῇ συνουσίᾳ κατακλίσεις εὗρεν καὶ ἔγραψε περὶ σχημάτων συνουσιαστικῶν· ἣν ὕστερον παρεζήλωσαν Φιλαινὶς καὶ Ἐλεφαντίνη, αἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐξορχησάμεναι ἀσελγήματα. Ejusdem mentio fit apud eumdem v. Δημοχάρης. Conf. Anthologia Epigr. lib. III, cap. 10.

Τὰ Φιλαινίδος σχήματα, "the postures of Philaenis": Athenaeus, book 8, p. 115 of the Aldine edition: "and the books of Philaenis, and the Gastronomy of Archestratus, and likewise the maidservants skilled in such movements and postures." A little before, he says that a most shameful work on sexual matters was ascribed to her, but that Polycrates falsely and slanderously attributed it to a most respectable woman, as Aeschrion of Samos attests. He mentions her too in book 10. See H. Junius on the proverb "Philaenis's commentaries." COLLECT[ANEA]. Justin Martyr, at the end of Apology 2: "the Sotadean and Philaenidean and dancing and Epicurean teachings and the other poetic teachings of that kind." Tatian also mentions it: "of the unspeakable inventions of Philaenis and Elephantis," pp. 122, 123. What they were, Suidas explains: "Astyanassa, the maid of Helen wife of Menelaus, who first invented the positions in intercourse and wrote on sexual postures; she was later imitated by Philaenis and Elephantine, who danced out such indecencies." She is mentioned by the same author under Δημοχάρης. Compare the Anthology of Epigrams, book 3, ch. 10.

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Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί... μεμοιχεύκασιν. Haec e Nov. exciderunt propter voces ὁμοιοτελεύτους.

Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί… μεμοιχεύκασιν: these words fell out of Nov. because of words with like endings.

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Ἐλέγχει. Ἀπάρξαντες. Legendum conjuncte, ἐλέγχει ἀπάρξαντες, eo sensu, quem in versione expressimus.

Ἐλέγχει. Ἀπάρξαντες: read joined, ἐλέγχει ἀπάρξαντες, in the sense we have expressed in the translation.

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Πιστεύητε. A. πιστεύετε, indicativo modo, SYLBURG. πιστεύηται, Nov.

Πιστεύητε: A. has πιστεύετε, in the indicative mood. SYLBURG. Nov. has πιστεύηται.

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Ζητοῦντες. Legendum ζηλοῦντες, aemulantes, quod habet Nov.

Ζητοῦντες, "seeking": read ζηλοῦντες, "emulating," which Nov. has.

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ἀνάθημα γεγόναμεν τῷ Θεῷ ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ· ἡμεῖς τὸ γένος τὸ ἐκλεκτὸν, τὸ βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα, ἔθνος ἅγιον, λαὸς περιούσιος· οἵ ποτε οὐ λαὸς, νῦν δὲ λαὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, οἱ, κατὰ τὸν Ἰωάννην, οὐκ ὄντες ἐκ τῶν κάτω, παρὰ δὲ τοῦ ἄνωθεν ἐλθόντος τὸ πᾶν μεμαθηκότες· οἱ τὴν οἰκονομίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ κατανενοηκότες, οἱ ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς περιπατεῖν μεμελετηκότες. Ἀλλ' οὐ ταῦτα φρονοῦσιν οἱ πολλοί· ἀποῤῥίψαντες δὲ τὴν αἰδῶ καὶ τὸν φόβον, οἴκοι τοὺς τῶν δαιμόνων ἐγγράφονται πασχητιασμούς. Πινακίοις γοῦν τισι καταγράφοις μετεωρότερον ἀνακειμένοις, προσεσχηκότες ἀσελγείᾳ, τοὺς θαλάμους κεκοσμήκασι, τὴν ἀκολασίαν εὐσέβειαν νομίζοντες· κἀπὶ τοῦ σκίμποδος κατακείμενοι, παρ' αὐτὰς ἔτι τὰς περιπλοκὰς, ἀφορῶσιν εἰς τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ἐκείνην, τὴν γυμνὴν, τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ συμπλοκῇ δεδεμένην· καὶ τῇ Λήδᾳ περιπετώμενον τὸν ὄρνιν τὸν ἐρωτικὸν, τῆς θηλύτητος ἀποδεχόμενοι τὴν γραφὴν, ἀποτυποῦσι ταῖς σφενδόναις, σφραγῖδι χρώμενοι καταλλήλῳ τῇ Διὸς ἀκολασίᾳ. Ταῦτα ὑμῖν τῆς ἡδυπαθείας τὰ ἀρχέτυπα· αὗται τῆς ὕβρεως αἱ θεολογίαι· αὗται τῶν συμπορνευόντων ὑμῖν θεῶν αἱ διδασκαλίαι· ὃ γὰρ βούλεται, τοῦθ' ἕκαστος καὶ οἴεται, κατὰ τὸν Ἀθηναῖον ῥήτορα. Οἷαι δὲ αὖ καὶ ἄλλαι ὑμῶν εἰκόνες; Πανίσκοι τινὲς, καὶ γυμναὶ κόραι, καὶ Σάτυροι μεθύοντες, καὶ μορίων ἐντάσεις, ταῖς γραφαῖς ἀπογυμνούμεναι, ἀπὸ τῆς ἀκρασίας ἐλεγχόμεναι. Ἤδη δὲ ἀναφανδὸν τῆς ἀκολασίας ὅλης τὰ σχήματα ἀνάγραπτα πανδημεὶ θεώμενοι, οὐκ αἰσχύνεσθε, φυλάττετε δὲ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀνακείμενα, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει τῶν θεῶν ὑμῶν τὰς εἰκόνας στήλας ἀναισχυντίας καθιερώσαντες οἴκοι, ἐπ' ἴσης ἐγγραφόμενοι τὰ Φιλαινίδος σχήματα, ὡς τὰ Ἡρακλέους ἀθλήματα. Τούτων οὐ μόνον τῆς χρήσεως, πρὸς δὲ καὶ τῆς ὄψεως καὶ τῆς ἀκοῆς αὐτῆς ἀμνηστείαν καταγγέλλομεν. Ἠταίρηκεν ὑμῖν τὰ ὦτα, πεπορνεύκασιν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ, καὶ, τὸ καινότερον, πρὸ τῆς συμπλοκῆς, αἱ ὄψεις ὑμῖν μεμοιχεύκασιν. Ὢ βιασάμενοι τὸν ἄνθρωπον· καὶ τὸ ἔνθεον τοῦ πλάσματος ἐλέγχει. Ἀπάρξαντες, πάντα ἀπιστεῖτε, ἵνα ἐκπαθαίνησθε, καὶ πιστεύητε μὲν τοῖς εἰδώλοις, ζητοῦντες αὐτῶν τὴν ἀκρασίαν, ἀπιστεῖτε δὲ τῷ
we have become a votive offering to God for Christ's sake; we are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, who once were no people, but now are the people of God (1 Pet. 2:9–10); who, according to John, are not of the things below (John 8:23), but have learned all from Him Who came from above (John 3:31; 4:25); who have understood the dispensation of God; who have practised walking in newness of life (Rom. 6:4). Yet the many are not thus minded; but having cast off shame and fear, they depict at home the unnatural lusts of the daemons. At any rate, being devoted to licentiousness, they have adorned their bedchambers with certain painted tablets hung up on high, accounting intemperance piety; and lying upon the couch, while still in the very midst of their embraces, they gaze upon that naked Aphrodite, bound fast in her embrace; and welcoming the representation of effeminacy, they stamp upon the bezels of their rings the amorous bird hovering about Leda, using a seal suited to the intemperance of Zeus. These are the archetypes of your voluptuousness; these the theologies of outrage; these the teachings of the gods who commit fornication along with you; for what each man wishes, that also he thinks, according to the Athenian orator. And of what sort, again, are your other images as well? Certain little Pans, and naked girls, and drunken Satyrs, and erections of the privy parts, laid bare in paintings, convicted by their incontinence. And now, viewing publicly in the sight of all the postures of all intemperance openly depicted, you are not ashamed, but keep them hung up all the more, having consecrated them at home as pillars of shamelessness, just like the images of your gods, no doubt, inscribing for yourselves equally the postures of Philaenis and the labours of Heracles. Of these things we proclaim an amnesty not only of the use, but in addition also of the sight and of the very hearing. Your ears have played the harlot, your eyes have committed fornication, and, what is stranger still, before the embrace your glances have committed adultery. O you who have done violence to man, and brought into reproach the divine element of the creature! Having offered the first-fruits, you disbelieve all things in order that you may indulge your passions to the full, and you believe indeed in the idols, seeking after their incontinence, while you disbelieve in
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Θεῷ, σωφροσύνην μὴ φέροντες· καὶ τὰ μὲν κρείττω μεμισήκατε, τὰ δὲ ἥττω τετιμήκατε· ἀρετῆς μὲν θεαταὶ, κακίας δὲ ἀγωνισταὶ γεγενημένοι. Ὄλβιοι μόνοι τοίνυν, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, ὁμοθυμαδὸν, ἐκεῖνοι πάντες, κατὰ τὴν Σίβυλλαν·
God, not enduring sobriety; and the better things you have hated, while the worse things you have honoured, having become spectators of virtue, but champions of vice. Blessed alone, therefore, so to speak, with one accord, are all those, according to the Sibyl:
Οἳ ναοὺς μὲν πάντας ἀπαρνήσονται ἰδόντες, Καὶ βωμοὺς, εἰκαῖα λίθων ἱδρύματα κωφῶν, Καὶ λίθινα ξόανα, καὶ ἀγάλματα χειροποίητα, Αἵματι ἐμψύχῳ μεμιασμένα, καὶ θυσίαισι Τετραπόδων, διπόδων, πτηνῶν, θηρῶν τε φόνοισι.
Who on beholding them shall renounce all temples, and altars, vain foundations of dumb stones, and stone images, and statues made with hands, defiled with living blood, and with sacrifices of four-footed, two-footed, winged creatures, and slaughters of beasts.
Καὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἀπηγόρευται ὑμῖν ἀναφανδὸν, ἀπατηλὸν ὁρίζεσθαι τέχνην· Οὐ γὰρ ποιήσεις, φησὶν ὁ προφήτης, παντὸς ὁμοίωμα, ὅσα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, καὶ ὅσα ἐν τῇ γῇ κάτω. Ἦ πού γ' ἂν ἔτι τὴν Πραξιτέλους Δήμητραν, καὶ Κόρην, καὶ τὸν Ἴακχον τὸν μυστικὸν, θεοὺς ὑπολάβοιμεν, ἢ τὰς Λυσίππου τέχνας, ἢ τὰς χεῖρας τὰς Ἀπελλικὰς, αἳ δὴ τῆς θεοδοξίας τὸ σχῆμα τῇ ὕλῃ περιτεθείκασιν; Ἀλλ' ὑμεῖς μὲν, ὅπως ποτὲ ὁ ἀνδριὰς ὅτι μάλιστα ὡραιότατος τεκταίνηται, προσκαρτερεῖτε· ὅπως δὲ αὐτοὶ μὴ ὅμοιοι δι' ἀναισθησίαν τοῖς ἀνδριάσιν ἀποτελεσθῆτε, οὐ φροντίζετε. Πάνυ γοῦν ἐμφανῶς καὶ συντόμως ὁ προφητικὸς ἐλέγχει τὴν συνήθειαν λόγος, Ὅτι πάντες οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν δαιμονίων εἰσὶν εἴδωλα· ὁ δὲ Θεὸς τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ἐποίησε καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ
For indeed you have also been openly forbidden to practise a deceitful art: For you shall not make, says the prophet, the likeness of anything, whatsoever is in heaven, and whatsoever is in the earth beneath (Exod. 20:4). Should we then any longer suppose the Demeter of Praxiteles, and Kore, and the mystic Iacchus to be gods, or rather the arts of Lysippus, or the hands of Apelles, which have cast upon matter the figure of divine glory? Yet you indeed persevere to the end that the statue may somehow be fashioned as comely as possible; but that you yourselves may not through insensibility be rendered like the statues, you take no care. Very clearly, at any rate, and concisely does the prophetic word convict the custom: For all the gods of the nations are idols of daemons; but God made the heavens (Ps. 95:5) and the things in
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Exod. XX, 4.

Exodus 20:4.

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Σίβυλλαν. Hos Sibyllae versus, cum aliis pluribus, recitat Justinus M., Cohort. ad Graec., p. 81.

Σίβυλλαν: Justin Martyr quotes these verses of the Sibyl, with many others, in the Exhortation to the Greeks, p. 81.

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Οἳ ναοὺς μὲν πάντας. Μέν additum ex Justino, SYLBURG. Νηοὺς μὲν ἅπαντας, Justin.

Οἳ ναοὺς μὲν πάντας: μέν is added from Justin. SYLBURG. Justin has Νηοὺς μὲν ἅπαντας.

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Ἀπαρνήσονται. Sic etiam Justin., sed ἀποστρέψουσιν habent edita Sibyll. Oracula.

Ἀπαρνήσονται: so Justin too; but the printed Sibylline Oracles have ἀποστρέψουσιν.

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Ἱδρύματα. Sic edita Oracula: sed ἀφιδρύματα, Justin.

Ἱδρύματα: so the printed Oracles; but Justin has ἀφιδρύματα.

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Αἵματι ἐμψύχῳ. Αἵμασιν ἐμψύχων, Justin. et edita Oracula. Sequentem versum hoc modo scribit Justinus: Τετραπόδων, βλέπουσι δ' ἑνὸς Θεοῦ ἐς μέγα κῦδος. Quadrupedum, videbunt autem ad magnam unius Dei gloriam.

Αἵματι ἐμψύχῳ: Justin and the printed Oracles have Αἵμασιν ἐμψύχων. Justin writes the next line thus: "of four-footed beasts, and they look to the great glory of the one God." Of quadrupeds; but they will look to the great glory of the one God.

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Ἀπηγόρευται ὑμῖν. A. et H. ἡμῖν prima persona. SYLB. — Caeterum nonnullis visum est Clementem his verbis pingendi artem, et reliquas ei similes, ut illicitas penitus damnare: quemadmodum etiam Strom. VI, p. 687: Ὁ τὰ θεῖα τῶν ἔργων σφετεριζόμενος διὰ τέχνης, ἤτοι πλαστικῆς ἢ γραφικῆς, καὶ λέγων ἑαυτὸν ποιητὴν εἶναι τῶν ζώων καὶ φυτῶν· qui divina opera sibi vindicat per fingendi vel pingendi artem, dicens se esse effectorem animantium et plantarum, dicitur quodammodo praeceptum violare, quo furtum prohibetur. Et Paedag. lib. III, cap. 2, p. 220, peccare dicit mulieres, quae faciem suam in speculis contemplantur, quia Moyses prohibuit facere imaginem, ἀντίτεχνον τῷ Θεῷ, Deo similem. Quin etiam Tertullianus Adv. Marcion., lib. IV, c. 22, ait apostolos Moysen et Heliam apparentes non cognovisse nisi in spiritu. Nec enim imagines eorum, vel statuas populus habuisset, et similitudines, lege prohibente. Idem, lib. De idololatr., cap. 4 et seq. videtur dicere Moysen vetasse fieri quamvis cujusvis rei similitudinem. Et lib. De spectaculis, cap. 13: Jam vero, inquit, ipsum opus personarum, quaero an Deo placeat, qui omnem similitudinem vetat fieri, quanto magis imaginis suae? Origen. etiam lib. IV, adv. Cels., p. 181, 182, dicit inter Judaeos nullum fuisse ζωγράφον οὔτ' ἀγαλματοποιόν, pictorem nec statuarium, legibus totum hoc genus arcentibus, ne qua occasio idololatriae praeberetur hominibus crassis. Id praeterea Chrysost. affirmat, alios ut praeteream. Verumtamen, quemadmodum Judaeis signa et imagines in templo Salomonis erant, ita nec praedicti Patres ea illicita esse judicabant extra divinum cultum, et idololatriae periculum. Proinde Tertullianus memorat picturas calicum sacrorum, in quibus Christus pastoris habitu una cum ove insculpi solebat, lib. De pudicit., c. 7 et 10. Et Clemens figuris variis annulos Christianorum inscribi permittit, Paedag., lib. III, cap. 11, pag. 246, 247. Qua vero patientia hi Patres ejusmodi figuris divinum cultum tribuentes eos conspexissent, qui se Christianos profitentur?

Ἀπηγόρευται ὑμῖν: A. and H. have ἡμῖν, in the first person. SYLB[URG]. — Some have thought that in these words Clement wholly condemns the art of painting and the others like it as unlawful, as also in Stromata 6, p. 687: "he who claims the divine works for himself through art, whether of sculpture or painting, and says he is the maker of animals and plants," is said in a manner to break the commandment forbidding theft. And in the Paedagogus, book 3, ch. 2, p. 220, he says women sin who contemplate their faces in mirrors, because Moses forbade making an image that rivals God's art. Tertullian too, Against Marcion, book 4, ch. 22, says the apostles did not recognize Moses and Elijah when they appeared except in the spirit: "for the people would not have had images or statues or likenesses of them, the law forbidding it." The same, in the book On Idolatry, ch. 4 ff., seems to say that Moses forbade a likeness of anything whatever to be made. And in the book On the Shows, ch. 13: "Now as to the very making of masks, I ask whether it pleases God, who forbids any likeness to be made, how much more of his own image?" Origen too, Against Celsus, book 4, pp. 181, 182, says that among the Jews there was no painter or sculptor, the laws keeping out this whole class, lest any occasion of idolatry be given to the gross. Chrysostom affirms the same, to pass over others. Yet as the Jews had figures and images in Solomon's temple, so neither did these Fathers judge them unlawful outside divine worship and the danger of idolatry. So Tertullian mentions the paintings on sacred chalices, on which Christ used to be engraved in the guise of a shepherd with a sheep, On Modesty, chs. 7 and 10. And Clement permits Christians' rings to be engraved with various figures, Paedagogus, book 3, ch. 11, pp. 246, 247. But with what patience would these Fathers have looked on those who, professing themselves Christians, give divine worship to figures of this kind?

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Ὁρίζεσθαι. Lowthius recte admonuit scribendum esse ἐργάζεσθαι. Ejus enim conjecturam firmat ms. Nov. Caeterum Exodi locum mox imperfecte recitat Clemens.

Ὁρίζεσθαι: Lowth rightly advised that ἐργάζεσθαι should be written; for the manuscript Nov. confirms his conjecture. Clement goes on to quote the passage of Exodus incompletely.

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Δαιμονίων εἰσὶν εἴδωλα. Δαιμόνια Psal. Mox, καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, additum a Clemente.

Δαιμονίων εἰσὶν εἴδωλα: the Psalm has Δαιμόνια. Next, καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ is added by Clement.

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Psalm 95 [96]:5.

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Psalm 32 [33]:6.

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Psalm 8:4 [8:3].

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Τὰ ὄργανα τοῦ χρόνου. Respicit Genes. I, 14.

Τὰ ὄργανα τοῦ χρόνου, "the instruments of time": he has in view Genesis 1:14.

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Ὅλον ἴδε τ. Malim hunc locum sic distinguere: Ὅλον ἴδε τὸν κόσμον ἐκείνου ἔργον ἐστί· καὶ οὐρανὸς, καὶ ἥλιος, καὶ ἄγγελοι, καὶ ἄνθρωποι, ἔργα δακτύλων αὐτοῦ. Ecce totum mundum, ejus opus est: et coelum, ac sol, atque angeli, hominesque sunt opera digitorum ejus. Ut ἔργον ad totum, ἔργα ad partes referatur. Respicit autem ps. CI, 26.

Ὅλον ἴδε τ[ὸν κόσμον]: I should prefer to punctuate this place thus: "Behold the whole world: it is his work; and heaven and sun and angels and men are the works of his fingers." Behold the whole world, it is his work: and the heaven and the sun, the angels and men are the works of his fingers. So that "work" refers to the whole and "works" to the parts. He has in view Psalm 101 [102]:26.

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Τὸ βούλημα, κοσμοποιία. Sane quod Clemens Alexandr. sola Dei voluntate mundum, et a solo Deo conditum, quando et solus Deus est, memorat; mihi non est dubium, quin partim excludendis daemoniis ac idolis exaraverit; partim etiam, imo vero potissimum, confutandis vetustis haereticis, quorum Simon quidem Magus, veluti signifer quidam, dein Menander ejus discipulus, sed et Saturninus et Carpocrates, et ex Gnosticis nonnulli mundum, et quae in eo sunt, factum ab angelis emissis ab Ennoea seu Selene multo inferioribus ingenito Patre asserebant; Cerinthus autem et Nicolaitae non a primo Deo, sed a virtute valde separata, et distante ab ea principalitate, quae est super omnia. Trismegistus Poemand. cap. 1: Καὶ πάντα ποιήσαντος καὶ ἑνὸς μόνου, τῇ δὲ αὐτοῦ θελήσει δημιουργήσαντος τὰ ὄντα. Vide Irenaei lib. I, cap. 25, et lib. III, c. 11. Haec P. Faber cap. 2 Dodecameni. COLLECT. Solo volendi actu mundum creatum a Deo dicit, ut ejus infinitam potentiam ostendat, per quam sine labore et conatu omnia produxit. Infra Paedag. lib. I, cap. 6, p. 93: Ἕπεται τῷ χαρίσασθαι μόνον βουληθῆναι αὐτὸν, πεπληρῶσθαι τὴν χάριν· Solam voluntatem gratiam conferendi sequitur perfecta gratiae collatio. Constitut. apost. lib. V, cap. 7: « Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν· » καὶ γινώσκομεν, ὅτι οὐχ ὕλης ἦν ἐνδεὴς, ἀλλὰ βουλήσει μόνῃ, ἃ προσετάγη Χριστὸς, ταῦτα καὶ παρήγαγε· etc. « In principio fecit Deus coelum ac terram: » ac scimus Deum non indiguisse materia; sed Christum sola voluntate ea, quae jussus est, produxisse, coelum dicimus, terram, mare, lumen, noctem, diem, luminaria, stellas, volatilia, aquatica, quadrupedia, etc. Clementinor., hom. 3, c. 33: Αὐτὸς μόνος δήμους ἀγγέλων καὶ πνευμάτων βουλῆς νεύματι δημιουργήσας, ἔπλησε τοὺς οὐρανούς· Ipse solus populos angelorum ac spirituum, nutu voluntatis condidit, eisque implevit coelos.

Τὸ βούλημα, κοσμοποιία, "his will is the making of the world": that Clement of Alexandria records that the world was made by God's will alone, and by God alone, since God alone is, I do not doubt he wrote partly to exclude demons and idols, and partly, indeed chiefly, to refute the old heretics: of whom Simon Magus, as a kind of standard-bearer, then his disciple Menander, and also Saturninus and Carpocrates, and some of the Gnostics, asserted that the world and what is in it was made by angels sent forth by Ennoea or Selene, far inferior to the unbegotten Father; while Cerinthus and the Nicolaitans said it was made not by the first God but by a power far separated and distant from that sovereignty which is over all. Trismegistus, Poemander, ch. 1: "and of the one alone who made all things and by his will fashioned the things that are." See Irenaeus, book 1, ch. 25, and book 3, ch. 11. So P. Faber, ch. 2 of the Dodecamenon. COLLECT[ANEA]. He says the world was created by God by the act of willing alone, to show his infinite power, by which he produced all things without labour or effort. Below, Paedagogus, book 1, ch. 6, p. 93: "His merely willing to give is followed by the fulfilment of the gift." The perfect bestowal of grace follows the mere will to confer it. Apostolic Constitutions, book 5, ch. 7: "'In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth'; and we know that he had no need of matter, but by his will alone Christ brought forth what he was commanded," etc. "In the beginning God made heaven and earth"; and we know that God did not need matter, but that Christ by his will alone brought forth what he was bidden: heaven, we say, earth, sea, light, night, day, lights, stars, birds, water creatures, four-footed beasts, etc. Clementine Homilies, hom. 3, ch. 33: "He alone, having fashioned peoples of angels and spirits by the nod of his will, filled the heavens." He alone made the peoples of angels and spirits by the nod of his will, and filled the heavens with them.

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Οὐρανοῦ θέαν. Hinc Anaxagorae responsum, Hominem nasci ac vivere εἰς θεωρίαν ἡλίου, καὶ σελήνης, καὶ οὐρανοῦ. Laertius lib. II, s. 10. Jamblichus, Protrept. cap. 6. Tritum est illud Ovidii, Metamorph. I, v. 85: Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri / Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.

Οὐρανοῦ θέαν, "the sight of heaven": hence Anaxagoras's reply, that man is born and lives "for the contemplation of sun and moon and heaven." Laertius, book 2, sect. 10. Iamblichus, Protrepticus, ch. 6. Well worn is that line of Ovid, Metamorphoses 1, line 85: "He gave man an uplifted face, and bade him behold the heavens and raise his eyes erect to the stars."

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Εἰ γάρ. Tatianus principio cap. 8, his similia habet.

Εἰ γάρ: Tatian has things like these at the beginning of ch. 8.

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Ἐπιδράμωμεν. Hoc argumentum modo plane simili tractat Justin. M. Paraenes., pag. 49, 50, 51, edit. Oxon. Quin etiam philosophorum de principiis sententias collegerunt Plutarchus, Tertull., Hermias philosophus, Eusebius Nemesius, (continues)

Ἐπιδράμωμεν, "let us run over": Justin Martyr treats this argument in quite a similar way in the Exhortation, pp. 49, 50, 51 of the Oxford edition. Moreover the opinions of the philosophers on first principles were collected by Plutarch, Tertullian, Hermias the philosopher, Eusebius, Nemesius, (continues)

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CAPUT V.

CHAPTER V.

Philosophorum sententias de Deo recenset.

He reviews the opinions of the philosophers concerning God.

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οὐρανῷ. Πλανώμενοι γοῦν τινες ἐντεῦθεν, οὐκ οἶδ' ὅπως, θείαν μὲν τέχνην, πλὴν ἀλλ' οὐ Θεὸν προσκυνοῦσιν, ἥλιόν τε καὶ σελήνην, καὶ τὸν ἄλλον τῶν ἀστέρων χορὸν, παραλόγως τούτους θεοὺς ὑπολαμβάνοντες, τὰ ὄργανα τοῦ χρόνου· Τῷ γὰρ λόγῳ αὐτοῦ ἐστερεώθησαν, καὶ τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ δύναμις αὐτῶν. Ἀλλ' ἡ μὲν ἀνθρωπεία τέχνη οἰκίας τε καὶ ναῦς, καὶ πόλεις, καὶ γραφὰς δημιουργεῖ· Θεὸς δὲ πῶς ἂν εἴποιμι ὅσα ποιεῖ; Ὅλον ἴδε τὸν κόσμον· ἐκείνου ἔργον ἐστὶν καὶ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἥλιος· καὶ ἄγγελοι καὶ ἄνθρωποι ἔργα τῶν δακτύλων αὐτοῦ. Ὅση γε ἡ δύναμις τοῦ Θεοῦ! μόνον αὐτοῦ τὸ βούλημα κοσμοποιία· μόνος γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς ἐποίησεν, ἐπεὶ καὶ μόνος ὄντως ἐστὶ Θεός· ψιλῷ τῷ βούλεσθαι δημιουργεῖ, καὶ τῷ μόνον ἐθελῆσαι αὐτὸν ἕπεται τὸ γεγενῆσθαι. Ἐνταῦθα φιλοσόφων παρατρέπεται χορὸς, πρὸς μὲν τὴν οὐρανοῦ θέαν παγκάλως γεγονέναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὁμολογούντων· τὰ δὲ ἐν οὐρανῷ φαινόμενα καὶ ὄψει καταλαμβανόμενα προσκυνούντων. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ μὴ ἀνθρώπινα τὰ ἔργα τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ, ἀλλὰ γοῦν ἀνθρώποις δεδημιούργηται. Καὶ μὴ τὸν ἥλιόν τις ὑμῶν προσκυνείτω, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἡλίου ποιητὴν ἐπιποθείτω, μηδὲ τὸν κόσμον ἐκθειαζέτω, ἀλλὰ τὸν κόσμου δημιουργὸν ἐπιζητησάτω. Μόνη ἄρα ὡς ἔοικεν καταφυγὴ τῷ μέλλοντι ἐπὶ τὰς σωτηρίους ἀφικνεῖσθαι θύρας ὑπολείπεται σοφία θεϊκή· ἐντεῦθεν ὥσπερ ἐξ ἱεροῦ τινος ἀσύλου, οὐδενὶ οὐκ ἔτι ἀγώγιμος τῶν δαιμόνων ὁ ἄνθρωπος γίνεται, σπεύδων εἰς σωτηρίαν.
heaven. Going astray from this source, at any rate, some men, I know not how, worship divine art indeed, yet not God—the sun and the moon and the rest of the choir of the stars—absurdly supposing these, the instruments of time (Gen. 1:14), to be gods; For by His word were they established, and by the breath of His mouth all their power (Ps. 32:6). Yet human art fashions houses and ships and cities and paintings; but how could I tell all the things that God makes? Behold the whole universe: His work is both heaven and sun; and angels and men are the works of His fingers (Ps. 8:4). How great indeed is the power of God! His mere will is the creation of the universe; for God alone made it, since He alone also is truly God; by bare willing He fashions, and upon His merely willing it follows that a thing has come into being. Here a choir of philosophers turns aside from the truth, who confess most admirably indeed that man was made for the contemplation of heaven, yet worship the things that appear in heaven and are apprehended by sight. For even if the works in heaven are not human, yet at least they have been fashioned for men. And let none of you worship the sun, but let him long after the Maker of the sun; nor let him deify the universe, but let him seek after the Creator of the universe. The sole refuge, then, as it seems, that remains for him who is to reach the saving gates is divine wisdom; from hence, as from some sacred sanctuary, man, hastening unto salvation, is no longer subject to being dragged away by any of the daemons.
Ἐπιδράμωμεν δὲ, εἰ βούλει, καὶ τῶν φιλοσό-
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φων τὰς δόξας, ὅσας αὐχοῦσι περὶ τῶν θεῶν, εἴ πως καὶ φιλοσοφίαν αὐτὴν κενοδοξίας ἕνεκεν ἀνειδωλοποιοῦσαν τὴν ὕλην ἐφεύρωμεν· εἰ καὶ δαιμόνια ἄττα ἐκθειάζουσαν, κατὰ παραδρομὴν παραστῆσαι δυνηθῶμεν ὀνειρώττουσαν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Στοιχεῖα μὲν οὖν ἀρχὰς ἀπέλειπον ἐξυμνήσαντες, Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ Ἀναξιμένης, ὁ καὶ αὐτὸς Μιλήσιος, τὸν ἀέρα· ᾧ Διογένης ὕστερον ὁ Ἀπολλωνιάτης κατηκολούθησεν. Παρμενίδης δὲ ὁ Ἐλεάτης, θεοὺς εἰσηγήσατο πῦρ καὶ γῆν· θάτερον δὲ αὐτοῖν μόνοιν, τὸ πῦρ, θεὸν ὑπειλήφατον Ἵππασός τε ὁ Μεταποντῖνος καὶ ὁ Ἐφέσιος Ἡράκλειτος· Ἐμπεδοκλῆς γὰρ ὁ Ἀκραγαντῖνος, εἰς πλῆθος ἐμπεσὼν, πρὸς τοῖς τέτταρσι στοιχείοις τούτοις, Νεῖκος καὶ Φιλίαν καταριθμεῖται. Ἄθεοι μὲν δὴ καὶ οὗτοι, σοφίᾳ τινὶ ἀσόφῳ τὴν ὕλην προσκυνήσαντες· καὶ λίθους μὲν ἢ ξύλα οὐ τιμήσαντες, γῆν δὲ τὴν τούτων μητέρα ἐκθειάσαντες, καὶ Ποσειδῶνα μὲν οὐκ ἀναπλάττοντες, ὕδωρ δὲ αὐτὸ προστρεπόμενοι. Τί γάρ ἐστι πρότερον, Ποσειδῶν, ἢ ὑγρά τις οὐσία, ἐκ τῆς πόσεως ὀνοματοποιουμένη; ὥσπερ ἀμέλει ὁ πολέμιος Ἄρης ἀπὸ τῆς ἄρσεως καὶ ἀναιρέσεως κεκλημένος. ᾟ καὶ δοκοῦσί μοι πολλοὶ μάλιστα, τὸ ξίφος μόνον πήξαντες, ἐπιθύειν ὡς Ἄρει. Ἔστι δὲ Σκυθῶν τὸ τοιοῦτον, καθάπερ Εὔδοξος ἐν δευτέρᾳ τῆς Περιόδου λέ-
phers also, as many as they boast of concerning the gods, if perchance we may find philosophy itself also out of vainglory making an idol of matter; or even if, when it deifies certain daemons, we may be able in passing to show it dreaming of the truth. The elements, then, they celebrated and left behind as first principles: Thales of Miletus, water; and Anaximenes, who was himself also of Miletus, air, whom Diogenes of Apollonia afterwards followed. And Parmenides of Elea introduced fire and earth as gods; and one alone of these two, fire, Hippasus of Metapontum and Heraclitus of Ephesus have supposed to be God; for Empedocles of Acragas, falling into a multitude, in addition to these four elements reckons up Strife and Friendship. Atheists indeed are these also, having worshipped matter with a certain unwise wisdom; and though they did not honour stones or wood, yet they deified earth, the mother of these; and though they do not fashion a Poseidon, yet they supplicate water itself. For what is Poseidon originally, other than a certain moist substance, named from drinking? Just as, no doubt, warlike Ares is so called from taking up and destroying. Wherefore also many above all seem to me, having fixed a sword alone in the ground, to sacrifice to it as to Ares. And such is the custom of the Scythians, just as Eudoxus in the second book of his Circuit says
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(continued) Porphyrius, Joannes Philoponus in procemio ad lib. I Aristotelis De anima; auctor Recognit. Clementis lib. VIII, cap. 15; Cicero, De natura deorum, aliique plures; ac proinde singulorum sententias inter se conferre supervacaneum esset. Mox, pro εἰ καὶ δαιμ. Lowthius mavult ἢ καὶ δαιμ.

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Μόνοιν. Rectius μόνον, solum. V. SYLBURG.

Μόνοιν: more correctly μόνον, "only." See SYLBURG.

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Ἵππασός τε ὁ Μεταπ. Consentit Theodoret. de Hippaso Metapontino et Heraclito Ephesio. Item Plutarchus, De placitis philos., lib. I, cap. 3: Ἡράκλειτος καὶ Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος ἀρχὴν τῶν ὅλων τὸ πῦρ· ἐκ πυρὸς γὰρ πάντα γίνεσθαι, καὶ εἰς πῦρ πάντα τελευτᾶν λέγουσι. At Justinus M., Paraenes., p. 50, nulla Hippasi mentione facta, dicit: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος ἀρχὴν τῶν πάντων τὸ πῦρ εἶναι λέγει· ἐκ τοῦ πυρὸς γὰρ πάντα γίνεσθαι, καὶ εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὰ πάντα τελευτᾶν· Heraclitus Metapontinus causam omnium rerum ignem esse asseverat; ex igne namque omnia fieri, et in ignem tandem omnia reverti. Quo loco scribendum cum Plutarcho, Ἡράκλειτος καὶ Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Heraclitus et Hippasus Metapontinus. Sylburgius legendum monuit, Ἡράκλειτος δὲ ὁ Ἐφέσιος, καθάπερ καὶ Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος. Sed Plutarchum sequi tutius est, cum manifestum sit horum auctorum unum alterius, aut utrumque alicujus tertii verba recitare.

Ἵππασός τε ὁ Μεταπ[οντῖνος]: Theodoret agrees on Hippasus of Metapontum and Heraclitus of Ephesus. So too Plutarch, On the Opinions of the Philosophers, book 1, ch. 3: "Heraclitus and Hippasus of Metapontum say the first principle of all things is fire; for all things come from fire and all end in fire." But Justin Martyr, Exhortation, p. 50, without mentioning Hippasus, says: "Heraclitus of Metapontum says fire is the principle of all things; for all things come from fire and all end in fire." Heraclitus of Metapontum asserts that fire is the cause of all things; for all things come from fire and all at last return to fire. In that place we should write, with Plutarch, "Heraclitus and Hippasus of Metapontum." Sylburg advised reading "Heraclitus of Ephesus, as also Hippasus of Metapontum." But it is safer to follow Plutarch, since it is plain that one of these authors quotes the other's words, or both quote some third.

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Ἄθεοι μὲν δὴ καὶ οὗτοι. Idem affirmat Clemens, Strom. I, p. 296: Στοιχεῖα δὲ σέβουσι Διογένης μὲν τὸν ἀέρα, Θαλῆς δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ, Ἵππασος δὲ τὸ πῦρ· καὶ οἱ τὰς ἀτόμους ἀρχὰς ὑποτιθέμενοι, φιλοσοφίας ὄνομα ὑποδυόμενοι, ἄθεοί τινες ἀνθρωπίσκοι καὶ φιλήδονοι. Idem Strom. II, p. 364, refert, nec Thaletem, nec reliquos physicos ante Anaxagoram, Deum agnovisse. Verumtamen ex auctoribus superius laudatis certum est, philosophos, quos enumerat hoc loco Clemens, non fuisse omnes atheos. De Thalete, reliquos ut praeteream, Minut. Octavio: Milesius Thales, inquit, rerum initium aquam dixit; Deum autem eam mentem, quae ex aqua cuncta formaverit. Quae fere κατὰ λέξιν descripta sunt e Ciceron., lib. I De natura deor. Eadem dicit Lactantius lib. I, c. 5. Quin etiam Diogen. Laertius lib. I, seg. 35, inter Thaletis ἀποφθέγματα haec refert: Πρεσβύτατον τῶν ὄντων Θεός· ἀγέννητον γάρ. Κάλλιστον κόσμος· ποίημα γὰρ Θεοῦ· Antiquissimum eorum omnium quae sunt, Deus; ingenitus enim est. Pulcherrimum, mundus: a Deo enim factus est. Conf. Plutarch., in Convivio septem Sapient. Aliud Thaletis responsum quo pietatem suam testatus est, memorat ejusdem lib. seg. 36. Diogen. Laertius et Valer. Maxim., lib. VII, cap. 2: Mirifice etiam Thales; nam interrogatus an facta hominum deos fallerent, Nec cogitata inquit. Verum Clemens ideo philosophos omnes ante Anaxagoram atheos dicit fuisse, quod ille πρῶτος ἐπέστησε νοῦν τοῖς πράγμασι, primus rebus mentem praefecit, ut refert cum aliis pluribus Strom. II, loco superius dicto: unde ei Νοῦς cognominis loco inditus fuit, teste Laertio in Anaxagorae principio, et Plutarcho, in Pericle. Verum licet forte Anaxagoras νοός vocabulo primus sit usus, et in Ionica schola sententiam de Deo mundi opifice renovaverit, tamen eamdem Thales antea defenderat, licet Anaximander, Anaximenes, aliique Thaletis successores in constituendis principiis Dei nullam mentionem fecerint.

Ἄθεοι μὲν δὴ καὶ οὗτοι, "these too are godless": Clement affirms the same in Stromata 1, p. 296: "They worship elements: Diogenes the air, Thales water, Hippasus fire; and those who posit atoms as first principles, putting on the name of philosophy, are godless little men and lovers of pleasure." The same, Stromata 2, p. 364, reports that neither Thales nor the other natural philosophers before Anaxagoras acknowledged God. Yet from the authors praised above it is certain that the philosophers Clement lists here were not all atheists. On Thales, to pass over the rest, Minucius, Octavius: "Thales of Miletus," he says, "called water the beginning of things; but God that mind which formed all things out of water." This is copied almost word for word from Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 1. Lactantius says the same, book 1, ch. 5. Diogenes Laertius too, book 1, sect. 35, records among the sayings of Thales: "Oldest of all things that are is God, for he is unbegotten. Most beautiful is the world, for it is God's making." The most ancient of all that is, God, for he is unbegotten; the most beautiful, the world, for it was made by God. Compare Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Sages. Another answer of Thales by which he showed his piety is recorded in the same book, sect. 36, by Diogenes Laertius, and by Valerius Maximus, book 7, ch. 2: "Thales too, admirably; for when asked whether men's deeds escaped the gods, he said, 'Not even their thoughts.'" But Clement says all the philosophers before Anaxagoras were atheists because he "first set mind over things," as he relates with many others in Stromata 2, in the place mentioned above; whence the name Νοῦς, "Mind," was given him as a surname, as Laertius attests at the beginning of the Anaxagoras, and Plutarch in the Pericles. But though Anaxagoras was perhaps the first to use the word νοῦς, and renewed in the Ionian school the teaching of God as maker of the world, yet Thales had held the same before, even though Anaximander, Anaximenes and the other successors of Thales made no mention of God in setting out their first principles.

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Προστρεπόμενοι. Id habent posteriores editiones, consentiente Nov.; at προτρεπόμενοι Flor., Sylb., mendose. Mox, ἄρεως pro ἄρσεως, Nov.

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Ἔστι δὲ Σκυθῶν. De Scytharum cultu in eamdem sententiam Brodaeus, Miscell., lib. V, cap. 5, cum alia citat, tum Ammiani Marcellini locum hunc: Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum: nec tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest; sed gladius barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus: eumque ut Martem, regionum quas colunt praesidem, verecundius colunt. V. SYLBURG. — Solinus Polyhist. principio c. 25, de nonnullis Scythiae populis: Populis, inquit, istis Deus Mars est. Pro simulacris enses statuunt. Pomponius Mela, lib. II, cap. 1, paulo ante finem, de Scythis: Mars omnium, inquit, Deus. Ei pro simulacris enses et tentoria dedicant. Conf. Herodotus lib. IV; Lucianus, Jove Tragoedo, Arnobius lib. V; Clemens, superius p. 40, ed. Potter, not.

Ἔστι δὲ Σκυθῶν: on the worship of the Scythians to the same effect Brodaeus, Miscellanies, book 5, ch. 5, cites other things and especially this passage of Ammianus Marcellinus: "No temple or shrine is seen among them, nor can a hut thatched with straw be seen anywhere; but a naked sword is fixed in the ground in barbarian fashion, and they worship it with reverence as Mars, the guardian of the regions they inhabit." See SYLBURG. — Solinus, Polyhistor, beginning of ch. 25, on some peoples of Scythia: "For these peoples," he says, "Mars is God. Instead of images they set up swords." Pomponius Mela, book 2, ch. 1, a little before the end, on the Scythians: "Mars is the god of all," he says. "To him they dedicate swords and tents instead of images." Compare Herodotus, book 4; Lucian, Zeus the Tragedian; Arnobius, book 5; Clement above, p. 40 of Potter's edition, note.

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Εὔδοξος. Ἔνδοξος, Nov.

Εὔδοξος: Nov. has Ἔνδοξος.

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Περσῶν. Herodot. lib. I, refert Persas sacra facere ἡλίῳ, καὶ σελήνῃ, καὶ γῇ, καὶ πυρὶ, καὶ ὕδατι, καὶ ἀνέμοισι· Soli, et lunae, et terrae, et igni, et aquae, et ventis. Sidonius, Carmine 2 de Magis: ..... juratur ab illis / Ignis et unda deus.... Conf. Strabo lib. XV; Diogen. Laertius, procemio; Chrysost. IV Ἀνδριάντων; Arnob., lib. VI. Auctor Recognitionum Clementis, lib. IV, cap. 29, de Zoroastre agens: Busti cineres, inquit, tanquam fulminei ignis reliquias colligentes hi, qui primitus erant decepti, deferunt ad Persas, ut ab eis, tanquam divinus e coelo lapsus ignis, perpetuis conservaretur excubiis, atque ut coelestis deus coleretur. Conf. ad eum locum auctores a Cotelerio notati.

Περσῶν: Herodotus, book 1, reports that the Persians sacrifice "to the sun and moon and earth and fire and water and winds." To the sun, moon, earth, fire, water and winds. Sidonius, Poem 2, on the Magi: "…by them fire and water are sworn by as god…." Compare Strabo, book 15; Diogenes Laertius, preface; Chrysostom, Homily 4 On the Statues; Arnobius, book 6. The author of the Clementine Recognitions, book 4, ch. 29, treating of Zoroaster: "Those who had first been deceived," he says, "gathering the ashes of the pyre as the remains of a fire from lightning, carry them to the Persians, so that by them, as a divine fire fallen from heaven, it might be kept under perpetual watch, and worshipped as a heavenly god." Compare the authors noted on that place by Cotelier.

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Τί μοι Σαυρομάτ. καταλέγειν. A. καταλέγειν δεῖ. SYLBURG.

Τί μοι Σαυρομάτ[ας] καταλέγειν: A. has καταλέγειν δεῖ. SYLBURG.

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Θύειν. Herodotus, lib. I: Simulacra quidem et templa, et altaria lex eos vetat statuere, et statuentes stultitiae accusant: eo quod, ut mihi quidem videtur, non, perinde ut Graeci, deos humana forma praeditos esse existiment. Conf. auctores superius memorati.

Θύειν: Herodotus, book 1: "Their law forbids them to set up images, temples and altars, and they accuse those who set them up of folly; because, as it seems to me, they do not, like the Greeks, think the gods have human form." Compare the authors mentioned above.

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Ὁ Δίνων. Dinonis Persica citat aliquoties Athenaeus, in Dipnosoph. A. et H. SYLBURG.

Ὁ Δίνων: Athenaeus in the Deipnosophists cites Dinon's Persica several times. A. and H. SYLBURG.

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Εἰ γὰρ καί. Horatius, Artis poet. v. 31: In vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.

Εἰ γὰρ καί: Horace, Art of Poetry, line 31: "Flight from a fault leads into vice, if it lacks art."

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Ἀφροδίτης Ταναΐδος. Strabo quidem Uxiorum meminit, apud quos Ἀφροδίτη Ἀναΐτης colebatur, et apud Persas sacra fuisse celebrata prodit Anaïtidis et Omani: Ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς Ἀναΐτιδος καὶ τοῦ Ὠμανοῦ ἱερεῖς νενόμισται. Videndum ergo, num haec sit dea, quam Clemens hoc loco indicat. Vide Strabonem lib. XV, ubi Persas Venerem et Solem colere tradit, et lib. XI. COLLECT. Bochartus, Geographiae sacrae pag. 277, ait: « Circa Arbela et Gaugamela Strabo describit naphtae fontem, et ignis scatebras; καὶ τὸ τῆς Ἀναΐας ἱερόν, et Anaeae templum, id est Anaitidis, de qua idem Strabo alibi passim, et Agathias lib. II, et Pausanias Laconicis, et Plutarchus Artaxerxe: ex quibus corrigendus Clementis locus in Protrept. de eodem Artaxerxe, ὃς πρῶτος τῆς Ἀφροδίτης Ταναΐδος τὸ ἄγαλ. Lege Ἀναΐτιδος, in qua emendatione non debuit haesitare vir doctus. Nam praeter Persicam illam Anaïtidem, de qua praeter Strabonem Agathias lib. II, etiam Ecbatanis Anaïtidem fuisse cultam ex Plutarcho scimus, et Susis, et in Lydia, ubi Sardes, ex Pausania. Et in illius cultum Artaxerxes quam fuerit propensus, inde colligas, quod celebrem illam Aspasiam, Cyri olim concubinam, cujus formam et reliquas dotes tam multis praedicat Aelianus in Variis initio lib. XII, creavit sacerdotem, ut praeesset templo Anaitidis Ecbatanenae. Nec quemquam movere debet, quod Anaitidem alii Venerem, alii Dianam explicant. Nam raro sibi constant prisci scriptores, cum peregrina numina Graecis nominibus efferunt. Anaitidem multi Dianam esse voluerunt, quia communi fano cum Deo חמן Omano, id est Sole, colebatur, ut testatur Strabo XV. Vicissim alii Venerem esse maluerunt, quia infami ritu virgines in illius templo prostabant, ut idem in fine lib. XI. » — Nota infra formam dialecticam imperativi ὁμολογούντων pro ὁμολογείτωσαν. EDIT. PATROL.

Ἀφροδίτης Ταναΐδος: Strabo mentions the Uxii, among whom Aphrodite Anaitis was worshipped, and records that rites of Anaitis and Omanus were celebrated among the Persians: "These things are customary in the sanctuaries of Anaitis and Omanus." We must consider, then, whether this is the goddess Clement points to here. See Strabo, book 15, where he relates that the Persians worship Venus and the Sun, and book 11. COLLECT[ANEA]. Bochart, Sacred Geography, p. 277, says: "Around Arbela and Gaugamela Strabo describes a spring of naphtha and gushings of fire, 'and the sanctuary of Anaea,' the temple of Anaea, that is, of Anaitis, of whom the same Strabo speaks here and there elsewhere, and Agathias, book 2, and Pausanias in the Laconica, and Plutarch in the Artaxerxes: from these must be corrected the passage of Clement in the Protrepticus on the same Artaxerxes, 'who first [set up] the image of Aphrodite Tanais.' Read Ἀναΐτιδος, an emendation the learned man ought not to have hesitated over. For besides that Persian Anaitis, of whom Agathias, book 2, speaks as well as Strabo, we know from Plutarch that Anaitis was worshipped at Ecbatana too, and at Susa, and from Pausanias in Lydia, where Sardis is. And how devoted Artaxerxes was to her cult you may gather from this, that he made that famous Aspasia, once Cyrus's concubine, whose beauty and other gifts Aelian praises at such length at the beginning of book 12 of the Varied History, a priestess to preside over the temple of Anaitis at Ecbatana. Nor should it trouble anyone that some explain Anaitis as Venus, others as Diana. For the ancient writers are seldom consistent when they render foreign deities by Greek names. Many held Anaitis to be Diana, because she was worshipped in a shared shrine with the god חמן Omanus, that is, the Sun, as Strabo attests in book 15. Others in turn preferred to think her Venus, because by an infamous rite virgins prostituted themselves in her temple, as the same says at the end of book 11." — Note below the dialectal form of the imperative ὁμολογούντων for ὁμολογείτωσαν. EDITORS OF THE PATROLOGIA.

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Τὸν πάντων. Legi potest etiam τῶν πάντων, ut postea τῶν ὅλων Πατέρα. SYLBURG.

Τὸν πάντων: τῶν πάντων can also be read, as later "the Father of the universe." SYLBURG.

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γει. Σκυθῶν δὲ οἱ Σαυρομάται, ὥς φησιν Ἱκέσιος ἐν τῷ Περὶ μυστηρίων, ἀκινάκην σέβουσιν. Τοῦτό τοι καὶ οἱ ἀμφὶ τὸν Ἡράκλειτον, τὸ πῦρ ὡς ἀρχέγονον σέβοντες, πεπόνθασιν· τὸ γὰρ πῦρ τοῦτο ἕτεροι Ἥφαιστον ὠνόμασαν. Περσῶν δὲ οἱ Μάγοι τὸ πῦρ τετιμήκασι, καὶ τῶν τὴν Ἀσίαν κατοικούντων πολλοί· πρὸς δὲ καὶ Μακεδόνες, ὥς φησι Διογένης ἐν πρώτῳ Περσικῶν. Τί μοι Σαυρομάτας καταλέγειν οὓς Νυμφόδωρος ἐν Νομίμοις βαρβαρικοῖς, τὸ πῦρ σέβειν ἱστορεῖ· ἢ τοὺς Πέρσας, καὶ τοὺς Μήδους, καὶ τοὺς Μάγους; θύειν ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ τούτους ὁ Δίνων λέγει, θεῶν ἀγάλματα μόνα τὸ πῦρ καὶ ὕδωρ νομίζοντας. Οὐκ ἀπεκρυψάμην οὐδὲ τὴν τούτων ἄγνοιαν· εἰ γὰρ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα ἀποφεύγειν οἴονται τῆς πλάνης, ἀλλ' εἰς ἑτέραν κατολισθαίνουσιν ἀπάτην. Ἀγάλματα μὲν θεῶν οὐ ξύλα καὶ λίθους ὑπειλήφασιν, ὥσπερ Ἕλληνες· οὐδὲ μὴν ἴβιδας καὶ ἰχνεύμονας, καθάπερ Αἰγύπτιοι, ἀλλὰ πῦρ τε καὶ ὕδωρ, ὡς φιλόσοφοι. Μετὰ πολλὰς μέντοι ὕστερον περιόδους ἐτῶν ἀνθρωποειδῆ ἀγάλματα σέβειν αὐτοὺς, Βήρωσος ἐν τρίτῃ Χαλδαϊκῶν παρίστησι, τοῦτο Ἀρταξέρξου τοῦ Δαρείου τοῦ Ὤχου εἰσηγησαμένου, ὃς πρῶτος τῆς Ἀφροδίτης Ταναΐδος τὸ ἄγαλμα ἀναστήσας ἐν Βαβυλῶνι, καὶ Σούσοις, καὶ Ἐκβατάνοις Πέρσαις, καὶ Βάκτροις, καὶ Δαμασκῷ καὶ Σάρδεσιν, ὑπέδειξε σέβειν. Ὁμολογούντων τοίνυν οἱ φιλόσοφοι, τοὺς διδασκάλους τοὺς σφῶν Πέρσας, ἢ Σαυρομάτας, ἢ μάγους, παρ' ὧν τὴν ἀθεότητα τῶν σεβασμίων αὐτοῖς μεμαθήκασιν ἀρχῶν, ἄρχοντα τὸν πάντων ποιητὴν, καὶ τῶν ἀρχῶν αὐτῶν δημιουργὸν ἀγνοοῦντες, τὸν ἄναρχον Θεόν· τὰ δὲ πτωχὰ ταῦτα καὶ ἀσθενῆ, ᾗ φησιν ὁ Ἀπόστολος, τὰ εἰς τὴν ἀνθρώ-
. And of the Scythians the Sauromatae, as Hicesius says in his book On Mysteries, revere a scimitar. This very thing the followers of Heraclitus also have experienced, revering fire as primordial; for this fire others named Hephaestus. And the Magi of the Persians have honoured fire, and many of those who inhabit Asia, and in addition the Macedonians also, as Diogenes says in the first book of his Persica. Why need I reckon up the Sauromatae, whom Nymphodorus in his Barbaric Customs records to revere fire; or the Persians, and the Medes, and the Magi? Dinon says that these sacrifice in the open air, accounting fire and water the sole images of the gods. I have not concealed their ignorance either; for even if they think that they escape error to the utmost, yet they slip into another deceit. They have not supposed wood and stones to be images of the gods, as do the Greeks, nor yet ibises and ichneumons, just as do the Egyptians, but fire and water, as do philosophers. After many cycles of years, however, Berosus in the third book of his Chaldaica shows that they revered statues in human form, Artaxerxes the son of Darius the father of Ochus having introduced this, who first set up the statue of Aphrodite Tanais in Babylon, and Susa, and Ecbatana, and taught the Persians, and Bactra, and Damascus, and Sardis to revere it. Let the philosophers, then, confess as their teachers the Persians, or the Sauromatae, or the Magi, from whom they have learned the godlessness of their revered first principles, being ignorant of the Ruler, the Maker of all things, and the Creator of the first principles themselves, the God without beginning, while supplicating these beggarly and weak elements, as the Apostle says (Gal. 4:9), which have been made for the service of
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πων ὑπηρεσίαν πεποιημένα στοιχεῖα, προστρεπόμενοι Τῶν δὲ ἄλλων φιλοσόφων ὅσοι τὰ στοιχεῖα ὑπερβάντες, ἐπολυπραγμόνησάν τι ὑψηλότερον καὶ περιττότερον· οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν τὸ ἄπειρον καθύμνησαν, ὧν Ἀναξίμανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος ἦν, καὶ Ἀναξαγόρας ὁ Κλαζομένιος, καὶ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος Ἀρχέλαος· τούτω μέν γε ἄμφω τὸν Νοῦν ἐπεστησάτην τῇ ἀπειρίᾳ· ὁ δὲ Μιλήσιος Λεύκιππος καὶ ὁ Χῖος Μητρόδωρος διττὰς, ὡς ἔοικε, καὶ αὐτὼ ἀρχὰς ἀπελιπέτην, τὸ πλῆρες καὶ τὸ κενόν. Προσέθηκε καὶ λαβὼν τούτοιν τοῖν δυεῖν τὰ εἴδωλα, ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης Δημόκριτος· ὁ γάρ τοι Κροτωνιάτης Ἀλκμαίων, θεοὺς ᾤετο τοὺς ἀστέρας εἶναι, ἐμψύχους ὄντας (οὐ σιωπήσομαι οὐδὲ τὴν τούτων ἀναισχυντίαν)· Ξενοκράτης, Καρχηδόνιος οὗτος, ἑπτὰ μὲν θεοὺς τοὺς πλάνητας, ὄγδοον δὲ, τὸν ἐκ πάντων αὐτῶν συνεστῶτα κόσμον αἰνίττεται. Οὐδὲ μὴν τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς παρελεύσομαι, διὰ πάσης ὕλης, καὶ διὰ τῆς ἀτιμοτάτης, τὸ θεῖον διήκειν λέγοντας, οἳ καταισχύνουσιν ἀτεχνῶς τὴν φιλοσοφίαν. Οὐδὲν δὲ οἶμαι χαλεπὸν, ἐνταῦθα γενόμενος, καὶ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Περιπάτου μνησθῆναι· καὶ ὅγε τῆς αἱρέσεως πατὴρ, τῶν ὅλων οὐ νοήσας τὸν Πατέρα, τὸν καλούμενον ὕπατον, ψυχὴν εἶναι τοῦ παντὸς οἴεται· τουτέστι τοῦ κόσμου τὴν ψυχὴν
men. And as many of the other philosophers as transcended the elements busied themselves with something higher and more extraordinary: some of them celebrated the infinite, among whom were Anaximander of Miletus, and Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, and Archelaus the Athenian; these two latter at least set Mind over infinity; whereas Leucippus of Miletus and Metrodorus of Chios themselves also, as it seems, left behind two first principles, the full and the void. And Democritus of Abdera took these two and added the images; for Alcmaeon of Croton, indeed, thought that the stars were gods, being animate (I will not keep silent about their shamelessness either); and Xenocrates—he is of Chalcedon—hints that the seven planets are gods, and that the universe composed of them all is an eighth. Nor yet will I pass over those of the Porch, who say that the Divine pervades all matter, even the most dishonourable, who utterly disgrace philosophy. And I think it no hard matter, having arrived at this point, to make mention also of those of the Peripatos; and the father of the sect himself, not having understood the Father of all things, thinks that he who is called the Most High is the soul of the universe; that is, the soul of the world
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Galat. IV, 9.

Gal. 4:9.

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Ἀναξίμανδρος. Conf. Diogen. Laertius. in Anaximandro, Plutarch., De placitis philos.; Euseb., Praepar. Evang., lib. I, c. 8; lib. XIV, c. 14; Simplicius, in Aristotelis Physic., lib. I, c. 2.

Anaximander. Compare Diogenes Laertius on Anaximander; Plutarch, On the Opinions of the Philosophers; Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book 1, ch. 8, and book 14, ch. 14; Simplicius on Aristotle's Physics, book 1, ch. 2.

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Ἀναξαγόρας Hunc Clemens, Str. II, p. 364, refert, πρῶτον ἐπιστῆναι νοῦν τοῖς πράγμασιν. Cicero, De natura deor., lib. I: Anaxagoras, inquit, qui accepit ab Anaximene disciplinam, primus omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit. Idem refert Laertius principio Anaxagorae, aliique plures. Quod quo modo intelligi debeat, paulo superius explicatum est. Porro Anaxagorae comitem dat Archelaum, quod hic illius discipulus fuerit.

Anaxagoras. Clement, Stromata 2, p. 364, reports that he was the first to set Mind over things. Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 1: "Anaxagoras," he says, "who received his teaching from Anaximenes, was the first to hold that the ordering and measure of all things were designed and accomplished by the power and reason of an infinite mind." Laertius reports the same at the beginning of his Anaxagoras, and many others too. How this is to be understood was explained a little above. Further, he gives Anaxagoras Archelaus as companion, because Archelaus was his disciple.

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Λεύκιππος. Plutarch., lib. I De placit. philos.: Λεύκιππος, Δημόκριτος, Δημήτριος, Μητρόδωρος, Ἐπίκουρος τὰ μὲν ἄτομα ἄπειρα τῷ πλήθει, τὸ δὲ κενὸν ἄπειρον τῷ μεγέθει. Vult nempe hos principia statuisse immensum spatium et infinitos atomos, et ex atomis in se incidentibus in isto spatio omnia fieri. Conf. Laertius in Leucippo.

Leucippus. Plutarch, On the Opinions of the Philosophers, book 1: "Leucippus, Democritus, Demetrius, Metrodorus, Epicurus [say] that the atoms are infinite in number, and the void infinite in magnitude." He means, that is, that these men laid down as first principles a boundless space and infinite atoms, and that all things come to be in that space from atoms falling upon one another. Compare Laertius on Leucippus.

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Εἴδωλα. Primus Democritus teste Iren. lib. II, c. 19, dixit, multas et varias ab universitate figuras expressas descendisse in hunc mundum. Minut. pag. 152: Quid Democritus? quamvis atomorum primus inventor, nonne plerumque naturam, quae imagines fundat, et intelligentiam, Deum loquitur? His imaginibus omnia fieri statuit. Ὁρᾶν δὲ ἡμᾶς κατ' εἰδώλων ἐμπτώσεις, videre nos, ac proinde alios sensus exercere, incidentibus in nos rerum imaginibus; dixisse Democritum, refert Diogenes Laertius lib. IX, segm. 44. Item ὀνείρους γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὰς τῶν εἰδώλων παραστάσεις, somnia fieri per praesentiam imaginum, putavit, teste Plutarcho, De plac. philos., lib. V, cap. 1. Inde factum, ut Deum esse negaret. Cicero, De nat. deorum lib. II: Primum igitur aut negandum est deos esse, quod et Democritus simulacra, et Epicurus imagines inducens, quodam pacto negat; aut qui deos esse concedant, iis fatendum est, eos aliquid agere, idque praeclarum. Verumtamen Clemens ex hoc dogmate sequi, quod Deus sit, affirmat, Strom. V, pag. 590: Democritus, inquit, velit nolit, per dogmatum consequentiam Deum confitebitur; fecit enim easdem imagines in homines incurrentes, et in animantes rationis expertes, ἀπὸ τῆς θείας οὐσίας, a divina essentia. Sed tamen ille per divinam essentiam nil aliud quam naturam intellexit. Cicero, lib. I De natura deorum, c. 12: Quid Democritus, qui tum imagines earumque circuitus, in deorum numero refert; tum illam naturam, quae imagines fundat ac mittat; tum scientiam, intelligentiamque nostram: nonne in maximo errore versatur?

Images. Democritus first, as Irenaeus attests (book 2, ch. 19), said that many and various shapes, struck off from the universe, came down into this world. Minucius, p. 152: "What of Democritus? Though the first discoverer of the atoms, does he not for the most part speak of nature, which pours out the images, and of intelligence, as God?" He held that all things come about by these images. Diogenes Laertius, book 9, section 44, reports that Democritus said that we see by the impacts of images, that is, that we see, and so exercise the other senses, as the images of things fall upon us. He also thought that dreams come about through the presentations of images, through the presence of images, as Plutarch attests, On the Opinions of the Philosophers, book 5, ch. 1. Hence it came about that he denied that God exists. Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 2: "First, then, either one must deny that the gods exist, which Democritus in a way denies by bringing in his likenesses and Epicurus his images; or those who grant that the gods exist must admit that they do something, and something excellent." Yet Clement asserts that it follows from this doctrine that God exists, Stromata 5, p. 590: "Democritus," he says, "willing or not, will by the consequence of his doctrines confess God; for he made the same images, falling upon men and upon animals without reason, come from the divine essence," from the divine essence. But he understood by "divine essence" nothing other than nature. Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 1, ch. 12: "What of Democritus, who counts among the gods now the images and their circuits, now that nature which pours out and sends the images, now our knowledge and understanding: is he not in the greatest error?"

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Ἀλκμαίων. Cicero, lib. I De natura deor.: Crotoniates autem Alcmaeo, qui soli, et lunae, reliquisque sideribus, animoque praeterea divinitatem dedit, non sensit sese mortalibus rebus immortalitatem dare.

Alcmaeon. Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book 1: "But Alcmaeon of Croton, who ascribed divinity to the sun and moon and the rest of the stars, and to the soul besides, did not see that he was giving immortality to mortal things."

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Ξενοκράτης Καρχηδόνιος. Clemens, Strom. V, p. 590, rursus hunc philosophum Καρχηδόνιον vocavit. Idem eum Χαλκηδόνιον appellat Strom. II, p. 419, et Str. V, p. 604, idque recte. Nam Xenocrates Chalcedonius fuisse dicitur a Strabone, Aeliano, Athenaeo, Diogene Laertio ac Suida. Sed facilis ac frequens est error scriptorum voces Χαλκηδόνιος et Καρχηδόνιος inter se permutantium. Proinde Eusebius verba Strom. V recitans, perperam habet Καρχηδόνιος· idque in nonnullos Laertii codices irrepsit: quemadmodum etiam apud Philostratum, De vitis philosoph., lib. I, cap. 14, in editis et mss. cod. Thrasymachus dicitur Καρχηδόνιος, quem tamen omnes sciunt Chalcedone natum fuisse: itaque Olearius reposuit Χαλκηδόνιος.

Xenocrates the Carthaginian. Clement, Stromata 5, p. 590, again called this philosopher "Carthaginian." The same writer calls him "Chalcedonian" in Stromata 2, p. 419, and Stromata 5, p. 604, and rightly. For Xenocrates is said to have been a Chalcedonian by Strabo, Aelian, Athenaeus, Diogenes Laertius and the Suda. But copyists easily and often err by exchanging the words "Chalcedonian" and "Carthaginian." So Eusebius, quoting the words of Stromata 5, wrongly has "Carthaginian," and this has crept into some manuscripts of Laertius; just as in Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, book 1, ch. 14, in the printed editions and the manuscripts Thrasymachus is called "Carthaginian," though everyone knows he was born at Chalcedon; and so Olearius restored "Chalcedonian."

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Τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς. Stoicorum sententiam similiter describunt Tatianus pag. 18; Athenagoras p. 28, 29; ipse Clemens Strom. I, p. 295, et Str. V, p. 591, quibus locis conf. quae adnotata sunt. Putabant illi Deum esse materiale quoddam πνεῦμα aut animam mundi, quae omnia pervadit.

Those of the Porch. The opinion of the Stoics is described in the same way by Tatian, p. 18; Athenagoras, pp. 28, 29; and Clement himself, Stromata 1, p. 295, and Stromata 5, p. 591; compare the notes at those places. They held God to be a kind of material spirit, or the soul of the world, which pervades all things.

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Ψυχήν. De hac sententia Aristotelis conf. Athenagorae Legat. p. 28; Plutarchus, De placit. philosoph. lib. I, c. 7. Quod idem philosophus Dei providentiam intra lunae orbem terminaverit, refert Clemens Str. V, p. 591, ad quem locum vide adnotata.

Soul. On this opinion of Aristotle compare Athenagoras, Plea, p. 28; Plutarch, On the Opinions of the Philosophers, book 1, ch. 7. That the same philosopher confined God's providence within the sphere of the moon is reported by Clement, Stromata 5, p. 591; see the notes on that place.

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Οὐδὲ μ. Lowthius mavult οὐδέν.

Nor m[ore]. Lowth prefers "nothing."

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Παρεισάγ. Παρεισάγων· ξένον ἄτοπον σχ. Nov.

Bringing in. "Bringing in" (participle): a strange, absurd constr[uction], Nov.

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Οἷ μηδέ. Οἷς μηδέ, dativo casu. Sylburg.

Who not even. Read "to whom not even," in the dative case. Sylburg.

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Δοκησεισόφων. Δοκησόφων Nov. Rectius δοκησισόφων, aut divise δοκήσει σοφῶν.

Wise-in-their-own-conceit. Nov. has "δοκησόφων." Better "δοκησισόφων," or, as two words, "wise in conceit."

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Δεινῶς τε καὶ ἀτάκτως. Sic Heinsius, et post eum reliquae editt. At Flor. Sylburg. editiones et Nov. habent δειναῖς τε καὶ ἀτάκτοις, quae proinde vera lectio est.

Terribly and disorderly. So Heinsius, and after him the remaining editions. But the Florentine and Sylburg editions and Nov. have "to terrible and disorderly [corruption and decay]," which is therefore the true reading.

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Τὸν ἡλίου. Distingue cum Nov. τὸν ἡλίου φωταγωγόν· Θεὸν ἐπιζητ., quod in versione expressum est.

The [guide] of the sun. Punctuate with Nov.: "the one who guides the sun's light; I seek God," as is rendered in the translation.

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Πλάτων. Platonis locus est in Timaeo pag. 28 tomi tertii edit. Serrani. Nec dissimile illud Hermae Trismegisti, Θεὸν νοῆσαι μὲν χαλεπόν, φράσαι δ' ἀδύνατον, de quo quae sit Gregorii Nazianz. epicrisis, declarat oratio 2 Περὶ θεολογίας pag. 198. Vide et Theodoretum lib. II Therap. H. Sylburg. — Platonis locus in Timaeo, pag. 1047 edit. Ficini, sic se habet: Τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον, καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν· Opificem quidem et patrem mundi invenire difficile, et cum jam inveneris, praedicare in vulgus nefas. E quo pro ἅπαν scribendum videtur πάντας, aut potius ἅπαντας, quod habet Nov. Clemens haec verba rursus laudavit Strom. V, p. 585, ubi πάντας scripsit. Eorum priorem partem iterum recitavit Strom. V, pag. 592. Porro dictum hoc Socrati tribuit Justinus M., Apol. II, p. 27, memoriae lapsu: non enim Socratis, sed Timaei effatum est apud Platonem. Id recitant praeterea Athenagoras, Legat. p. 25; Tertullianus, Apol., cap. 46; Cyrillus, contra Julian., lib. I, p. 31; auctor Recognit. Clementis lib. VIII, cap. 20, p. 564; Minucius Octavio, p. 155.

Plato. The passage of Plato is in the Timaeus, p. 28 of the third volume of Serranus's edition. Not unlike it is the saying of Hermes Trismegistus, "To conceive God is hard, to speak of him impossible"; what Gregory Nazianzen's judgement on it is, his second oration On Theology, p. 198, makes plain. See also Theodoret, Therapeutic, book 2. H. Sylburg. — The passage of Plato in the Timaeus, p. 1047 of Ficino's edition, runs thus: "To find the maker and father of this universe is a labour, and having found him, to declare him to all is impossible": "To find the maker and father of the world is difficult, and when you have found him, to proclaim him to the crowd is forbidden." From this it seems that for "ἅπαν" one should write "πάντας," or rather "ἅπαντας," which Nov. has. Clement quoted these words again in Stromata 5, p. 585, where he wrote "πάντας." He recited their first part once more in Stromata 5, p. 592. Further, Justin Martyr, Apology 2, p. 27, attributes this saying to Socrates by a slip of memory: it is not Socrates' utterance but Timaeus' in Plato. It is quoted besides by Athenagoras, Plea, p. 25; Tertullian, Apology, ch. 46; Cyril, Against Julian, book 1, p. 31; the author of Clement's Recognitions, book 8, ch. 20, p. 564; Minucius in the Octavius, p. 155.

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CAPUT VI. Philosophos aliquando, ipso aspirante, verum hoc in argumento attigisse.

CHAPTER VI.

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Θεὸν ὑπολαμβάνων, αὐτὸς αὐτῷ περιπείρεται. Ὁ γάρ τοι μέχρι τῆς σελήνης αὐτῆς διορίζων τὴν πρόνοιαν, ἔπειτα τὸν κόσμον Θεὸν ἡγούμενος, περιτρέπεται, τὸν ἄμοιρον τοῦ Θεοῦ Θεὸν δογματίζων. Ὁ δὲ Ἐρέσιος ἐκεῖνος Θεόφραστος, ὁ Ἀριστοτέλους γνώριμος, πῆ μὲν οὐρανὸν, πῆ δὲ πνεῦμα τὸν Θεὸν ὑπονοεῖ. Ἐπικούρου μὲν γὰρ μόνου καὶ ἑκὼν ἐκλήσομαι, ὃς οὐδὲ μέλειν οἴεται τῷ Θεῷ, διὰ πάντων ἀσεβῶν. Τί γὰρ Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός; Οὐκ ἔσθ' ὅπη οὐκ ἐπὶ τὰ Δημοκρίτου καὶ αὐτὸς κατασύρεται εἴδωλα.
supposing to be God, he is pierced by his own self. For he who limits providence as far as the moon itself, and then deems the world to be God, is overturned, laying down as dogma that what has no share of God is God. And that Eresian Theophrastus, the acquaintance of Aristotle, conjectures God to be in one way heaven, and in another way spirit. For Epicurus alone I shall even willingly forget, who thinks that God does not even care, being impious through all things. For what of Heraclides of Pontus? There is nowhere that he too is not dragged down to the idols of Democritus.
Καὶ πολύς μοι ἐπιῤῥεῖ τοιοῦτος ὄχλος, οἱονεὶ μορμώ τινα δαιμονίων παρεισάγων ξένων· ἄτοπον σκιαγραφίαν μυθολόγων, ὕθλῳ γραϊκῷ· πολλοῦ γε δεῖ ἀνδράσιν ἐπιτρέπειν, ἀκροᾶσθαι τοιούτων λόγων, οἳ μηδὲ τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς ἑαυτῶν, τοῦτο δὴ τὸ λεγόμενον, κλαυθμυριζομένους ἐθίζομεν παρηγορεῖσθαι μυθίζοντες, ὀῤῥωδοῦντες συνανατρέφειν αὐτοῖς ἀθεότητα, τὴν πρὸς τῶν δοκησεισόφων δὴ τούτων καταγγελλομένην, μηδέν τι νηπίων μᾶλλον τἀληθὲς εἰδότων. Τί γὰρ, ὦ πρὸς τῆς ἀληθείας, τοὺς σοὶ πεπιστευκότας δεικνύεις ῥύσει καὶ φθορᾷ δεινῶς τε καὶ ἀτάκτως ὑποβεβλημένους; Τί δαί μοι εἰδώλων ἀναπίμπλης τὸν βίον, ἀνέμους τε, ἢ ἀέρα, ἢ πῦρ, ἢ γῆν, ἢ λίθους, ἢ ξύλα, ἢ σίδηρον, ἢ κόσμον τόνδε, θεοὺς ἀναπλάττουσα· θεοὺς δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἀστέρας τοὺς πλανήτας τοῖς ὄντως πεπλανημένοις τῶν ἀνθρώπων, διὰ τῆς πολυθρυλλήτου ταύτης ἀστρολογίας, οὐκ ἀστρονομίας, μετεωρολογοῦσα καὶ ἀδολεσχοῦσα; τὸν Κύριον τῶν πνευμάτων ποθῶ, τὸν Κύριον τοῦ πυρὸς, τὸν κόσμου δημιουργὸν, τὸν ἡλίου φωταγωγὸν Θεὸν ἐπιζητῶ, οὐ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ Θεοῦ. Τίνα δὴ λάβω παρὰ σοῦ συνεργὸν τῆς ζητήσεως; Οὐ γὰρ παντάπασιν ἀπεγνώκαμέν γε, εἰ βούλει, τὸν Πλάτωνα. Πῆ δὴ οὖν ἐξιχνευτέον τὸν Θεὸν, ὦ Πλάτων; Τὸν γὰρ πατέρα καὶ ποιητὴν τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς, εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον, καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς ἄπαν ἐξειπεῖν ἀδύνατον. Διὰ τί δῆτα; ὦ πρὸς αὐτοῦ·
And a great crowd of this sort streams in upon me, introducing as it were some bugbear of strange demons, an absurd shadow-painting of mythologers, with old wives' talk; far indeed is it from being permissible for men to listen to such discourses, we who do not even accustom our own children, when whimpering, as the saying goes, to be soothed by telling them myths, dreading to rear up godlessness together with them, which is proclaimed by these men wise in their own conceit, who know the truth no whit more than infants. For why, O in the name of truth, do you show those who have trusted in you as terribly and disorderly subjected to flux and corruption? Why ever do you fill life for me with idols, fashioning winds, or air, or fire, or earth, or stones, or woods, or iron, or this world into gods, and babbling of things on high and prating of the wandering stars too as gods for those of men who have truly wandered, through this much-talked-of astrology, not astronomy? I long for the Lord of the spirits, the Lord of the fire, the Creator of the world, the God Who is the light-giver of the sun; I seek after God, not the works of God. Whom then shall I take from you as a fellow-worker in the search? For we have not altogether despaired, if you will, of Plato. How then is one to track out God, O Plato? For the Father and Maker of this universe it is both a task to find, and having found Him, to declare Him unto all is impossible. Why ever so, O in His name?
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Ῥητέος γὰρ οὐδαμῶς ἐστιν. Εὖγε, ὦ Πλάτων, ἐπαφᾶσαι τῆς ἀληθείας· ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀποκάμῃς· ξύν μοι λαβοῦ τῆς ζητήσεως τἀγαθοῦ πέρι· πᾶσι γὰρ ἁπαξαπλῶς ἀνθρώποις, μάλιστα δὲ τοῖς περὶ λόγους ἐνδιατρίβουσιν, ἐνέστακταί τις ἀπόῤῥοια θεϊκή· οὗ δὴ χάριν καὶ ἄκοντες μὲν ὁμολογοῦσιν ἕνα τε εἶναι Θεὸν, ἀνώλεθρον καὶ ἀγένητον· τοῦτον ἄνω που περὶ τὰ νῶτα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ καὶ οἰκείᾳ περιωπῇ ὄντως ὄντα ἀεί.
For He is in no way to be spoken. Well done, O Plato, you touch upon the truth; but do not grow weary; take part with me in the search concerning the good; for into all men without exception, and especially those who spend their time in discussions, a certain divine effluence has been instilled; wherefore even unwillingly they confess both that God is one, indestructible and unbegotten, and that He somewhere above about the ridge of heaven in His own and proper watch-tower truly is for ever.
Θεὸν δὲ ποῖον, εἰπέ μοι, νοητέον; Τὸν πάνθ' ὁρῶντα, κ' αὐτὸν οὐχ ὁρώμενον,
But what sort of God, tell me, is to be conceived? Him Who sees all things, and Himself is not seen,
Εὐριπίδης λέγει. Πεπλανῆσθαι γοῦν ὁ Μένανδρός μοι δοκεῖ, ἔνθα φησίν·
Euripides says. Menander therefore seems to me to have gone astray where he says:
Ἥλιε· σὲ γὰρ δεῖ προσκυνεῖν πρῶτον θεῶν, Δι' ὃν θεωρεῖν ἔστι τοὺς ἄλλους θεούς.
O Sun, for you first of gods must one worship, through whom it is possible to behold the other gods.
Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἥλιος ἐπιδείξει ποτ' ἂν τὸν Θεὸν τὸν ἀληθῆ, οὐδὲ λόγος ὁ ὑγιὴς, ὅς ἐστιν ἥλιος ψυχῆς, δι' οὗ μόνου ἔνδον ἀνατείλαντος ἐν τῷ βάθει τοῦ νοῦ, καὶ τοῦ νοὸς αὐτοῦ καταυγάζεται τὸ ὄμμα. Ὅθεν οὐκ ἀπεικότως ὁ Δημόκριτος τῶν λογίων ἀνθρώπων ὀλίγους φησὶν ἀνατείναντας τὰς χεῖρας· ἐνταῦθα ὃν νῦν ἠέρα καλέομεν οἱ Ἕλληνες, πάντα διαμυθεῖσθαι· καὶ πάντα οὗτος οἶδεν, καὶ διδοῖ, καὶ ἀφαιρεῖται, καὶ βασιλεὺς οὗτος τῶν πάντων. Ταύτῃ πη καὶ Πλάτων, διανοούμενος τὸν Θεὸν, αἰνίττεται περὶ τὸν πάντων βασιλέα, πάντ' ἐστὶ, κἀκεῖνο αἴτιον ἁπάντων καλῶν. Τίς οὖν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν πάντων; Θεὸς, τῆς τῶν ὄντων ἀληθείας τὸ μέτρον. Ὥσπερ οὖν τῷ μέτρῳ καταληπτὰ μετρούμενα, οὑτωσὶ δὲ καὶ τῷ νοῆσαι τὸν Θεὸν μετρεῖται καὶ καταλαμβάνεται ἡ ἀλήθεια. Ὁ δὲ ἱερὸς ὄντως Μωϋσῆς· Οὐκ ἔσται, φησὶν, ἐν τῷ μαρσίππῳ σου στάθμιον καὶ στάθμιον, μέγα ἢ μικρὸν,
For not even the sun could ever show forth the true God, nor yet sound reason, which is the sun of the soul, through which alone, when it has risen within in the depth of the mind, the eye of the mind itself is illuminated. Wherefore not unreasonably Democritus says that a few of the learned men, lifting up their hands thither towards what we Greeks now call air, recount all things: and he knows all things, and gives and takes away, and he is king of all things. In this way somehow Plato too, contemplating God, hints: around the King of all are all things, and that is the cause of all good things. Who then is the King of all things? God, the measure of the truth of the things that are. Just as, therefore, things measured are apprehended by the measure, so too by conceiving God is the truth measured and apprehended. And the truly sacred Moses says: There shall not be in your bag a weight and a weight, great or small,
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Ῥητέος. Ῥητέον Nov. Haec porro verba non exstant apud Platonem eodem loco, quo superiora. Forte Clemens ejus sensum tantum exprimit, non verba. Mox, ἐπαφᾶσθαι pro ἐπαφᾶσαι, idem.

Must be spoken. Nov. has "ῥητέον." These words, moreover, are not found in Plato at the same place as the preceding. Perhaps Clement expresses only his sense, not his words. Just after, the same [Nov. has] "ἐπαφᾶσθαι" for "ἐπαφᾶσαι."

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Ἀγέννητον. Ἀγέννητον, ingeneratum seu ingenitum. V. Sylburg. — Τοῦτον malim ad ἀγένητον referri, quam ad ea quae sequuntur.

Unbegotten. "Ἀγέννητον," ungenerated or unbegotten. See Sylburg. — I would rather refer "τοῦτον" to "ἀγένητον" than to what follows.

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Νῶτα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. Imitatur Homeri Il. B, vers. 159, νῶτα θαλάσσης.

The back of heaven. He imitates Homer, Iliad 2, line 159, "the back of the sea."

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Οὐδὲ λόγος. A. et H. cum G. Cantero pro οὐδὲ λόγος legunt ἀλλ' ὁ λόγος, ego ὁ δὲ λόγος malo. Sic enim et minor fit mutatio, et recte constat sensus. Ibidem rectius fortasse optativo modo ἐπιδείξαι, vel ἐπιδείξειε. Sylburg.

Nor the word. A. and H., with G. Canter, read "but the Word" for "nor the word"; I prefer "and the Word." For so the change is smaller and the sense stands correctly. In the same place, perhaps better in the optative mood, "ἐπιδείξαι" or "ἐπιδείξειε." Sylburg.

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Καλέομεν οἱ Ἕλληνες, πάντα διαμ. Locus depravatus, sed cui facilis est medicina. Scribe et distingue, ὅθεν οὐκ ἀπεικότως ὁ Δημόκριτος τῶν λογίων ἀνθρώπων ὀλίγους φησὶν ἀνατείναντας τὰς χεῖρας ἐνταῦθα ὃν νῦν ἀέρα καλέομεν οἱ Ἕλληνες. Πάντα Δία μυθεῖσθαι. Emendationem nostram ipse Clemens libro quinto confirmat, ubi idem adducitur Democriti locus, et quidem ex ipso, non ut hic verbis aliquantum immutatis, quemadmodum ex Ionismo apparet, quem infregit hoc loco: Ἤδη δέ, ὡς εἰπεῖν, ὑπ' αὐγὰς ὁ Δημόκριτος, εἶναί τινας ὀλίγους γράφει τῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἳ δὴ ἀνατείνοντες τὰς χεῖρας ἐνταῦθα ὃν νῦν ἀέρα καλέομεν οἱ Ἕλληνες· πάντα Ζεὺς μυθέεται, καὶ πάνθ' οὗτος οἶδε, καὶ διδοῖ, καὶ ἀφαιρέεται. Sed Democritus procul dubio scripserat τὰς εὐχὰς ποιέουσι. Nam pendent posteriora. Et Clemens, quod ipsi usitatum est, διὰ μνήμης eum adduxit et instituto accommodavit. Ne legamus ἀνατείνουσι· quod minus placet, cum utrobique participium servarit Clemens. Et locus miram habebit venustatem: Οἱ δὲ ἀνατείνοντες τὰς χεῖρας ἐνταῦθα ὃν νῦν ἀέρα καλέομεν οἱ Ἕλληνες, ποιέουσι τὰς εὐχάς. Heinsius. — Porro Heinsianam emendationem maxima ex parte firmat Eusebius, Praeparat. evang., p. 675.

We Greeks call ... all things ... A corrupt passage, but one easily healed. Write and punctuate: "whence not unfittingly Democritus says that a few men of learning, stretching out their hands to that place which we Greeks now call air: 'Zeus tells all things.'" Clement himself confirms our emendation in the fifth book, where the same passage of Democritus is cited, and from Democritus himself, not, as here, with the words somewhat changed, as the Ionic dialect shows, which he broke down in this place: "Already, so to speak, in the full light of day Democritus writes that there are some few among men who, stretching out their hands to that place which we Greeks now call air, [say]: Zeus tells all things, and he knows all things, and gives, and takes away." But Democritus without doubt had written "make their prayers." For the latter part hangs [without a verb]. And Clement, as is his custom, cited him from memory and fitted him to his purpose. Let us not read "they stretch out," which pleases less, since in both places Clement kept the participle. And the passage will have a wonderful grace: "And those stretching out their hands to that place which we Greeks now call air make their prayers." Heinsius. — Further, Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, p. 675, confirms Heinsius's emendation for the most part.

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Πλάτων. Platonis locus exstat in secunda epistola ad Dionysium pag. 1269, edit. Ficini. Eum rursus laudavit Clemens Strom. V, pag. 598, quem locum videsis. Caeterum cum inde, tum etiam e Nov. patet hunc locum sic esse distinguendum: Ταύτῃ πῃ καὶ Πλάτων διανοούμενος, τὸν Θεὸν αἰνίττεται· Περὶ τὸν πάντων βασιλέα, πάντ' ἐστί· κἀκεῖνο αἴτιον ἁπάντων καλῶν· quem sensum in versione secuti sumus.

Plato. The passage of Plato is in the second letter to Dionysius, p. 1269 of Ficino's edition. Clement quoted it again in Stromata 5, p. 598; see that place. Moreover, both from there and from Nov. it is plain that this passage should be punctuated thus: "Plato too, thinking in this way, hints at God: 'About the king of all are all things; and that is the cause of all good things'"; and we have followed this sense in the translation.

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Κἀκεῖνο. Κἀκεῖνος Nov. et posteriores Clementis editiones. Sed alteram lectionem firmant tum ejusdem priores editiones, tum ipse Plato.

And that. Nov. and the later editions of Clement have "and he." But the other reading is confirmed both by the earlier editions of the same and by Plato himself.

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Μικρόν. Οὐδὲ ἔσται ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ σου μέτρον μέγα ἢ μικρόν, addit Nov. In Bibliis Graecis haec pericope sic se habet: Καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ἐν τῷ μαρσίππῳ σου στάθμιον καὶ στάθμιον, μέγα ἢ μικρόν· οὐκ ἔσται ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ σου μέτρον καὶ μέτρον, μέγα καὶ μικρόν· στάθμιον ἀληθ. Deut. XXV, 13, 14. Quinetiam Clemens haec verba explicans, statim mentionem μέτρου subjecit: στάθμιον καὶ μέτρον καὶ ἀριθμὸν τῶν ὅλων ὑπολαμβάνων τὸν Θεόν. Itaque veri- (continues)

Small. Nov. adds, "Nor shall there be in your house a measure great or small." In the Greek Bible this passage runs thus: "And there shall not be in your bag weight and weight, great or small; there shall not be in your house measure and measure, great and small; a true weight ..." Deut. 25:13–14. Moreover Clement, explaining these words, at once adds mention of the measure: "taking God to be the weight and measure and number of all things." Therefore it is li- (continues)

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(scripture note; call number not legible) ‹anchor: not visible› · call in col 175 Deut. XXV, 13, 15.

Deut. 25:13, 15.

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Μετρεῖται. Respicit Isa. XL, 14: Quis mensus est pugillo aquas, et coelos palma ponderavit?

Is measured. He has in view Isa. 40:14 [rather 40:12]: "Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm?"

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Ὁ μὲν δὴ Θεός. Hic locus Platonis exstat De legib. lib. IV, pag. 831, laudatur infra Strom. II, p. 418, et a Justino M., Cohort. ad Graec., p. 98.

God indeed. This passage of Plato is in the Laws, book 4, p. 831; it is quoted below in Stromata 2, p. 418, and by Justin Martyr, Exhortation to the Greeks, p. 98.

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Ἀρχὴν καί. Ἀρχήν τε καί, Plat. et Strom.

The beginning and. Plato and the Stromata have "both the beginning and."

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Τῇ. Scribendum τῷ· quod habent Plato et Clemens in Strom.

The (feminine). Write "τῷ" (masculine), which Plato and Clement in the Stromata have.

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Σοφώτερα. Loca Platonis infra laudata reperies Strom. I, pag. 302, 303.

Wiser. You will find the passages of Plato quoted below in Stromata 1, pp. 302, 303.

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Γεωμετρίαν. Tatianus non procul ab initio Orat. Ἀστρονομεῖν Βαβυλώνιοι... γεωμετρεῖν Αἰγύπτιοι· Astronomiam Babylonii... geometriam Aegyptii docuerunt. Conf. quae Clemens scripsit de rerum inventoribus, Strom. I, p. 306, seq.

Geometry. Tatian, not far from the beginning of his Oration: "the Babylonians [taught] astronomy ... the Egyptians geometry." Compare what Clement wrote on the inventors of things, Stromata 1, p. 306 ff.

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Ἐπῳδὰς τὰς ὑγιεῖς. Mira venustate Clemens vocavit ὑγιεῖς ἐπῳδάς, sanas incantationes, quae conferre sanitati possunt. Intelligit autem illam, quam tantopere in Charmide commendat Socrates, quam a Thrace quodam in castris didicisse se ait. Nimirum, partem sine toto sanari non posse. Oculum non posse sine toto capite, caput sine toto corpore, corpus non posse sine anima. Τοιοῦτον τοίνυν ἐστίν, ὦ Χαρμίδη, καὶ τὸ ταύτης τῆς ἐπῳδῆς. Ἔμαθον δ' αὐτὴν ἐγὼ ἐκεῖ ἐπὶ στρατιᾶς παρά τινος τῶν Θρᾳκῶν Ζαμόλξιδος ἰατρῶν, οἳ λέγονται καὶ ἀθανατίζειν. Vide quae ad Maximum Tyrium pluribus ταύτης τῆς ἐπῳδῆς πέρι adnotavimus. Nam et ipse meminit, et Θρᾴκιον ἐπῳδὴν vocat. Οὐκ αὐτὸ ἐκεῖνο, ἡ Θρᾴκιος ἐπῳδή, inquit. Heins.

The healthful incantations. With wonderful grace Clement called them "healthful incantations," sound charms, which can contribute to health. He means the one which Socrates so highly commends in the Charmides, and which he says he learned from a certain Thracian in camp: namely, that a part cannot be healed without the whole; the eye cannot be without the whole head, the head without the whole body, the body cannot be without the soul. "Such then, Charmides, is the nature of this incantation. I learned it there on campaign from one of the Thracian physicians of Zalmoxis, who are said even to make men immortal." See what we noted at greater length on Maximus of Tyre concerning this incantation. For he too mentions it, and calls it the Thracian incantation: "Is not that the very thing, the Thracian incantation?" he says. Heinsius.

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Οὐδὲ ἔργα ἀνθρώπων. Metrum postulat, οὐδ' ἔργ' ἀνθρώπων, elisis scilicet vocalibus finalibus. Sylburg.

Nor the works of men. The metre requires "οὐδ' ἔργ' ἀνθρώπων," that is, with the final vowels elided. Sylburg.

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Εὐνῆς αἰεί, χρόα ἀγ. A. transposita distinctione, ἀεὶ χρόα ἁγνίζοντες ὕδασι· quod Joan. II confirmant sex hydriae positae κατὰ τὸν καθαρισμὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων. Id.

From the bed always, cleansing the skin. A. [reads], with the punctuation shifted, "always cleansing the skin with waters"; which is confirmed in John 2 by the six water-jars set there "for the purification of the Jews." The same.

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Ἀθάνατον. Potest etiam ἀθανάτων legi, ut apud Homerum passim. Id.

Immortal. One may also read "ἀθανάτων" (of the immortals), as often in Homer. The same.

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Ξενοφῶν. Xenophontis locum infra Strom. V, p. 601, laudavit Clemens; item Eusebius Praep. Evang. lib. XIII, pag. 678; Cyrillus contra Julian., (continues)

Xenophon. Clement quoted Xenophon's passage below, Stromata 5, p. 601; so also Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book 13, p. 678; Cyril, Against Julian, (continues)

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ἀλλ' ἢ στάθμιον ἀληθινὸν καὶ δίκαιον ἔσται σοι· στάθμιον καὶ μέτρον καὶ ἀριθμὸν τῶν ὅλων ὑπολαμβάνων τὸν Θεόν. Τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄδικα καὶ ἄνισα εἴδωλα οἴκοι ἐν τῷ μαρσίππῳ καὶ ἐν τῇ, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, ῥυπιώσῃ ψυχῇ κατακέκρυπται· τὸ δὲ μόνον δίκαιον μέτρον, ὁ μόνος ὄντως Θεὸς, ἴσος ἀεὶ, κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχων, μετρεῖται πάντα καὶ σταθμᾶται οἱονεὶ τρυτάνῃ τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, τὴν τῶν ὅλων ἀῤῥεπῶς περιλαμβάνων καὶ ἀνέχων φύσιν. Ὁ μὲν δὴ Θεὸς, ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ παλαιὸς λόγος, ἀρχὴν καὶ τελευτὴν καὶ μέσα τῶν ὄντων ἁπάντων ἔχων, εὐθεῖαν περαίνει, κατὰ φύσιν περιπορευόμενος· τῆ δ' ἀεὶ ξυνέπεται δίκη, τῶν ἀπολειπομένων τοῦ θείου νόμου τιμωρός. Πόθεν, ὦ Πλάτων, ἀλήθειαν αἰνίττῃ; Πόθεν ἡ τῶν λόγων ἄφθονος χορηγία τὴν θεοσέβειαν μαντεύεται; Σοφώτερα, φησὶν, τούτων βαρβάρων τὰ γένη. Οἶδά σου τοὺς διδασκάλους, κἂν ἀποκρύπτειν ἐθέλῃς· γεωμετρίαν παρ' Αἰγυπτίων μανθάνεις· ἀστρονομίαν παρὰ Βαβυλωνίων· ἐπῳδὰς τὰς ὑγιεῖς παρὰ Θρᾳκῶν λαμβάνεις· πολλά σε καὶ Ἀσσύριοι πεπαιδεύκασι· νόμους δὲ τοὺς ὅσοι ἀληθεῖς, καὶ δόξαν τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ παρ' αὐτῶν ὠφέλησαι τῶν Ἑβραίων·
but a true and just weight shall you have; supposing God to be the weight and measure and number of the universe. For the unjust and unequal idols are hidden away at home in the bag and in the, so to speak, filthy soul; whereas the only just measure, the only true God, always equal, abiding in the same state and in the same way, measures all things and weighs them by righteousness as by a balance, encompassing and upholding without inclination the nature of the universe. God indeed, as the ancient word also says, holding the beginning and end and middle of all the things that are, accomplishes a straight course, going round according to nature; and upon Him always follows justice, the avenger of those who fall short of the divine law. Whence, O Plato, do you hint at the truth? Whence does the abundant supply of your words divine godliness? Wiser than these, he says, are the races of the barbarians. I know your teachers, even if you wish to hide them: geometry you learn from the Egyptians; astronomy from the Babylonians; healthful incantations you receive from the Thracians; in many things the Assyrians too have instructed you; and as for the laws, so many as are true, and the opinion of God, you have been profited by the Hebrews themselves:
Οἵτινες οὐκ ἀπάτῃσι κεναῖς, οὐδὲ ἔργα ἀνθρώπων, Χρύσεα καὶ χάλκεια, καὶ ἀργύρου ἠδ' ἐλέφαντος, Καὶ ξυλίνων, λιθίνων τε, βροτῶν εἴδωλα θανόντων, Τιμῶσιν, ὅσαπέρ τε βροτοὶ, κενεόφρονι βουλῇ· Ἀλλὰ γὰρ αἴρουσιν πρὸς οὐρανὸν ὠλένας ἁγνὰς, Ὄρθριοι ἐξ εὐνῆς αἰεὶ, χρόα ἁγνίζοντες Ὕδασι, καὶ τιμῶσι μόνον τὸν ἀεὶ μεδέοντα Ἀθάνατον.
Who with no empty deceits, nor works of men, of gold and bronze, and of silver and ivory, and idols of dead mortals of wood and stone, do honour, such as mortals do with empty-minded counsel; but rather they lift up pure arms towards heaven, rising early from bed ever, purifying their flesh with water, and honour alone the ever-ruling Immortal.
Καί μοι μὴ μόνον, ὦ φιλοσοφία, ἕνα τοῦτον Πλάτωνα, πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ ἄλλους παραστῆσαι σπούδασον, τὸν ἕνα ὄντως μόνον Θεὸν ἀναφθεγγομένους Θεὸν, κατ' ἐπίπνοιαν αὐτοῦ, εἴ που τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπιδράξαιντο. Ἀντισθένης μὲν γὰρ οὐ Κυνικὸν δὴ τοῦτο ἐνενόησεν· Σωκράτους δὲ ἅτε γνώριμος, Θεὸν οὐδενὶ ἐοικέναι φησίν· διόπερ αὐτὸν οὐδεὶς ἐκμαθεῖν ἐξ εἰκόνος δύναται· Ξενοφῶν δὲ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος διαῤῥήδην ἂν καὶ
And for me, O philosophy, be eager to bring forward not only this one Plato, but many others also, who proclaim the one truly only God as God, by His inspiration, if anywhere they have laid hold of the truth. For Antisthenes did not conceive this as a Cynic teaching, but inasmuch as he was an acquaintance of Socrates, he says that God resembles no one; wherefore no one can learn Him thoroughly from an image. And Xenophon the Athenian would expressly also
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αὐτὸς περὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀναγράφει τι, μαρτυρῶν ὡς Σωκράτης, εἰ μὴ τὸ Σωκράτους ἐδεδίει φάρμακον· οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον αἰνίττεται. Ὁ γοῦν τὰ πάντα, φησὶ, σείων καὶ ἀτρεμίζων, ὡς μὲν μέγας τις, καὶ φανερῶς δυνατός· ὁποῖος δέ τις μορφὴν, ἀφανής. Οὐδὲ μὴν ὁ παμφαὴς δοκῶν εἶναι ἥλιος, οὐδ' αὐτὸς ἔοικεν ὁρᾷν αὐτὸν ἐπιτρέπειν· ἀλλ' ἤν τις ἀναιδῶς αὐτὸν θεάσηται, τὴν ὄψιν ἀφαιρεῖται. Πόθεν ἄρα ὁ τοῦ Γρύλλου σοφίζεται; ἢ δηλαδὴ παρὰ τῆς προφήτιδος τῆς Ἑβραίων, θεσπιζούσης ὧδέ πως;
himself have written down something concerning the truth, bearing witness like Socrates, had he not feared the poison of Socrates; yet nonetheless he hints at it. At all events He Who shakes and stills all things, says he, is manifestly someone great and mighty; but of what sort He is in form is unseen. Nor indeed does the sun, which seems to be all-shining, itself appear to permit one to look upon it; but if anyone shamelessly gazes upon it, he is deprived of his sight. Whence then does the son of Gryllus get his wisdom? Is it not manifestly from the prophetess of the Hebrews, who prophesies somewhat thus?
Τίς γὰρ σὰρξ δύναται τὸν ἐπουράνιον καὶ ἀληθῆ Ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδεῖν Θεὸν ἄμβροτον, ὃς πόλον οἰκεῖ; Ἀλλ' οὐδ' ἀκτίνων κατεναντίον ἠελίοιο Ἄνθρωποι στῆναι δυνατοὶ, θνητοὶ γεγαῶτες.
For what flesh can with eyes behold the heavenly and true immortal God, Who inhabits the pole? Nay, not even against the rays of the sun are men able to stand, being born mortal.
Κλεάνθης δὲ ὁ Πισαδεύς, ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς φιλόσοφος, ὃς οὐ θεογονίαν ποιητικὴν, θεολογίαν δὲ ἀληθινὴν ἐνδείκνυται, οὐκ ἀπεκρύψατο τοῦ Θεοῦ πέρι ὅ τι πὲρ εἶχεν φρονῶν·
And Cleanthes of Pisada, the philosopher of the Stoa, who sets forth no poetic theogony, but a true theology, did not conceal whatever he had in mind concerning God:
Εἰ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐρωτᾷς μ' οἷον ἐστ', ἄκουε δή· Τεταγμένον, δίκαιον, ὅσιον, εὐσεβὲς, Κρατοῦν ἑαυτοῦ, χρήσιμον, καλὸν, δέον, Αὐστηρὸν, αὐθέκαστον, αἰεὶ συμφέρον, Ἄφοβον, ἄλυπον, λυσιτελὲς, ἀνώδυνον, Ὠφέλιμον, εὐάρεστον, ἀσφαλὲς, φίλον, Ἔντιμον, ὁμολογούμενον, εὐκλεὲς, Ἄτυφον, ἐπιμελὲς, πρᾶον, σφοδρὸν, Χρονιζόμενον, ἄμεμπτον, αἰεὶ διαμένον.
If you ask me of what sort the good is, hear then: ordered, just, holy, pious, self-mastering, useful, fair, fitting, austere, straightforward, ever profitable, fearless, griefless, advantageous, painless, beneficial, well-pleasing, safe, friendly, honoured, harmonious, glorious, unpretentious, careful, gentle, vehement, enduring, blameless, ever abiding.
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Editors' prose

lib. I, p. 32. Eumdem præ oculis habuit Minutius, p. 154: Nam Socraticus Xenophon formam Dei veri negat videri posse, et ideo quæri non oportere. Cicero lib. I De natura deorum: Xenophon, inquit, in iis quæ a Socrate dicta retulit, facit Socratem disputantem, formam Dei quæri non oportere. Ea porro, quæ recitant Clemens ac reliqui, apud Xenophontem reperire nondum potui. Admodum similia occurrunt Memorabil. lib. IV, p. 802: Ὁ τὸν ὅλον κόσμον συντάττων τε, καὶ συνέχων... οὗτος τὰ μέγιστα μὲν πράττων ὁρᾶται, τάδε οἰκονομῶν, ἀόρατος ἡμῖν ἐστιν· ἐννόει δὲ, ὅτι ὁ πᾶσι φανερῶς δοκῶν εἶναι ἥλιος, οὐκ ἐπιτρέπει τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἑαυτὸν ἀκριβῶς ὁρᾷν· ἀλλ' ἐάν τις αὐτὸν ἀναιδῶς ἐγχειρῇ θεᾶσθαι, τὴν ὄψιν ἀφαιρεῖται. Forte cum Clemens hæc e memoria ac proinde imperfecte recitaret, alii eum secuti sunt.

book I, p. 32. Minucius had the same passage before his eyes, p. 154: 'For the Socratic Xenophon denies that the form of the true God can be seen, and therefore says it ought not to be sought.' Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book I: 'Xenophon,' he says, 'in the things he reported as said by Socrates, makes Socrates argue that the form of God ought not to be sought.' Moreover, the words which Clement and the rest quote I have not yet been able to find in Xenophon. Very similar words occur in the Memorabilia, book IV, p. 802: 'He who orders and holds together the whole universe… he is seen doing the greatest things, yet in governing these he is invisible to us. Consider too that the sun, which seems manifest to all, does not permit men to look at him closely; but if anyone shamelessly attempts to gaze at him, he takes away his sight.' Perhaps, since Clement quoted these words from memory and therefore imperfectly, the others followed him.

(77) Τὰ πάντα. Τά omittit Cyrill. Mox, ὥσπερ pro ὡς μέν, Id.

(77) Τὰ πάντα ('all things'). Cyril omits τά. Next, ὥσπερ for ὡς μέν, the same.

(78) Μέγας τις, καὶ φανερῶς δυνατός. Scribe, μέγας τις καὶ δυνατὸς, φανερός, auctoritate Strom., Euseb. Cyrill.; φανερὸς δυνατός, Nov.

(78) Μέγας τις, καὶ φανερῶς δυνατός ('someone great, and manifestly mighty'). Write μέγας τις καὶ δυνατὸς, φανερός ('someone great and mighty, manifest'), on the authority of the Stromata, Eusebius and Cyril; φανερὸς δυνατός, Nov.

(79) Ὁποῖος δέ τις μορφήν. Ὁποῖος δ' ἐστὶ μορφήν. Strom., Euseb.

(79) Ὁποῖος δέ τις μορφήν ('but of what kind in form'). Ὁποῖος δ' ἐστὶ μορφήν ('but of what kind he is in form'), Stromata, Eusebius.

(80) Οὐδὲ μὴν ὁ παμφαής. Οὔτε μὴν ὁ παμφαής, Cyrill.

(80) Οὐδὲ μὴν ὁ παμφαής ('nor indeed the all-shining'). Οὔτε μὴν ὁ παμφαής, Cyril.

(81) Οὐδ' αὐτός. Οὐδ' οὗτος, Strom., Euseb., Cyrill. Mox, ὁρᾷν ἑαυτόν, pro ὁρᾷν αὐτόν Cyril. Scribe, ὁρᾷν αὑτόν. Dein, αὐτὸν ἀναιδῶς pro ἀναιδῶς αὐτόν, Xenoph., Euseb.

(81) Οὐδ' αὐτός ('nor he himself'). Οὐδ' οὗτος ('nor this one'), Stromata, Eusebius, Cyril. Next, ὁρᾷν ἑαυτόν for ὁρᾷν αὐτόν, Cyril. Write ὁρᾷν αὑτόν ('to look at himself'). Then αὐτὸν ἀναιδῶς for ἀναιδῶς αὐτόν, Xenophon, Eusebius.

(82) Προφήτιδος τῆς Ἑβραίων. Id est Sibyllæ, quam Clemens existimavit e Judæorum libris oracula sua consarcinasse. Gregor. Nazianz. Carmine ad Nemesium ait, Trismegistum et Sibyllam, quæ de Deo dixerunt, non divino afflatu, sed ex sacris Hebræorum libris protulisse:

(82) Προφήτιδος τῆς Ἑβραίων ('the prophetess of the Hebrews'). That is, the Sibyl, who, Clement supposed, patched together her oracles from the books of the Jews. Gregory Nazianzen, in the Poem to Nemesius, says that Trismegistus and the Sibyl brought forth what they said about God not by divine inspiration but from the sacred books of the Hebrews:

Οὐ θεόθεν, βίβλων δὲ παραβλέψαντες ἐμεῖο.

'Not from God, but having glanced aside into my books.'

(83) Τίς γὰρ σ. Hos etiam versus recitant iidem auctores, qui Xenophontis verba laudarunt, et præterea Theophilus Antiochenus sub finem lib. II ad Autolycum.

(83) Τίς γὰρ σ[άρξ] ('For what flesh'). These verses too are quoted by the same authors who cited Xenophon's words, and besides them by Theophilus of Antioch towards the end of book II To Autolycus.

(84) Ὀφθαλμοῖσιν. Ὀφθαλμοῖς, Nov.

(84) Ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ('with eyes'). Ὀφθαλμοῖς, Nov.

(85) Δυνατοί. Δύνανται Theoph. ex Clemente corrigendus.

(85) Δυνατοί ('able'). Δύνανται ('they can'), Theophilus, who is to be corrected from Clement.

(86) Πισαδεύς. Nescio an auctor scripserit Πηδασεύς· apud Diogenem Laertium Cleanthes patria seu ortu dicitur Ἄσσιος. SYLBURG. — Cleanthem ex Asso, Lyciæ urbe, oriundum refert præter Laertium Diogenem in Cleanthe; Ælianus De animal. lib. VI, cap. 50, Strabo Geogr. lib. XIII, Stephanus v. Ἄσσος, etc. Proinde Menagius existimat apud Clementem Ἀσσεύς substitui debere pro Πισαδεύς.

(86) Πισαδεύς ('of Pisadus'). I do not know whether the author wrote Πηδασεύς ('of Pedasus'); in Diogenes Laertius Cleanthes is said by country or birth to be Ἄσσιος ('of Assos'). SYLBURG. — That Cleanthes came from Assos, a city of Lycia, is reported, besides Diogenes Laertius in his Cleanthes, by Aelian, On Animals, book VI, ch. 50, Strabo, Geography, book XIII, Stephanus under the word Ἄσσος, etc. Menagius therefore holds that in Clement Ἀσσεύς ought to be substituted for Πισαδεύς.

(87) Θεολογίαν. Θεογονίαν, Nov.

(87) Θεολογίαν ('theology'). Θεογονίαν ('theogony'), Nov.

(88) Εἰ τὸ ἀγ. Hos etiam versus recitavit Clemens loco superius memorato, et ex eo Eusebius. Verum quod mirum videri possit, Eusebio ac Clementi in Protreptico magis inter se convenit, quam in lib. V, Strom., licet Eusebius Strom. locum recitet, non vero Protreptici: proinde verisimile est Strom. librum ex Protreptico emendandum esse. Verumtamen primus ex his versibus, Strom. et Euseb. auctoritate hoc modo scribi debet:

(88) Εἰ τὸ ἀγ[αθόν] ('If the good'). These verses too Clement quoted in the place mentioned above, and Eusebius from him. But, what may seem strange, Eusebius and Clement agree with each other more closely in the Protrepticus than in book V of the Stromata, although Eusebius quotes the passage of the Stromata, not that of the Protrepticus: it is therefore probable that the book of the Stromata is to be emended from the Protrepticus. Nevertheless, the first of these verses, on the authority of the Stromata and Eusebius, ought to be written thus:

Τἀγαθὸν ἐρωτᾷς μ' οἷον ἔστ', ἄκουε δή.

'You ask me what the good is: hear, then.'

(89) Ἀεὶ συμφέρον. Ἀεισύμφορον, Euseb.

(89) Ἀεὶ συμφέρον ('ever profitable'). Ἀεισύμφορον, Eusebius.

(90) Ὠφέλ. In Strom. sic se habet hic locus:

(90) Ὠφέλ[ιμον] ('useful'). In the Stromata this passage stands thus:

Ὠφέλιμον, εὐάρεστον, ὁμολογούμενον, Εὐκλεὲς, ἄτυφον, ἐπιμελὲς, etc.

'Useful, well-pleasing, self-consistent, / Glorious, free of pride, careful, etc.'

Apud Eusebium vero sic:

But in Eusebius thus:

Ὠφέλιμον, ἀσφαλὲς, φίλον, ἔντιμον, εὐάρεστον, ὁμολογούμενον, Εὐκλεὲς, ἄτυφον, ἐπιμελὲς, etc.

'Useful, safe, dear, honoured, well-pleasing, self-consistent, / Glorious, free of pride, careful, etc.'

Utrumque contra metri rationem; ac proinde ex hoc loco corrigi debet.

Both run against the scheme of the metre, and are therefore to be corrected from this passage.

(91) Ἄμεμπτον. Ἀμίμητον, Strom.

(91) Ἄμεμπτον ('blameless'). Ἀμίμητον ('inimitable'), Stromata.

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(77) ‹anchor: τὰ πάντα› · call in col 178

Τὰ πάντα. Τά omittit Cyrill. Mox, ὥσπερ pro ὡς μέν, Id.

All things. Cyril omits "τά." Just after, "ὥσπερ" for "ὡς μέν," the same.

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Μέγας τις, καὶ φανερῶς δυνατός. Scribe, μέγας τις καὶ δυνατός, φανερός, auctoritate Strom., Euseb. Cyrill.; φανερὸς δυνατός, Nov.

Someone great and manifestly mighty. Write "someone great and mighty, manifest," on the authority of the Stromata, Eusebius and Cyril; Nov. has "manifest, mighty."

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(79) ‹anchor: ὁποῖος δέ τις μορφήν› · call in col 178

Ὁποῖος δέ τις μορφήν. Ὁποῖος δ' ἐστὶ μορφήν. Strom., Euseb.

But of what sort in form. "But what he is in form": Stromata, Eusebius.

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Οὐδὲ μὴν ὁ παμφαής. Οὔτε μὴν ὁ παμφαής, Cyrill.

Nor indeed the all-shining. Cyril has "οὔτε" for "οὐδέ."

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(81) ‹anchor: οὐδ' αὐτός› · call in col 178

Οὐδ' αὐτός. Οὐδ' οὗτος, Strom., Euseb., Cyrill. Mox, ὁρᾶν ἑαυτόν, pro ὁρᾶν αὐτόν Cyril. Scribe, ὁρᾶν αὐτόν. Dein, αὐτὸν ἀναιδῶς pro ἀναιδῶς αὐτόν, Xenoph., Euseb.

Nor he himself. "Nor this one": Stromata, Eusebius, Cyril. Just after, Cyril has "to see himself" for "to see him." Write "to see him." Then Xenophon and Eusebius have "αὐτὸν ἀναιδῶς" for "ἀναιδῶς αὐτόν."

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(82) ‹anchor: Προφήτιδος τῆς Ἑβραίων› · call in col 178

Προφήτιδος τῆς Ἑβραίων. Id est Sibyllae, quam Clemens existimavit e Judaeorum libris oracula sua consarcinasse. Gregor. Nazianz. Carmine ad Nemesium ait, Trismegistum et Sibyllam, quae de Deo dixerunt, non divino afflatu, sed ex sacris Hebraeorum libris protulisse: Οὐ θεόθεν, βίβλων δὲ παραβλέψαντες ἐμεῖο.

The prophetess of the Hebrews. That is, the Sibyl, who Clement thought had patched together her oracles from the books of the Jews. Gregory Nazianzen, in his Poem to Nemesius, says that Trismegistus and the Sibyl uttered what they said of God not by divine inspiration but out of the sacred books of the Hebrews: "Not from God, but having glanced aside into my books."

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(83) ‹anchor: Τίς γὰρ σ.› · call in col 178

Τίς γὰρ σ. Hos etiam versus recitant iidem auctores, qui Xenophontis verba laudarunt, et praeterea Theophilus Antiochenus sub finem lib. II ad Autolycum.

For what flesh ... These verses too are quoted by the same authors who cited Xenophon's words, and in addition by Theophilus of Antioch near the end of book II To Autolycus.

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(84) ‹anchor: ὀφθαλμοῖσιν› · call in col 178

Ὀφθαλμοῖσιν. Ὀφθαλμοῖς, Nov.

With the eyes. Nov. has "ὀφθαλμοῖς."

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(85) ‹anchor: δυνατοί› · call in col 178

Δυνατοί. Δύνανται Theoph. ex Clemente corrigendus.

Able. Theophilus has "δύνανται"; he is to be corrected from Clement.

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(86) ‹anchor: Πισαδεύς› · call in col 178

Πισαδεύς. Nescio an auctor scripserit Πηδασεύς· apud Diogenem Laertium Cleanthes patria seu ortu dicitur Ἄσσιος. Sylburg. — Cleanthem ex Asso, Lyciae urbe, oriundum refert praeter Laertium Diogenem in Cleanthe; Aelianus De animal. lib. VI, cap. 50, Strabo Geogr. lib. XIII, Stephanus v. Ἄσσος, etc. Proinde Menagius existimat apud Clementem Ἀσσεύς substitui debere pro Πισαδεύς.

The Pisadian. I wonder whether the author wrote "the Pedasian"; in Diogenes Laertius Cleanthes is called by country or birth "of Assos." Sylburg. — That Cleanthes came from Assos, a city of Lycia, is reported, besides Diogenes Laertius in his Cleanthes, by Aelian, On Animals, book VI, ch. 50, Strabo, Geography, book XIII, Stephanus under "Assos," etc. Hence Ménage thinks that in Clement "Ἀσσεύς" should be put in place of "Πισαδεύς."

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(87) ‹anchor: θεολογίαν› · call in col 178

Θεολογίαν. Θεογονίαν, Nov.

Theology. Nov. has "theogony."

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(88) ‹anchor: Εἰ τὸ ἀγ.› · call in col 178

Εἰ τὸ ἀγ. Hos etiam versus recitavit Clemens loco superius memorato, et ex eo Eusebius. Verum quod mirum videri possit, Eusebio ac Clementi in Protreptico magis inter se convenit, quam in lib. V, Strom., licet Eusebius Strom. locum recitet, non vero Protreptici: proinde verisimile est Strom. librum ex Protreptico emendandum esse. Verumtamen primus ex his versibus, Strom. et Euseb. auctoritate hoc modo scribi debet: Τἀγαθὸν ἐρωτᾷς μ' οἷον ἔστ', ἄκουε δή.

If the good ... Clement quoted these verses too at the place mentioned above, and Eusebius from him. But, what may seem surprising, Eusebius agrees more with Clement in the Protrepticus than in Stromata book V, although Eusebius quotes the passage of the Stromata, not of the Protrepticus; so it is likely that the book of the Stromata should be emended from the Protrepticus. Yet the first of these verses should, on the authority of the Stromata and Eusebius, be written thus: "You ask me what the good is like; hear, then."

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(89) ‹anchor: αἰεὶ συμφέρον› · call in col 178

Αἰεὶ συμφέρον. Ἀεισύμφορον, Euseb.

Always profitable. Eusebius has "ever-profitable" (one word).

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(90) ‹anchor: Ὠφέλιμον› · call in col 178

Ὠφέλ. In Strom. sic se habet hic locus: Ὠφέλιμον, εὐάρεστον, ὁμολογούμενον, Εὐκλεές, ἄτυφον, ἐπιμελές, etc. Apud Eusebium vero sic: Ὠφέλιμον, ἀσφαλές, φίλον, ἔντιμον, εὐάρεστον, ὁμολογούμενον, Εὐκλεές, ἄτυφον, ἐπιμελές, etc. Utrumque contra metri rationem; ac proinde ex hoc loco corrigi debet.

Useful. In the Stromata this passage runs thus: "useful, well-pleasing, consistent, / glorious, without conceit, careful," etc. But in Eusebius thus: "useful, safe, dear, honoured, well-pleasing, consistent, / glorious, without conceit, careful," etc. Both are against the metre, and so should be corrected from this passage.

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(91) ‹anchor: ἄμεμπτον› · call in col 178

Ἄμεμπτον. Ἀμίμητον, Strom.

Blameless. The Stromata have "inimitable."

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(92) ‹anchor: ἐξανδραποδιζέσθην› · call in col 179

Ἐξανδραποδιζέσθην. Regula grammat. postulat ἐξανδραποδίζεσθον. V. Sylburg.

Were enslaved. The rule of grammar requires "ἐξανδραποδίζεσθον" (the dual). See Sylburg.

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(93) ‹anchor: τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πυθαγόραν› · call in col 179

Τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πυθαγόραν. Pythagorae haec verba tribuunt Justinus M. Cohort. ad Graec. p. 84, 85, et Cyrillus contra Julian., lib. I, p. 30. Minucius Octavio p. 151: Pythagorae Deus est animus, per universam rerum naturam commeans et intentus: ex quo etiam animalium omnium vita capitur. Salvianus De gubernat. Dei, lib. I, p. 4: Pythagoras philosophus... de Deo et beneficiis Dei disserens, sic locutus est: Animus per omnes mundi partes commeans atque diffusus, ex quo omnia, quae nascuntur, animalia vitam capiunt. Quae verba Salvianus e Lactantii lib. I, c. 5, sumpsit.

The followers of Pythagoras. These words are attributed to Pythagoras by Justin Martyr, Exhortation to the Greeks, pp. 84, 85, and by Cyril, Against Julian, book 1, p. 30. Minucius in the Octavius, p. 151: "For Pythagoras God is a mind passing through and extended over the whole nature of things, from which also the life of all living creatures is taken." Salvian, On the Government of God, book 1, p. 4: "The philosopher Pythagoras ... discoursing of God and of God's benefits, spoke thus: A mind passing through and spread over all parts of the world, from which all living things that are born take their life." Salvian took these words from Lactantius, book 1, ch. 5.

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(94) ‹anchor: Χ' οὗτος δέ› · call in col 179

Χ' οὗτος δέ. Αὐτός Justin. αὐτὸς δέ, Cyrill.

But this one. Justin has "he himself"; Cyril "but he himself."

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(95) ‹anchor: ἀλλ' ἐν αὐτᾷ› · call in col 179

Ἀλλ' ἐν αὐτᾷ. Ἀλλ' ἐν ἑαυτῷ, sed ipse in se, Justin., ἀλλ' ἐν αὐτῷ Cyril. Uterque ex Clemente, ut videtur, corrigendus. Vult enim Deum habitare in mundo a se facto: quemadmodum Pythagoras alias dixit in versibus, quos ex eo recitavit Justinus M. De monarch. p. 159, verum Deum non tantum fecisse mundum, sed etiam... κατοικεῖν Αὐτὸς ἐν ᾧ πεποίηκε... Incolere quem fecit... Mox pro ἐν αὐτᾷ ὅλος, ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κύκλῳ scribendum ἐν αὐτᾷ, ὅλος ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κύκλῳ, auctoritate Justini et Cyrill. idque in versione expressum est. Dein. ἐπισκοπῶν pro ἐπίσκοπος habent Justin., Cyrill. Mox pro πάσας γενέσιος, Justinus τᾶς γενέσιος habet: πάσας γενεάς Cyrillus, hinc emendandus.

But in it. Justin has "but in himself," he himself in himself; Cyril "but in him." Both, it seems, are to be corrected from Clement. For he means that God dwells in the world he has made: as Pythagoras said elsewhere, in verses which Justin Martyr quoted from him, On the Sole Rule of God, p. 159, that the true God not only made the world but also ... "dwells, himself, in what he has made ..." Just after, for "in it the whole, in the whole circle" one should write "in it, whole in the whole circle," on the authority of Justin and Cyril; and this has been rendered in the translation. Then Justin and Cyril have "overseeing" for "overseer." Just after, for "of all generation" Justin has "of the generation"; Cyril has "all generations," and is to be emended from here.

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(96) ‹anchor: κρᾶσις τῶν ὅλων· ἀεὶ ὤν, καί› · call in col 179

Κρᾶσις τῶν ὅλων· ἀεὶ ὤν, καί. Κρᾶσις τῶν ὅλων ἀεὶ ὤν· καί, Nov.; κρᾶσις (χρῆσις al.) ἐὼν τῶν ὅλων αἰώνων καί, Justin.; ἐπίκρασις ὢν ὅλων αἰώνων, καί, Cyrill. Dein, καὶ φῶς pro καὶ ἐργάτας, Cyrill.

The blending of all things; being forever, and. Nov. has "being forever the blending of all things; and"; Justin "being the blending (others, the use) of all the ages, and"; Cyril "being the tempering of all the ages, and." Then Cyril has "and light" for "and worker."

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(97) ‹anchor: ἔργων ἁπάντων, ἐν οὐρανῷ φωστήρ› · call in col 179

Ἔργων ἀπάντων, ἐν οὐρανῷ φωστήρ. Ἔργων ἀρχὰ πάντων, ὃν ἐν οὐρανῷ φ. Justin.; ἔργων ἀρχὰ πάντων, ἐν οὐρανῷ φ. Cyrillus.

Of all works, the light-giver in heaven. Justin has "beginning of all works, who in heaven [is] the light-giver"; Cyril "beginning of all works, in heaven the light-giver."

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(98) ‹anchor: ψύχωσις τῷ ὅλῳ κύκλῳ, πάντων κίνασις› · call in col 179

Ψύχωσις τῷ ὅλῳ κύκλῳ, πάντων κίνασις. Ψύχωσις τῶν ὅλων κύκλων, ἁπάντων κίνασις, Justin.; ψύχωσις τῶν ὅλων κύκλων, πάντων κίνασις, Cyrill.

Ensouling of the whole circle, movement of all things. Justin has "ensouling of all the circles, movement of everything"; Cyril "ensouling of all the circles, movement of all things."

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(99) ‹anchor: αὐτῶν› · call in col 179

Αὐτῶν. Αὐτόν, Nov.

Of them. Nov. has "him."

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(1) ‹anchor: μόνον› · call in col 179

Μόνον. Post hanc vocem Nov. addit παρερχέσθω: quod forte in margine cujusdam libri adnotatum juxta ἴτω ab imperito scriptore in textum, loco tamen alieno receptum est.

Only. After this word Nov. adds "let him pass by"; which was perhaps noted in the margin of some book beside "let him go," and taken into the text by an unskilled copyist, though in the wrong place.

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(2) ‹anchor: Ἄρατος› · call in col 179

Ἄρατος. Arati locus est initio Φαινομένων. V. Sylburg.

Aratus. The passage of Aratus is at the beginning of the Phaenomena. See Sylburg.

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Ὄφρ' ἔμπεδ. Aratus hoc hemistichium refert ad ea quae apud eum praecedunt, non ad ea quae hic sequuntur.

That firm ... Aratus refers this half-line to what precedes it in his poem, not to what follows here.

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Κοίρανός ἐστιν. Haud scio an germana lectio sit, κοίρανός ἐστιν ἀθανάτων· Θεῷ δ' οὔτις ἐρήρισται κράτος ἄλλος, nec ullus alius virium robore cum Deo contenderit. Sylburg.

Is ruler. I am inclined to think the genuine reading is "is ruler of the immortals; and with God no other has contended in might," nor would anyone else contend with God in strength of power. Sylburg.

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Editors' prose

CAPUT VII.

CHAPTER VII.

Poetas etiam veritati testimonium ferre.

That the poets also bear witness to the truth.

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Ἀνελεύθερος πᾶς ὅστις εἰς δόξαν βλέπει, Ὡς δὴ παρ' ἐκείνης τευξόμενος καλοῦ τινος.
Illiberal is everyone who looks to opinion, as though he were going to obtain some good from it.
Ἐνταῦθα δὴ σαφῶς, οἶμαι, διδάσκει ὁποῖός ἐστιν ὁ Θεός· καὶ ὡς ἡ δόξα ἡ κοινὴ καὶ ἡ συνήθεια, τοὺς ἑπομένους αὐταῖν, ἀλλὰ μὴ τὸν Θεὸν ἐπιζητοῦντας, ἐξανδραποδιζέσθην. Οὐκ ἀποκρυπτέον οὐδὲ τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὸν Πυθαγόραν, οἵ φασίν· Ὁ μὲν Θεὸς εἷς· χ' οὗτος δὲ οὐχ, ὥς τινες ὑπονοοῦσιν, ἐκτὸς τᾶς διακοσμήσιος, ἀλλ' ἐν αὐτᾷ ὅλος, ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κύκλῳ ἐπίσκοπος πάσας γενέσιος, κρᾶσις τῶν ὅλων· ἀεὶ ὢν, καὶ ἐργάτας τῶν αὐτοῦ δυνάμιων καὶ ἔργων ἁπάντων, ἐν οὐρανῷ φωστὴρ, καὶ πάντων πατὴρ, νοῦς καὶ ψύχωσις τῷ ὅλῳ κύκλῳ, πάντων κίνασις. Ἀπόχρη καὶ τάδε, εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν Θεοῦ, ἐπιπνοίᾳ Θεοῦ πρὸς αὐτῶν μὲν ἀναγεγραμμένα, πρὸς δὲ ἡμῶν ἐξειλεγμένα, τῷ γε καὶ σμικρὸν διαθρεῖν ἀλήθειαν δυναμένῳ.
Here indeed clearly, I think, he teaches of what sort God is; and how common opinion and custom enslave those who follow them and do not seek after God. Nor must we conceal the followers of Pythagoras either, who say: God indeed is one; and He is not, as some conjecture, outside the ordering of the world, but in it whole in the whole circle, overseer of all generation, the tempering of the universe; ever being, and worker of all His powers and works, luminary in heaven, and Father of all, mind and animation for the whole circle, movement of all things. Even these things suffice for the knowledge of God, written down by them through the inspiration of God, and selected by us, for anyone who is able even in a small degree to discern the truth.
CAPUT VII.
CHAPTER VII.
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Poetas etiam veritati testimonium ferre.
That the poets also bear witness to the truth.
Ἴτω δὲ ἡμῖν (οὐ γὰρ αὐταρκεῖ μόνον ἡ φιλοσοφία), ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴ ποιητικὴ, ἡ περὶ τὸ ψεῦδος τὰ πάντα ἠσχολημένη· μόλις ποτὲ ἤδη ἀλήθειαν μαρτυρήσουσα, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐξομολογουμένη τῷ Θεῷ τὴν μυθώδη παρέκβασιν. Παρίτω δὴ ὅς τις καὶ βούλεται ποιητὴς πρῶτος. Ἄρατος μὲν οὖν, διὰ πάντων τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ Θεοῦ διήκειν νοεῖ·
Let poetry itself also come forward for us (for philosophy alone does not suffice), she who is wholly occupied with falsehood, scarcely at last now about to bear witness to the truth, or rather confessing to God her mythical digression. Let whichever poet wishes come forward first. Aratus, then, conceives the power of God as pervading all things:
. . . ὄφρ' ἔμπεδα πάντα φύωνται. Τῷ μιν ἀεὶ, πρῶτόν τε καὶ ὕστατον ἱλάσκονται. Χαῖρε, πάτερ, μέγα θαῦμα, μέγ' ἀνθρώποισιν ὄνειαρ.
that all things may grow securely. Wherefore Him ever first and last they propitiate. Hail, Father, great wonder, great benefit to men.
Ταύτῃ τοι καὶ ὁ Ἀσκραῖος αἰνίττεται Ἡσίοδος τὸν Θεόν·
In this way indeed the Ascraean Hesiod also hints at God:
Αὐτὸς γὰρ πάντων βασιλεὺς καὶ κοίρανός ἐστιν, Ἀθανάτων τε, ὁ δ' οὔ τις ἐρήρεισται κράτος ἄλλος.
For He Himself is King and Lord of all, and of the immortals, and no other lays claim to power.
Ἤδη δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς παραγυμνοῦσι τὴν ἀλή-
And now even upon the stage they lay bare the
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θειαν· ὁ μὲν, Καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰθέρα, καὶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβλέψας, τόνδε ἡγοῦ Θεὸν, φησὶν Εὐριπίδης· ὁ δὲ τοῦ Σοφίλου Σοφοκλῆς·
truth; the one, Euripides, says, Looking up both to the aether and to heaven, deem this to be God; and the other, Sophocles the son of Sophilus:
Εἷς ταῖς ἀληθείαισιν, εἷς ἐστιν Θεὸς, Ὅς οὐρανόν τ' ἔτευξε καὶ γαῖαν μακρὴν, Πόντου τε χαροπὸν οἶδμα, κἀνέμων βίας. Θνητοὶ δὲ, πουλυκερδίᾳ πλανώμενοι, Ἱδρυσάμεσθα πημάτων παραψυχὴν Θεῶν ἀγάλματ' ἐκ λιθίνων, ἢ ξύλων, ἢ χαλκέων, Ἢ χρυσοτεύκτων, ἢ ἐλεφαντίνων τύπους· Θυσίας τε τούτοις καὶ κενὰς πανηγύρεις Νέμοντες, οὕτως εὐσεβεῖν νομίζομεν.
One in very truth, one is God, Who fashioned both heaven and the broad earth, and the bright surge of the sea, and the might of winds. But we mortals, wandering in much-scheming, have set up as a solace for our woes images of gods out of stones, or woods, or figures of bronze, or wrought of gold, or of ivory; and assigning sacrifices and empty festivals to these, thus we think to be pious.
Οὑτωσὶ μὲν ἤδη καὶ παρακεκινδυνευμένως, ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς, τὴν ἀλήθειαν τοῖς θεαταῖς παρεισήγαγεν. Ὁ δὲ Θράκιος ἱεροφάντης καὶ ποιητὴς ἅμα, ὁ τοῦ Οἰάγρου Ὀρφεὺς μετὰ τὴν τῶν ὀργίων ἱεροφαντίαν, καὶ τῶν εἰδώλων τὴν θεολογίαν, παλινῳδίαν ἀληθείας εἰσάγει, τὸ ἱερὸν ὄντως ὀψέ ποτε, ὅμως δ' οὖν, ᾄδων λόγον·
Thus indeed even hazardously, upon the stage, he introduced the truth to the spectators. And the Thracian hierophant and at the same time poet, Orpheus the son of Oeagrus, after the hierophancy of the orgies and the theology of the idols, introduces a palinode of truth, singing, late indeed, yet singing nonetheless the truly sacred word:
Φθέγξομαι οἷς θέμις ἐστί· θύρας δ' ἐπίθεσθε βέβηλοι Πάντες ὁμῶς· σὺ δ' ἄκουε, φαεσφόρου ἔκγονε μήνης, Μουσαῖ', ἐξερέω γὰρ ἀληθέα· μὴ δέ σε τὰ πρὶν Ἐν στήθεσσι φανέντα φίλης αἰῶνος ἀμέρσῃ. Εἰς δὲ λόγον θεῖον βλέψας, τούτῳ προσέδρευε, Ἰθύνων κραδίης νοερὸν κύτος, εὖ δ' ἐπίβαινε Ἀτραπιτοῦ, μοῦνον δ' ἐσόρα κόσμοιο ἄνακτα Ἀθάνατον...
I shall speak to those for whom it is lawful; and put to the doors, all you profane alike; but do you hear, offspring of the light-bearing moon, Musaeus, for I shall declare true things; and let not the things that formerly appeared in your breast bereave you of dear life. But looking unto the divine Word, attend closely to This, directing the intellectual vessel of your heart, and tread well upon the path, and look alone upon the immortal King of the cosmos...
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Footnotes

(5) Καὶ εἰς. Hæc non sunt versus, licet in edit. Parisiens. in metricam formam distincta; verum Clemens, parum de verbis sollicitus, Euripidis sensum exponit: Verba superius recitavit p. 21, item Strom. V, p. 603. Eosdem, una cum duobus primis e Sophoclis versibus, qui mox hic sequuntur, laudavit etiam Athenagoras Legat. pag. 23, 24. Sophoclis versus recitant præterea Justinus M. Cohort. ad Græc., p. 83, lib. De monarch., p. 155; Clemens noster, Strom. V, p. 603; Eusebius, Præparat. Evang. lib. XIII, p. 680; Cyrillus contra Julian. lib. I; Theodoretus De curat. Græc. affect. serm. 7, p. 590.

(5) Καὶ εἰς ('And to'). These are not verses, although in the Paris edition they are set out in metrical form; but Clement, caring little about the words, gives the sense of Euripides. He quoted the words above, p. 21, and also Stromata V, p. 603. The same words, together with the first two of the lines of Sophocles that follow here, are cited also by Athenagoras, Embassy, pp. 23, 24. The lines of Sophocles are quoted besides by Justin Martyr, Exhortation to the Greeks, p. 83, and the book On the Monarchy, p. 155; by our Clement, Stromata V, p. 603; by Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book XIII, p. 680; by Cyril, Against Julian, book I; and by Theodoret, On the Cure of Greek Maladies, discourse 7, p. 590.

(6) Εἷς ταῖς ἀλ. Ἐν ταῖς ἀληθείαις εἷς ἐστι Θεός Cyril., mendose.

(6) Εἷς ταῖς ἀλ[ηθείαισιν] ('One in very truth'). Ἐν ταῖς ἀληθείαις εἷς ἐστι Θεός ('In truth God is one'), Cyril, wrongly.

(7) Τ' ἔτευξε. Τ' ἔτυχε. Justini quidam codex in Monarch. τέτευχε. Idem in Cohort. Euseb., ἔτευξε Cyrill., mox μακρὰν pro μακρήν, Justin. Athenag. Cyrill. Theod.

(7) Τ' ἔτευξε ('fashioned'). Τ' ἔτυχε, a manuscript of Justin in On the Monarchy; τέτευχε, the same in the Exhortation, and Eusebius; ἔτευξε, Cyril. Next, μακρὰν for μακρήν, Justin, Athenagoras, Cyril, Theodoret.

(8) Κἀνέμων βίας. Καὶ ἀν. β. Euseb. Cyrill. contra metri rationem. Βίαν Clemens in Strom.

(8) Κἀνέμων βίας ('and the might of winds'). Καὶ ἀν[έμων] β[ίας], Eusebius, Cyril, against the scheme of the metre. Βίαν, Clement in the Stromata.

(9) Θνητοὶ δ. Vox πουλυκερδίᾳ mendosa est. Hunc versum Clemens sic scripsit in Strom.:

(9) Θνητοὶ δ[ὲ] ('But mortals'). The word πουλυκερδίᾳ is corrupt. Clement wrote this line thus in the Stromata:

Θνητοὶ δὲ πολλὸν καρδίαν πλανώμενοι.

'But we mortals, wandering much in heart.'

Quæ lectio Vigero præ cæteris placuit. Justin. in Monarch. hoc modo eum protulit:

This reading pleased Viger above the others. Justin, in On the Monarchy, gave it in this way:

Θνητοὶ δὲ πολλοὶ καρδίαν πλανώμενοι.

'But many of us mortals, wandering in heart.'

Hæc autem lectio Grotio arrisit. Eam præterea tuentur Eusebius et Theodoretus; itemque Justinus in Cohort. et Cyrillus, nisi quod hic καρδίῃ, ille καρδίᾳ habeat. Πολλοὶ καρδίᾳ Nov., quæ vera lectio esse videtur.

This reading, however, found favour with Grotius. It is supported besides by Eusebius and Theodoret, and likewise by Justin in the Exhortation and by Cyril, except that the latter has καρδίῃ, the former καρδίᾳ. Πολλοὶ καρδίᾳ, Nov., which seems to be the true reading.

(10) Παραψυχήν. Παραψυχάς Justin. in lib. De monarch.

(10) Παραψυχήν ('solace'). Παραψυχάς ('solaces'), Justin in the book On the Monarchy.

(11) Θεῶν ἀγ. Auctoritate Clementis in Strom., Eusebii, Justini in lib. De monarch., metro præterea exigente, scribendum,

(11) Θεῶν ἀγ[άλματ'] ('images of gods'). On the authority of Clement in the Stromata, of Eusebius, and of Justin in the book On the Monarchy, and as the metre besides requires, write:

Θεῶν ἀγάλματ' ἐκ λίθων, ἢ χαλκέων.

'Images of gods out of stones, or of bronze.'

ἐκ λίθων τε, καὶ ξύλων Justin. in Cohort., Cyrill. Hic etiam ἀγάλματα scripsit metro repugnante; ἢ ξύλων omittit etiam Nov. Proximo versu metri gratia scribe ἢ 'λεφαντίνων pro ἢ ἐλεφαντίνων.

ἐκ λίθων τε, καὶ ξύλων ('out of stones and woods'), Justin in the Exhortation, and Cyril. The latter also wrote ἀγάλματα, against the metre; Nov. too omits ἢ ξύλων. In the next line, for the metre's sake, write ἢ 'λεφαντίνων for ἢ ἐλεφαντίνων.

(12) Κενάς. Καλάς Clemens in Strom.; Euseb., Justinus utroque loco, Theodoret. Cyrillus solus κενὰς tuetur: quam vocem in marginem libri a quodam Christiano scriptam, in textum irrepsisse probabile est.

(12) Κενάς ('empty'). Καλάς ('fair'), Clement in the Stromata, Eusebius, Justin in both places, Theodoret. Cyril alone supports κενάς: it is probable that this word, written in the margin of a book by some Christian, crept into the text.

(13) Νέμοντες. Στέφοντες Clemens in Strom., Euseb., Theod.; τεύχοντες Justin. utroque loco, Cyril. Mox, παρακεκινδυνευμένος Flor., Sylb., sed παρακεκινδυνευμένως, Nov. et reliqui impressi.

(13) Νέμοντες ('assigning'). Στέφοντες ('crowning'), Clement in the Stromata, Eusebius, Theodoret; τεύχοντες ('making'), Justin in both places, and Cyril. Next, παρακεκινδυνευμένος, the Florentine edition and Sylburg, but παρακεκινδυνευμένως, Nov. and the other printed editions.

(14) Ὀρφεύς. Simili cum præfatione Justinus Orphei versus introduxit lib. De monarch. p. 156, et Cyrillus lib. I contra Julianum. Eumdem Orphei locum, vel istius partem aliquam recitant Justinus Cohort. p. 77; Tatianus p. 34; Clemens Str. V, pag. 585, 607, 608, 609, 611; Eusebius Præp. Evang. lib. XIII, cap. 12, ex Aristobulo Peripatetico, ejusdem libri cap. 13, ex Clementis Strom.; Theodoretus serm. 1 De curand. Græc. affect., p. 475 et 483, iterumque serm. 2, p. 491. Quod olim annotavi ad Justini lib. De monarchia.

(14) Ὀρφεύς ('Orpheus'). With a similar preface Justin introduced the lines of Orpheus in the book On the Monarchy, p. 156, and Cyril in Against Julian, book I. The same passage of Orpheus, or some part of it, is quoted by Justin, Exhortation, p. 77; Tatian, p. 34; Clement, Stromata V, pp. 585, 607, 608, 609, 611; Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book XIII, ch. 12, from Aristobulus the Peripatetic, and ch. 13 of the same book, from Clement's Stromata; Theodoret, On the Cure of Greek Maladies, discourse 1, pp. 475 and 483, and again discourse 2, p. 491. This I noted long ago on Justin's book On the Monarchy.

(15) Βέβηλοι πάντες. Βεβήλοις πᾶσιν, Theodoret. et quidam Tatiani codd., βεβήλοις πάντες al. Utrumvis magis placet quam βέβηλοι πάντες.

(15) Βέβηλοι πάντες ('all you profane'). Βεβήλοις πᾶσιν ('against all the profane'), Theodoret and some manuscripts of Tatian; βεβήλοις πάντες, others. Either pleases more than βέβηλοι πάντες.

(16) Βλέψας. Ἐμβλέψας Nov.

(16) Βλέψας ('looking'). Ἐμβλέψας ('looking intently'), Nov.

(17) Ἰθύνων. Εὐθύνων Clemens Strom. V, p. 607, et ex eo Eusebius. Mox, εὖ τ' ἐπίβαινε pro εὖ δ' ἐπίβαινε, Justin. aliique.

(17) Ἰθύνων ('directing'). Εὐθύνων, Clement, Stromata V, p. 607, and Eusebius from him. Next, εὖ τ' ἐπίβαινε for εὖ δ' ἐπίβαινε, Justin and others.

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(5) ‹anchor: Καὶ εἷς› · call in col 182

Καὶ εἷς. Haec non sunt versus, licet in edit. Parisiens. in metricam formam distincta; verum Clemens, parum de verbis sollicitus, Euripidis sensum exponit: Verba superius recitavit p. 21, item Strom. V, p. 603. Eosdem, una cum duobus primis e Sophoclis versibus, qui mox hic sequuntur, laudavit etiam Athenagoras Legat. pag. 23, 24. Sophoclis versus recitant praeterea Justinus M. Cohort. ad Graec., p. 83, lib. De monarch., p. 155: Clemens noster, Strom. V, p. 603; Eusebius, Praeparat. Evang. lib. XIII, p. 680; Cyrillus contra Julian. lib. I; Theodoretus De curat. Graec. affect. serm. 7, p. 590.

And one. These are not verses, though in the Paris edition they are set out in metrical form; rather Clement, little concerned about the words, sets out Euripides' meaning: he quoted the words above, p. 21, and also in Stromata 5, p. 603. The same words, together with the first two of the lines of Sophocles which follow here shortly, were quoted also by Athenagoras, Plea, pp. 23, 24. The lines of Sophocles are quoted besides by Justin Martyr, Exhortation to the Greeks, p. 83, and On the Sole Rule of God, p. 155; by our Clement, Stromata 5, p. 603; Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book 13, p. 680; Cyril, Against Julian, book 1; Theodoret, On the Cure of Greek Maladies, discourse 7, p. 590.

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Εἷς ταῖς ἀλ. Ἐν ταῖς ἀληθείαις εἷς ἐστι Θεός Cyril. mendose.

One in truth ... Cyril has "in truth there is one God," wrongly.

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Τ' ἔτευξε. Τ' ἔτυχε. Justini quidam codex in Monarch. τέτευχε. Idem in Cohort. Euseb., ἔτευξε Cyrill., mox μακρὰν pro μακρήν, Justin. Athenag. Cyrill. Theod.

And made. "And happened." A certain manuscript of Justin in On the Sole Rule has "τέτευχε." The same in the Exhortation, and Eusebius; Cyril has "ἔτευξε." Just after, "μακρὰν" for "μακρήν": Justin, Athenagoras, Cyril, Theodoret.

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Κἀνέμων βίας. Καὶ ἀν. β. Euseb. Cyrill. contra metri rationem, Βίαν Clemens in Strom.

And the force of the winds. Eusebius and Cyril have "καὶ ἀνέμων β.", against the metre; Clement in the Stromata has "βίαν."

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Θνητοὶ δ. Vox πουλυκαρδίᾳ mendosa est. Hunc versum Clemens sic scripsit in Strom.: Θνητοὶ δὲ πολλὸν καρδίαν πλανώμενοι. Quae lectio Vigero prae caeteris placuit. Justin. in Monarch. hoc modo eum protulit: Θνητοὶ δὲ πολλοὶ καρδίαν πλανώμενοι. Haec autem lectio Grotio arrisit. Eam praeterea tuentur Eusebius et Theodoretus; itemque Justinus in Cohort. et Cyrillus, nisi quod hic καρδίῃ, ille καρδίᾳ habeat. Πολλοὶ καρδίᾳ Nov., quae vera lectio esse videtur.

But mortals. The word "πουλυκαρδίᾳ" is corrupt. Clement wrote this line thus in the Stromata: "But mortals, much wandering in heart." This reading pleased Viger above the others. Justin, in On the Sole Rule, gave it in this form: "But many mortals, wandering in heart." This reading found favour with Grotius. It is upheld besides by Eusebius and Theodoret, and likewise by Justin in the Exhortation and by Cyril, except that the one has "καρδίῃ," the other "καρδίᾳ." Nov. has "πολλοὶ καρδίᾳ," which seems to be the true reading.

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Παραψυχήν. Παραψυχάς Justin. in lib. De monarch.

Consolation. Justin, in On the Sole Rule, has "consolations."

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Θεῶν ἀγ. Auctoritate Clementis in Strom., Eusebii, Justini in lib. De monarch., metro praeterea exigente, scribendum, Θεῶν ἀγάλματ' ἐκ λίθων, ἢ χαλκέων. ἐκ λίθων τε, καὶ ξύλων Justin. in Cohort., Cyrill. Hic etiam ἀγάλματα scripsit metro repugnante; ἢ ξύλων omittit etiam Nov. Proximo versu metri gratia scribe ἢ 'λεφαντίνων pro ἢ ἐλεφαντίνων.

Images of gods. On the authority of Clement in the Stromata, of Eusebius, and of Justin in On the Sole Rule, and as the metre also requires, one should write: "images of gods of stone or of bronze." Justin in the Exhortation and Cyril have "of stone and of wood." Cyril also wrote "ἀγάλματα," against the metre; Nov. too omits "or of wood." In the next line, for the metre's sake, write "ἢ 'λεφαντίνων" for "ἢ ἐλεφαντίνων."

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Κενάς. Καλάς Clemens in Strom.; Euseb., Justinus utroque loco, Theodoret. Cyrillus solus κενὰς tuetur: quam vocem in marginem libri a quodam Christiano scriptam, in textum irrepsisse probabile est.

Empty. Clement in the Stromata, Eusebius, Justin in both places, and Theodoret have "fair." Cyril alone upholds "empty"; it is probable that this word, written in a book's margin by some Christian, crept into the text.

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Νέμοντες. Στέφοντες Clemens in Strom., Euseb., Theod.; τεύχοντες Justin. utroque loco, Cyril. Mox, παρακεκινδυνευμένος Flor., Sylb., sed παρακεκινδυνευμένως, Nov. et reliqui impressi.

Assigning. Clement in the Stromata, Eusebius and Theodoret have "crowning"; Justin in both places and Cyril "making." Just after, the Florentine and Sylburg have "παρακεκινδυνευμένος," but Nov. and the other printed editions "παρακεκινδυνευμένως" (recklessly).

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Ὀρφεύς. Simili cum praefatione Justinus Orphei versus introduxit lib. De monarch. p. 156, et Cyrillus lib. I contra Julianum. Eumdem Orphei locum, vel istius partem aliquam recitant Justinus Cohort. p. 77; Tatianus p. 34; Clemens Str. V, pag. 585, 607, 608, 609, 611; Eusebius Praep. Evang. lib. XIII, cap. 12, ex Aristobulo Peripatetico, ejusdem libri cap. 13, ex Clementis Strom.; Theodoretus serm. 1 De curand. Graec. affect., p. 475 et 483, iterumque serm. 2, p. 491. Quod olim annotavi ad Justini lib. De monarchia.

Orpheus. With a similar preface Justin introduced Orpheus' verses in On the Sole Rule, p. 156, and Cyril in Against Julian, book 1. The same passage of Orpheus, or some part of it, is quoted by Justin, Exhortation, p. 77; Tatian, p. 34; Clement, Stromata 5, pp. 585, 607, 608, 609, 611; Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, book 13, ch. 12, from Aristobulus the Peripatetic, and ch. 13 of the same book, from Clement's Stromata; Theodoret, On the Cure of Greek Maladies, discourse 1, pp. 475 and 483, and again discourse 2, p. 491. I noted this formerly on Justin's On the Sole Rule.

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Βέβηλοι πάντες. Βεβήλοις πᾶσιν, Theodoret. et quidam Tatiani codd., βεβήλοις πάντες al. Utrumvis magis placet quam βέβηλοι πάντες.

All you profane. Theodoret and some manuscripts of Tatian have "to all the profane"; others "to the profane, all." Either pleases more than "all you profane."

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Βλέψας. Ἐμβλέψας Nov.

Looking. Nov. has "looking upon."

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Ἰθύνων. Εὐθύνων Clemens Strom. V, p. 607, et ex eo Eusebius. Mox, εὖ τ' ἐπίβαινε pro εὖ δ' ἐπίβαινε, Justin. aliique.

Directing. Clement, Stromata 5, p. 607, and Eusebius from him, have "εὐθύνων." Just after, Justin and others have "εὖ τ' ἐπίβαινε" for "εὖ δ' ἐπίβαινε."

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Εἷς ἔστ' αὐτ. Eusebius ex Aristobulo: Εἷς ἔστ' αὐτοτελής, αὐτοῦ δ' ὕπο πάντα τελεῖται. Theodoretus vero: Εἷς ἔστ' αὐτογενής· αὐτοῦ δ' ὕπο πάντα τελεῖται. Clemens in Strom. αὐτογενής habet.

He is one, self-... Eusebius, from Aristobulus: "He is one, self-complete, and by him all things are accomplished." But Theodoret: "He is one, self-begotten; and by him all things are accomplished." Clement in the Stromata has "self-begotten."

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Ἐν δ' αὐτοῖς αὐτός. Ἐν δ' αὐτὸς αὐτοῖς Cyrill. Ibidem περιγίγνεται pro περινίσσεται, Justinus utroque loco, aliique.

And in them he himself. Cyril has the order "αὐτὸς αὐτοῖς." In the same place Justin, in both places, and others have "περιγίγνεται" for "περινίσσεται."

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(20) ‹anchor: εἰσοράᾳ θνητῶν› · call in col 183

Εἰσοράᾳ θν. Eusebius ex Aristob.: Εἰσοράᾳ ψυχῶν θνητῶν, νῷ δ' εἰσοράαται. Cernit mortalium animarum, mente autem cernitur.

He beholds ... of mortals. Eusebius, from Aristobulus: "He beholds the souls of mortals, but is beheld by the mind": "He sees [the souls] of mortal souls, but is seen by the mind."

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Ἐναύσματα. Ἐναύματα Nov.

Kindlings. Nov. has "ἐναύματα."

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(22) ‹anchor: ἐν Ὑποβολιμαίῳ› · call in col 183

Ἐν Ὑποβολιμαίῳ. Supervacanea sunt haec verba. Nam hi versus non in Menandri Hypobolimaeo, sed Auriga exstabant. Justinus lib. De monarch. pag. 166 locum hunc paulo aliter recitavit: Οὐθείς μ' ἀρέσκει περιπατῶν ἔξω θεός, Οὐδεὶς οἰκίαν παρειπὼν ἐπὶ τοῦ σανιδίου. Τὸν δίκαιον δεῖ Θεόν, Οἴκοι μένειν σώζοντα τοὺς ἱδρυμένους. Quem Grotius ope Clementis hoc modo correxit: Οὐθείς μ' ἀρέσκει περιπατῶν ἔξω θεὸς Μετὰ γραός· οὐδ' εἰς οἰκίας παρεισιὼν Ἐπὶ τοῦ σανιδίου· τὸν δίκαιον δεῖ Θεὸν Οἴκοι μένειν σώζοντα τοὺς ἱδρυμένους. Quibus verbis Menander Cybeles sacerdotes perstrinxit, qui cum anu, quae Cybeles personam sustinebat, urbes circumibant, Deae stipem petentes.

In the Changeling. These words are superfluous. For these lines stood not in Menander's Changeling but in his Charioteer. Justin, On the Sole Rule, p. 166, quoted this passage somewhat differently: "No god pleases me who walks abroad, / no one [who] ... a house, on the board. / The just God must / stay at home and keep safe those who set him up." Grotius corrected it with Clement's help thus: "No god pleases me who walks abroad / with an old woman, nor one who slips into houses / on a board; the just God must / stay at home and keep safe those who set him up." In these words Menander mocked the priests of Cybele, who went round the cities with an old woman who played the part of Cybele, begging alms for the goddess.

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Οὐδ' εἰς οἰκίας. Consuluerunt nos olim viri nobiles et eruditi, qua ratione μητραγύρτης ἐπὶ σανιδίου a Menandro dicatur. Sane σανίδιον, quod alii ἱερὸν σανίδιον vocant (erat autem rhombus, ut Grammatici docent) cum quo circuibant urbem οἱ μητραγύρται, erat indicium et tessera illius quod agebant: ipsius nimirum stipis, sacrae collectae, quam petebant. Sicut ergo dicimus, ἐπὶ κυλίκων, de pincerna, quia repraesentat vinum ἡ κύλιξ, ita ἐπὶ σανιδίου, ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀγυρμοῦ. Dicimus enim ὁ ἐπὶ ἀγυρμοῦ τῆς θεᾶς, sive τῆς τῶν θεῶν Μητρός, sicut ὁ ἐπὶ ἐπιστολῶν. Quanquam non me latet, τὸ ἐπί, ἀντὶ τοῦ μετά, quod est usitatum, subrepere potuisse. Heinsius.

Nor into houses. Noble and learned men once asked us in what sense Menander speaks of a "begging priest of the Mother on a board." Certainly the board, which others call the "sacred board" (it was a rhombus, as the grammarians teach), with which the begging priests of the Mother went round the city, was the sign and token of what they were doing: namely, of the alms itself, the sacred collection which they sought. So, just as we say "over the cups" of a cupbearer, because the cup represents the wine, so "on the board" means the one in charge of the sacred collection. For we say "in charge of the collection for the goddess," or for the Mother of the gods, as we say "in charge of letters." Though I am aware that "ἐπί" may have crept in in place of "μετά," which is the usual word. Heinsius.

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Μητραγύρτης. Hanc vocem abjiciendam esse satis est e Justino manifestum. Grotius ait: «Quod hic apud Clementem sequitur, μητραγύρτης, additamentum est interpretis male sensum assecuti; de ipso Deo sermo est, quem fert circulator, non de circulatore. Et hac dempta voce, quae sequuntur, τὸν δίκαιον δεῖ, etc., optime cohaerent, sive versum, sive sensum spectes.»

Begging priest of the Mother. That this word is to be thrown out is plain enough from Justin. Grotius says: "What follows here in Clement, 'begging priest of the Mother,' is an addition by an interpreter who misunderstood the sense; the subject is the god himself whom the strolling beggar carries, not the strolling beggar. And with this word removed, what follows, 'the just God must,' etc., hangs together perfectly, whether you look to the verse or to the sense."

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Εἰ γὰρ ἕλκει. Hos etiam versus cum aliis (continues)

For if [a man] draws. These lines too, with others (continues)

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Εἶτα ὑποβὰς, διαῤῥήδην ἐπιφέρει·
Then going further down, he expressly adds:
Εἷς ἔστ', αὐτογενής· ἑνὸς ἔκγονα πάντα τέτυκται· Ἐν δ' αὐτοῖς αὐτὸς περινίσσεται· οὐδέ τις αὐτὸν Εἰσοράᾳ θνητῶν, αὐτὸς δέ γε πάντας ὁράται.
One He is, self-begotten; from One are all things sprung; and among them He Himself goes round about; nor does any of mortals behold Him, yet He Himself beholds all.
Οὕτως μὲν δὴ Ὀρφεύς· χρόνῳ τέ ποτε συνῆκεν πεπλανημένος·
Thus indeed Orpheus; and at length in time he understood that he had gone astray:
Ἀλλὰ σὺ μὴ μέλλων, βροτὲ ποικιλόμητι, βράδυνε· Ἀλλὰ παλίμπλαγκτος στρέψας, Θεὸν ἱλάσκοιο.
But do not delay and linger, O mortal of many counsels, but turning back again from wandering, propitiate God.
Ει γὰρ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα ἐναύσματά τινα τοῦ λόγου τοῦ θείου λαβόντες Ἕλληνες, ὀλίγα ἄττα τῆς ἀληθείας ἐφθέγξαντο, προσμαρτυροῦσι μὲν τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῆς οὐκ ἀποκεκρυμμένην, σφᾶς δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐλέγχουσιν ἀσθενεῖς, οὐκ ἐφικόμενοι τοῦ τέλους. Ἤδη γὰρ οἶμαι παντί τῳ δῆλον γεγονέναι, ὡς τῶν χωρὶς τοῦ λόγου τῆς ἀληθείας ἐνεργούντων τι, ἢ καὶ φθεγγομένων, ὁμοίων ὄντων τοῖς χωρὶς βάσεως βαδίζειν βιαζομένοις. Δυσωπούντων δέ σε εἰς σωτηρίαν καὶ οἱ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ὑμῶν ἔλεγχοι, οὓς, διὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐκβιαζόμενοι, κωμῳδοῦσι ποιηταί. Μένανδρος γοῦν ὁ κωμικὸς, ἐν Ἡνιόχῳ, ἐν Ὑποβολιμαίῳ τῷ δράματι,
For even if at the very most the Greeks, having received certain sparks of the divine Word, uttered some few things of the truth, they bear witness indeed that its power is not hidden, but convict themselves as weak, not having reached the end. For by now I think it has become clear to everyone that those who do anything, or even utter anything, apart from the Word of truth are like those who struggle to walk without a footing. And let even the refutations concerning your gods shame you into salvation, whom the poets, compelled by the truth, ridicule in comedy. Menander the comic poet, at all events, in the Charioteer, in the play the Changeling,
Οὐδείς μ' ἀρέσκει, φησὶ, περιπατῶν ἔξω θεὸς Μετὰ γραὸς, οὐδ' εἰς οἰκίας παρεισιών Ἐπὶ τοῦ σανιδίου μητραγύρτης.
No god pleases me, says he, who walks about outside with an old woman, nor a begging priest of the Mother who slips into houses upon his tablet.
Τοιοῦτοι γὰρ οἱ μητραγύρται. Ὅθεν εἰκότως ὁ Ἀντισθένης ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς μεταιτοῦσιν· Οὐ τρέφω τὴν Μητέρα τῶν θεῶν, ἣν οἱ θεοὶ τρέφουσιν. Πάλιν δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς κωμῳδοποιὸς, ἐν Ἱερείᾳ τῷ δράματι, χαλεπαίνων πρὸς τὴν συνήθειαν, διελέγχειν πειρᾶται τὸν ἄθεον τῆς πλάνης τύφον, ἐπιφθεγγόμενος ἐμφρόνως·
For of such a sort are the begging priests of the Mother. Wherefore reasonably Antisthenes used to say to them when they begged: I do not feed the Mother of the gods, whom the gods feed. And again the same comic poet, in the play the Priestess, being indignant at custom, tries to confute the godless vanity of error, uttering sensibly:
.....Εἰ γὰρ ἕλκει τὸν θεὸν Ἐπὶ τοῦ σανιδίου· τὸν δίκαιον δεῖ Θεὸν Οἴκοι μένειν σώζοντα τοὺς ἱδρυμένους.
For if a man draws down the god upon the tablet, the just God ought to remain at home saving those who established him.
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Τοῖς κυμβάλοις ἄνθρωπος, εἰς ὃ βούλεται, Ὁ τοῦτο ποιῶν ἐστὶ μείζων τοῦ Θεοῦ. Ἀλλ' ἔστι τόλμης καὶ βίου ταῦτ' ὄργανα Εὑρημέν' ἀνθρώποισιν.
With cymbals whithersoever he wishes, he who does this is greater than the god. But these are instruments of audacity and livelihood invented by men.
Καὶ οὐχὶ μόνος ὁ Μένανδρος, ἀλλὰ καὶ Ὅμηρος, καὶ Εὐριπίδης, καὶ ἄλλοι συχνοὶ ποιηταὶ, διελέγχουσιν ὑμῶν τοὺς θεοὺς, καὶ λοιδορεῖσθαι οὐ δεδίασιν, οὐδὲ καθ' ὁπόσον, αὐτοῖς. Αὐτίκα τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν κυνόμυιαν, καὶ τὸν Ἥφαιστον ἀμφιγύην καλοῦσιν· τῇ δὲ Ἀφροδίτῃ ἡ Ἑλένη φησί·
And not only Menander, but Homer also, and Euripides, and many other poets, confute your gods, and do not fear, not even in the least degree, to rail at them. Straightway they call Athena dog-fly, and Hephaestus lame in both feet; and to Aphrodite Helen says:
Μηκέτι σοῖσι πόδεσσιν ὑποστρέψειας Ὄλυμπον.
May you no longer turn back with your feet to Olympus.
Ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Διονύσου ἀναφανδὸν Ὅμηρος γράφει·
And concerning Dionysus Homer openly writes:
Ὅς ποτε μαινομένοιο Διωνύσσοιο τιθήνας Σεῦε κατ' ἠγάθεον Νυσσήϊον· αἱ δ' ἅμα πᾶσαι Θύσθλα χαμαὶ κατέχευαν, ὑπ' ἀνδροφόνοιο Λυκούργου.
Who once chased the nurses of raving Dionysus down sacred Nyseion; and they all together shed their wands upon the ground, under man-slaying Lycurgus.
Ἄξιος ὡς ἀληθῶς Σωκρατικῆς διατριβῆς ὁ Εὐριπίδης, εἰς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀπιδὼν, καὶ τοὺς θεατὰς ὑπεριδών· ποτὲ μὲν τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα,
Worthy in very truth of the Socratic school is Euripides, looking away towards the truth and despising the spectators; at one time Apollo,
.... Ὅς μεσομφάλους ἕδρας Ναίει, βροτοῖσιν στόμα νέμων σαφέστατα,
Who inhabits the mid-navel seats, dispensing to mortals a most clear utterance,
διελέγχων·
confuting:
Κείνῳ πειθόμενος, τὴν τεκοῦσαν ἔκτανον· Ἐκεῖνον ἡγεῖσθ' ἀνόσιον, καὶ κτείνατε· Ἐκεῖνος ἥμαρτ', οὐκ ἐγὼ, ἀμαθέστερος Ὢν τοῦ καλοῦ καὶ τῆς δίκης·
Obeying him, I slew her who bore me; deem him unholy, and slay him; he sinned, not I, being more ignorant of the noble and of justice;
ποτὲ δ' ἐμμανῆ εἰσάγων Ἡρακλέα, καὶ μεθύοντα, ἀλλαχόθι, καὶ ἄπληστον· πῶς γὰρ οὐχὶ, ὃς, ἑστιώμενος τοῖς κρέασι, χλωρὰ σῦκα ἐπήσθιεν, ἄμουσα ὑλακτῶν, ὥστε βαρβάρῳ μαθεῖν; Ἤδη δὲ ἐν Ἴωνι τῷ δράματι γυμνῇ τῇ κεφαλῇ ἐγκυκλεῖ τῷ θεάτρῳ τοὺς θεούς·
and at another time introducing Heracles raving mad, and drunk elsewhere, and insatiable; for how not so, he who, while feasting on the meats, ate green figs besides, barking unmusical things, so that even a barbarian might learn it? And now in the play Ion with bare head he wheels the gods into the theatre:
Πῶς οὖν δίκαιον, τοὺς νόμους ὑμᾶς βροτοῖς Γράψαντας, αὐτοὺς ἀδικίας ὀφλισκάνειν; Εἰ δ', οὐ γὰρ ἔσται, τῷ λόγῳ δὲ χρήσομαι· Δίκας βιαίων δώσετ' ἀνθρώποις γάμων, Σὺ, καὶ Ποσειδῶν, Ζεύς θ' ὃς οὐρανοῦ κρατεῖ, Ναοὺς τίνοντες ἀδικίᾳ κενώσετε.
How then is it just that you, who wrote the laws for mortals, should yourselves be guilty of injustice? Nay, if—for it will not be, yet I will use the argument—you shall pay penalties to men for violent marriages, you, and Poseidon, and Zeus who rules heaven, in paying for injustice will empty your temples.
Ὥρα τοίνυν, τῶν ἄλλων ἡμῖν τῇ τάξει προδιηνυσμένων
It is time, therefore, now that the other matters have already been gone through by us to the end in their order,
Editors' notes and page, col. 185

Editors' prose

CAPUT VIII.

CHAPTER VIII.

Veram de Deo doctrinam a Prophetis esse petendam.

That the true doctrine concerning God is to be sought from the Prophets.

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Footnotes

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Κυνόμυιαν. Iliad. Φ, vers. 394: Τίπτ' αὖ ὦ κυνόμυια, θεοὺς ἔριδι ξυνελαύνεις; Iterum Iliad. A, vers. 607: Ἧχι ἑκάστῳ δῶμα περικλυτὸς ἀμφιγυήεις Ἥφαιστος ποίησ' εἰδυίῃσι πραπίδεσσι.

Dog-fly. Iliad 21, line 394: "Why again, you dog-fly, do you drive the gods together in strife?" Again, Iliad 1, line 607: "where for each one the famous lame god Hephaestus had built a house with his skilful mind."

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Μηκέτι σοῖσι. Iliad. Γ, v. 405. Versus de Baccho, qui sequuntur, exstant Iliad. Z, v. 132.

No longer with your ... Iliad 3, line 405. The lines about Bacchus which follow are in Iliad 6, line 132.

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Ὃς μεσομ. Orestis verba, qui, Delphico oraculo suadente, matrem interfecerat. Exstant apud Euripid. Orest., v. 590.

Who at the navel ... The words of Orestes, who had killed his mother at the urging of the Delphic oracle. They are in Euripides, Orestes, line 590.

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Στόμα. Εἰς στόμα Nov.

Mouth. Nov. has "into the mouth."

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Κείνῳ. Τούτῳ Euripid. Mox, κτείνετε pro κτείνατε, idem. Exstant autem hi versus loco superius dicto.

To him. Euripides has "to this one." Just after, the same has "κτείνετε" for "κτείνατε." These lines are at the place mentioned above.

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Ἀμαθέστερος. Haec vox ad sequentem versum pertinet, qui non cum reliquis, quos Clemens hic recitat, sed inferius Orest., v. 417, exstat, quo loco sic se habet: Ἀμαθέστερός γ' ὢν τοῦ καλοῦ καὶ τῆς δίκης. Eumdem locum laudavit etiam D. Justinus, lib. De monarchia.

More ignorant. This word belongs to the following line, which stands not with the rest that Clement quotes here but further on, Orestes, line 417, where it runs thus: "being more ignorant of what is noble and just." St Justin also quoted the same passage in On the Sole Rule of God.

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Ἐμμανῆ. Respicit Euripidis Herculem Furentem; in iis vero, quae sequuntur, ejusdem Alcestid. actus quarti principium; quo loco Hercules vino se et cibis ingurgitans, dicitur ἄμουσ' ὑλακτεῖν, absurda latrare, v. 760, vel potius ejusdem alium similem locum; nam ea, quae sequuntur, paulum mutata in iambos transeunt: .... χλωρὰ σῦκ' ἐπήσθιεν, Ἄμουσ' ὑλακτῶν, ὥστε βαρβάρῳ μαθεῖν.

Raving. He has in view Euripides' Heracles Mad; in what follows, the beginning of the fourth act of the same poet's Alcestis, where Heracles, gorging himself with wine and food, is said "to bark tunelessly," to bark absurdities, line 760; or rather another similar passage of the same poet; for the words that follow, slightly changed, pass into iambics: ".... he ate green figs besides, / barking tunelessly, so that a barbarian could tell."

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(33) ‹anchor: γυμνῇ τῇ κεφαλῇ› · call in col 186

Γυμνῇ τῇ κεφαλῇ. Paroemia est; nam qui citra pudorem et palam aliquid faciunt, dicuntur id nudo capite facere. Utitur D. Cyrillus in Joan. Evangelium, et D. Chrysost. in Babylam. Vide proverbiorum Centurias. Collect.

With bare head. It is a proverb; for those who do something openly and without shame are said to do it with bare head. St Cyril uses it on the Gospel of John, and St Chrysostom on Babylas. See the Centuries of Proverbs. Collect.

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Ἐγκυκλεῖ. Ἐκκυκλεῖ Nov., quod rectius est. Conf. quae superius dicta sunt pag. 11, not.

Wheels in. Nov. has "wheels out" (onto the stage), which is more correct. Compare what was said above, p. 11, note.

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Πῶς οὖν. Haec exstant Ionis v. 442. Ea recitat praeterea Stobaeus, itemque Justinus M. lib. De monarchia.

How then. These words are in the Ion, line 442. They are quoted besides by Stobaeus, and likewise by Justin Martyr in On the Sole Rule of God.

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Ἀδικίας. Ἀνομίαν Euripid.; sed ἀδικίας Justin., Stob., ex Euripide, ut videtur, corrigendi.

Of injustice. Euripides has "lawlessness"; but Justin and Stobaeus, with "of injustice," are, it seems, to be corrected from Euripides.

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Ἀδικίᾳ. Scribe ἀδικίας, quod habent Euripid., Nov., Justin., Stob.

By injustice. Write "ἀδικίας," which Euripides, Nov., Justin and Stobaeus have.

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Footnotes

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Jer. XXIII, 23, 24.

Jer. 23:23–24.

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(34) ‹anchor: terram omnem pugillo› · call in col 187

Isa. XL, 12.

Isa. 40:12.

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(35) ‹anchor: liquescit cera› · call in col 187

Isa. LXIV, 1, 2.

Isa. 64:1–2.

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(36) ‹anchor: scabellum pedum ejus› · call in col 187

Isa. LXVI, 1.

Isa. 66:1.

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Θεραπεύουσαι. Θεραπεῦσαι Nov.

Tending. Nov. has "to tend."

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Οὗτος. Hos versus, una cum aliis multis, recitavit Theophilus Antioch. sub finem lib. II ad Autolycum.

This one. These lines, together with many others, were quoted by Theophilus of Antioch near the end of book 2 To Autolycus.

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Πάντ' ἐστί. Scribe πάντεσσι, auctoritate Theophili, et ipsius Clementis, qui hunc versum inferius iterum laudavit Strom. V, p. 604. In seq. versu, γνόφον pro ζόφον, Theoph.

Is all. Write "πάντεσσι" (to all), on the authority of Theophilus and of Clement himself, who quoted this line again further on, Stromata 5, p. 604. In the following line Theophilus has "γνόφον" for "ζόφον" (darkness).

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Γλυκυδερκές. Sic etiam Theoph., sed alii malunt γλυκύδακρυς.

Sweet-glancing. So Theophilus too; but others prefer "sweet-weeping."

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Σεισμούς τ' ἐπιπέμπων. Σεισμοὺς ἐπιπέμπων Theoph. In sequenti linea λοιμούς omittit Nov.

And sending earthquakes. Theophilus has "sending earthquakes" (without "and"). In the following line Nov. omits "plagues."

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Κρύσταλλά τε. Τί καθ' ἓν ἐξ. Malim, κρύσταλλα. Τί δὴ καθ' ἓν ἐξαγορεύω, auctoritate Theoph; τί δὴ habet etiam Nov.

And ice. Why ... one by one ... I should prefer "ice. Why indeed should I tell them one by one?", on the authority of Theophilus; Nov. too has "why indeed."

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Εἰ ποιήσει τι ἄνθρωπος ἐν κρ. In Graecis Bibliis hodiernis exstat: Εἰ κρυβήσεταί τις ἐν κρ. Mox, μὴ οὐχὶ τὸν οὐρανόν pro ἢ οὐχὶ τοὺς οὐρανούς. Ib.

If a man does anything in secret. In the present-day Greek Bible it reads: "If anyone hides himself in secret places." Just after, "is it not heaven" for "or is it not the heavens." Ibid.

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Τίς μετρήσει. Ἐμέτρησε Graec. Bib.

Who will measure. The Greek Bible has "measured."

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Ἀπὸ προσώπου. Clemens memoriae suae ope haec recitans diversa Isaiae loca tanquam unum exhibuit. Is enim haec dicit cap. LXIV, 1, 2: Ἐὰν ἀνοίξῃς τὸν οὐρανόν, τρόμος λήψεται ἀπὸ σοῦ ὄρη, καὶ τακήσονται ὡς κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρὸς τήκεται. Et cap. LXVI, 1: Οὕτω λέγει Κύριος· Ὁ οὐρανός μοι θρόνος, καὶ ἡ γῆ ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν μου.

From the face. Clement, quoting this from memory, presented different passages of Isaiah as one. For Isaiah says this in ch. 64:1–2: "If you open heaven, trembling from you will seize the mountains, and they will melt as wax melts before the fire." And in ch. 66:1: "Thus says the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet."

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ἐπὶ τὰς προφητικὰς ἰέναι γραφάς· καὶ γὰρ οἱ χρησμοὶ, τὰς εἰς τὴν θεοσέβειαν ἡμῖν ἀφορμὰς ἐναργέστατα προτείνοντες, θεμελιοῦσι τὴν ἀλήθειαν· Γραφαὶ δὲ αἱ θεῖαι, καὶ πολιτεῖαι σώφρονες, σύντομοι σωτηρίας ὁδοί· γυμναὶ κομμωτικῆς, καὶ τῆς ἐκτὸς καλλιφωνίας, καὶ στωμυλίας, καὶ κολακείας ὑπάρχουσαι, ἀνιστῶσιν ἀγχόμενον ὑπὸ κακίας τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὑπεριδοῦσαι τὸν ὄλισθον τὸν βιωτικὸν, μιᾷ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ φωνῇ πολλὰ θεραπεύουσαι, ἀποτρέπουσαι μὲν ἡμᾶς τῆς ἐπιζημίου ἀπάτης, προτρέπουσαι δὲ ἐμφανῶς εἰς προῦπτον σωτηρίαν. Αὐτίκα γοῦν ἡ προφῆτις ἡμῖν ᾀσάτω πρώτη Σίβυλλα τὸ ᾆσμα τὸ σωτήριον·
to proceed to the prophetic Scriptures; for indeed the oracles, holding forth to us most manifestly the starting-points unto godliness, lay the foundation of the truth. And the divine Scriptures and temperate institutions are short roads to salvation; being bare of embellishment, and of outward beauty of sound, and of prattling, and of flattery, they raise up man when throttled by wickedness, looking above the slipperiness of life, healing many things with one and the same voice, turning us away on the one hand from harmful deceit, and exhorting us manifestly on the other hand unto evident salvation. Straightway, at all events, let the prophetess Sibyl first sing for us the saving song:
Οὗτος ἰδοὺ πάντ' ἐστὶ σαφὴς, ἀπλάνητος ὑπάρχει· Ἔλθετε, μὴ σκοτίην δὲ διώκετε καὶ ζόφον αἰεί· Ἠελίου γλυκυδερκὲς, ἰδοὺ, φάος ἔξοχα λάμπει. Γνῶτε δὲ κατθέμενοι σοφίην ἐν στήθεσιν ὑμῶν· Εἷς Θεός ἐστι, βροχὰς, ἀνέμους, σεισμούς τ' ἐπιπέμπων, Ἀστεροπὰς, λιμοὺς, λοιμοὺς, καὶ κήδεα λυγρὰ, Καὶ νιφετοὺς, κρύσταλλά τε. Τί καθ' ἓν ἐξαγορεύω; Οὐρανοῦ ἡγεῖται, γαίης κρατεῖ, αὐτὸς ὑπάρχει·
Behold, He is manifest to all, He is unerring; come, and do not pursue darkness and gloom for ever; behold, the sweet-looking light of the sun shines pre-eminently. And know, laying up wisdom in your breasts: there is one God, Who sends rains, winds, and earthquakes, lightnings, famines, plagues, and baneful woes, and snowstorms and ice. Why do I recount them one by one? He leads heaven, He rules earth, He Himself exists;
ἐνθέως σφόδρα τὴν μὲν ἀπάτην ἀπεικάζουσα τῷ σκότει, τὴν δὲ γνῶσιν ἡλίῳ καὶ φωτὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ· ἄμφω δὲ παραθεμένη τῇ συγκρίσει, τὴν ἐκλογὴν διδάσκει. Τὸ γὰρ ψεῦδος, οὐ ψιλῇ τῇ παραθέσει τἀληθοῦς διασκεδάννυται· τῇ δὲ χρήσει τῆς ἀληθείας ἐκβιαζόμενον, φυγαδεύεται. Ἱερεμίας δὲ ὁ προφήτης, ὁ πάνσοφος, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐν Ἱερεμίᾳ τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἐπιδείκνυσι τὸν Θεόν· Θεὸς ἐγγίζων ἐγώ εἰμι, φησὶ, καὶ οὐχὶ Θεὸς πόῤῥωθεν. Εἰ ποιήσει τι ἄνθρωπος ἐν κρυφαίοις, καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ὄψομαι αὐτόν; ἢ οὐχὶ τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ τὴν γῆν ἐγὼ πληρῶ; λέγει Κύριος. Πάλιν δὲ αὖ διὰ Ἠσαΐου, Τίς μετρήσει, φησὶ, τὸν οὐρανὸν σπιθαμῇ, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν δρακί; Ὅρα τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ καταπλάγηθι. Τοῦτον προσκυνήσωμεν, ἐφ' οὗ φησὶν ὁ προφήτης· Ἀπὸ προσώπου σου ὄρη τακήσονται, ὡς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρὸς τήκεται κηρός. Οὗτος, φησὶν, ἐστὶν ὁ Θεὸς, οὗ θρόνος μὲν ἔστιν ὁ οὐρανὸς, ὑποπόδιον δὲ ἡ γῆ· ὃς ἐὰν ἀνοίξῃ τὸν οὐρανὸν, τρόμος σὲ λήψεται. Βούλει καὶ περὶ τῶν εἰδώλων ἀκοῦσαι τί φησιν ὁ προφήτης οὗτος; Παραδειγματι-
very divinely likening deceit on the one hand to darkness, and knowledge on the other hand to the sun and light of God; and setting both beside each other by comparison, she teaches the choice. For falsehood is not dispelled by the bare juxtaposition of the truth, but being forced out by the use of the truth, is put to flight. And Jeremiah the prophet, the all-wise, or rather the Holy Spirit in Jeremiah, shows forth God: I am a God drawing near, says He, and not a God from afar. If a man shall do anything in secret places, shall I also not see him? Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? says the Lord (Jer. 23:23–24). And again through Isaiah, Who shall measure, says he, the heaven with a span, and all the earth with a handful? (Isa. 40:12). Behold the greatness of God, and be amazed. Let us worship Him, concerning Whom the prophet says: From Thy presence mountains shall melt, as wax melts from the presence of fire (Isa. 64:1–2). This, says he, is the God Whose throne is the heaven, and the earth His footstool (Isa. 66:1); Who, if He opens the heaven, trembling shall seize you (Isa. 64:1). Do you wish to hear also concerning the idols what this prophet says? They shall be made an example
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σθήσονται ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ ἡλίου, καὶ ἔσται τὰ θνησιμαῖα αὐτῶν βρώματα τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς· καὶ σαπήσεται ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου καὶ τῆς σελήνης ἃ αὐτοὶ ἠγάπησαν, καὶ οἷς αὐτοὶ ἐδούλευσαν, καὶ ἐμπρησθήσεται ἡ πόλις αὐτῶν. Φθαρήσεσθαι δὲ καὶ τὰ στοιχεῖα καὶ τὸν κόσμον σὺν καὶ αὐτοῖς λέγει· Ἡ γῆ, φησὶ, παλαιωθήσεται, καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸς παρελεύσεται· τὸ δὲ ῥῆμα Κυρίου μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Τί δαὶ, ὅτ' ἂν πάλιν ἑαυτὸν δεικνύναι ὁ Θεὸς βουληθῇ διὰ Μωϋσέως· Ἴδετε, ἴδετε, ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι Θεὸς ἕτερος πλὴν ἐμοῦ. Ἐγὼ ἀποκτενῶ, καὶ ζῆν ποιήσω· πατάξω, κἀγὼ ἰάσομαι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἐξελεῖται ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν μου. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἑτέρου ἐπακοῦσαι θέλεις χρησμῳδοῦ; ἔχεις τὸν χορὸν πάντα τὸν προφητικὸν, τοὺς συνθιασώτας τοῦ Μωϋσέως. Τί φησὶν αὐτοῖς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον διὰ Ὡσηὲ, οὐκ ὀκνήσω λέγειν· Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ στερεῶν βροντὴν, καὶ κτίζων πνεῦμα· οὗ αἱ χεῖρες καὶ τὴν στρατιὰν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐθεμελίωσαν. Ἔτι καὶ διὰ Ἠσαΐου καὶ ταύτης ἀπομνημονεύσω σοι τὴν φωνήν· Ἐγώ εἰμι, ἐγώ εἰμι, φησὶν, ὁ Κύριος, ὁ λαλῶν δικαιοσύνην, καὶ ἀναγγέλλων ἀλήθειαν. Συνάχθητε, καὶ ἥκετε· βουλεύσασθε ἅμα, οἱ σωζόμενοι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν. Οὐκ ἔγνωσαν οἱ αἴροντες τὸ ξύλον, γλύμμα αὐτῶν· καὶ προσευχόμενοι θεοῖς, οἳ οὐ σώσουσιν αὐτούς. Εἶθ' ὑποβὰς, Ἐγὼ, φησὶν, ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι πλὴν ἐμοῦ δίκαιος καὶ σωτήρ· οὐκ ἔστι πάρεξ ἐμοῦ. Ἐπιστράφητε πρὸς μὲ, καὶ σωθήσεσθε, οἱ ἀπ' ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς. Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλος· κατ' ἐμαυτοῦ ὀμνύω. Τοῖς δὲ εἰδωλολάτραις δυσχεραίνει, λέγων· Τίνι ὡμοιώσατε Κύριον, ἢ τίνι ὁμοιώματι ὡμοιώσατε αὐτόν; Μὴ εἰκόνα ἐποίησε τέκτων; ἢ χρυσοχόος χωνεύσας χρυσίον περιεχρύσωσεν αὐτόν; καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις. Μὴ οὖν ἔτι ὑμεῖς εἰδωλολάτραι· ἀλλὰ κἂν νῦν φυλάξασθε τὰς ἀπειλάς· ὀλολύξει γὰρ τὰ γλυπτὰ καὶ τὰ χειροποίητα, μᾶλλον δὲ οἱ ἐπ' αὐτοῖς πεποιθότες· ἀναίσθητος γὰρ ἡ ὕλη. Ἔτι, φησὶν, ὁ Κύριος σείσει πόλεις κατοικουμένας, καὶ τὴν οἰκουμένην ὅλην καταλήψεται τῇ χειρὶ, ὡς νεοσ-
before the sun, and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and they shall rot under the sun and the moon which they themselves loved and which they themselves served, and their city shall be burned up (Jer. 8:2; 34:20; 4:26). And that both the elements and the world shall perish together with them also, he says: The earth, says he, shall grow old, and the heaven shall pass away; but the word of the Lord abides for ever (Isa. 40:8; 51:6; Luke 16:17). And what when again God wills to show Himself through Moses? See, see that I am, and there is no other God beside Me. I will kill, and I will make to live; I will smite, and I will heal, and there is none who shall deliver out of My hands (Deut. 32:39). But do you wish to hear yet another chanter of oracles? You have the whole prophetic choir, the fellow-initiates of Moses. What the Holy Spirit says to them through Hosea, I will not hesitate to say: Behold, I am He Who establishes thunder and creates wind, Whose hands have also founded the host of heaven (Amos 4:13). Yet further through Isaiah also I will recount for you this voice: I am, I am, says He, the Lord, Who speaks righteousness and declares truth. Be gathered together and come; take counsel together, you who are saved from the nations. They have not known, who lift up the wood, their carved work, and pray to gods who shall not save them (Isa. 45:19–20). Then going further down: I, says He, am God, and there is none beside Me, a just one and a Saviour; there is none except Me. Turn to Me, and you shall be saved, you from the end of the earth. I am God, and there is no other; by Myself I swear (Isa. 45:21–23). And with the idolaters He is indignant, saying: To whom have you likened the Lord, or to what likeness have you likened Him? Did a carpenter make an image, or did a goldsmith, having melted gold, overlay it with gold? (Isa. 40:18–19) and what follows thereupon. Be no longer idolaters, then, you yourselves, but even now beware of the threats; for the carved things and the works of men's hands shall wail (Isa. 10:10–11), or rather those who trust in them; for matter is senseless. Yet further, says he, the Lord shall shake inhabited cities, and shall take hold of the whole inhabited world with His hand, like a
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Jer. VIII, 2; XXXIV, 20; IV, 26.

Jer. 8:2; 34:20; 4:26.

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Deut. XXXII, 39.

Deut. 32:39.

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Amos IV, 13.

Amos 4:13.

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Isa. XLV, 19, 20.

Isa. 45:19–20.

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Ibid. 21, 22, 23.

Ibid., vv. 21–23.

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Isa. XL, 18, 19.

Isa. 40:18–19.

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Isa. X, 10, 11.

Isa. 10:10–11.

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Ibid. 14.

Ibid., v. 14.

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Prov. VIII, 22.

Prov. 8:22.

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Παραδειγματισθήσονται. Hoc etiam loco diversas ejusdem Prophetae sententias in unam confudit. Jerem. VIII, 2: Καὶ ψύξουσιν αὐτὰ πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην, καὶ πρὸς πάντας τοὺς ἀστέρας, πᾶσαν τὴν στρατιὰν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἃ ἠγάπησαν, καὶ οἷς ἐδούλευσαν, καὶ ἔσονται εἰς παράδειγμα ἐπὶ προσώπου τῆς γῆς. Idem cap. XXXIV, 20: Καὶ δώσω αὐτοὺς τοῖς ἐχθροῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔσται θνησιμαῖα αὐτῶν βρῶσις τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς. Et cap. IV, 26: Καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ πόλεις ἐμπεπυρισμέναι πυρὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου Κυρίου. Porro in illis, quae mox sequuntur, respexisse videtur, et in unum confudisse Isa. XL, 8; LI, 6; Luc. XVI, 17.

They will be made an example. Here too he has fused different sayings of the same prophet into one. Jer. 8:2: "And they shall spread them out to the sun and the moon and to all the stars, all the host of heaven, which they loved and which they served, and they shall be for an example on the face of the earth." The same, ch. 34:20: "And I will give them to their enemies, and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth." And ch. 4:26: "And all the cities burnt with fire before the face of the Lord." Further, in what follows just after he seems to have had in view, and fused into one, Isa. 40:8; 51:6; Luke 16:17.

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Ἕτερος. Additamentum Clementis. Mox, ἀποκτείνω pro ἀποκτενῶ, Bibl. Graec.

Another. Clement's addition. Just after, the Greek Bible has "I kill" for "I will kill."

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Ὡσηέ. Locus, qui ex Osee citatur, reperitur Amos cap. IV, 13: Διότι Κύριος εἶ στερεῶν βροντήν, καὶ κτίζων πνεῦμα. Collect. — Quae sequuntur, petita fuisse videntur e Ps. VIII, 4: Ὄψομαι τοὺς οὐρανούς, ἔργα δακτύλων σου, σελήνην καὶ ἀστέρας, ἃ σὺ ἐθεμελίωσας, aliisque locis, quibus stellae dicuntur στρατιὰ οὐρανοῦ.

Hosea. The passage cited from Hosea is found in Amos, ch. 4:13: "For [it is] the Lord, who makes firm the thunder and creates the wind." Collect. — What follows seems to have been taken from Ps. 8:4: "I will behold the heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have founded," and from other passages in which the stars are called "the host of heaven."

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Ἐγώ εἰμι, φησίν, ὁ Κύριος ὁ λαλῶν. Ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ λαλῶν Nov. et Bib. Graec. Proinde φησίν interpretis additamentum est.

I am, he says, the Lord who speaks. Nov. and the Greek Bible have "I am the Lord who speaks." So "he says" is an interpreter's addition.

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Προσευχόμενοι θεοῖς. Προσευχόμενοι πρὸς θεούς, Bibl. Graec.

Praying to gods. The Greek Bible has "praying to [πρός] gods."

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Πλὴν ἐμοῦ δ. Hunc locum sic distinguit Nov.: πλὴν ἐμοῦ δίκαιος· καὶ σωτὴρ οὐκ ἔστι π. ἐ. Mox, ἐπ' ἐμέ pro πρός μέ, Bibl. Graec. Dein, κατ' ἐμοῦ pro κατ' ἐμαυτοῦ, Nov. Paulo post, καί τινι ὁμ. pro ἢ τινι ὁμ. Bibl. Graec.

Besides me, just. Nov. punctuates this passage thus: "besides me just; and a saviour there is none except me." Just after, the Greek Bible has "ἐπ' ἐμέ" for "πρός μέ." Then Nov. has "κατ' ἐμοῦ" for "κατ' ἐμαυτοῦ." A little later the Greek Bible has "and to what likeness" for "or to what likeness."

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Ὀλολύξει. Respicit Isa. X, 10, 11: Ὀλολύξατε τὰ γλυπτὰ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ· ὃν τρόπον ἐποίησα Σαμαρείᾳ καὶ τοῖς χειροποιήτοις αὐτῆς, οὕτω ποιήσω καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῆς.

Will wail. He has in view Isa. 10:10–11: "Wail, you carved images in Jerusalem and in Samaria; as I did to Samaria and to her handmade things, so will I do also to Jerusalem and to her idols."

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Prov. II, 6.

Prov. 2:6.

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Prov. VI, 9.

Prov. 6:9.

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Ibid. 11.

Ibid., v. 11.

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Ibid. 23.

Ibid., v. 23.

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Jer. X, 12.

Jer. 10:12.

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Deut. VI, 4.

Deut. 6:4.

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Ibid. 13; X, 20.

Ibid., v. 13; 10:20.

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Psal. II, 12, 13.

Ps. 2:12–13.

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Psal. IV, 3.

Ps. 4:3.

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Rom. I, 21, 23, 25.

Rom. 1:21, 23, 25.

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Gen. I, 1.

Gen. 1:1.

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Matt. 5:18; Luke 16:17.

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Ἕως πότε. Ἕως τινός Bibl. Graec. Mox, σοι post ἥξει omittunt.

How long. The Greek Bible has "until when." Just after, they omit "to you" after "will come."

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Ὁ ἀγαθὸς λ. Similia occurrunt Prov. VI, 20, 22, 23: Υἱὲ, φύλαξον νόμους πατρός σου... ἡνίκα ἂν περιπατῇς ἐπάγου αὐτήν, καὶ μετὰ σοῦ ἔστω... ὅτι λύχνος ἐντολὴ νόμου καὶ φῶς· ὁδὸς ζωῆς, καὶ ἔλεγχος, καὶ παιδεία. Ea, quae scripsit Clemens, si verba respicias, frustra quaerentur.

The good l[amp]. Similar words occur in Prov. 6:20, 22, 23: "Son, keep the laws of your father ... whenever you walk, bring it with you, and let it be with you ... for the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life, and reproof, and instruction." What Clement wrote, if you look to the words, will be sought in vain.

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Κύριος ὁ Θ. Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς, σοῦ Κύριος, εἷς ἐστι Nov.; ἡμῶν pro σου, Bibl. Graec. Mox, φοβηθήσῃ pro προσκυνήσεις, Bibl. Graec.

The Lord God. Nov. has "the Lord God, your Lord, is one"; the Greek Bible has "our" for "your." Just after, the Greek Bible has "you shall fear" for "you shall worship."

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Τοῦ Θεοῦ. Τοῦ ἀφθάρτου Θεοῦ Bibl. Graec.

Of God. The Greek Bible has "of the incorruptible God."

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Ἐκλείψει. His similia occurrunt psal. CI, 26; Isa. XIII, 10; Ezech. XXXII, 7; Joel. II, 10, 31; III, 15. Ipsa verba, prout ea recitat Clemens nondum inveni.

Will fail. Similar words occur in Ps. 101 [102]:26; Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15. The very words, as Clement quotes them, I have not yet found.

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CAPUT IX. Graviter illos peccare, qui benignam Dei vocationem spernunt, aut negligunt.

That they sin grievously who spurn or neglect the kindly calling of God.

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σιάν. Τί σοι σοφίας ἀναγγέλλω μυστήρια, καὶ ῥήσεις ἐκ παιδὸς Ἑβραίου σεσοφισμένου; Κύριος ἔκτισέ με ἀρχὴν ὁδῶν αὐτοῦ εἰς ἔργα αὐτοῦ. Καὶ, Κύριος δίδωσι σοφίαν, καὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ γνῶσις καὶ σύνεσις. Ἕως πότε, ὀκνηρὲ, κατάκεισαι; πότε δὲ ἐξ ὕπνου ἐγερθήσῃ; Ἐὰν δὲ ἄοκνος ᾖς, ἥξει σοι ὥσπερ πηγὴ ὁ ἀμητός σου, ὁ Λόγος ὁ πατρικὸς, ὁ ἀγαθὸς λύχνος, ὁ Κύριος ἐπάγων τὸ φῶς, τὴν πίστιν πᾶσι, καὶ σωτηρίαν. Κύριος γὰρ, ὁ ποιήσας τὴν γῆν ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ αὐτοῦ, ὥς φησιν Ἱερεμίας, ἀνῴρθωσε τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ αὐτοῦ· προπεσόντας γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ τὰ εἴδωλα, ἡ σοφία, ἥ ἐστιν ὁ Λόγος αὐτοῦ, ἀνορθοῖ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν· καὶ αὕτη πρώτη τοῦ παραπτώματος ἀνάστασις. Ὅθεν ἀποτρέπων εἰδωλολατρείας ἁπάσης ὁ θεσπέσιος παγκάλως ἀνακέκραγε Μωϋσῆς· Ἄκουε, Ἰσραήλ· Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, Κύριος εἷς ἐστι· καὶ, Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου προσκυνήσεις, καὶ αὐτῷ μόνῳ λατρεύσεις. Νῦν δὴ οὖν σύνετε, ὦ ἄνθρωποι, κατὰ τὸν μακάριον ψαλμῳδὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν Δαβίδ· δράξασθε παιδείας, μήποτε ὀργισθῇ Κύριος, καὶ ἀπολεῖσθε ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας, ὅτ' ἂν ἐκκαυθῇ ἐν τάχει ὁ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ· μακάριοι πάντες οἱ πεποιθότες ἐπ' αὐτῷ. Ἤδη δὲ, ὑπεροικτείρων ἡμᾶς ὁ Κύριος, τὸ σωτήριον ἐνδίδωσι μέλος, οἷον ἐμβατήριον ῥυθμόν· Υἱοὶ ἀνθρώπων, ἕως πότε βαρυκάρδιοι; Ἵνα τί ἀγαπᾶτε ματαιότητα, καὶ ζητεῖτε ψεῦδος; Τίς οὖν ἡ ματαιότης, καὶ τί τὸ ψεῦδος; Ὁ ἅγιος Ἀπόστολος τοῦ Κυρίου, τοὺς Ἕλληνας αἰτιώμενος, ἐξηγήσεταί σοι, Ὅτι γνόντες τὸν Θεὸν, οὐχ ὡς Θεὸν ἐδόξασαν, ἢ ηὐχαρίστησαν, ἀλλ' ἐματαιώθησαν ἐν τοῖς διαλογισμοῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ ἤλλαξαν τὴν δόξαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν ὁμοιώματι εἰκόνος φθαρτοῦ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ἐλάτρευσαν τῇ κτίσει παρὰ τὸν κτίσαντα. Καὶ μὴν ὅ γε Θεὸς οὗτος, ὃς ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησε τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν Σὺ δὲ τὸν μὲν Θεὸν οὐ νοεῖς, τὸν δὲ οὐρανὸν προσκυνεῖς, καὶ πῶς οὐκ ἀσεβεῖς; Ἄκουε πάλιν προφήτου λέγοντος· Ἐκλείψει μὲν ὁ ἥλιος, καὶ ὁ οὐρανὸς σκοτισθήσεται· λάμψει δὲ ὁ παντοκράτωρ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν σαλευ-
nest (Isa. 10:14). Why do I declare to you mysteries of wisdom and sayings from a wise Hebrew boy? The Lord created me the beginning of His ways for His works (Prov. 8:22). And, The Lord gives wisdom, and from His presence are knowledge and understanding (Prov. 2:6). How long, O sluggard, do you lie down? And when will you be roused from sleep? But if you are unwearying, your harvest will come to you like a spring (Prov. 6:9, 11), the paternal Word, the good lamp (Prov. 6:23), the Lord Who brings in the light, faith to all, and salvation. For the Lord, Who made the earth by His power, as Jeremiah says, raised up the inhabited world by His wisdom (Jer. 10:12); for when we have fallen down before idols, Wisdom, which is His Word, raises us up unto the truth; and this is the first resurrection from the fall. Wherefore, turning men away from all idolatry, the divinely inspired Moses has cried out most nobly: Hear, O Israel: the Lord your God is one Lord (Deut. 6:4); and, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve (Deut. 6:13; 10:20). Now then understand, O men, according to that blessed psalmist David: Lay hold of instruction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the righteous way, when His wrath is quickly kindled; blessed are all who trust in Him (Ps. 2:12–13). And now, having exceeding compassion upon us, the Lord gives out the saving melody, like a marching rhythm: Sons of men, how long will you be heavy of heart? Why do you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? (Ps. 4:3). What then is the vanity, and what is the falsehood? The holy Apostle of the Lord, blaming the Greeks, will expound for you: Because, knowing God, they glorified Him not as God, nor gave thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and changed the glory of God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and served the creature rather than the Creator (Rom. 1:21, 23, 25). And yet this is the God Who in the beginning made the heaven and the earth (Gen. 1:1). But you do not perceive God, and worship the heaven; and how are you not impious? Hear again a prophet saying: The sun indeed shall fail, and the heaven shall be darkened; but the Almighty shall shine for ever, and the powers of the heavens shall be
Καὶ μυρίας ἂν ἔχοιμί σοι Γραφὰς παραφέρειν, ὧν οὐδὲ κεραία παρελεύσεται μία, μὴ οὐχὶ ἐπιτελὴς γενομένη· τὸ γὰρ στόμα Κυρίου, τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα,
And I could bring forward to you ten thousand Scriptures, of which not even one tittle shall pass away without being fulfilled (Matt. 5:18; Luke 16:17); for the mouth of the Lord, the Holy Spirit,
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ἐλάλησεν ταῦτα. Μὴ τοίνυν μηκέτι, φησὶν, υἱέ μου, ὀλιγώρει παιδείας Κυρίου· μηδ' ἐκλύου ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐλεγχόμενος. Ὢ τῆς ὑπερβαλλούσης φιλανθρωπίας! Οὐδ' ὡς μαθηταῖς ὁ διδάσκαλος, οὐδ' ὡς οἰκέταις ὁ κύριος, οὐδ' ὡς Θεὸς ἀνθρώποις, πατὴρ δὲ ὡς, ἡπίως νουθετεῖ υἱούς· εἶτα Μωϋσῆς μὲν ὁμολογεῖ ἔμφοβος εἶναι καὶ ἔντρομος, ἀκούων περὶ τοῦ Λόγου· Σὺ δὲ, τοῦ Λόγου ἀκροώμενος τοῦ θείου, οὐ δέδιας; οὐκ ἀγωνιᾷς; οὐχὶ ἅμα τε εὐλαβῇ, καὶ σπεύδεις ἐκμαθεῖν, τουτέστι σπεύδεις εἰς σωτηρίαν, φοβούμενος τὴν ὀργὴν, ἀγαπήσας τὴν χάριν, ζηλώσας τὴν ἐλπίδα, ἵνα ἐκκλίνῃς τὴν κρίσιν; Ἥκετε, ἥκετε, ὦ νεολαία ἡ ἐμή· ἢν γὰρ μὴ αὖθις ὡς τὰ παιδία γενήσεσθε, καὶ ἀναγεννηθῆτε, ὥς φησὶν ἡ Γραφὴ, τὸν ὄντως ὄντα Πατέρα οὐ μὴ ἀπολάβητε, οὐδ' οὐ μὴ εἰσελεύσησθέ ποτε εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. Πῶς γὰρ εἰσελθεῖν ἐπιτέτραπται τῷ ξένῳ; Ἀλλ' ὅταν, οἶμαι, ἐγγραφῇ, καὶ πολιτευθῇ, καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἀπολάβῃ, τότε ἐν τοῖς τοῦ πατρὸς γενήσεται, τότε κληρονομῆσαι καταξιωθήσεται, τότε τῆς βασιλείας τῆς πατρῴας κοινωνήσει τῷ γνησίῳ, τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ. Αὕτη γὰρ ἡ πρωτότοκος Ἐκκλησία, ἡ ἐκ πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν συγκειμένη παιδίων· ταῦτ' ἐστὶ τὰ πρωτότοκα, τὰ ἐναπογεγραμμένα ἐν οὐρανοῖς καὶ τοσαύταις μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων συμπανηγυρίζοντα. Πρωτότοκοι δὲ παῖδες ἡμεῖς οἱ τρόφιμοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, οἱ τοῦ πρωτοτόκου γνήσιοι φίλοι, οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων τὸν Θεὸν νενοηκότες, οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἀπεσπασμένοι, οἱ πρῶτοι τοῦ διαβόλου κεχωρισμένοι. Νυνὶ δὲ τοσούτῳ τινές εἰσιν ἀθεώτεροι, ὅσῳ φιλανθρωπότερος ὁ Θεός· ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ δούλων υἱοὺς ἡμᾶς γενέσθαι βούλεται, οἱ δὲ, καὶ υἱοὶ γενέσθαι ὑπερηφανήκασιν. Ὢ τῆς ἀπονοίας πολλῆς! τὸν Κύριον ἀπαισχύνεσθε; Ἐλευθερίαν ἐπαγγέλλεται· ὑμεῖς δὲ εἰς δουλείαν ἀποδιδράσκετε. Σωτηρίαν χαρίζεται· ὑμεῖς δὲ εἰς ἄνθρωπον ὑποφέρεσθε. Ζωὴν δωρεῖται αἰώνιον· ὑμεῖς δὲ τὴν κόλασιν ἀναμένετε· καὶ τὸ πῦρ δὲ προσκοπεῖτε, ὃ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ Κύριος τῷ διαβόλῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ. Διὰ τοῦτο ὁ μακάριος Ἀπόστολος, Μαρτύρο-
spoke these things. Do not then any longer, says he, my son, make light of the instruction of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by Him (Prov. 3:11; Heb. 12:5). O the surpassing love towards mankind! Not even as a teacher to disciples, nor as a master to household servants, nor as God to men, but as a father, He gently admonishes His sons; then Moses indeed confesses that he is terrified and trembling (Heb. 12:21) when hearing concerning the Word; and do you, listening to the divine Word, not fear? Are you not in anguish? Do you not at once both reverence Him and hasten to learn thoroughly, that is, hasten unto salvation, fearing the wrath, having loved the grace, having striven after the hope, that you may shun the judgement? Come, come, O my youth; for unless you become again as little children and be born anew, as the Scripture says (Matt. 18:3; Luke 18:17; John 3:5), you shall by no means receive the truly existing Father, nor shall you ever enter into the kingdom of the heavens. For how is a stranger permitted to enter? But when, I think, he is enrolled and made a citizen and receives the Father, then he shall be in the Father's house (Luke 2:49), then he shall be deemed worthy to inherit, then he shall share in the paternal kingdom with the legitimate, the beloved One (Matt. 3:17). For this is the firstborn Church, composed of many good children; these are the firstborn who are enrolled in the heavens and keep festival together with so many myriads of angels (Heb. 12:22–23). And we are firstborn children, the nurslings of God, the genuine friends of the Firstborn, the first of other men to have known God, the first to have been torn away from sins, the first to have been separated from the devil. But now some are by so much the more godless, by how much the more loving towards mankind God is; for He indeed wills that from slaves we should become sons, whereas they have disdained even to become sons. O the great folly! Are you ashamed of the Lord? He promises freedom; and you run away into slavery. He bestows salvation; and you sink down to man. He grants eternal life; and you await punishment, and look towards the fire which the Lord prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41, 46). Therefore the blessed Apostle: I testify
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Prov. III, 11; Hebr. XII, 5.

Prov. 3:11; Heb. 12:5.

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Hebr. XII, 21.

Heb. 12:21.

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Matth. XVIII, 3; Luc. XVIII, 17; Joan. III, 5.

Matt. 18:3; Luke 18:17; John 3:5.

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Matth. III, 17.

Matt. 3:17.

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Hebr. XII, 22, 23.

Heb. 12:22–23.

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Μὴ τοίνυν μηκέτι. Μηκέτι τοίνυν Nov.

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Πατὴρ δὲ ὡς, ἠπίως νουθετεῖ υἱούς. Malim πατὴρ δὲ ὡς ἤπιος, νουθετεῖ υἱούς· tanquam vero mitis pater, admonet filios. Quam lectionem praebet Nov. Eidem favet Homerus, cujus hoc hemistichium est, . . . . πατὴρ δ' ὣς ἤπιος ἦεν. Solet autem haec vox peculiariter dici de paterno affectu in liberos. Unde apud Homer. Jupiter Minervae dicit Il. Θ, v. 40: . . . ἐθέλω δέ τοι ἤπιος εἶναι. Item Paulus I Thess. II, 7, 8: Ἀλλ' ἐγενήθημεν ἤπιοι ἐν μέσῳ ὑμῶν ὡς ἂν τροφὸς θάλπῃ τὰ ἑαυτῆς τέκνα, οὕτως, etc. Mox Ὡς πατὴρ τέκνα ἑαυτοῦ, παρακαλοῦντες ὑμᾶς καὶ παραμυθούμενοι.

And as a father, gently he admonishes sons. I should prefer "and as a gentle father he admonishes sons": like a mild father, he admonishes his sons. Nov. gives this reading. Homer supports it too, whose half-line this is: ". . . . he was gentle as a father." This word is used especially of a father's affection for his children. Hence in Homer Jupiter says to Minerva, Iliad 8, line 40: ". . . I wish to be gentle to you." So also Paul, 1 Thess. 2:7–8: "But we were gentle among you, as a nurse cherishes her own children, so," etc. Just after: "as a father his own children, exhorting you and comforting you."

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Ἐγγραφῇ. Respicit veterem Atheniensium, aliarumque gentium morem, quo qui civitate donabantur, aliquem e civibus patrem sibi asciscebant, ejusque nomine in publicis tabulis inscribebantur. Conf. Archaeologiae Graecae lib. I, c. 9.

Enrolment. He has in view the ancient custom of the Athenians and other peoples, by which those granted citizenship adopted one of the citizens as their father and were entered in the public registers under his name. Compare the Archaeologia Graeca, book 1, ch. 9.

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Ἐν τοῖς. Videtur Christi dictum respexisse, quod refert Lucas II, 49: Οὐκ ᾔδειτε, ὅτι ἐν τοῖς τοῦ Πατρός μου δεῖ εἶναί με; nesciebatis, quia in iis, quae Patris mei sunt, oportet me esse?

In the things. He seems to have had in view the saying of Christ which Luke reports, 2:49: "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?": did you not know that I must be about the things that are my Father's?

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Αὕτη γὰρ ἡ πρωτότ. Respicit Hebr. XII, 22, 23: Ἀλλὰ προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν ὄρει καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ, καὶ μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων, πανηγύρει καὶ Ἐκκλησίᾳ πρωτοτόκων ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἀπογεγραμμένων. Sed accessistis ad Sion montem, et civitatem Dei viventis, Jerusalem coelestem et multorum millium angelorum frequentiam, et Ecclesiam primitivorum, qui conscripti sunt in coelis.

For this is the first-born. He has in view Heb. 12:22–23 (Greek and Latin as printed): "But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the throng of many thousands of angels, and to the Church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven."

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Ἀθεώτεροι. Ἀθεώρητοι Nov.

More godless. Nov. has "unseeing" (ἀθεώρητοι).

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Τῆς ἀπ. πολλῆς. Τῆς ἀπ. τῆς πολλῆς Nov. Mox, ἐπαισχύνεσθε pro ἀπαισχύνεσθε substituit Tatiani editor, pag. 45.

Of great folly. Nov. has "of the great folly." Just after, Tatian's editor, p. 45, substituted "ἐπαισχύνεσθε" for "ἀπαισχύνεσθε."

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Εἰς ἄνθρωπον ὑποφ. Sunt qui malint, εἰς ἀπώλειαν ὑποφέρεσθε· ut σωτηρία suum habeat contrarium. Sylburg.

To a man you are carried down. Some would prefer "you are carried down to destruction," so that "salvation" may have its opposite. Sylburg.

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Προσκοπεῖτε. Σκοπεῖτε Nov.

You look forward to. Nov. has "you look to."

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Matth. XXV, 41, 46.

Matt. 25:41, 46.

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Ephes. IV, 17, 18, 19.

Eph. 4:17–19.

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Ephes. V, 14.

Eph. 5:14.

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Psal. CIX, 3.

Ps. 109 [110]:3.

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Psal. XCIV, 8, 9.

Ps. 94 [95]:8–9.

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Ibid. 9, 10, 11.

Ibid., vv. 9–11.

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Joann. X, 3, 16.

John 10:3, 16.

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Τὰ ἔθνη. Τὰ λοιπὰ ἔθνη Bibl. Graec. Mox, καί post ὄντες omitt. Dein, ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ pro καὶ πλεονεξίας, ibid.

The Gentiles. The Greek Bible has "the other Gentiles." Just after, it omits "and" after "being." Then, "in covetousness" for "and of covetousness," ibid.

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Καὶ Θεόν. Τὸν Θεόν Nov.

And God. Nov. has "the God."

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Ἔγειρε. Ἔγειραι Bibl. Graec.

Rise. The Greek Bible has "ἔγειραι."

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Ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ. Ἐδοκίμασαν Bibl. Graec. Ea, quae sequuntur, hoc modo distinguit Nov. Ἡ δὲ δοκιμασία τίς ἐστιν εἰ θέλεις μαθεῖν.

In testing. The Greek Bible has "they tested." Nov. punctuates what follows thus: "And what the testing is, if you wish to learn."

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Τεσσαράκοντα ἔτ. Τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνῃ, Bibl. Graec.

Forty years. The Greek Bible has "forty years I was angered with that generation."

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Ταῖς ψυχαῖς. Ταῖς omittit Nov.

The souls. Nov. omits "the."

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Ἐὰν σήμερον τ. Haec sic distingui possunt: Ἐὰν σήμερον τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσωμεν (τὸ δὲ σήμερον καθ' ἑκάστην αὐτοῦ αὔξεται τὴν ἡμέραν) ἔς τ' ἂν ἡ σήμερον ὀνομάζηται· Si hodie vocem ejus audierimus (illud autem hodie singulis diebus ei accrescit) quamdiu nominetur hodie. Postrema verba sumpsit ex Hebr. III, 13: Ἀλλὰ παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ἄχρις οὗ τὸ σήμερον καλεῖται.

If today ... This can be punctuated thus: "If today we hear his voice (and the 'today' grows for him every day), as long as it is called today": if today we hear his voice (and that 'today' increases for him day by day) as long as it is named today. He took the last words from Heb. 3:13: "But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called today."

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Ἡ σήμερον γὰρ ἀΐδιος αἰών ἐστιν εἰκών. Sic Flor., Sylb., itemque ms. Nov. In Heinsiana vero editione, quam Parisienses exprimunt, αἰών mutatum est in αἰῶνος. Sylburgius scribi voluit ἀϊδίου αἰῶνός ἐστιν εἰκών, aeterni saeculi imago est. Quam lectionem dicit firmari a Basil. pag. 665, et Gregor. Naz., p. 229. Fortasse aliquis ad marginem libri sui εἰκών adnotavit, vel, ut interpretamentum vocis σύμβολον, quae sequitur; vel, quia putabat τὸ σήμερον non esse αἰῶνα, sed tantum αἰῶνος εἰκόνα. Etenim saepissime fit ut quae ad marginem adnotata fuere, ab imperitis scriptoribus in textum recipiantur.

For the today is eternal age, is image. So the Florentine, Sylburg, and likewise the Nov. manuscript. But in Heinsius's edition, which the Paris editors reproduce, "age" has been changed to "of the age." Sylburg wanted it written "is the image of the eternal age," it is the image of the everlasting age. He says this reading is confirmed by Basil, p. 665, and Gregory Nazianzen, p. 229. Perhaps someone noted "image" in the margin of his book, either as a gloss on the word "symbol" which follows, or because he thought that the "today" is not the age itself but only the image of the age. For it very often happens that what was noted in the margin is taken into the text by unskilled copyists.

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Ἡμέρα. Ἡ ἡμέρα Nov. recte.

Day. Nov. has "the day," rightly.

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μαι ἐν Κυρίῳ, φησὶ, μηκέτι ὑμᾶς περιπατεῖν, καθὼς καὶ τὰ ἔθνη περιπατεῖ, ἐν ματαιότητι τοῦ νοὸς αὐτῶν, ἐσκοτισμένοι τῇ διανοίᾳ ὄντες, καὶ ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τὴν οὖσαν ἐν αὐτοῖς, διὰ τὴν πώρωσιν τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν· οἵτινες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν ἀπηλγηκότες τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης καὶ πλεονεξίας. Τοιούτου μάρτυρος ἐλέγχοντος τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἄνοιαν καὶ Θεὸν ἐπιβοωμένου, τί δὴ ἕτερον ὑπολείπεται τοῖς ἀπίστοις ἢ κρίσις καὶ καταδίκη; Οὐκ ἀμελεῖ δὲ ὁ Κύριος παραινῶν, ἐκφοβῶν, προτρέπων, διεγείρων, νουθετῶν· ἀφυπνίζει γέ τοι, καὶ τοῦ σκότους αὐτοῦ τοὺς πεπλανημένους διανίστησιν. Ἔγειρε, φησὶν, ὁ καθεύδων, καὶ ἀνάστα ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν· καὶ ἐπιφαύσει σοι ὁ Χριστὸς Κύριος, ὁ τῆς ἀναστάσεως Ἥλιος, ὁ πρὸ ἑωσφόρου γεννώμενος, ὁ ζωὴν χαρισάμενος ἀκτῖσιν ἰδίαις. Μὴ οὖν περιφρονείτω τις τοῦ Λόγου, μὴ λάθῃ καταφρονῶν ἑαυτοῦ. Λέγει γάρ που ἡ Γραφή· Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ πειρασμοῦ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, οὗ ἐπείρασάν με οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ. Ἡ δὲ δοκιμασία τίς ἐστιν; Εἰ θέλεις μαθεῖν, τὸ ἅγιόν σοι Πνεῦμα ἐξηγήσεται· Καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου, φησὶ, τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη. Διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ, καὶ εἶπον· Ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ· αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου. Ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσίν μου. Ὁρᾶτε τὴν ἀπειλήν. Ὁρᾶτε τὴν προτροπήν· ὁρᾶτε τὴν τιμήν. Τί δὴ οὖν ἔτι τὴν χάριν εἰς ὀργὴν μεταλλάσσομεν, καὶ οὐχὶ ἀναπεπταμέναις ταῖς ἀκοαῖς καταδεχόμενοι τὸν Λόγον, ἐν ἁγναῖς ξενοδοχοῦμεν ταῖς ψυχαῖς τὸν Θεόν; Μεγάλη γὰρ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας αὐτοῦ ἡ χάρις, ἐὰν σήμερον τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσωμεν. Τὸ δὲ σήμερον καθ' ἑκάστην αὐτοῦ αὔξεται τὴν ἡμέραν, ἔστ' ἂν ἡ σήμερον ὀνομάζηται. Μέχρι δὲ συντελείας καὶ ἡ σήμερον καὶ ἡ μάθησις διαμένει· καὶ τότε ἡ ὄντως σήμερον, ἡ ἀνελλιπὴς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμέρα, τοῖς αἰῶσι συνεκτείνεται. Ἀεὶ οὖν τῆς φωνῆς ὑπακούωμεν τοῦ θείου Λόγου· ἡ σήμερον γὰρ ἀΐδιος αἰών ἐστιν εἰκών· σύμβολον δὲ τοῦ φωτὸς, ἡμέρα· φῶς
in the Lord, says he, that you no longer walk even as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness and covetousness (Eph. 4:17–19). When such a witness convicts the folly of men and calls upon God, what else is left for the unbelieving than judgement and condemnation? Yet the Lord does not neglect advising, terrifying, exhorting, rousing, admonishing; He awakes them out of sleep, at all events, and raises up from the darkness itself those who have gone astray: Awake, says He, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ the Lord shall shine upon you (Eph. 5:14), the Sun of the resurrection, He Who is begotten before the morning star (Ps. 109:3), Who has bestowed life by His own rays. Let no one, therefore, despise the Word, lest unawares he despise himself. For somewhere the Scripture says: Today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted Me in proving (Ps. 94:8–9). And what is the proving? If you wish to learn, the Holy Spirit will expound for you: And they saw My works, says He, forty years. Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, and said: They always err in their heart, and they themselves have not known My ways; as I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest (Ps. 94:9–11). Behold the threat; behold the exhortation; behold the penalty. Why then do we still exchange grace for wrath, and not, receiving the Word with open ears, entertain God as a guest in pure souls? For great is the grace of His promise, if today we hear His voice (Heb. 3:15). And the today is increased day by day of His, so long as the today is named (Heb. 3:13). And until the consummation both the today and the learning abide; and then the true today, the unfailing day of God, is co-extended with the ages. Let us therefore always obey the voice of the divine Word (John 10:3, 16); for the today is an image, an everlasting age; and day is a symbol of the light; and light
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δὲ, ὁ Λόγος ἀνθρώποις, δι' οὗ καταυγαζόμεθα τὸν Θεόν. Εἰκότως ἄρα πιστεύσασι μὴν καὶ ὑπακούουσιν ἡ χάρις ὑπερπλεονάσει· ἀπειθήσασι δὲ καὶ πλανωμένοις κατὰ καρδίαν, ὁδούς τε τὰς κυριακὰς μὴ ἐγνωκόσιν, ἃς εὐθείας ποιεῖν καὶ εὐτρεπίζειν παρήγγειλεν Ἰωάννης· τούτοις δὲ προσώχθισεν ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ ἀπειλεῖ. Καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος τῆς ἀπειλῆς αἰνιγματωδῶς ἀπειλήφασιν οἱ παλαιοὶ τῶν Ἑβραίων πλανῆται· οὐ γὰρ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν λέγονται διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν, πρινὴ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς, κατακολουθήσαντας τῷ Μωϋσέως διαδόχῳ, ὀψέ ποτε ἔργῳ μαθεῖν, οὐκ ἂν ἄλλως σωθῆναι, μὴ οὐχὶ ὡς Ἰησοῖ πεπιστευκότας. Φιλάνθρωπος δὲ ὢν ὁ Κύριος, πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τῆς ἀληθείας παρακαλεῖ, ὁ τὸν Παράκλητον ἀποστέλλων. Τίς οὖν ἡ ἐπίγνωσις; θεοσέβεια· θεοσέβεια δὲ πρὸς πάντα ὠφέλιμος, κατὰ τὸν Παῦλον, ἐπαγγελίαν ἔχουσα ζωῆς, τῆς νῦν καὶ τῆς μελλούσης. Πόσου ὁμολογήσαιτε, ὦ ἄνθρωποι, εἰ ἐπιπράσκετο σωτηρία ἀΐδιος, ὠνήσασθαι ἂν; οὐδὲ εἰ τὸν Πάκτωλόν τις ὅλον, τοῦ χρυσίου τὸ ῥεῦμα τὸ μυθικὸν, ἀπομετρήσειε, ἀντάξιον σωτηρίας μισθὸν ἀριθμήσει. Μὴ οὖν ἀποκάμητε· ἔξεστιν ὑμῖν, ἢν ἐθέλητε, ἐξωνήσασθαι τὴν πολυτίμητον σωτηρίαν οἰκείῳ θησαυρῷ, ἀγάπῃ καὶ πίστει ζωῆς· ὃς ἐστιν ἀξιόλογος μισθός. Ταύτην ἡδέως τὴν τιμὴν ὁ Θεὸς λαμβάνει· Ἠλπίκαμεν γὰρ ἐπὶ Θεῷ ζῶντι, ὅς ἐστι σωτὴρ πάντων ἀνθρώπων, μάλιστα πιστῶν. Οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι, περιπεφυκότες τῷ κόσμῳ, οἷα φύκιά τινα ἐνάλοις πέτραις, ἀθανασίας ὀλιγωροῦσιν· καθάπερ ὁ Ἰθακήσιος γέρων, οὐ τῆς ἀληθείας, καὶ τῆς ἐν οὐρανῷ πατρίδος, πρὸς δὲ καὶ τοῦ ὄντως ὄντος ἱμειρόμενος φωτὸς, ἀλλὰ τοῦ καπνοῦ. Θεοσέβεια δὲ, ἐξομοιοῦσα τῷ Θεῷ κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, κατάλληλον ἐπιγράφεται διδάσκαλον Θεὸν, τὸν καὶ μόνον ἀπεικάσαι κατ' ἀξίαν δυνάμενον ἄνθρωπον Θεῷ. Ταύτην Ἀπόστολος τὴν διδασκαλίαν, θείαν ὄντως ἐπιστάμενος, Σὺ δὲ, ὦ Τιμόθεε, φησὶν, ἀπὸ βρέφους τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα οἶδας, τὰ δυνάμενά σε σοφίσαι εἰς σωτηρίαν διὰ πίστεως ἐν Χριστῷ· ἱερὰ γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς τὰ ἱεροποιοῦντα καὶ θεοποιοῦντα γράμματα· ἐξ ὧν γραμμάτων καὶ συλλαβῶν τῶν ἱερῶν
for men is the Word (John 1:9), through Whom we behold God in shining light. Reasonably, therefore, for those who have believed and obey, grace shall superabound (1 Tim. 1:14); whereas with those who have disobeyed and err in heart, and have not known the ways of the Lord (Ps. 94:10), which John commanded to make straight and prepare (Matt. 3:3)—with these God was displeased, and threatens them. And indeed the ancient wanderers of the Hebrews enigmatically received the end of the threat; for they are said not to have entered into the rest because of unbelief (Heb. 3:18–19), before they themselves, having followed the successor of Moses, learned at last by deed that they could not otherwise be saved unless they believed as in Jesus. And the Lord, being loving towards mankind, calls all men to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4), He Who sends forth the Paraclete. What then is the knowledge? Godliness; and godliness is profitable for all things, according to Paul, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come (1 Tim. 4:8). For how much would you agree, O men, if everlasting salvation were offered for sale, to buy it? Not even if one should measure out the whole Pactolus, the mythical stream of gold, will he reckon a price of equal value to salvation. Do not grow weary, then; it is in your power, if you will, to buy the precious salvation with your own treasure, with love and faith of life, which is a worthy price. This price God gladly accepts; for we have hoped on the living God, Who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful (1 Tim. 4:10). But the others, clinging round the world like certain seaweeds on rocks in the sea, make light of immortality, like the old man of Ithaca, longing not for the truth and the fatherland in heaven, and in addition for the truly existing light, but for smoke. And godliness, assimilating man to God as far as is possible, inscribes God as a fitting teacher, Who alone can worthily liken man to God. The Apostle, knowing this teaching to be truly divine, says: But you, O Timothy, from a babe have known the sacred letters, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ (2 Tim. 3:15); for truly sacred are the letters that hallow and deify; out of which sacred letters and syllables
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Joan. I, 9.

John 1:9.

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I Tim. I, 14.

1 Tim. 1:14.

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Psal. XCIV, 10.

Ps. 94 [95]:10.

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Matth. III, 3.

Matt. 3:3.

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Hebr. III, 18, 19.

Heb. 3:18–19.

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I Tim. II, 4.

1 Tim. 2:4.

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I Tim. IV, 8.

1 Tim. 4:8.

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I Tim. IV, 10.

1 Tim. 4:10.

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II Tim. III, 15.

2 Tim. 3:15.

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Πρινή. Πρὶν ἤ Nov. Mox, κατακολουθήσαντες pro κατακολουθήσαντας, idem.

Before. Nov. has "πρὶν ἤ." Just after, the same has "κατακολουθήσαντες" for "κατακολουθήσαντας."

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Οὐχί. Omittit Nov.

Not. Nov. omits it.

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Ἰησοῖ. A. Ἰησοῦ mavult Sylburg. Quam conjecturam firmare videtur ms. Nov., qui Ἰησοῦς habet, scil. pro Ἰησοῦ.

To Jesus. A. Sylburg prefers "Ἰησοῦ." The Nov. manuscript seems to confirm this conjecture, having "Ἰησοῦς," that is, for "Ἰησοῦ."

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Ὠνήσασθαι. Hanc vocem quidam perperam in ὠνήσεσθε mutandum putarunt. Paulo ante, πόσον pro πόσου habet Nov.

To buy. Some have wrongly thought this word should be changed to "you will buy." A little before, Nov. has "πόσον" for "πόσου."

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Πίστει ζωῆς. Quidam scribendum putant πίστει ζωρᾷ, fide mera, sincera Quod inusitatum esse videtur. Forte ζωῆς juxta πολυτίμητον σωτηρίαν, interpretamenti loco, in margine libri adnotatum, postea in textum irrepsit.

Faith of life. Some think one should write "with pure faith," unmixed, sincere faith. This seems an unusual expression. Perhaps "of life" was noted in a book's margin beside "precious salvation," by way of a gloss, and afterwards crept into the text.

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Ὁ Ἰθακήσιος γέρων. Ulysses. Respicit autem Clemens Odyss. A, vers. 57: ..... αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεύς, Ἱέμενος καὶ καπνὸν ἀποθρώσκοντα νοῆσαι Ἧς γαίης, θανέειν ἱμείρεται .... ..... Caeterum Ulysses Cupiens vel fumum exsilientem videre Suae terrae, mori desiderat .....

The old man of Ithaca. Ulysses. Clement has in view Odyssey 1, line 57: "..... but Odysseus, / longing to see even the smoke leaping up / from his own land, yearns to die ....": "..... But Ulysses, / desiring to see even the smoke rising / from his own land, longs to die ....."

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Τόν. Omittit Nov.

The. Nov. omits it.

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Ἀπόστολος. Malim ὁ Ἀπόστολος, cum articulo, ut et alibi passim. Sylburg. Hanc lectionem firmat Nov.

Apostle. I should prefer "the Apostle," with the article, as elsewhere everywhere. Sylburg. Nov. confirms this reading.

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Ὦ Τιμόθεε. Clementis additamentum.

O Timothy. Clement's addition.

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Πίστεως ἐν Χ. Πίστεως τῆς ἐν Χ. Bibl. Graec.

Faith in Christ. The Greek Bible has "faith which is in Christ."

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Θεοποιοῦντα. Clemens, Platonem secutus, saepe dicit homines per virtutem ac pietatem non solum Deo assimilari, sed etiam deos quodammodo fieri. Conf. hujus libri pag. 71, et quae ibi adnotata erunt.

Making divine. Clement, following Plato, often says that through virtue and piety men are not only made like God but in a certain way become gods. Compare p. 71 of this book, and what will be noted there.

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I Tim. III, 16, 17.

1 Tim. 3:16–17 [as the image reads; the verses quoted are 2 Tim. 3:16–17].

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Matth. IV, 17.

Matt. 4:17.

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Philipp. IV, 5.

Phil. 4:5.

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II Cor. V, 20.

2 Cor. 5:20.

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Psal. XXXIII, 9.

Ps. 33 [34]:9.

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Ibid. 12.

Ibid., v. 12.

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Ibid. 13.

Ibid., v. 13.

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Esther. IX, 20.

Esther 9:20.

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Joann. I, 9.

John 1:9.

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Ἐπιστρέφει. Sic distingue, Ἐπιστρέφει τοὺς ἀνθρώπους πλησιάζοντας, τῷ φόβῳ. Eos, qui ad se accedunt, per timorem convertit.

Turns. Punctuate thus: "He turns the men who draw near, by fear": those who come to him he converts through fear.

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Ὁ Κύρ. S. Scripturae sensum, non verba, recitat. Porro καταλειφθῶμεν pro καταληφθῶμεν habet Nov.

The Lord. He gives the sense of Holy Scripture, not its words. Further, Nov. has "καταλειφθῶμεν" (we be left behind) for "καταληφθῶμεν" (we be overtaken).

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Ἀδεεῖς. Hervetus legit ἐνδεεῖς, quod A. minus placet. Sylburg.

Fearless. Hervet reads "needy," which A. likes less. Sylburg.

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Γεύσασθε. A. et H. γεύσασθε καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ Θεός, ex psalmo XXXIII. Hervetus interpres vulgatam lectionem secutus est: in qua ut interrogatio locum habet, ita in altera non habet. Sylburg. — Alludit ad psalm. XXXII 9: Γεύσασθε, καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ Κύριος. Sic Paedag. lib. I, c. 6, p. 103 illa I Pet. II, recitans, εἰ ἐγεύσασθε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ Κύριος, scripsit: Εἰ ἐγεύσασθε ὅτι Χριστὸς ὁ Κ. Strom. V, pag. 579, iterum psalmi verba sic scribit, Γεύσασθε, καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι Χριστὸς ὁ Κύριος. Protrept., p. 76, χρηστὸς ὁ σύμπας ἀνθρώπων βίος, τῶν Χριστὸν ἐγνωκότων. Denique Strom. II, similiter in his vocibus ludit: Οἱ εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν πεπιστευκότες, χρηστοί τε εἰσί, καὶ λέγονται· Qui in Christum crediderunt, χρηστοί, boni, sunt et dicuntur. Verum eo loco Χριστοί potius legendum esse, nonnulli existimant. S. Justinus, Apol. I, p. 6: Ὅσον τε ἐκ τοῦ κατηγορουμένου ἡμῶν ὀνόματος χρηστότατοι ὑπάρχομεν· Quod ad nomen ipsum Christianorum spectat, quod criminis loco nobis objicitur, optimi (χρηστότατοι) certe sumus. Idem paulo post: Χριστιανοὶ γὰρ εἶναι κατηγορούμεθα· τὸ δὲ χρηστὸν μισεῖσθαι οὐ δίκαιον· Christiani esse deferimur: atqui bonum (χρηστὸν) odisse, injustum est. Gentiles per ignorantiam Chrestum, saepe vocabant Christum. Conf. Suetonius in Claudio cap. 25; Lucianus in Philopatride; Tertullianus, Apol., cap. 3; Lactantius, lib. IV, cap. 7; Theophilus initio lib. I, Ad Autolyc.

Taste. A. and H. have "taste and see that God is good," from Psalm 33. Hervet the translator followed the common reading: in it a question has a place, in the other it has not. Sylburg. — He alludes to Ps. 32 [rather 33]:9: "Taste and see that the Lord is good." So in the Paedagogus, book 1, ch. 6, p. 103, quoting 1 Pet. 2, "if you have tasted that the Lord is good (χρηστός)," he wrote: "if you have tasted that the Lord is Christ (Χριστός)." In Stromata 5, p. 579, he again writes the psalm's words thus: "Taste and see that the Lord is Christ." Protrepticus, p. 76: "good is the whole life of men who have known Christ." Finally, in Stromata 2 he plays on these words in the same way: "Those who have believed in Christ both are and are called good (χρηστοί)": those who have believed in Christ are and are called χρηστοί, good. But some think that in that place "Χριστοί" (Christ's) should rather be read. St Justin, Apology 1, p. 6: "As far as the name of which we are accused goes, we are most excellent": as regards the very name of Christians, which is thrown at us as a crime, we are certainly the best (χρηστότατοι). The same a little later: "For we are accused of being Christians; but to hate the good (χρηστόν) is not just": we are denounced as Christians; yet to hate what is good (χρηστόν) is unjust. The Gentiles, through ignorance, often called Christ "Chrestus." Compare Suetonius, Claudius, ch. 25; Lucian in the Philopatris; Tertullian, Apology, ch. 3; Lactantius, book 4, ch. 7; Theophilus at the beginning of book 1 To Autolycus.

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Ἀκούσατε οὖν οἱ μ. Haec verba οὖν οἱ μακρὰν ἀκούσατε omittit Nov. Porro respicit Clemens Pauli verba ad Ephes. II, 17: Εὐηγγελίσατο εἰρήνην ὑμῖν τοῖς μακράν, καὶ τοῖς ἐγγύς. Ut mox Joan. I, 9: Τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον.

Hear then, you who are far. Nov. omits the words "then you who are far, hear." Further, Clement has in view Paul's words to the Ephesians, 2:17: "He preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near." As just after, John 1:9: "The true light, which enlightens every man coming into the world."

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Εἰς μίαν ἀγάπ. Imitatur Christi dictum, quod refert Joan. XVII, 21, 22, 23.

Into one love. He imitates the saying of Christ which John reports, 17:21–23.

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Ἕνωσιν σπεύσ. Sic distingui possit, ἕνωσιν· σπεύσωμεν· ἀγαθοεργούμενοι, ἀναλόγως ἑνότ.

Union; let us hasten. It could be punctuated thus: "union; let us hasten; doing good, in proportion unity ..."

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τὰς συγκειμένας γραφὰς, τὰ συντάγματα, ὁ αὐτὸς ἀκολούθως Ἀπόστολος θεοπνεύστους καλεῖ, ὠφελίμους οὔσας πρὸς διδασκαλίαν, πρὸς ἔλεγχον, πρὸς ἐπανόρθωσιν, πρὸς παιδείαν τὴν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ· ἵνα ἄρτιος ᾖ ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος, πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἐξηρτισμένος. Οὐκ ἄν τις οὕτως ἐκπλαγείη τῶν ἄλλων ἁγίων τὰς προτροπὰς, ὡς αὐτὸν τὸν Κύριον, τὸν φιλάνθρωπον. Οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀλλ' ἢ τοῦτο ἔργον μόνος ἐστὶν αὐτῷ, σώζεσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Βοᾷ γοῦν, ἐπείγων εἰς σωτηρίαν αὐτός· Ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν· ἐπιστρέφει τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, πλησιάζοντας τῷ φόβῳ. Ταύτῃ καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος τοῦ Κυρίου, παρακαλῶν τοὺς Μακεδόνας, ἑρμηνεὺς γίνεται τῆς θείας φωνῆς· Ὁ Κυρίος ἤγγικεν, λέγων, εὐλαβεῖσθε μὴ καταληφθῶμεν κενοί. Ὑμεῖς δὲ, ἐς τοσοῦτον ἀδεεῖς, μᾶλλον δὲ ἄπιστοι, μήτε αὐτῷ πειθόμενοι τῷ Κυρίῳ, μήτε τῷ Παύλῳ, καὶ ταῦτα ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ δεομένῳ γεύσεσθε, καὶ ἴδετε ὅτι Χριστὸς ὁ Θεός; ἡ πίστις εἰσάξει, ἡ πεῖρα διδάξει, ἡ Γραφὴ παιδαγωγήσει, Δεῦτε, ὦ τέκνα, λέγουσα· ἀκούσατέ μου, φόβον Κυρίου διδάξω ὑμᾶς. Εἶτα, ὡς ἤδη πεπιστευκόσι, συντόμως ἐπιλέγει· Τίς ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος ὁ θέλων ζωὴν, ἀγαπῶν ἡμέρας ἰδεῖν ἀγαθάς; Ἡμεῖς ἐσμὲν, φήσομεν, οἱ τἀγαθοῦ προσκυνηταὶ, οἱ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ζηλωταί. Ἀκούσατε οὖν οἱ μακρὰν, ἀκούσατε οἱ ἐγγύς· οὐκ ἀπεκρύβη τινὰς ὁ Λόγος· φῶς ἐστι κοινὸν, ἐπιλάμπει πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις· οὐδεὶς Κιμμέριος ἐν Λόγῳ. Σπεύσωμεν εἰς σωτηρίαν, ἐπὶ τὴν παλιγγενεσίαν, εἰς μίαν ἀγάπην συναχθῆναι οἱ πολλοὶ, κατὰ τὴν τῆς μοναδικῆς οὐσίας ἕνωσιν· σπεύσωμεν ἀγαθοεργούμενοι ἀναλόγως ἑνότητα διώκωμεν, τὴν ἀγαθὴν ἐκζητοῦντες μονάδα. Ἡ δὲ ἐκ πολλῶν ἕνωσις, ἐκ πολυφωνίας καὶ διασπορᾶς ἁρμονίαν λαβοῦσα θεϊκὴν, μία γίνεται συμφωνία, ἑνὶ χορευτῇ καὶ διδασκάλῳ τῷ Λόγῳ ἑπομένη, ἐπ' αὐτὴν τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀναπαυομένη, Ἀββᾶ λέγουσα, ὁ πατήρ· ταύτην ὁ Θεὸς τὴν φωνὴν τὴν ἀληθινὴν ἀσπάζεται παρὰ τῶν αὐτοῦ παίδων πρώτην καρπούμενος.
the same Apostle consequently calls the collected Scriptures, the treatises, divinely inspired, being profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16–17). One would not be so struck with wonder at the exhortations of the other saints as at the Lord Himself, the Lover of mankind. For He has no other work at all than this alone, that man should be saved. At all events He cries aloud, Himself urging men on to salvation: The kingdom of the heavens has drawn near (Matt. 4:17); He converts men when they draw near through fear. In this way the Apostle of the Lord also, exhorting the Macedonians, becomes an interpreter of the divine voice, saying: The Lord has drawn near (Phil. 4:5); take care lest we be found empty. Are you then to such a degree fearless, or rather unbelieving, obeying neither the Lord Himself nor Paul, and that too when he entreats on behalf of Christ (2 Cor. 5:20)? Will you taste and see that Christ is God? (Ps. 33:9). Faith will lead you in, experience will teach you, Scripture will train you, saying: Come, O children, hearken to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord (Ps. 33:12). Then, as to those who have already believed, it briefly adds: Who is the man that desires life, loving to see good days? (Ps. 33:13). It is we, we shall say, the worshippers of the good, the zealous seekers of good things. Hear therefore, you who are far off; hear, you who are near (Isa. 57:19; Eph. 2:17); the Word was not hidden from any; He is a common light, He shines upon all men (John 1:9); no one is a Cimmerian in the Word. Let us hasten unto salvation, unto regeneration, to be gathered together, the many, into one love (John 17:21–23), according to the union of the monadic essence; being benefitted, let us hasten, let us analogously pursue unity, seeking out the good Monad. And the union out of many, receiving a divine harmony out of a multitude of voices and dispersion, becomes one symphony, following one chorus-leader and teacher, the Word, resting upon the truth itself, saying, Abba, Father (Mark 14:36; Rom. 8:15); this true voice God welcomes, reaping it as the first-fruits from His children.
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Ἀλλ' ἐκ πατέρων, φατὲ, παραδεδομένον ἡμῖν ἔθος ἀνατρέπειν οὐκ εὔλογον. Καὶ τί δὴ οὐχὶ τῇ πρώτῃ τροφῇ τῷ γάλακτι χρώμεθα, ᾧ δήπουθεν συνείθισαν ἡμᾶς ἐκ γενετῆς αἱ τιτθαί; Τί δαὶ αὐξάνομεν ἢ μειοῦμεν τὴν πατρῴαν οὐσίαν, καὶ οὐχὶ τὴν ἴσην, ὡς παρειλήφαμεν, διαφυλάττομεν; Τί δαὶ οὐκέτι τοῖς κόλποις τοῖς πατρῴοις ἐναποβλύζομεν, ἢ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα, ἃ νηπιάζοντες ὑπὸ μητράσιν τε ἐκτρεφόμενοι, γέλωτα ὤφλομεν, ἐπιτελοῦμεν ἔτι· ἀλλὰ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς, καὶ εἰ μὴ παιδαγωγῶν ἐτύχομεν ἀγαθῶν, ἐπηνωρθώσαμεν; εἶτα ἐπὶ τῶν παθῶν αἱ παρεκβάσεις, καίτοι ἐπιζήμιοι καὶ ἐπισφαλεῖς οὖσαι, ὅμως γλυκεῖαί πως προσπίπτουσιν· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ βίου, οὐχὶ τὸ ἔθος καταλείποντες τὸ πονηρὸν καὶ ἐμπαθὲς καὶ ἄθεον, κἂν οἱ πατέρες χαλεπαίνωσιν, οὐκ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐκκλινοῦμεν, καὶ τὸν ὄντως ὄντα πατέρα ἐπιζητήσομεν, οἷον δηλητήριον φάρμακον τὴν συνήθειαν ἀπωσάμενοι; Τοῦτ' αὐτὸ γάρ τοι τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν ἐγχειρουμένων ἐστὶν ὑποδεῖξαι ὑμῖν, ὡς ἀπὸ μανίας καὶ τοῦ τρισαθλίου τούτου ἔθους ἐμισήθη ἡ θεοσέβεια· οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἐμισήθη ποτὲ ἢ ἀπηγορεύθη ἀγαθὸν τοσοῦτον, οὗ μεῖζον οὐδὲν ἐκ Θεοῦ δεδώρηταί πω τῇ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γενέσει, εἰ μὴ συναρπαζόμενοι τῷ ἔθει, εἶτα μέντοι ἀποβύσαντες τὰ ὦτα ἡμῖν, οἷον ἵπποι σκληραύχενες ἀφηνιάζοντες, τοὺς χαλινοὺς ἐνδακόντες, ἀποφεύγετε τοὺς λόγους, ἀποσείσασθαι μὲν τοὺς ἡνιόχους ὑμῶν τοῦ βίου ἡμᾶς ἐπιποθοῦντες, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς κρημνοὺς τῆς ἀπωλείας ὑπὸ τῆς ἀνοίας φερόμενοι, ἐναγῆ τὸν ἅγιον ὑπολαμβάνετε τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγον. Ἕπεται τοιγαροῦν ὑμῖν, κατὰ τὸν Σοφοκλέα, τὰ ἐπίχειρα τῆς ἐκλογῆς·
But, you say, it is not reasonable to overturn a custom handed down to us from our fathers. And why then do we not use our first nourishment, milk, to which forsooth our nurses accustomed us from birth? Why ever do we increase or diminish our paternal estate, and not preserve it equal, just as we received it? Why ever do we no longer spit up on our fathers' bosoms, or still perform the other things whereby, when playing the infant and being reared under our mothers, we incurred laughter, but have corrected ourselves, even if we did not happen upon good tutors? Then in the case of the passions, digressions, even though they are harmful and perilous, yet strike us as somehow sweet; and in the case of life, shall we not, leaving behind the wicked and passionate and godless custom, even if our fathers be angry, turn aside to the truth and seek after our truly existing Father, thrusting away custom like a deadly drug? For this very thing is the noblest of our undertakings: to show you that it was from madness and from this thrice-wretched custom that godliness came to be hated; for so great a good, than which nothing greater has ever yet been given by God to the race of men, would never have been hated or forbidden, had you not, carried away by custom, and then stopping up your ears against us, like stiff-necked horses bolting and biting the bits, fled from our arguments, longing on the one hand to shake off us, the charioteers of your life, and being borne along by folly towards the precipices of destruction on the other, supposed the holy Word of God to be accursed. Accordingly, as Sophocles says, the wages of your choice follow you:
Νοῦς φροῦδος, ὦτ' ἀχρεῖα, φροντίδες κεναί.
Mind gone, ears useless, thoughts vain.
Καὶ οὐκ ἴστε ὡς παντὸς μᾶλλον τοῦτο ἀληθὲς, ὅτι
And you do not know that this above all is true, that
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Marc. XIV, 36; Rom. VIII, 15.

Mark 14:36; Rom. 8:15.

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Ἀλλ' ἐκ πατέρ. Hanc rationem quam ethnici Christianis semper objiciebant, refellit etiam Justinus M. initio Cohort. ad Graecos.

But from our fathers. This argument, which the heathen always threw at Christians, Justin Martyr also refutes at the beginning of his Exhortation to the Greeks.

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Τοῖς κόλποις. Respicit verba Phoenicis ad Achillem alumnum, quae refert Homerus Iliad. I, v. 484: Πρίν γ' ὅτε δή σ', ἐπ' ἐμοῖσιν ἐγὼ γούνασσι καθίσας, Ὄψου τ' ἄσαιμι προταμὼν, καὶ οἶνον ἐπισχών, Πολλάκι μοι κατέδευσας ἐνὶ στήθεσσι χιτῶνα Οἴνου, ἀποβλύζων ἐν νηπιέῃ ἀλεγεινῇ.

In the bosoms. He has in view the words of Phoenix to his foster-son Achilles, which Homer reports, Iliad 9, line 484 [rather 488 ff.]: "until I set you on my knees and fed you your fill, cutting the meat first and holding the wine to your lips; and often you soaked the tunic on my breast, spluttering out the wine in your troublesome infancy."

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Ὤφλομεν, ἐπιτελοῦμεν ἔτι. Ὀφλῶμεν, ἐπὶ τέλους μὲν ἔτι Nov.

We have incurred, we still accomplish. Nov. has "we may incur, still at the end."

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Γλυκεῖαι π. π. Lowthius ait: «Locus mancus et corruptus. Sensus videtur esse: Siquidem officium esse ducimus, immoderatos animi affectus coercere, cur non pari ratione absurdas consuetudines ab animi perturbationibus profectas rejicimus?» Porro nos alium sensum in Latina versione expressimus.

Sweet ... Lowth says: "The passage is defective and corrupt. The sense seems to be: If we hold it our duty to restrain the immoderate passions of the mind, why do we not on the same ground reject absurd customs that arise from the disturbances of the mind?" We, however, have expressed another sense in the Latin translation.

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Ἐπιζητήσομεν. H. Ἐπιζητήσωμεν, subjunctivo modo. Sylburg. — Quam lectionem firmat Nov.

We shall seek. H. has "let us seek," in the subjunctive mood. Sylburg. — Nov. confirms this reading.

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Οὗ μεῖζον. Ad Christianam philosophiam accommodat quod de profana dixit Plato in Timaeo: Οὗ μεῖζον, inquit, ἀγαθὸν οὔτ' ἦλθεν, οὔθ' ἥξει ποτὲ τῷ θνητῷ γένει δωρηθὲν ἐκ θεῶν. Id Latine vertit Cicero, Academ. Quaest. lib. I, c. 2: Totum igitur illud philosophiae studium mihi quidem ipse sumo, et ad vitae constantiam quantum possum, et ad animi delectationem: nec ullam arbitror, ut apud Platonem est, majus aut melius a diis datum munus homini. Idem lib. XV. epist. 4, extrema, de philosophia dicit: Qua nec mihi charior ulla unquam res in vita fuit, nec hominum generi majus a diis munus ullum est datum.

Than which greater. He adapts to the Christian philosophy what Plato in the Timaeus said of the profane: "Than which," he says, "no greater good has come, nor will ever come, to the mortal race as a gift from the gods." Cicero rendered this in Latin, Academic Questions, book 1, ch. 2: "So I take up that whole study of philosophy for myself, both for steadiness of life as far as I can, and for the delight of the mind; nor do I think, as Plato has it, that any greater or better gift has been given to man by the gods." The same, book 15, letter 4, at the end, says of philosophy: "than which nothing has ever been dearer to me in life, nor has any greater gift been given by the gods to the human race."

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Οἷον ἵπποι. Iterum Platonem imitatur Phaedri pag. 1226, 1227. Eadem comparatione inferius usus est Clemens Paedag. lib. II, cap. 10.

Like horses. Again he imitates Plato's Phaedrus, pp. 1226, 1227. Clement used the same comparison further on, Paedagogus, book 2, ch. 10.

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Μέν. Μέντοι Nov.

Indeed. Nov. has "μέντοι."

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Τῆς ἐκλογῆς. Caecae nempe ac stolidae: qua mendacium veritati praetulistis. V. Sylburg.

Of the choice. That is, of the blind and stupid choice by which you preferred falsehood to truth. See Sylburg.

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Zach. III, 2.

Zech. 3:2.

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Isa. I, 3.

Isa. 1:3.

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Ὡς. Haec particula addita ex vulg. Bibl. editione. Sylburg. — Hunc locum Theodoretus explicat de Jesu, Josedec filio, et aliis, qui, cum paulo ante a captivitate rediissent, captivitatis ferebant signa, paupertatem et inopiam. Torris enim semiustulatum lignum est ex igne arreptum. Hieronymus eodem modo explicat. Similis locus est Amos IV, 11, quem reperies lib. I Paedagogi cap. 8. Collect.

As. This particle was added from the common edition of the Bible. Sylburg. — Theodoret explains this passage of Jesus [Joshua], son of Josedech, and others who, having returned a little before from the captivity, bore the marks of captivity, poverty and want. For a brand is half-burnt wood snatched from the fire. Jerome explains it in the same way. A similar passage is Amos 4:11, which you will find in the Paedagogus, book 1, ch. 8. Collect.

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Τίς. Omittit Nov.

Who. Nov. omits it.

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Προσπεφεύγασιν. Προσφεύγουσι Nov. Mox, καταφλεγήσονται pro καταφλεχθήσονται, idem.

Have fled to. Nov. has "flee to." Just after, the same has "καταφλεγήσονται" for "καταφλεχθήσονται."

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Παθών. Hemistichium ex Hesiod. Oper. et Dier. lib. I, vers. 216.

Having suffered. A half-line from Hesiod, Works and Days, book 1, line 216 [rather 218].

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Κατερρηγυίᾳ. Scribe κατερρωγυίᾳ, quod habet Nov.

Broken down. Write "κατερρωγυίᾳ," which Nov. has.

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Κύριον τὸν ὅλων. Κύριον τῶν ὅλων rectius, ut supra. Sylburg. — Quam correctionem firmat Nov.

Lord the of all. "Lord of all" is more correct, as above. Sylburg. — Nov. confirms this correction.

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Ὀδυρομένη φίλα τέκνα. Hemistichium est Homeri Iliad. B, v. 315, ubi describitur illud auspicium, seu prodigium avicularum, quas draco devoravit, . . . ἀμφεποτᾶτο ὀδυρομένη φίλα τέκνα. Collect. — Hic etiam ἀμφεποτᾶτο habet Nov.

Lamenting her dear young. A half-line of Homer, Iliad 2, line 315, where the omen, or portent, of the little birds which the serpent devoured is described: ". . . she fluttered round, lamenting her dear young." Collect. — Nov. too has "ἀμφεποτᾶτο" here.

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Καὶ ἵπποι τὸν ἀναβάτην ἀποσεισάμενοι, ἐν ἵππου συρίγματι ὑπήκουσαν τῷ δεσπότῃ. Haec vel imprudenti Herveto exciderunt, vel consulto, quod mendosa essent, suppressa sunt. Forte ita corrigi possunt, ἐν ὑποσυρίγματι, vel ἀποσυρίγματι, vel etiam, ut quibusdam placet, ἐνί που συρίγματι, equi ipsi excusso insessore, vel uno sibilo edito, domino parere solent. Jul. Pollux Περὶ ἱππασίας· Κλωγμῷ δὲ ἐξεγείρειν (ms. ἐπεγείρειν) τὸν ἵππον ἐρεῖς καὶ ῥοίζῳ· dicis etiam sibilo et stridore equum excitare. Collect.

And horses, throwing their rider, obeyed their master at a horse's whistle. These words either fell out through Hervet's oversight or were deliberately suppressed because they were corrupt. Perhaps they can be corrected thus: "at a low whistle," or "at a whistle off," or even, as some prefer, "at some single whistle": horses themselves, having thrown their rider, usually obey their master at a single whistle. Julius Pollux, On Horsemanship: "You will say 'to rouse the horse' (ms. 'to urge on') with a clucking and a whizzing sound": you say also to stir up a horse with a whistle and a hiss. Collect.

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ἄρα οἱ μὲν ἀγαθοὶ καὶ θεοσεβεῖς, ἀγαθῆς τῆς ἀμοιβῆς τεύξονται, τἀγαθὸν τετιμηκότες, οἱ δὲ ἐκ τῶν ἐναντίων πονηροὶ τῆς καταλλήλου τιμωρίας. Καὶ τῷ γε ἄρχοντι τῆς κακίας ἐπήρτηται κόλασις· ἀπειλεῖ γοῦν αὐτῷ ὁ προφήτης Ζαχαρίας· Ἐπιτιμήσαι ἐν σοὶ ὁ ἐκλεξάμενος τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ· οὐκ ἰδοὺ τοῦτο ὡς δαλὸς ἐξεσπασμένος ἐκ πυρός; Τίς οὖν ἔτι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ὄρεξις ἔγκειται θανάτου ἑκουσίου; τί δαὶ τῷ δαλῷ τῷ θανατηφόρῳ τούτῳ προσπεφεύγασιν, μεθ' οὗ καταφλεχθήσονται, ἐξὸν βιῶναι καλῶς, κατὰ τὸν Θεὸν, οὐ κατὰ τὸ ἔθος; Θεὸς μὲν γὰρ ζωὴν χαρίζεται, ἔθος δὲ πονηρὸν, μετὰ τὴν ἐνθένδε ἀπαλλαγὴν, μετάνοιαν κενὴν ἅμα τιμωρίᾳ προστρίβεται· Παθὼν δέ τε νήπιος ἔγνω, ὡς ἀπολλύει δεισιδαιμονία, καὶ σώζει θεοσέβεια. Ἰδέτω τις ὑμῶν τοὺς παρὰ τοῖς εἰδώλοις λατρεύοντας, κόμῃ ῥυπῶντας, ἐσθῆτι πιναρᾷ καὶ κατερῥηγυίᾳ καθυβρισμένους, λουτρῶν μὲν παντάπασιν ἀπειράτους, ταῖς δὲ τῶν ὀνύχων ἀκμαῖς ἐκτεθηριωμένους, πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ τῶν αἰδοίων ἀφῃρημένους, ἔργῳ δεικνύντας τῶν εἰδώλων τὰ τεμένη, τάφους τινὰς ἢ δεσμωτήρια. Οὗτοί μοι δοκοῦσι πενθεῖν, οὐ θρησκεύειν τοὺς θεούς· ἐλέου μᾶλλον ἢ θεοσεβείας ἄξια πεπονθότες. Καὶ ταῦτα ὁρῶντες, ἔτι τυφλώττετε, καὶ οὐχὶ πρὸς τὸν Δεσπότην τῶν πάντων καὶ Κύριον τὸν ὅλων ἀναβλέψετε; οὐχὶ δὲ καταφεύξεσθε ἐκ τῶν ἐνταῦθα δεσμωτηρίων, ἐκφεύγοντες ἐπὶ τὸν ἔλεον τὸν ἐξ οὐρανῶν; Ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς ἐκ πολλῆς τῆς φιλανθρωπίας ἀντέχεται τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ὥσπερ ἐκ καλιᾶς ἐκπίπτοντος νεοττοῦ ἡ μήτηρ ὄρνις ἐφίπταται· εἰ δέ που καὶ θηρίον ἑρπυστικὸν περιχάνοι τῷ νεοττῷ, μήτηρ δ' ἀμφιποτᾶται, ὀδυρομένη φίλα τέκνα· ὁ δὲ Θεὸς πατὴρ καὶ ζητεῖ τὸ πλάσμα, καὶ ἰᾶται τὸ παράπτωμα, καὶ διώκει τὸ θηρίον, καὶ τὸν νεοττὸν αὖθις ἀναλαμβάνει, ἐπὶ τὴν καλιὰν ἀναπτῆναι παρορμῶν. Εἶτα κύνες μὲν, ἤδη πεπλανημένοι, ὀδμαῖς ῥινηλατοῦντες, ἐξίχνευσαν τὸν δεσπότην· καὶ ἵπποι τὸν ἀναβάτην ἀποσεισάμενοι, ἐν ἵππου συρίγματι ὑπήκουσαν τῷ δεσπότῃ· Ἔγνω δὲ, φησὶ, βοῦς τὸν κτησάμενον, καὶ ὄνος τὴν φάτνην τοῦ κυρίου αὐτοῦ· Ἰσραὴλ δέ με οὐκ ἔγνω. Τί οὖν ὁ Κύριος; Οὐ μνησικακεῖ, ἔτι ἐλεεῖ, ἔτι τὴν μετάνοιαν ἀπαιτεῖ. Ἐρέεσθαι δὲ ὑμᾶς βούλομαι, εἰ οὐκ ἄτοπον ὑμῖν δοκεῖ, πλάσμα ὑμᾶς τοὺς ἀνθρώ-
therefore the good and godly, having honoured the good, will obtain a good reward, whereas on the contrary the wicked will obtain the corresponding punishment. And over the ruler of wickedness himself punishment hangs; at any rate the prophet Zechariah threatens him: May He Who chose Jerusalem rebuke you; behold, is not this as a brand plucked from the fire? (Zech. 3:2) What desire for voluntary death, then, still lies in men? Why ever have they fled for refuge to this death-bearing brand, with which they will be burned up, when it is in their power to live nobly, according to God, not according to custom? For God bestows life, whereas wicked custom, after the departure hence, inflicts vain repentance together with punishment; and by suffering even a fool learns, that superstition destroys and godliness saves. Let any one of you look at those who minister among the idols, filthy in their hair, disgraced in squalid and tattered raiment, utterly unacquainted with baths, grown savage with the tips of their nails, and many even deprived of their privy parts, showing in deed that the precincts of the idols are tombs of a sort or prisons. These seem to me to mourn, not to worship the gods, having suffered things worthy of pity rather than of godliness. And seeing these things, are you still blind, and will you not look up towards the Master of all things and Lord of the universe? And will you not flee for refuge out of the prisons here, escaping unto the mercy from heaven? For God out of His great love for mankind cleaves to man, just as when a nestling falls out of a nest the mother bird flies to it; and if perchance some creeping beast gapes at the nestling, the mother flutters round, bewailing her dear children; and God the Father seeks His creature, and heals the fall, and chases away the beast, and takes up the nestling again, urging it to fly up to the nest. Next, dogs, having already gone astray, tracking by scents, have traced out their master; and horses, having shaken off their rider, at a horse's whistle have obeyed their master: The ox, He says, knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel has not known Me (Isa. 1:3). What then does the Lord do? He bears no malice, He still pities, He still demands repentance. And I wish to ask you whether it does not seem absurd to you that you men, who are the handiwork
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πους ἐπιγεγονότας τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ παρ' αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν εἰληφότας, καὶ ὄντας ὅλως τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἑτέρῳ δουλεύειν δεσπότῃ· πρὸς δὲ καὶ θεραπεύειν ἀντὶ μὲν τοῦ βασιλέως τὸν τύραννον, ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τὸν πονηρόν; Τίς γὰρ, ὦ πρὸς τῆς ἀληθείας, σωφρονῶν γε, τἀγαθὸν καταλείπων, κακίᾳ σύνεστιν; Τίς δαὶ, ὅστις τὸν Θεὸν ἀποφεύγων, δαιμονίοις συμβιοῖ; Τίς δαὶ, υἱὸς εἶναι δυνάμενος τοῦ Θεοῦ, δουλεύειν ἥδεται; Ἢ τίς οὐρανοῦ πολίτης εἶναι δυνάμενος, ἔρεβον διώκει, ἐξὸν παράδεισον γεωργεῖν, καὶ οὐρανὸν περιπολεῖν, καὶ τῆς ζωτικῆς καὶ ἀκηράτου μεταλαμβάνειν πηγῆς, κατ' ἴχνος ἐκείνης τῆς φωτεινῆς ἀεροβατοῦντα νεφέλης, ὥσπερ ὁ Ἠλίας, θεωροῦντα τὸν ὑετὸν σωτήριον; Οἱ δὲ, σκωλήκων δίκην, περὶ τέλματα καὶ βορβόρους, τὰ ἡδονῆς ῥεύματα, καλινδούμενοι, ἀνονήτους καὶ ἀνοήτους ἐκβόσκονται τρυφὰς, ὑώδεις τινὲς ἄνθρωποι. Ὕες γὰρ, φησὶν, ἥδονται βορβόρῳ μᾶλλον ἢ καθαρῷ ὕδατι· καὶ ἐπὶ φορυτῷ μαργαίνουσι, κατὰ Δημόκριτον. Μὴ δῆτα οὖν, μὴ δῆτα ἐξανδραποδισθῶμεν, μηδὲ ὑώδεις γενώμεθα, ἀλλ' ὡς τέκνα φωτὸς γνήσια, ἀναθρήσωμεν καὶ ἀναβλέψωμεν εἰς τὸ φῶς, μὴ νόθους ἡμᾶς ἐξελέγξῃ ὁ Κύριος, ὥσπερ ὁ ἥλιος τοὺς ἀετούς. Μετανοήσωμεν οὖν, καὶ μεταστῶμεν ἐξ ἀμαθίας εἰς ἐπιστήμην, ἐξ ἀφροσύνης εἰς φρόνησιν, ἐξ ἀκρασίας εἰς ἐγκράτειαν, ἐξ ἀδικίας εἰς δικαιοσύνην, ἐξ ἀθεότητος εἰς Θεόν. Καλὸς ὁ κίνδυνος αὐτομολεῖν πρὸς Θεόν· πολλῶν δὲ καὶ ἄλλων ἐστὶν ἀπολαῦσαι ἀγαθῶν τοὺς δικαιοσύνης ἐραστὰς, οἳ τὴν ἀΐδιον διώκομεν σωτηρίαν, ἀτὰρ δὴ καὶ ὧν αὐτὸς αἰνίττεται ὁ Θεὸς διὰ Ἡσαΐου λαλῶν· Ἔστι κληρονομία τοῖς θεραπεύουσι Κύριον· καλή γε καὶ ἐράσμιος ἡ κληρονομία, οὐ χρυσίον, οὐκ ἄργυρος, οὐκ ἐσθὴς, ἔνθα που σὴς καὶ τὰ τῆς γῆς λῃστής που καταδύεται, περὶ τὸν χαμαίζηλον πλοῦτον ὀφθαλμιῶν· ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνος ὁ θησαυρὸς τῆς σωτηρίας, πρὸς ὃν γε ἐπείγεσθαι χρὴ, φιλολόγους γενομένους. Συναπαίρει δὲ ἡμῖν ἐνθένδε τὰ ἔργα τὰ ἀστεῖα, συνίπταται τῷ τῆς ἀληθείας πτερῷ. Ταύτην ἡμῖν τὴν κληρονομίαν ἐγχειρίζει ἡ ἀΐδιος διαθήκη τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὴν ἀΐδιον δωρεὰν χορηγοῦσα· ὁ δὲ φιλόστοργος
of God, and who have received your soul from Him, and belong wholly to God, should serve another master; and moreover should worship the tyrant instead of the King, and the wicked one instead of the Good? For who, in the name of truth, being of sound mind, forsaking the good, consorts with wickedness? Who ever is there that, fleeing from God, lives with demons? Who ever, being able to be a son of God, delights to be a slave? Or who, being able to be a citizen of heaven, pursues Erebus, when it is in his power to till paradise, and traverse heaven, and partake of the life-giving and undefiled spring, treading the air in the track of that bright cloud, like Elijah, beholding the saving rain? But some, after the manner of worms, wallowing about marshes and mire, the streams of pleasure, feed upon unprofitable and senseless luxuries, swinish men of a sort. For swine, says one, delight in mire more than in pure water; and they rage wildly over rubbish, according to Democritus. Let us not then, let us not be utterly enslaved, nor become swinish, but as true children of light (Eph. 5:8), let us gaze upward and look up into the light, lest the Lord convict us of being bastards, just as the sun tests the eagles. Let us repent, then, and pass over from ignorance into knowledge, from folly into prudence, from incontinence into self-control, from unrighteousness into righteousness, from godlessness into God. Noble is the hazard, to desert over to God; and there are many other good things for the lovers of righteousness to enjoy, we who pursue eternal salvation, and above all those at which God Himself hints when speaking through Isaiah: There is an inheritance for those who serve the Lord (Isa. 54:17); noble indeed and lovely is the inheritance, not gold, not silver, not raiment, whereinto perchance the moth and the robber of the things of earth creeps, casting an envious eye upon earth-bound wealth (Matt. 6:19–20); but that treasure of salvation, towards which we must press on, having become lovers of the Word. And noble deeds depart hence together with us, they fly together with us on the wing of truth. This inheritance the eternal covenant of God puts into our hands, supplying the eternal gift; and this loving
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Ephes. V, 8.

Eph. 5:8.

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Isa. LIV, 17.

Isa. 54:17.

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Matth. VI, 19, 20.

Matt. 6:19–20.

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Κατ' ἴχνος. Respicere videtur III Reg. XVIII, 44, 45: Ἰδοὺ νεφέλη μικρὰ, ὡς ἴχνος ἀνδρὸς, ἀνάγουσα ὕδωρ.... καὶ ἐγένετο ὑετὸς μέγας. Et Matth. XVII, 5: Ἰδοὺ νεφέλη φωτεινὴ ἐπεσκίασεν αὐτούς, nempe, Moysem et Eliam.

Like a footprint. He seems to have in view 3 Kings [1 Kings] 18:44–45: "Behold, a little cloud like a man's footprint, bringing up water .... and there came a great rain." And Matt. 17:5: "Behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them," namely Moses and Elijah.

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Τὸν ὑετὸν σωτήριον. Malim, articulo geminato, τὸν ὑετὸν τὸν σωτήριον, ut alibi passim, et paulo ante. Sylburg.

The saving rain. I should prefer, with the article doubled, "the rain, the saving one," as often elsewhere and a little before. Sylburg.

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Φησίν. A. φασίν plurali numero: ut alludat ad proverbium. Sylburg. — Hoc proverbiale dictum rursus laudavit Clemens Strom. I, p. 270: Εἰ δὲ μὴ πάντων ἡ γνῶσις, ὄνος λύρας, ἢ φασὶν οἱ παροιμιαζόμενοι, τοῖς πολλοῖς τὰ συγγράμματα· ὕες γοῦν βορβόρῳ ἥδονται μᾶλλον ἢ καθαρῷ ὕδατι.

He says. A. has "they say," in the plural, as alluding to a proverb. Sylburg. — Clement quoted this proverbial saying again, Stromata 1, p. 270: "But if knowledge is not for all, writings are to the many 'an ass to the lyre,' as the proverb-makers say; swine, at any rate, delight in mire more than in clean water."

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Ἐπὶ φορυτῷ. Hervetus vertit, in paleae cumulo: φορυτός licet Hesychio significet ἄχυρα, et quisquilias aridas, sumitur tamen pro colluvione quavis: ut Chrysostomus τὸν φορυτὸν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, dixit τὴν ἀκαθαρσίαν. Horatius, ... amica luto sus. Collect.

On the rubbish. Hervet translated "on a heap of chaff." Although for Hesychius "φορυτός" means chaff and dry sweepings, it is used for filth of any kind: as Chrysostom called uncleanness "the rubbish of sins." Horace: "... the sow, friend of mud." Collect.

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Ἡμᾶς. Sic legit Sylburgius, pro ὑμᾶς.

Us. So Sylburg reads, for "you."

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Καλὸς ὁ κ. Horatius lib. III, od. 25, v. 18: . . . Dulce periculum est, O Lenaee, sequi deum.

Fair is the risk. Horace, book 3, ode 25, line 18: ". . . Sweet is the danger, O Lenaeus, to follow the god."

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Συναπαίρει. Et hoc Platoni suo debet Clemens. Sane Platonici amorem illum bonum et pudicum, qui a coelo, ut volebat Socrates, non ab ulla libidine in animum philosophi illabitur, ἀστεῖον dicunt. Alcinous, plane ut hic Clemens, τὸ φαῦλον καὶ τὸ ἀστεῖον opposuit: Ἔστι δὲ ἐρωτική, ἡ μὲν ἀστεία, ἡ τῆς σπουδαίας ψυχῆς, ἡ δὲ φαύλη, ἡ τῆς κακῆς. Ita, ἀστεῖα ἔργα dicit noster, τὰ ἀγαθά. Et Theodorus, ἐν ταῖς Ἐκλογαῖς, τὴν ἀστείαν ἀρετὴν dixit: Νοείτω μέγα, καὶ ἀπερινόητον, καὶ κάλλιστον φῶς, ἀπρόσιτον, πᾶσαν δύναμιν ἀγαθήν, πᾶσαν ἀστείαν ἀρετὴν συγκεκληρωμένον. Heinsius.

Carries away with. This too Clement owes to his Plato. Indeed the Platonists call that good and chaste love, which, as Socrates held, glides into the philosopher's soul from heaven and not from any lust, "ἀστεῖον" (refined). Alcinous, just as Clement here, set the base against the refined: "There is an erotic [art]: the refined, that of the earnest soul; and the base, that of the bad one." So our author calls good works "refined works." And Theodorus, in the Eclogae, spoke of "refined virtue": "Let him conceive a great, incomprehensible and most beautiful light, unapproachable, having as its lot every good power, every refined virtue." Heinsius.

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Συνίπταται. Καὶ συνίπταται. Nov. recte.

Flies with. Nov. has "and flies with," rightly.

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Χορηγοῦσα. Χορηγοῦσαν. Nov.

Supplying. Nov. has "χορηγοῦσαν."

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Isa. LV, 1.

Isa. 55:1.

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II Cor. II, 17.

2 Cor. 2:17.

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Joan. XVII, 12; II Thess. II, 3.

John 17:12; 2 Thess. 2:3.

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Matth. VI, 24; Luc. XVI, 13.

Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:13.

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Joan. V, 17.

John 5:17.

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Levit. XXV, 23.

Lev. 25:23.

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I Cor. II, 9.

1 Cor. 2:9.

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Δίκαιοι γένεσθε. Ἔσεσθέ μοι δίκαιοι Bibl. Graec. Mox, βαδίσαντες ἀγοράσατε pro βαδίσατε καὶ ἀγ. Dein φάγετε pro πίετε. Ibid.

Become righteous. The Greek Bible has "you shall be righteous to me." Just after, "having gone, buy" for "go and buy." Then "eat" for "drink." Ibid.

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Φωτισμόν. Hac voce Patres baptismum, et gratiam baptizatis collatam ubique denotant, secuti Hebr. VI, 4: Ἀδύνατον γὰρ τοὺς ἅπαξ φωτισθέντας, γευσαμένους τε τῆς δωρεᾶς τῆς ἐπουρανίου, καὶ μετόχους γενηθέντας Πνεύματος ἁγίου, etc. Clemens, Paedag. lib. I, cap. 6, p. 92, 93: Τελειοῦται δὲ τῷ λουτρῷ μόνῳ, καὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος τῇ καθόδῳ ἁγιάζεται. — Βαπτιζόμενοι, υἱοποιούμεθα· υἱοποιούμενοι, τελειούμεθα.

Enlightenment. By this word the Fathers everywhere denote baptism and the grace conferred on the baptized, following Heb. 6:4: "For it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit," etc. Clement, Paedagogus, book 1, ch. 6, pp. 92, 93: "He is perfected by the washing alone, and is sanctified by the descent of the Spirit. — Being baptized, we are made sons; being made sons, we are perfected."

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Νηκτά. Νοητά. Nov. mendose.

Swimming things. Nov. has "intelligible things," wrongly.

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Τρυφαῖς. Hervetus et A. malunt τροφαῖς, alimentis. Sylb. — Sed Clemens τρυφαῖς dixit, ut copiam et affluentiam rerum innueret.

Delights. Hervet and A. prefer "τροφαῖς," nourishment. Sylburg. — But Clement said "delights" to suggest plenty and abundance of things.

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Παραταθήσεται. Sic Flor., Sylb.; παρασταθήσεται, Heinsiana, et reliquae post eam editt. Vera lectio videtur fuisse, οὐ πραθήσεται, quam exhibet Nov. Clemens enim respicit Levit. XXV, 23: Ἡ γῆ οὐ πραθήσεται εἰς βεβαίωσιν.

Will be extended. So the Florentine and Sylburg; Heinsius's edition and the others after it have "παρασταθήσεται." The true reading seems to have been "will not be sold," which Nov. gives. For Clement has in view Lev. 25:23: "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity."

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Κυροῦται. Aptius χηροῦται viliatur, laeditur, a κὴρ noxa. Ut apud Hesychium quoque, κεκηρωμένη, κεκακωμένη. Sylburg. — Sed nulla mutatione opus est.

Is confirmed. More fittingly "χηροῦται," is cheapened, is harmed, from "κήρ," harm. As also in Hesychius: "κεκηρωμένη," harmed. Sylburg. — But no change is needed.

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Ἔστι δὲ σή. A. ἔστι δὲ καὶ σή, est vero, et tua. Sylb. — Quam lectionem firmat Nov. Paulo ante, πᾶσα omittunt Bibl. Graec.

But it is yours. A. has "but it is also yours," it is indeed also yours. Sylburg. — Nov. confirms this reading. A little before, the Greek Bible omits "all."

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Οἱ δὲ ἅγ. Similia quaedam occurrunt Prov. III, 35, Isa. LXV, 9. Verba haec, ut etiam ea, quae paulo post occurrunt, χαρήσονται ἐπί, etc., hactenus frustra quaesivi. Conf. Apoc. XI, 15.

But the saints. Some similar words occur at Prov. 3:35 and Isa. 65:9. These words, and also those which occur a little later, "they will rejoice in," etc., I have so far sought in vain. Compare Rev. 11:15.

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Ἰδοὺ τέθ. Haec Moysis et Isaiae dicta eodem, quo Clemens, sensu ante illum exhibuit Justin. M. Apol. I, c. 56, p. 84, 85. Porro δέδωκα pro τέθεικα habent Bibl. Gr. Neutrum agnoscit Justin.

Behold, I have set. Justin Martyr, before Clement, presented these sayings of Moses and Isaiah in the same sense as Clement, Apology 1, ch. 56, pp. 84, 85. Further, the Greek Bible has "I have given" for "I have set." Justin acknowledges neither.

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Ὡς πατήρ. Justinus loco superius dicto, Διὰ Ἡσαΐου, τοῦ ἑτέρου προφήτου, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ Πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων καὶ δεσπότου Θεοῦ· per Isaiam, prophetam alium, velut a Patre rerum omnium et dominatore Deo.

As a father. Justin, at the place cited above: "through Isaiah, the other prophet, as from the Father of all and Master, God": through Isaiah, another prophet, as from God the Father and ruler of all things.

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Πείθεσθαι τῷ Θ. Πείθεσθε τῷ Θεῷ, Nov., (continues)

To obey God. Nov. has "obey God" (imperative), (continues)

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οὗτος ἡμῶν πατὴρ, ὁ ὄντως πατὴρ, οὐ παύεται προτρέπων, νουθετῶν, παιδεύων, φιλῶν. Οὐδὲ γὰρ σώζων παύεται· συμβουλεύει δὲ τὰ ἄριστα· Δίκαιοι γένεσθε, λέγει Κύριος. Οἱ διψῶντες, πορεύεσθε ἐφ' ὕδωρ· καὶ ὅσοι μὴ ἔχετε ἀργύριον, βαδίσατε, καὶ ἀγοράσατε, καὶ πίετε, ἄνευ ἀργυρίου. Ἐπὶ τὸ λουτρὸν, ἐπὶ τὴν σωτηρίαν, ἐπὶ τὸν φωτισμὸν παρακαλεῖ, μονονουχὶ βοῶν καὶ λέγων· Γῆν σοι δίδωμι καὶ θάλασσαν, παιδίον, οὐρανόν τε· καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς πάντα ζῶά σοι χαρίζομαι. Μόνον, ὦ παιδίον, δίψησον τοῦ Πατρός· ἀμισθεί σοι δειχθήσεται ὁ Θεός· οὐ καπηλεύεται ἡ ἀλήθεια. Δίδωσί σοι καὶ τὰ πτηνὰ, καὶ τὰ νηκτὰ, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. Ταῦτά σου ταῖς εὐχαρίστοις τρυφαῖς δεδημιούργηκεν ὁ Πατήρ· ἅπερ ἀργυρίῳ μὲν ὠνήσεται ὁ νόθος, ὃς ἀπωλείας ἐστὶ παιδίον, ὃς μαμωνᾷ δουλεύειν προῄρηται· σοὶ δὲ τὰ σὰ ἐπιτρέπει, τῷ γνησίῳ λέγει, τῷ φιλοῦντι τὸν Πατέρα, δι' ὃν ἔτι ἐργάζεται, ᾧ μόνῳ καὶ ὑπισχνεῖται, λέγων· Καὶ ἡ γῆ παραταθήσεται εἰς βεβαίωσιν· οὐ γὰρ κυροῦται τῇ φθορᾷ· Ἐμὴ γάρ ἐστι πᾶσα ἡ γῆ· ἔστι δὲ σὴ, ἐὰν ἀπολάβῃς τὸν Θεόν. Ὅθεν ἡ Γραφὴ εἰκότως εὐαγγελίζεται τοῖς πεπιστευκόσιν· Οἱ δὲ ἅγιοι Κυρίου κληρονομήσουσι τὴν δόξαν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ. Ποίαν, ὦ μακάριε, δόξαν, εἰπέ μοι; ἣν ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδεν, οὐδὲ οὖς ἤκουσεν, οὐδὲ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου ἀνέβη· καὶ χαρήσονται ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου αὐτῶν εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν. Ἔχετε, ὦ ἄνθρωποι, τὴν θείαν τῆς χάριτος ἐπαγγελίαν· ἀκηκόατε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην τῆς κολάσεως ἀπειλήν· δι' ὧν ὁ Κύριος σώζει, φόβῳ καὶ χάριτι παιδαγωγῶν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Τί μέλλομεν; τί οὐκ ἐκκλίνομεν τὴν κόλασιν; τί οὐ καταδεχόμεθα τὴν δωρεάν; τί δαὶ οὐχ αἱρούμεθα τὰ βελτίονα, Θεὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ πονηροῦ, καὶ σοφίαν εἰδωλολατρίας προκρίνομεν, καὶ ζωὴν ἀντικαταλλασσόμεθα θανάτῳ; Ἰδοὺ τέθεικα πρὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν, φησὶ, τὸν θάνατον καὶ τὴν ζωήν. Πειράζει σε ὁ Κύριος, ἐκλέξασθαι τὴν ζωήν. Συμβουλεύει σοι ὡς πατὴρ, πείθεσθαι τῷ Θεῷ. Ἐὰν γὰρ ἀκούσητέ μου,
Father of ours, the true Father, does not cease exhorting, admonishing, training, loving. For neither does He cease saving; and He counsels what is best: Become righteous, says the Lord. You who thirst, go to the water; and as many of you as have no money, go, and buy, and drink, without money (Isa. 55:1). To the laver, to salvation, to illumination He calls, all but crying aloud and saying: Earth I give to you and sea, My child, and heaven too; and all the living creatures in them I freely bestow upon you. Only, O child, thirst for the Father; without price God shall be shown to you; truth is not peddled (2 Cor. 2:17). He gives you also the winged creatures, and those that swim, and those upon the earth. These the Father has created for your thankful enjoyments; things which the bastard, who is a child of perdition (John 17:12; 2 Thess. 2:3), who has chosen to serve mammon (Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:13), will buy with money; whereas to you He commits what is yours, He speaks to the true-born son, who loves the Father, for whose sake He still works (John 5:17), and to whom alone He promises, saying: And the land shall be extended unto confirmation; for it is not ratified unto corruption: For all the earth is Mine (Lev. 25:23); and it is yours, if you receive God. Whence the Scripture fittingly proclaims the good news to those who have believed: And the saints of the Lord shall inherit the glory of God and His power. What sort of glory, O blessed one, tell me? That which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it gone up into the heart of man (1 Cor. 2:9); and they shall rejoice in the kingdom of their Lord for ever. Amen. You have, O men, the divine promise of grace; you have heard also the other threat of punishment; through which the Lord saves, educating man by fear and grace. Why do we delay? Why do we not shun the punishment? Why do we not welcome the gift? Why ever do we not choose the better things, God instead of the wicked one, and prefer wisdom to idolatry, and take life in exchange for death? Behold, I have set before your face, He says, death and life. The Lord tries you, that you may choose life (Deut. 30:15, 19). He counsels you as a father, to obey God. For if you hearken to Me,
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φησὶ, καὶ θελήσητε, τὰ ἀγαθὰ τῆς γῆς φάγεσθε· ὑπακοῆς ἡ χάρις. Ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ὑπακούσητέ μου, μηδὲ θελήσητε, μάχαιρα ὑμᾶς καὶ πῦρ κατέδεται· παρακοῆς ἡ κρίσις. Τὸ γὰρ στόμα Κυρίου ἐλάλησεν ταῦτα· νόμος ἀληθείας, Λόγος Κυρίου. Βούλεσθε ὑμῖν ἀγαθὸς γένωμαι σύμβουλος; Ἀλλ' ὑμεῖς μὲν, ἀκούσατε· ἐγὼ, εἰ δυνατὸν, ἐνδείξομαι· ἐχρῆν μὲν ὑμᾶς, ὦ ἄνθρωποι, αὐτοῦ πέρι ἐννοουμένους τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ, ἔμφυτον ἐπάγεσθαι μάρτυρα ἀξιόχρεων, πίστιν αὐτόθεν οἴκοθεν περιφανῶς αἱρουμένην τὸ βέλτιστον, μηδὲ ζητεῖν εἰ μεταδιωκτέον ἐκπονεῖν. Καὶ γὰρ εἴ τῳ μεθυστέον, φέρε εἰπεῖν, ἀμφιβάλλειν χρή· ὑμεῖς δὲ, πρὶν ἢ ἐπισκέψασθε, μεθύετε· καὶ εἰ ὑβριστέον, οὐ πολυπραγμονεῖτε, ἀλλ' ἢ τάχος ὑβρίζετε. Μόνον δ' ἄρα, εἰ θεοσεβητέον, ζητεῖτε, καὶ εἰ τῷ σοφῷ τούτῳ δὴ τῷ Θεῷ καὶ τῷ Χριστῷ κατακολουθητέον· τοῦτο δὲ, βουλῆς καὶ σκέψεως ἀξιοῦτε, οὐδ' ὃ πρέπει Θεῷ, ὅ τί ποτέ ἐστι, νενοηκότες. Πιστεύσατε ἡμῖν κἂν ὡς μέθῃ, ἵνα σωφρονήσητε· πιστεύσατε κἂν ὡς ὕβρει, ἵνα ζήσητε. Εἰ δὲ καὶ πείθεσθαι βούλεσθε, τὴν ἐναργῆ τῶν ἀρετῶν ὑποπτεύσαντες πίστιν, φέρε ὑμῖν ἐκ περιουσίας τὴν περὶ τοῦ Λόγου παραθήσομαι πειθώ. Ὑμεῖς δὲ (καὶ γὰρ τὰ πάτρια ὑμᾶς ἔτι τῆς ἀληθείας ἀπασχολεῖ ἔθη προκατεσχημένους)· ἀκούοιτ' ἂν ἤδη, τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο ὅπως ἔχει· καὶ δὴ μή τις ὑμᾶς τοῦδε τοῦ ὀνόματος αἰσχύνη προκαταλαμβανέτω, ἥ τ' ἀνδράσι μέγα σίνεται, παρατρέπουσα σωτηρίας. Ἀποδυσάμενοι δ' οὖν περιφανῶς ἐν τῷ τῆς ἀληθείας σταδίῳ γνησίως ἀγωνιζώμεθα, βραβεύοντος μὲν τοῦ Λόγου τοῦ ἁγίου, ἀγωνοθετοῦντος δὲ τοῦ Δεσπότου τῶν ὅλων. Οὐ γὰρ σμικρὸν ὑμῖν τὸ ἆθλον ἀθανασία πρόκειται. Μὴ οὖν ἔτι φροντίζετε, μηδὲ εἰ ὀλίγον τι ὑμᾶς ἀγορεύουσι σύρφακές τινες ἀγοραῖοι, δεισιδαιμονίας ἄθεοι χορευταὶ, ἀνοίᾳ καὶ παρανοίᾳ ἐπ' αὐτὸ ὠθούμενοι τὸ βάραθρον, εἰδώλων ποιηταὶ, καὶ λίθων προσκυνηταί. Οἵδε γὰρ ἀνθρώπους ἀποθεοῦν τετολμήκασι, τρισκαιδέκατον Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Μακεδόνα ἀναγράφοντες
He says, and be willing, you shall eat the good things of the land (Isa. 1:19); the grace belongs to obedience. But if you do not hearken to Me, nor are willing, sword and fire shall devour you (Isa. 1:20; 33:11); the judgement belongs to disobedience. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things (Isa. 1:20); the law of truth, the Word of the Lord. Do you wish me to become a good counsellor to you? Well then, do you listen; I, if possible, will show you: you ought indeed, O men, when reflecting about the good itself, to bring forward an innate, trustworthy witness, faith, which of itself and from within manifestly chooses what is best, and not to toil at inquiring whether it is to be pursued. For even whether one ought to get drunk, so to speak, one ought to doubt; yet you, before you have considered, get drunk; and whether one ought to commit outrage, you do not busy yourselves to inquire, but as quickly as may be you commit outrage. Only then whether one ought to reverence God do you inquire, and whether one ought to follow this wise God indeed and Christ; and this you deem worthy of counsel and consideration, without having even understood what is fitting for God, whatever it is. Believe us even as you do drunkenness, that you may become sober; believe even as you do outrage, that you may live. Or if you also wish to be persuaded, having looked with suspicion upon the clear faith of the virtues, come, out of abundance I will set before you the persuasion concerning the Word. And do you (for ancestral customs still keep you, preoccupied as you are, away from the truth) hear now how what follows stands; and let no shame at this name preoccupation seize you beforehand, which greatly harms men, turning them aside from salvation. Having stripped, therefore, openly in the stadium of truth let us contend nobly, while the holy Word presides as judge, and the Master of the universe orders the contest. For no small prize is set before you, immortality. Do not therefore take thought any longer, not even if some market-place rabble speak slightly of you, godless dancers of superstition, pushed by folly and madness to the very pit, makers of idols, and worshippers of stones. For these have dared to deify men, enrolling Alexander the Macedonian as the thirteenth
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hanc sententiam ad ea, quae sequuntur, trahens. Mox, Ἐὰν θέλητε, καὶ εἰσακούσητέ μου, et paulo post ἐὰν δὲ μὴ θέλητε καὶ μὴ εἰσακούσητε. Bibl. Gr.

drawing this sentence to what follows. Next, "If you are willing and will hearken to me", and a little after, "but if you are not willing and do not hearken". Greek Bible.

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Μάχαιρα ὑμᾶς καὶ πῦρ κατ. Haec verba καὶ πῦρ, quae Isaiae textus hoc loco non agnoscit, interpretamentum esse vocis μάχαιρα, facile concedet, qui Justini verba legerit, loco superius dicto: Τὸ δὲ προειρημένον, μάχαιρα ὑμᾶς κατέδεται, οὐ λέγει διὰ μαχαιρῶν φονευθήσεσθαι τοὺς παρακούσαντας, ἀλλ' ἡ μάχαιρα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι τὸ πῦρ, οὗ βορὰ γίνονται οἱ τὰ φαῦλα πράττειν αἱρούμενοι· διὰ τοῦτο λέγει, μάχαιρα ὑμᾶς κατέδεται· τὸ γὰρ στόμα Κυρίου ἐλάλησεν. Εἰ δὲ καὶ περὶ τεμνούσης καὶ αὐτίκα ἀπαλλασσούσης μαχαίρας ἔλεγεν, οὐκ ἂν εἶπε, κατέδεται. Quod autem superius dictum est, « Gladius depascet vos, » non innuit immorigeros gladiis caesum iri: verum gladius Dei est ignis, cui pabulum fiunt, qui mala facere eligunt: propterea, « Gladius, inquit, depascet vos: os enim Domini locutum est. » Quod si de gladio dixisset, qui dissecat et confestim dimittit, verbo « depascet » usus non fuisset. Huic vero interpretationi ansam praebuit alius Isaiae locus, quo dicitur πῦρ κατέδεται ὑμᾶς, Isa. xxxiii, 11.

"A sword … you, and fire …". That these words "and fire", which Isaiah's text does not recognize at this place, are a gloss on the word "sword" will readily be granted by anyone who has read the words of Justin in the passage cited above: "What was said before, 'a sword shall devour you', does not say that those who disobey will be slain by swords; but the sword of God is the fire, whose food those become who choose to do evil; therefore he says, 'a sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.' And if he had been speaking of a sword that cuts and at once dispatches, he would not have said 'shall devour'." [Justin's Greek, followed by the Latin version of it, which says the same.] This interpretation was occasioned by another passage of Isaiah, where it is said "fire shall devour you", Isa. 33:11.

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Ἐγώ. Ἐγὼ δὲ scribendum ex Nov.

"I". "But I" should be written, from Nov.

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Μηδὲ ζητεῖν εἰ μεταδιωκτέον ἐκπονεῖν. A. ζητεῖν ἢ ἐκπονεῖν εἰ μεταδιωκτέον. SYLBURG.

"Nor to seek whether one should pursue to toil." Perhaps "to seek or toil over whether it should be pursued." Sylburg.

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Ἀλλ' ἢ τάχος. Rectius ἀλλ' ἦ τάχος, ut infra. ID.

"But … quickly". More correctly ἀλλ' ἦ τάχος, as below. The same (Sylburg).

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Εἰ δὲ καὶ π. β. Malim, εἰ δὲ καὶ μὴ πείθεσθαι βούλεσθε· quod si nolitis mihi obtemperare, eo quod manifestam virtutum fidem suspectam habeatis, age vobis ex abundanti, etc. Nam ὑποπτεύειν non est suspicere, admirari, quo sensu id accepit Hervetus, sed suspicari et dubitare. Nisi potius scribendum sit ἐποπτεύσαντες.

"And if you wish to obey …". I would prefer "and if you do not wish to obey": "but if you will not obey me, because you hold suspect the manifest proof of the virtues, come, [I will bring] you in abundance", etc. For ὑποπτεύειν does not mean to look up to or admire, the sense in which Hervet took it, but to suspect and doubt. Unless ἐποπτεύσαντες should rather be written.

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Καὶ γάρ. Οὐ γὰρ Nov.

"For indeed". "For not" Nov.

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Ἦ τ' ἀνδράσι μέγα σίνεται. Hesiodi est carmen in Oper. 316: Αἰδὼς ἥ τ' ἄνδρας μέγα σίνεται, οὐδ' ὀνίνησιν. Et Homeri Iliad. Ω, v. 45. Ex quibus locis hic corrigendus. Reperitur et apud Stobaeum tit. De verecundia 31. Non ergo fortes solum, sed quosvis indicat poeta, et vitiosam verecundiam intelligit. COLLECT. — Perperam igitur quidam γίνεται pro σίνεται substituerunt.

"Which greatly harms men". It is a verse of Hesiod, Works 316: "Shame, which greatly harms men and does not profit them." And of Homer, Iliad 24, line 45. By these passages the text here is to be corrected. It is found also in Stobaeus, title On Modesty, 31. So the poet means not only brave men but anyone at all, and he understands a faulty sense of shame. Collect. — Wrongly, then, have some substituted γίνεται for σίνεται.

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(40) ‹anchor: ὑμῖν› · call in col 209

Ὑμῖν. Ἡμῖν Nov. recte.

"To you". "To us" Nov., rightly.

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Ὀλίγον τι. Potest etiam legi ἄλογόν τι. H. V. SYLBURG.

"Something small". It can also be read "something irrational". H. V. Sylburg.

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Τρισκαιδέκατον. Alexandro sc. addito, duodecim majorum deorum numerum augeri volebant.

"Thirteenth". That is, by adding Alexander they wished to increase the number of the twelve greater gods.

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes; the first numeral is cut off and read as 3 from the sequence) ³ Deuter. xxx, 15, 19. ⁴ Isa. i, 19. ⁵ Ibid. 20. ⁶ Isa. i, 20; xxxiii, 11.

3 Deut. 30:15, 19. 4 Isa. 1:19. 5 Ibid. 20. 6 Isa. 1:20; 33:11.

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θεὸν, ὃν Βαβυλὼν ἤλεγξε νεκρόν. Ἄγαμαι τοίνυν τὸν θεῖον σοφιστήν· Θεόκριτος ὄνομα αὐτῷ· μετὰ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου τελευτὴν ἐπισκώπτων ὁ Θεόκριτος τὰς δόξας τὰς κενὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἃς εἶχον περὶ θεῶν, πρὸς τοὺς πολίτας, Ἄνδρες, εἶπεν, θαῤῥεῖτε ἄχρις ἂν ὁρᾶτε τοὺς θεοὺς πρότερον τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀποθνήσκοντας. Θεοὺς δὲ δὴ τοὺς ὁρατοὺς καὶ τὸν σύγκλυδα τῶν γενητῶν τούτων ὄχλον ὁ προσκυνῶν καὶ προσεταιριζόμενος, αὐτῶν ἐκείνων τῶν δαιμόνων ἀθλιώτερος μακρῷ. Θεὸς γὰρ οὐδαμῆ οὐδαμῶς ἄδικος, ὥσπερ οἱ δαίμονες· ἀλλ', ὡς οἷόν τε, δικαιότατος, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ ὁμοιότερον οὐδὲν, ἢ ὅτ' ἂν ἡμῶν γένηται ὅτι δικαιότατος. Βᾶτε εἰς ὁδὸν δὴ, πᾶς ὁ χειρώναξ λεὼς, οἳ τὴν Διὸς γοργῶπιν Ἐργάτιν θεὸν στατοῖσι λίκνοις προτρέπεσθε, ἠλίθιοι, τῶν λίθων δημιουργοί τε καὶ προσκυνηταί. Φειδίας ὑμῶν καὶ ὁ Πολύκλειτος ἡκόντων, Πραξιτέλης τε αὖ καὶ Ἀπελλῆς, καὶ ὅσοι τὰς βαναύσους μετέρχονται τέχνας, γήϊνοι γῆς ὄντες ἐργάται. Τότε γὰρ, φησί τις προφητεία, δυστυχήσει τὰ τῆδε πράγματα, ὅτ' ἂν ἀνδριάσι πιστεύσωσιν. Ἡκόντων οὖν αὖθις (οὐ καὶ ἀνήσω καλῶν) οἱ μικροτέχναι. Οὐδείς που τούτων ἔμπνουν εἰκόνα δεδημιούργηκεν, οὐδὲ μὴν ἐκ γῆς μαλθακὴν ἐμάλαξε σάρκα. Τίς ἔτηξε μυελόν; ἢ τίς ἔπηξεν ὀστέα; τίς νεῦρα διέτεινεν; τίς φλέβας ἐφύσησεν; τίς αἷμα ἐνέχεεν ἐν αὐταῖς; ἢ τίς δέρμα περιέτεινεν; ποῦ δ' ἂν τίς αὐτῶν ὀφθαλμοὺς ποιήσαι βλέποντας; τίς ἐνεφύσησε ψυχήν; τίς δικαιοσύνην ἐδωρήσατο; τίς ἀθανασίαν ὑπέσχηται; μόνος ὁ τῶν ὅλων δημιουργὸς, ὁ ἀριστοτέχνας Πατὴρ, τοιοῦτον ἄγαλμα ἔμψυχον ἡμᾶς, τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἔπλασεν. Ὁ δὲ Ὀλύμπιος ὑμῶν, εἰκόνος εἰκὼν, πολύ τι τῆς ἀληθείας ἀπᾴδων, ἔργον ἐστὶ κωφὸν χειρῶν Ἀττικῶν. Ἡ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰκὼν ὁ Λόγος αὐτοῦ· καὶ υἱὸς τοῦ Νοῦ γνήσιος, ὁ θεῖος Λόγος, φωτὸς
god, whom Babylon proved dead. I admire therefore the divine sophist; Theocritus was his name; after the death of Alexander, mocking the vain opinions of men which they held concerning gods, Theocritus said to his fellow-citizens: Men, take heart so long as you see the gods dying before men. And indeed he who worships and associates himself with the visible gods and the promiscuous crowd of these created beings is far more wretched than those very demons. For God is in no way and in no wise unjust, as the demons are; but, as far as can be, most righteous, and there is nothing more like Him than whosoever of us becomes as righteous as possible. Come onto the road then, all the artisan folk, who worship Zeus's fierce-eyed Worker goddess with upright winnowing-fans, fools, fashioners and worshippers of stones. Let your Phidias and Polyclitus come, and Praxiteles too and Apelles, and as many as pursue the vulgar crafts, earthy workers of earth. For then, says a certain prophecy, affairs here will come to grief, when men put their trust in statues. Let the petty artisans come then again (for I will not cease calling them). Not one of these, I ween, has fashioned a breathing image, nor yet out of earth softened soft flesh. Who melted marrow? Or who solidified bones? Who stretched sinews? Who inflated veins? Who poured blood into them? Or who stretched skin around? And how could any of them make eyes that see? Who breathed in a soul? Who bestowed righteousness? Who has promised immortality? Alone the Creator of the universe, the Master-artificer Father, moulded us, man, as such a living statue. Whereas your Olympian, an image of an image, singing very far out of tune with the truth, is a dumb work of Attic hands. For the image of God is His Word; and the true-born Son of Mind, the divine Word, light's
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(43) ‹anchor: Θεόκριτος (from the lemma)› · call in col 212 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Θεόκριτος. De Theocrito, Chio oratore, Metrodori discipulo, conf. Suidas, Vossius, De histor. graec., lib. iii, Jonsius, De Scriptor. hist. philos., lib. i, c. 9. Memoratur illius aliud de Alexandro dictum apud Athenaeum lib. i, c. 9.

"Theocritus". On Theocritus, the orator of Chios, disciple of Metrodorus, compare Suidas; Vossius, On the Greek Historians, book 3; Jonsius, On the Writers of the History of Philosophy, book 1, ch. 9. Another saying of his about Alexander is recorded in Athenaeus, book 1, ch. 9.

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Γενητῶν. A. γεννητῶν, genitorum. SYLBURG. — Τούτων omittit Nov.

"Of things made". Perhaps γεννητῶν, "of things begotten". Sylburg. — Nov. omits "of these".

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Οἷόν τε. Οἴονται Nov.

"It is possible". "They think" Nov.

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Βᾶτε. Primum memento esse versiculos, qui ab auctore adducuntur; deinde, scribendum esse, Βᾶτ' ἐξ ὁδῶν δὲ πᾶς ὁ χειρώναξ λεώς, Οἱ τὴν Διὸς γοργῶπιν Ἐργάτιν θεὸν, Στατοῖσι λίκνοις προτρέπεσθ' ἠλίθιοι. HEINSIUS. — Gatakerus Advers. c. 9, hoc modo versus hos scribit: Βᾶτ' εἰς ὁδὸν δὲ πᾶς ὁ χειρώναξ λεὼς, Οἱ τὴν Διὸς γοργῶπιν Ἐργάτην στατοῖς Λίκνοισι προστρέπεσθε...... Porro Ἐργάτην pro Ἐργάτιν habet Nov. Verisimile est Clementem scripsisse Ἐργάτην, quo nomine Minerva vocari solet.

"Go". First, remember that these are verses which the author quotes; next, that one should write: "Go forth from the streets, all you craftsman folk, who with winnowing-fans set up supplicate the grim-eyed Worker-goddess, daughter of Zeus, you fools." Heinsius. — Gataker, Adversaria ch. 9, writes these verses thus: "Go to the street, all you craftsman folk, who supplicate the grim-eyed Worker, daughter of Zeus, with fans set up……" Further, Nov. has Ἐργάτην for Ἐργάτιν. It is likely that Clement wrote Ἐργάτην, the name by which Minerva is usually called.

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Λίκνοις προτρέπεσθε. Vannum in Rustico carmine appellasse Virgilium, notum omnibus est; qui tamen, dum agricolarum instrumentum hoc esse traderet, docuit in alio etiam usu illud haberi solitum; et in rebus divinis, maxime Liberi patris, frequens esse consuevisse. Eruditissimus enim poeta, quod ipse sciebat, aliis quoque ἐν παρέργῳ notum esse voluit. Intelligit autem, ut opinor, vannum, quod λίκνον Graeci vocant, instrumentum ad cuncta paene sacrificia idoneum, ut veteres grammatici tradunt; unde qui illud gerebat in sacris, λικνοφόρος vocabatur. Plutarchus, in Alexandro: Ἐκ τοῦ κιττοῦ καὶ τῶν μυστικῶν λίκνων. P. Victorius, in Varronem. Suidas, Τὸ λίκνον πρὸς πᾶσαν τελετὴν καὶ θυσίαν ἐπιτήδειόν ἐστι. Virgilius, i Georg.: Arbuteae crates, et mystica vannus Iacchi. COLLECT.

"You supplicate with winnowing-fans". Everyone knows that Virgil named the winnowing-fan in his rustic poem; yet while presenting it as a farmer's tool, he showed that it was also commonly put to another use, and was habitually frequent in divine rites, above all those of Father Liber. For the most learned poet wished others too to know, in passing, what he himself knew. He means, I think, the fan the Greeks call λίκνον, an implement suited to almost all sacrifices, as the old grammarians report; hence one who carried it in the rites was called a λικνοφόρος. Plutarch, Alexander: "from the ivy and the mystic fans". P. Victorius, on Varro. Suidas: "The λίκνον is suited to every rite and sacrifice." Virgil, Georgics 1: "Hurdles of arbutus, and the mystic fan of Iacchus." Collect.

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Φειδίας. Ὁ Φειδίας Nov.

"Phidias". "The Phidias" Nov.

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Τὰς βαναύσους...τότε. Haec exciderunt e Nov.

"The mechanical … then". These words have fallen out of Nov.

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Οὐ καὶ ἀνήσω. Aptius opinor, οὐ γὰρ ἀνήσω, ut supra. SYLBURG. — Hanc conjecturam firmat Nov.

"Nor will I leave off". More fittingly, I think, "for I will not leave off", as above. Sylburg. — Nov. confirms this conjecture.

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Μικροτέχναι. Hos opponit τῷ ἀριστοτέχνῃ, de quo paulo post. Mox, ἔμπλουν pro ἔμπνουν, Nov. mendose.

"Petty craftsmen". He sets these against the Master Craftsman, of whom a little later. Next, ἔμπλουν for ἔμπνουν ("breathing"), Nov., wrongly.

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Ἀριστοτέχνας. A. ἀριστοτέχνης, sed Doricum ἀριστοτέχνας consulto usurpatum videtur, ut clarum sit fontis indicium. SYLBURG.

"Master Craftsman". Perhaps ἀριστοτέχνης; but the Doric ἀριστοτέχνας seems used on purpose, as a clear sign of the source. Sylburg.

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Χειρῶν Ἀττικῶν. Hoc est, Phidiae Atheniensis. Ejus enim opus fuisse Jovem Olympicum, testantur Clemens superius; Theophilus, ad Autolyc. lib. i; Pausanias, Eliac. i.

"Of Attic hands". That is, of Phidias the Athenian. For that the Olympian Jupiter was his work is attested by Clement above; Theophilus, To Autolycus, book 1; Pausanias, Elis 1.

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Ἡ. Articulum hunc omissum in edit. Flor. supplevit A. SYLBURG. — Verum genuinam lectionem exhibet Nov, εἰκὼν μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Θεοῦ.

"The". This article, omitted in the Florence edition, was supplied by Sylburg. — But Nov. gives the genuine reading: "for the image of God".

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ἀρχέτυπον φῶς· εἰκὼν δὲ τοῦ Λόγου, ὁ ἄνθρωπος. Ἀληθινὸς ὁ νοῦς ὁ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ, ὁ κατ' εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ καθ' ὁμοίωσιν διὰ τοῦτο γεγενῆσθαι λεγόμενος, τῇ κατὰ καρδίαν φρονήσει τῷ θείῳ παρεικαζόμενος Λόγῳ, καὶ ταύτῃ λογικός· ἀνθρώπου δὲ τοῦ ὁρωμένου, τοῦ γηγενοῦς, γήϊνος εἰκὼν τὰ ἀγάλματα τὰ ἀνδροείκελα, πόῤῥω τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπίκαιρον ἐκμαγεῖον καταφαίνεται. Οὐδὲν οὖν ἀλλ' ἢ μανίας ἔμπλεως ὁ βίος ἔδοξέ μοι γεγονέναι, τοσαύτῃ σπουδῇ περὶ τὴν ὕλην καταγινόμενος. Ἐπιτέτραπται δὲ ὑπὸ κενῆς δόξης ἡ συνήθεια, δουλείας μὲν γεύσασα ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἀλόγου περιεργασίας, νομίμων δὲ ἀνόμων καὶ ἀπατηλῶν ὑποκρίσεων ἄγνοια, αἰτία ἤδη κατασκευασθεῖσα τῷ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένει κηρῶν ὀλεθρίων καὶ εἰδώλων ἐπιστυγῶν, πολλὰς τῶν δαιμόνων ἐπινοήσασα μορφὰς, κηλίδα τοῖς ἑπομένοις αὐτῇ ἐναπεμάξατο θανάτου μακροῦ. Λάβετε οὖν ὕδωρ λογικὸν, λούσασθε οἱ μεμολυσμένοι, περιῤῥάνατε αὑτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς συνηθείας ταῖς ἀληθιναῖς σταγόσιν· καθαροὺς εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀναβῆναι δεῖ. Ἄνθρωπος εἶ, τὸ κοινότατον ἐπιζήτησον, τὸν δημιουργήσαντά σε· υἱὸς εἶ, τὸ ἰδιαίτατον ἀναγνώρισον, τὸν πατέρα. Σὺ δὲ ἔτι ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις παραμένεις, προστετηκὼς ἡδοναῖς; Τίνι λαλήσει Κύριος· Ὑμῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν; Ὑμῶν ἐστιν, ἐὰν θελήσητε, τῶν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν τὴν προαίρεσιν ἐσχηκότων· ὑμῶν, ἐὰν θελήσητε πιστεῦσαι μόνον, καὶ τῇ συντομίᾳ τοῦ κηρύγματος ἕπεσθαι· ᾗ ὑπακούσαντες οἱ Νινευῗται, τῆς προσδοκηθείσης ἁλώσεως μετανοίᾳ γνησίῳ τὴν καλὴν ἀντικατηλλάξαντο σωτηρίαν. Πῶς οὖν ἀνέλθω, φησὶν, εἰς οὐρανούς; Ὁδός ἐστιν ὁ Κύριος· Στενὴ μὲν, ἀλλ' ἐξ οὐρανῶν· στενὴ μὲν, ἀλλ' εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀναπέμπουσα· στενὴ, ἐπὶ γῆς ὑπερορωμένη· πλατεῖα, ἐν οὐρανοῖς προσκυνουμένη. Εἶθ' ὁ μὲν ἄπυστος τοῦ Λόγου, συγγνώμην τῆς πλάνης ἔχει τὴν ἄγνοιαν· ὁ δὲ εἰς ὦτα βαλλόμενος, καὶ τῇ ψυχῇ παρὰ τῆς γνώμης
archetypal light; and the image of the Word is man. True is the mind that is in man, which for this reason is said to have been made according to the image and according to the likeness of God (Gen. 1:26), by the prudence in the heart being likened to the divine Word, and in this way rational; whereas of the visible, earth-born man, the statues in human form are an earthy image, and manifestly appear as a transitory impression far from the truth. Life therefore has seemed to me to have become nothing else than full of madness, busied as it is with such great zeal about matter. And custom has been fostered by vain opinion, having made you taste of slavery and irrational curiosity, while ignorance of lawless customs and deceitful pretences, having already been made the cause to the race of men of destructive fates and hateful idols, having devised many forms of demons, has wiped off upon those who follow it the stain of a long death. Receive therefore rational water, wash yourselves, you who are defiled, sprinkle yourselves from custom with the true drops; it is necessary to ascend pure into the heavens. You are a man, seek after what is most common, Him Who created you; you are a son, recognize what is most your own, the Father. But do you still abide in sins, melted onto pleasures? To whom will the Lord speak: Yours is the kingdom of the heavens (Matt. 5:3, 10)? Yours it is, if you are willing, who have had your purpose towards God; yours, if you are willing only to believe, and to follow the conciseness of the preaching; by hearkening to which the Ninevites, in exchange for the expected capture, by genuine repentance received noble salvation. How then, says one, shall I ascend into the heavens? The Lord is the way (John 14:6): Narrow indeed (Matt. 7:13–14), yet from the heavens (John 3:13, 31); narrow indeed, yet sending up into the heavens; narrow, despised upon earth; broad, worshipped in the heavens. Then he who has not heard of the Word has ignorance as pardon for his error; whereas he who takes it into his ears, and in his soul against his judgement
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(55) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ὁ ἄνθρωπος· ἀληθινός› · call in col 213 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Ὁ ἄνθρωπος· ἀληθινός. Absurde haec disjunxit Hervetus interpres, ut etiam editiones Clementis omnes. Legendum, ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἀληθινὸς, ὁ νοῦς ὁ ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ· verus homo, mens scilicet, quae in homine est. LOWTHIUS. — Saepenumero Clemens dicit humanam quidem mentem τοῦ Λόγου, filii Dei, hunc vero Patris imaginem esse. Strom. v, p. 594: Εἰκὼν μὲν γὰρ Θεοῦ Λόγος θεῖος… εἰκὼν δὲ εἰκόνος ἀνθρώπινος νοῦς. Conf. p. 75, 485, 671, 708, etc. Hinc Origenes εἰκόνα Θεοῦ dicit Christum fuisse, κατ' εἰκόνα vero hominem, adv. Celsum, lib. vi, pag. 319. Idem nescio an Clementem prae oculis habuerit lib. viii, p. 389, 390, quo loco dicit, Phidiae Jovem Olympium nullius pretii videri collatum πρὸς τὸν κατασκευασθέντα κατ' εἰκόνα τοῦ κτίσαντος Θεοῦ, ad eum, qui ad imaginem creatoris Dei factus est. Dein addit, Servatorem nostrum esse perfectam Dei imaginem; homines vero, quotquot eum imitantur, esse κατ' εἰκόνα τοῦ κτίσαντος.

"The man; true". The translator Hervet separated these absurdly, as did all the editions of Clement. Read "the true man, the mind that is in man": the true man, namely the mind which is in man. Lowth. — Clement often says that the human mind is the image of the Word, the Son of God, and the Word the image of the Father. Strom. 5, p. 594: "For the divine Word is the image of God … and the human mind the image of the image." Compare pp. 75, 485, 671, 708, etc. Hence Origen says that Christ was the image of God, and man "after the image", Against Celsus, book 6, p. 319. I wonder whether he also had Clement before his eyes in book 8, pp. 389–390, where he says that Phidias's Olympian Jupiter seems of no worth compared with him who was made after the image of God the Creator. Then he adds that our Saviour is the perfect image of God, and that men, as many as imitate him, are "after the image of the Creator".

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(56) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐπίκαιρον› · call in col 213

Ἐπίκαιρον. Malim ἐπίκηρον, quod Hesychio est ἐπίμοιρον, ἐπιθανάτιον, σαθρόν. Unde paulo post κηρῶν ὀλεθρίων mentio.

"Timely". I would prefer ἐπίκηρον ("perishable"), which for Hesychius is "subject to fate, doomed to death, rotten". Hence, a little after, the mention of "deadly fates".

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(57) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐπιτέτραπται› · call in col 213

Ἐπιτέτραπται. Hervetus exp. permissa est, ac si esset haec vox ab ἐπιτρέπω deducta. Malim ἐπιτέθραπται a τρέφω, quod in versione expressimus. Quin etiam τὸ τετραμμένον apud Demosthenem a τρέφω deductum citant Lexicographi.

"Has been entrusted". Hervet renders "is permitted", as if the word came from ἐπιτρέπω. I would prefer ἐπιτέθραπται, from τρέφω ("to nourish"), which we have expressed in the translation. Indeed the lexicographers cite τετραμμένον in Demosthenes as derived from τρέφω.

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Ἤδη κατασκευασθεῖσα. Forsan legendum, ἤδη κατασκευάσασα. SYLBURG.

"Already constructed". Perhaps read "having already constructed". Sylburg.

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(59) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Κηλῖδα› · call in col 213

Κηλῖδα. Lycophron vers. 165: Πανώλεθρον κηλῖδα θωΰξας γένει. Perniciosas posteris imprecatus diras.

"Stain". Lycophron, line 165: "having cried an all-destroying stain upon his race" (Latin version: having called down deadly curses on his descendants).

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(60) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Λάβετε› · call in col 213

Λάβετε. Λαβὲ Nov. In iis, quae statim sequuntur, partim ad aquam baptismi, partim ad veteres lustrandi caeremonias alludit.

"Take" (plural). "Take" (singular) Nov. In what follows immediately he alludes partly to the water of baptism, partly to the ancient ceremonies of purification.

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(61) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἄνθρωπος εἶ› · call in col 213

Ἄνθρωπος εἶ. Haec sic distinguit Nov. Ἄνθρωπος εἶ, τὸ κοινότατον· ἐπιζήτησον τὸν δημιουργήσαντά σε· υἱὸς εἶ, τὸ ἰδιαίτατον· ἀναγνώρισον τὸν πατέρα. Homo es, si id spectemus, quod tibi cum aliis maxime commune est; eum require, a quo creatus es. Filius es, si spectemus, quod tibi maxime proprium est; patrem agnosce.

"You are a man". Nov. punctuates thus: "You are a man, the most common thing: seek out him who fashioned you. You are a son, the most particular thing: recognize the Father." You are a man, if we regard what you have most in common with others; seek him by whom you were created. You are a son, if we regard what is most properly your own; acknowledge the Father.

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(62) ‹anchor: παραμένεις (62)› · call in col 213

Παραμένεις. Sic legendum indicat tum Sylburgius, tum etiam Nov. Prius scriptum erat παραμένῃς, subjunct. modo.

"You remain". So both Sylburg and Nov. indicate it should be read. Before, it was written παραμένῃς, in the subjunctive.

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(63) ‹anchor: τὴν προαίρεσιν (63)› · call in col 213

Προαίρεσιν. Sic locum hunc distinguit Nov. Prius scriptum fuit, προαίρεσιν ἐσχηκότων ὑμῶν, ἐὰν θελ.

"Choice". Nov. punctuates the passage thus. Before, it was written "choice, you having had, if you will …".

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(64) ‹anchor: ὁ μὲν ἄπυστος (64)› · call in col 213

Ὁ μὲν ἄπυστος. Conf. Strom. ii, p. 387.

"The one who has not heard". Compare Strom. 2, p. 387.

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(65) ‹anchor: τὴν ἄγνοιαν (65)› · call in col 213

Ἄγνοιαν. Sic legendum pro vulgato ἄνοιαν. SYLBURG.

"Ignorance". So read, for the common reading "folly". Sylburg.

(scripture reference, numbered, printed above the notes; the numeral is partly cut off and read as 7 from the sequence) ⁷ Gen. I, 26.

7 Gen. 1:26.

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φέρων τὴν ἀπείθειαν, ὅσῳ γε φρονιμώτερος εἶναι δόξει, πρὸς κακοῦ ἡ σύνεσις αὐτῷ· ὅτι τῇ φρονήσει κέχρηται κατηγόρῳ, τὸ βέλτιστον οὐχ ἑλόμενος. Πέφυκε γὰρ ἄλλως ὁ ἄνθρωπος· οἰκείως ἔχειν πρὸς Θεόν. Ὥσπερ οὖν τὸν ἵππον ἀροῦν οὐ βιαζόμεθα, οὐδὲ τὸν ταῦρον κυνηγετεῖν, πρὸς ὃ πέφυκε δὲ ἕκαστον τῶν ζώων περιέλκομεν· οὕτως ἀμέλει καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐπὶ τὴν οὐρανοῦ γενόμενον θέαν, φυτὸν οὐράνιον ὡς ἀληθῶς, ἐπὶ τὴν γνῶσιν παρακαλοῦμεν τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὸ οἰκεῖον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξαίρετον καὶ ἰδιωματικὸν παρὰ τὰ ἄλλα ζῶα κατειλημμένοι, αὔταρκες ἐφόδιον αἰώνων, θεοσέβειαν παρασκευάζεσθαι συμβουλεύοντες. Γεώργει, φαμὲν, εἰ γεωργὸς εἶ· ἀλλὰ γνῶθι τὸν Θεὸν, γεωργῶν· Καὶ πλῆθι ὁ τῆς ναυτιλίας ἐρῶν, ἀλλὰ τὸν οὐράνιον κυβερνήτην παρακαλῶν· στρατευόμενόν σε κατείληφεν ἡ γνῶσις; τοῦ δίκαια σημαίνοντος ἄκουε στρατηγοῦ. Καθάπερ οὖν κάρῳ καὶ μέθῃ βεβαρημένοι, ἀνανήψατε, καὶ διαβλέψαντες ὀλίγον, ἐννοήθητε τί θέλουσιν ὑμῖν οἱ προσκυνούμενοι λίθοι, καὶ ἃ περὶ τὴν ὕλην κενοσπούδως δαπανᾶτε. Εἰς ἄγνοιαν καὶ τὰ χρήματα καὶ τὸν βίον, ὡς τὸ ζῇν ὑμῶν εἰς θάνατον καταναλίσκετε, τοῦτο μόνον τῆς ματαίας ὑμῶν ἐλπίδος εὑράμενοι τὸ πέρας· οὐδὲ αὑτοὺς οἷοί τε ὄντες οἰκτεῖραι, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τοῖς κατελεοῦσιν ὑμᾶς τῆς πλάνης ἐπιτήδειοι πείθεσθαι γίνεσθε, συνηθείᾳ κακῇ δεδουλωμένοι, ἧς ἀπηρτημένοι, αὐθαίρετοι, μέχρι τῆς ἐσχάτης ἀναπνοῆς, εἰς ἀπώλειαν ὑποφέρεσθε· Ὅτι τὸ φῶς ἐλήλυθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον, καὶ ἠγάπησαν οἱ ἄνθρωποι μᾶλλον τὸ σκότος ἢ τὸ φῶς· ἐξὸν ἀπομάξασθαι τὰ ἐμποδὼν τῇ σωτηρίᾳ, καὶ τὸν τῦφον, καὶ τὸν πλοῦτον, καὶ τὸν φόβον, ἐπιφθεγγομένους τὸ ποιητικὸν δὴ τοῦτο·
upholds disobedience, the more prudent he shall seem to be, the more to his harm is his understanding; because he has used his prudence as an accuser, not having chosen what is best. For man is otherwise by nature constituted to be in fellowship with God. Just as, therefore, we do not force the horse to plough, nor the bull to hunt, but draw each of the animals towards that for which it is by nature suited; so doubtless also man, who has come into being for the contemplation of heaven, a heavenly plant in truth, we call to the knowledge of God, having grasped what is his own and special and peculiar beyond the other animals, counselling him to provide himself with godliness, a sufficient provision for the ages. Till the ground, we say, if you are a husbandman; but know God while tilling the ground. And sail, you who love seamanship, yet calling upon the heavenly Pilot. Has knowledge overtaken you while serving as a soldier? Hearken to the Commander Who gives righteous orders. As if weighed down, therefore, by stupor and drunkenness, awake to soberness, and having opened your eyes a little, consider what the stones that are worshipped mean to you, and the things you vainly expend upon matter. Both your wealth and your livelihood you squander upon ignorance, just as you squander your life unto death, having found this alone as the end of your vain hope; being neither able to pity yourselves, nor yet becoming fit to obey those who take pity on you for your error, enslaved as you are to an evil custom, clinging to which, of your own choice, up to your last breath, you are borne down into destruction: Because the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light (John 3:19); when it is in their power to wipe away the obstacles to salvation, both pride, and wealth, and fear, uttering over them this poetic saying:
Πῆ δὴ χρήματα πολλὰ φέρω τάδε; πῆ δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς Πλάζομαι;
Whither then do I bear this great wealth? And whither do I myself also wander?
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Footnotes

(66) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Φέρων› · call in col 216 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Φέρων. Φέρει Nov. Mox, καὶ ὅσῳ γε φρ. SYLB.

"Bearing". "Bears" Nov. Next, "and in so far as …". Sylburg.

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(67) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ὁ ἄνθρ.› · call in col 216

Ὁ ἄνθρ. Articulum omittit Nov.

"The man". Nov. omits the article.

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(68) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἔχειν› · call in col 216

Ἔχειν. Sic legendum pro vulgato ἔχει. SYLBURG. — Quam correctionem firmat Nov.

"To have". So read, for the common reading "has". Sylburg. — Nov. confirms this correction.

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(69) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Φυτὸν οὐράνιον› · call in col 216

Φυτὸν οὐράνιον. Οὐράνιον φυτὸν esse hominem, tradit etiam Plutarchus Περὶ φυγῆς, et Plato, in Timaei epilogo. H. SYLBURG.

"A heavenly plant". That man is a heavenly plant is also taught by Plutarch, On Exile, and by Plato in the epilogue of the Timaeus. H. Sylburg.

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(70) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐφόδιον αἰώνων› · call in col 216

Ἐφόδιον αἰώνων, θεοσέβειαν. Θεοσέβειαν omittit Nov. Gregorius Thaumat., Panegyr. in Orig., p. 56-57, edit. Paris., dicit, Legum disciplinam esse μέγιστόν ἐφόδιον, maximum subsidium, Oratoriae. Ἐφόδιον, viaticum. Persius, sat. v, v. 64, de sapientia: . . . petite hinc, juvenesque, senesque, Finem animo certum, miserisque viatica canis.

"Provision for the ages, godliness". Nov. omits "godliness". Gregory Thaumaturgus, Panegyric on Origen, pp. 56–57 of the Paris edition, says that the study of the laws is the greatest provision, the greatest aid, for oratory. Ἐφόδιον: provision for the journey. Persius, Satire 5, line 64, on wisdom: "… seek from here, young and old, a sure goal for the mind, and provision for wretched grey hairs."

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(71) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Πλῆθι› · call in col 216

Πλῆθι. Ἀντὶ τοῦ πλεῦσον, adnotavit aliquis in margine Nov.

"Sail". Someone noted in the margin of Nov.: "in place of πλεῦσον".

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(72) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Σημαίνοντος› · call in col 216

Σημαίνοντος. Non significantis, ut exp. Hervet., sed imperantis, quo sensu Homerus hac voce saepe usus est, Il. Α, v. 296; Il. Κ, v. 58; Il. Ξ, v. 85. Quin etiam in eo, quod sequitur, imitari videtur Homeri Odyss. Γ, v. 139: Οἱ δ' ἦλθον οἴνῳ βεβαρηκότες υἷες Ἀχαιῶν. Illi vero venerunt vino gravati filii Achivorum.

"Of him who signals". Not "signifying", as Hervet renders, but "commanding", the sense in which Homer often used this word: Iliad 1.296; 10.58; 14.85. And in what follows he seems to imitate Homer, Odyssey 3.139: "And they came, heavy with wine, the sons of the Achaeans." [The Latin repeats the line in translation.]

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(73) ‹anchor: Πῆ δὴ (73) χρήματα› · call in col 216

Πῆ δή. Ulyssis verba Ithacam patriam igno- (continues)

"Where, then". Words of Ulysses, [not recogniz]ing his native Ithaca… (continues)

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ⁸ Matth. V, 3, 10. ⁹ Joan. XIV, 6. ¹⁰ Matth. VII, 13, 14. ¹¹ Joan. III, 13, 31. ¹² Ibid. 19.

8 Matt. 5:3, 10. 9 John 14:6. 10 Matt. 7:13–14. 11 John 3:13, 31. 12 Ibid. 19.

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Εἰ βούλεσθε οὖν τὰς φαντασίας ταύτας τὰς κενὰς ἀποῤῥίψαντες, τῇ συνηθείᾳ αὐτῇ ἀποτάξασθαι, κενοδοξίᾳ ἐπιλέγετε,
If you wish, therefore, having cast away these vain fancies, to bid farewell to custom itself, say over vain-glory,
Ψευδεῖς ὄνειροι, χαίρετ', οὐδὲν ἦτ' ἄρα.
False dreams, farewell, you were nothing after all.
Τί γὰρ ἡγεῖσθε, ὦ ἄνθρωποι, τὸν Τυφῶνα, καὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν, καὶ τὸν Ἀνδοκίδην, καὶ τὸν Ἀμύητον; ἢ παντί τῳ δῆλον, ὅτι λίθους, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν; Ὡς δὲ οὐκ ἔστι θεὸς ἡ ἅλως, καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἔστι θεὸς ἡ ἶρις, ἀλλὰ πάθη ἀέρων καὶ νεφῶν· καὶ ὃν τρόπον οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμέρα θεὸς, οὐδὲ μὴν οὐδὲ ἐνιαυτὸς, οὐδὲ χρόνος ὁ ἐκ τούτων συμπληρούμενος· οὕτως οὐδὲ ἥλιος, οὐδὲ σελήνη, οἷς ἕκαστον τῶν προειρημένων διορίζεται. Τίς ἂν οὖν τὴν εὐθύνην, καὶ τὴν κόλασιν, καὶ τὴν δίκην, καὶ τὴν νέμεσιν, εὖ φρονῶν, ὑπολάβοι θεούς; Οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδ' Ἐριννύες, οὐδὲ Μοῖραι, οὐδὲ Εἱμαρμένη, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ πολιτεία, μηδὲ δόξα, μηδὲ Πλοῦτος, θεοί· ὃν καὶ ζωγράφοι τυφλὸν ἐπιδεικνύουσιν. Εἰ δὲ Αἰδῶ, καὶ Ἔρωτα, καὶ Ἀφροδίτην ἐκθειάζετε, ἀκολουθούντων αὐτοῖς, Αἰσχύνη, καὶ Ὁρμὴ, καὶ Κάλλος, καὶ Συνουσία. Οὔκουν ἔτ' ἂν εἰκότως Ὕπνος καὶ Θάνατος, θεὼ διδυμάονε παρ' ὑμῖν νομίζοιντο, πάθη ταῦτα περὶ τὰ ζῶα συμβαίνοντα φυσικῶς· οὐδὲ μὴν Κῆρα, οὐδὲ Εἱμαρμένην, οὐδὲ Μοίρας, θεὰς ἐνδίκως ἐρεῖτε. Εἰ δὲ Ἔρις καὶ Μάχη οὐ θεοὶ, οὐδὲ Ἄρης, οὐδὲ Ἐνυώ. Ἔτι τε εἰ αἱ ἀστραπαὶ, καὶ οἱ κεραυνοὶ, καὶ οἱ ὄμβροι οὐ θεοὶ, πῶς τὸ Πῦρ καὶ τὸ Ὕδωρ θεοί; πῶς δαὶ καὶ οἱ διαΐσσοντες καὶ οἱ κομῆται, διὰ πάθος ἀέρος γεγενημένοι; ὁ δὲ τὴν Τύχην θεὸν λέγων, καὶ τὴν Πρᾶξιν λεγέτω θεόν. Εἰ δὴ οὖν τούτων οὐδὲ ἓν θεὸς εἶναι νομίζεται, οὐδὲ μὴν ἐκείνων τῶν χειροκμήτων καὶ ἀναισθήτων πλασμάτων· πρόνοια δέ τις περὶ ἡμᾶς καταφαίνεται δυνάμεως θεϊκῆς· λείπεται οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ τοῦτο ὁμολογεῖν, ὅτι ἄρα ὄντως μόνος ἔστι τε καὶ ὑφέστηκεν ὁ μόνος ὄντως ὑπάρχων Θεός· ἀλλὰ γὰρ μανδραγόραν ἤ τι ἄλλο φάρμακον πεπωκόσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐοίκασιν ἀνόητοι. Θεὸς δὲ ὑμῖν ἀνανῆψαι δοίη ποτὲ τοῦδε τοῦ ὕπνου καὶ συνιέναι θεόν· μηδὲ χρυσὸν, ἢ λίθον, ἢ δένδρον, ἢ πρᾶξιν, ἢ πάθος, ἢ νόσον, ἢ φόβον ἰνδάλλεσθαι ὡς θεόν. Τρεῖς γὰρ μύριοί εἰσιν, ὡς ἀληθῶς, ἐπὶ
For what do you consider, O men, Typhon, and Hermes, and Andocides, and Amyetus to be? Or is it plain to everyone that they are stones, just as Hermes himself is? And just as the halo is not a god, and just as the rainbow is not a god, but affections of air and clouds; and in the way that day is not a god, nor yet a year either, nor time which is made up of these; so neither is sun, nor moon, by which each of the aforesaid things is marked off. Who then of sound mind would suppose audit, and punishment, and justice, and retribution to be gods? For neither are the Erinyes, nor the Fates, nor Destiny, since neither are commonwealth, nor glory, nor Plutus, gods; whom painters even show to be blind. And if you deify Modesty, and Love, and Aphrodite, let Shame, and Impulse, and Beauty, and Intercourse follow them. No longer then could Sleep and Death reasonably be considered twin gods among you, since these are affections naturally befalling living creatures; nor yet will you justly call Doom, or Destiny, or the Fates, goddesses. And if Strife and Battle are not gods, neither is Ares, nor Enyo. Moreover, if lightnings, and thunderbolts, and rains are not gods, how are Fire and Water gods? And how ever are shooting stars and comets, which come into being through an affection of the air? And let him who calls Fortune a god call Action a god too. If then indeed not a single one of these things is considered to be a god, nor yet any of those hand-wrought and senseless images; while a certain providence of a divine power manifestly appears around us; nothing else is left than to confess this, that therefore He alone truly both is and subsists Who alone truly exists as God; for indeed senseless men are like men who have drunk mandrake or some other drug. May God grant you at length to awake to soberness out of this sleep and to understand God; and that neither gold, nor stone, nor tree, nor action, nor affection, nor disease, nor fear may appear to you as a god. For thrice ten thousand are there, in truth, upon
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(74) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Εἰ β.› · call in col 217

Εἰ β. Οὐ β. Nov.

"If … ". "Not …" Nov.

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(75) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τί γὰρ ἡγεῖσθε, ὦ ἄνθρ.› · call in col 217

Τί γὰρ ἡγεῖσθε, ὦ ἄνθρ. Argumentum tale est: An vos hujus aut illius Mercurium, aut ab hoc aut illo consecratum Mercurium putatis? Non sane. Scitis enim esse lapidem, quem videtis. Expergiscimini ergo, et scitote ipsum quoque Mercurium, nihil aliud quam lapidem esse; quem vos, quia saepe in lapidibus vidistis, persuadetis vobis esse deum. Scribendum arbitror τὸν Τυφῶνος Ἑρμῆν, καὶ τὸν Ἀνδοκίδου, καὶ τὸν Ἀμυήτου. De Andocide Mercurio habes apud Aeschinem in Oratione contra Timarchum, apud Hesychium et Harpocrationem. Hunc Mercurium, ut ex illis discimus, negabant plerique esse Andocidae. Ipse quoque, ut notat Harpocration Andocides ἐν τῷ Περὶ μυστηρίων confessus erat, ὅτι τῆς Αἰγηΐδος εἴη τὸ ἀνάθημα. Ex hac tribu autem fuit Typho, cujus in Eliacis meminit Pausanias: qui et ipse alioquin de suo nomine dedicavit Mercurium, nisi ille fuerit τοῦ Ἀνδοκίδου. Nam Clemens diversos facere videtur. HEINSIUS. — Porro in Flor. et Sylb. scriptum est τὸν Τυφῶνα Ἑρμῆν, καὶ τὸν Ἀνδοκ. Nescio quomodo factum, ut posteriores edit. exhiberent τὸν Τυφῶνα, καὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν, καὶ τὸν Ἀνδοκ. Verisimile est vocem Ἑρμῆν in margine juxta Τυφῶνα adnotatam, in textum irrepsisse.

"For what do you think, O men …". The argument is this: Do you think it the Mercury of this man or that, or a Mercury consecrated by this man or that? Surely not. For you know that what you see is a stone. Wake up, then, and know that Mercury himself too is nothing but a stone; and because you have often seen him in stones, you persuade yourselves he is a god. I think one should write "the Hermes of Typhon, and that of Andocides, and that of Amyetus". On the Hermes of Andocides see Aeschines in the speech Against Timarchus, and Hesychius and Harpocration. Most people, as we learn from them, denied that this Hermes was Andocides'. Andocides himself too, as Harpocration notes, had admitted in his speech On the Mysteries that the dedication belonged to the tribe Aegeis. And of this tribe was Typho, whom Pausanias mentions in his Elis book; he too, besides, dedicated a Hermes in his own name, unless that was the one "of Andocides". For Clement seems to make them different. Heinsius. — Further, the Florence edition and Sylburg have "Typhon the Hermes, and that of Andoc.". I do not know how it happened that later editions gave "Typhon, and Hermes, and that of Andoc.". Probably the word "Hermes", noted in the margin beside "Typhon", crept into the text.

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(76) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἔτ' ἂν εἰκ.› · call in col 217

Ἔτ' ἂν εἰκ. Ἔστ' ἂν εἰκ. Nov. In sequentibus respicit cujusdam poetae dictum, qui somnum et mortem appellavit θεὼ διδυμάονε. Homerus ὕπνον κασίγνητον θανάτοιο dixit Il. Ξ.

"Still … likely". "Until … likely" Nov. In what follows he has in view the saying of a certain poet who called sleep and death "twin gods". Homer called sleep "the brother of death", Iliad 14.

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(77) ‹anchor: Ἔρις (77)› · call in col 217

Εἰ δὲ Ἔρις. Conf. Homeri Il. Δ, v. 440, Il. Ε, v. 891, et 592.

"But if Strife". Compare Homer, Iliad 4.440; 5.891 and 592.

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(78) ‹anchor: Ἄρης (78)› · call in col 217

Ἄρης. Ἔρις. Nov. mendose.

"Ares". "Strife" Nov., wrongly.

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(79) ‹anchor: μόνος ἔστι (79)› · call in col 217

Ὄντως μόνος ἔστι. Μόνος ὄντως ἔστι. Nov.

"Truly alone is". "Alone truly is" Nov.

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(80) ‹anchor: ἰνδάλλεσθαι (80)› · call in col 217

Ἰνδάλλεσθαι. Ἰδάλλεσθε Nov. Clemens imitari videtur Il. Γ, Ὥστε μοι ἀθανάτοις ἰνδάλλεται εἰσοράασθαι. In iis quae mox sequuntur, Hesiodi Ἔργ. α΄. v. 250, exprimit: Τρὶς γὰρ μύριοί εἰσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ, Ἀθάνατοι Ζηνὸς, φύλακες θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων.

"To be imagined as". Ἰδάλλεσθε Nov. Clement seems to imitate Iliad 3: "so that to me she seems like the immortals to look upon". In what follows next he renders Hesiod, Works 1.250: "For thrice ten thousand are there upon the much-nourishing earth, immortals of Zeus, guardians of mortal men."

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(81) ‹anchor: Τρεῖς (81) γὰρ μύριοι› · call in col 217

Τρεῖς. Rectius adverbialiter τρίς, ter: et seq. v. δαίμονες ἀθάνατοι, ut supra. SYLBURG. — Mihi posterior lectio nequaquam esse sollicitanda videtur. (continues)

"Three". More correctly the adverb τρίς, "thrice"; and in the next line "immortal spirits", as above. Sylburg. — To me the latter reading seems not to need tampering with at all. (continues)

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χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ δαίμονες, οὐκ ἀθάνατοι, οὐδὲ μὴν θνητοί· οὐδὲ γὰρ αἰσθήσεως ἵνα καὶ θανάτου, μετειλήφασιν· λίθινοι δὲ καὶ ξύλινοι, δεσπόται ἀνθρώπων, ὑβρίζοντες καὶ παρασπονδοῦντες τὸν βίον διὰ τῆς συνηθείας. Ἡ γῆ δὲ, τοῦ Κυρίου, φησὶ, καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς. Εἶτα τί τολμᾷς ἐν τοῖς τοῦ Κυρίου τρυφῶν, ἀγνοεῖν τὸν Δεσπότην; Κατάλειπε τὴν γῆν τὴν ἐμὴν, ἐρεῖ σοι ὁ Κύριος· μὴ θίγῃς τοῦ ὕδατος, ὃ ἐγὼ ἀναδίδωμι· τῶν καρπῶν, ὧν ἐγὼ γεωργῶ, μὴ μεταλάμβανε· ἀπόδος, ἄνθρωπε, τὰ τροφεῖα τῷ Θεῷ· ἐπίγνωθί σου τὸν Δεσπότην· ἴδιον εἶ πλάσμα τοῦ Θεοῦ· τὸ δὲ οἰκεῖον αὐτοῦ, πῶς ἂν ἐνδίκως ἀλλότριον γένοιτο; Τὸ γὰρ ἀπηλλοτριωμένον, στερόμενον τῆς οἰκειότητος, στέρεται τῆς ἀληθείας. Ἢ γὰρ οὐχὶ Νιόβης τρόπον τινὰ, μᾶλλον δὲ, ἵνα μυστικώτερον πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἀποφθέγξωμαι, γυναικὸς τῆς Ἑβραίας δίκην, Λὼτ ἐκάλουν αὐτὴν οἱ παλαιοὶ, εἰς ἀναισθησίαν μετατρέπεσθε; Λελιθωμένην ταύτην παρειλήφαμεν τὴν γυναῖκα, διὰ τὸ Σοδόμων ἐρᾷν· Σοδομῖται δὲ οἱ ἄθεοι, καὶ οἱ πρὸς τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἐπιστρεφόμενοι, σκληροκάρδιοί τε καὶ ἠλίθιοι. Ταύτας οἴου θεόθεν ἐπιλέγεσθαί σοι τὰς φωνάς· Μὴ γὰρ οἴου λίθους μὲν εἶναι ἱερὰ, καὶ ξύλα, καὶ ὄρνεα, καὶ ὄφεις, ἀνθρώπους οὐδαμῆ· πολὺ δὲ τοὐναντίον, ἱεροὺς μὲν ὄντως τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ὑπολαμβάνετε, τὰ δὲ θηρία καὶ τοὺς λίθους ὅπερ εἰσίν. Οἱ γάρ τοι δείλαιοι τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἄθλιοι, διὰ μὲν κόρακος καὶ κολοιοῦ νομίζουσι τὸν Θεὸν ἐμβοᾷν, διὰ δὲ ἀνθρώπου σιωπᾷν· καὶ τὸν μὲν κόρακα τετιμήκασιν, ὡς ἄγγελον Θεοῦ· τὸν δὲ ἄνθρωπον τοῦ Θεοῦ διώκουσιν, οὐ κρώζοντα, οὐ κλώζοντα, φθεγγόμενον δὲ, οἴμοι! λογικῶς, καὶ φιλανθρώπως κατηχοῦντα, ἀποσφάττειν ἀπανθρώπως ἐπιχειροῦσιν, ἐπὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην καλοῦντα, οὔτε τὴν χάριν τὴν ἄνωθεν ἀπεκδεχόμενοι, οὔτε τὴν κόλασιν ἐκτρεπόμενοι. Οὐ γὰρ πιστεύουσι τῷ Θεῷ, οὐδὲ ἐκμανθάνουσι τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ· οὗ δὴ ἄῤῥητος ἡ φιλανθρωπία, τούτου ἀχώρητος ἡ μισοπονηρία. Τρέφει δὲ ὁ μὲν θυμὸς τὴν κόλασιν, ἐπὶ ἁμαρτίᾳ· εὖ ποιεῖ δὲ ἐπὶ μετανοίᾳ ἡ φιλανθρωπία. Οἰκτρότατον δὲ τὸ στέρεσθαι τῆς παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπικουρίας. Ὀμμάτων μὲν οὖν ἡ πήρωσις, καὶ τῆς ἀκοῆς ἡ κώφωσις, ἀλγεινοτέρα παρὰ τὰς λοιπὰς τοῦ πονηροῦ πλεονεξίας· ἡ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν, ἀφῄρηται τῆς οὐρανίου προσόψεως· ἡ δὲ, τῆς θείας μαθήσεως ἐστέρηται. Ὑμεῖς δὲ, πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀνάπηροι, καὶ τυφλοὶ μὲν τὸν νοῦν, κωφοὶ δὲ τὴν σύνεσιν ὄντες, οὐκ ἀλγεῖτε, οὐκ ἀγανακτεῖτε, οὐ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἰδεῖν, καὶ τὴν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ποιητὴν
the bounteous earth demons, not immortal, nor yet mortal either; for they have not even partaken of sensation, that they might also partake of death; but of stone and of wood are the masters of men, insulting and violating life through custom. But the earth is the Lord's, it says, and the fulness thereof (Ps. 23:1; 1 Cor. 10:26). Then how do you dare, while luxuriating in the things of the Lord, to ignore the Master? Leave My earth, the Lord will say to you; do not touch the water which I send up; do not partake of the fruits which I cause to grow; give back, O man, the price of your nurture to God; recognize your Master; you are God's own handiwork; and how could what is His own justly become another's? For what is alienated, being deprived of fellowship, is deprived of truth. Or are you not, after the manner of Niobe in some way, or rather, that I may utter a more mystic speech to you, like the Hebrew woman—the ancients called her Lot's—turned into insensibility? We have received by tradition that this woman was turned to stone because of loving Sodom; and the Sodomites were the godless, and those who turn towards ungodliness, hard-hearted and foolish. Suppose that these words are spoken to you from God: For do not suppose that stones are sacred things, and wood, and birds, and serpents, while men are in no way so; but far on the contrary, regard men as truly sacred, and wild beasts and stones as what they are. For wretched and miserable men suppose that God cries out through a raven and a jackdaw, but through man keeps silent; and the raven they have honoured as a messenger of God; while the man of God they persecute, who neither croaks nor caws, but utters, alas! a rational voice, and instructs them with love for mankind, and they inhumanly attempt to slaughter him when he calls them to righteousness, neither awaiting the grace from above, nor shunning the punishment. For they do not believe God, nor learn His power thoroughly; of Whom the love for mankind is unutterable, of Him the hatred of evil is incomprehensible. Anger nourishes punishment upon sin; while love for mankind does good upon repentance. And most pitiable is it to be deprived of the succour that comes from God. Now the maiming of the eyes, and the deafening of the hearing, is more painful than the other encroachments of the wicked one; for the one of them has been robbed of the heavenly sight, while the other has been deprived of divine learning. Yet you, maimed towards the truth, and being blind in mind and deaf in understanding, do not grieve, are not indignant, have not
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Footnotes

(82) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Μὴ μετ.› · call in col 220 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Μὴ μετ. Μὴ δὲ μετ. Nov.

"Not …". "But not …" Nov.

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(83) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τὰ τροφεῖα› · call in col 220

Τὰ τροφεῖα. Respicit proverbiale quoddam dictum, Suidas, Κριὸς τροφεῖα ἀπέτισε. Παροιμία ἐπὶ τῶν ἀχαρίστων. Καὶ γὰρ τοὺς κριοὺς ἐκτραφέντας φασὶ κυρίττειν τοὺς θρεψαμένους. Ὅ ἐστι πλήττειν. Aries mercedem pro alimentis persolvit. Proverbium in ingratos. Aiunt enim arietes, postquam enutriti ad adultam aetatem pervenerunt, cornu petere eos, qui ipsos aluerant.

"The return for rearing". He has in view a proverbial saying; Suidas: "The ram paid back his rearing. A proverb about the ungrateful. For they say that rams, once reared, butt those who fed them" — that is, strike them. [The Latin repeats this in translation.]

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(84) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Λὼτ ἐκάλουν αὐτήν› · call in col 220

Λὼτ ἐκάλουν αὐτήν. Pro αὐτὴν A legendum censet αὐτῆς τὸν ἄνδρα, ex Genes. cap. xix. Mutatione opus non est, si Λὼτ genitivo seu possessivo casu accipiamus, ut non semel infra. SYLBURG. — Sic Strom. ii, p. 387: Τὴν Λὼτ γυναῖκα ἐπιστραφεῖσαν μόνον… κατέλιπεν ἀναίσθητον ὡς λίθον δείξας ἁλατίνην. Uxorem Lot, quod tantum retro se convertisset, reliquit sine sensu, salis petram factam. Et Strom. vii, p. 756. Μὴ ἐπιστρεφέσθω εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, καθάπερ ἡ Λὼτ γυνή. Ne ad ea, quae retro sunt, convertatur, sicut uxor Lot.

"They called her Lot". For "her", A. thinks one should read "her husband", from Genesis 19. No change is needed if we take "Lot" in the genitive or possessive case, as more than once below. Sylburg. — So Strom. 2, p. 387: "Lot's wife, merely for turning back … he left without sense, showing her a stone of salt." And Strom. 7, p. 756: "Let him not turn to the things behind, like Lot's wife." [Each Greek quotation is followed by its Latin version.]

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(85) ‹anchor: οὐδαμῇ (85)› · call in col 220

Οὐδαμῇ. Δὲ μή. Nov.

"In no way". "But not" Nov.

(scripture reference, numbered, printed above the notes) ¹³ Psal. XXIII, 1, 1 Cor. X, 26.

13 Ps. 23(24):1; 1 Cor. 10:26.

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ἐπεθυμήσατε, οὐδὲ τὸν τῶν πάντων δημιουργὸν καὶ πατέρα ἀκοῦσαι καὶ μαθεῖν ἐξεζητήσατε, τὴν προαίρεσιν τῇ σωτηρίᾳ συνάψαντες· ἐμποδὼν γὰρ ἵσταται οὐδὲν τῷ σπεύδοντι πρὸς γνῶσιν Θεοῦ, οὐκ ἀπαιδία, οὐ πενία, οὐκ ἀδοξία, οὐκ ἀκτημοσύνη· οὐδέ τις τὴν ὄντως ἀληθῆ σοφίαν, χαλκῷ δηώσας, μεταλλάξαι εὔχεται, οὐδὲ σιδήρῳ· εὖ γάρ τοι παντὸς μᾶλλον τοῦτο εἴληται· ὁ Χριστός ἐστι πανταχοῦ σωτήριος· ὁ γὰρ τοῦ δικαίου ζηλωτὴς, ὡς ἂν τοῦ ἀνενδεοῦς ἐραστὴς, ὀλιγοδεὴς, οὐκ ἐν ἄλλῳ τινὶ ἢ ἐν αὑτῷ καὶ τῷ Θεῷ τὸ μακάριον θησαυρίσας, ἔνθα οὐ σὴς, οὐ λῃστὴς, οὐ πειρατὴς, ἀλλ' ὁ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀΐδιος δοτήρ. Ἆρα οὖν εἰκότως ὡμοίωσθε τοῖς ὄφεσιν ἐκείνοις, οἷς τὰ ὦτα πρὸς τοὺς κατεπᾴδοντας ἀποκέκλειται. Θυμὸς γὰρ αὐτοῖς, φησὶν ἡ Γραφὴ, κατὰ τὴν ὁμοίωσιν τοῦ ὄφεως, ὡς ἀσπίδος κωφῆς, καὶ βυούσης τὰ ὦτα αὐτῆς, ἥτις οὐκ εἰσακούσεται φωνῆς ἐπᾳδόντων. Ἀλλ' ὑμεῖς γε κατεπᾴσθητε τὴν ἁγιότητα, καὶ παραδέξασθε τὸν ἥμερον καὶ ὑμέτερον Λόγον, καὶ τὸν ἰὸν ἀποπτύσατε τὸν δηλητήριον, ὅπως ὅτι μάλιστα ὑμῖν τὴν φθορὰν, ὡς ἐκείνοις τὸ γῆρας, ἀποδύσασθαι δοθῇ. Ἀκούσατέ μου, καὶ μὴ τὰ ὦτα ἀποβύσατε, μηδὲ τὰς ἀκοὰς ἀποφράξητε, ἀλλ' εἰς νοῦν βάλεσθε τὰ λεγόμενα. Καλόν ἐστι τὸ φάρμακον τῆς ἀθανασίας· στήσατέ ποτε τοὺς ὁλκοὺς ἑρπυστικούς· Οἱ γὰρ ἐχθροὶ Κυρίου χοῦν λείξουσι, φησὶν, ἡ Γραφὴ λέγει. Ἀνανεύσατε τῆς γῆς εἰς αἰθέρα, ἀναβλέψατε εἰς οὐρανὸν, θαυμάσατε, παύσασθε καραδοκοῦντες τῶν δικαίων τὴν πτέρναν, καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς ἀληθείας ἐμποδίζοντες· φρόνιμοι γένεσθε καὶ ἀβλαβεῖς· (τάχα που ὁ Κύριος ἁπλότητος ὑμῖν δωρήσεται πτερόν· πτερῶσαι γὰρ προῄρηται γηγενεῖς·) ἵνα δὴ, τοὺς χηραμοὺς καταλείποντες, οἰκήσητε τοὺς οὐρανούς. Μόνον ἐξ ὅλης καρδίας μετανοήσωμεν, ὡς ἐν καρδίᾳ δυνηθῆναι χωρῆσαι τὸν Θεόν. Ἐλπίσατε ἐπ' αὐτὸν, φησὶ, πᾶσα συναγωγὴ λαοῦ· ἐκχέ-
desired to see heaven and the Maker of heaven, nor have you sought out to hear and learn the Creator and Father of all things, joining your purpose to salvation; for nothing stands in the way of him who hastens towards the knowledge of God, neither childlessness, nor poverty, nor obscurity, nor lack of possessions; nor does anyone pray to exchange the truly genuine wisdom, having ravaged it with bronze, or with iron; for rightly indeed has this been chosen above all: Christ is everywhere saving; for the zealous follower of the righteous One, as being a lover of Him Who needs nothing, needs little, having treasured up blessedness in nothing else than in himself and in God, where there is neither moth, nor robber (Matt. 6:20–21), nor pirate, but the eternal Giver of good things. Rightly then have you been likened to those serpents whose ears are shut against the charmers. For their wrath, says the Scripture, is according to the likeness of the serpent, like a deaf asp that stops her ears, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers (Ps. 57:5–6). But do you at least let yourselves be charmed by holiness, and welcome the gentle Word Who is yours, and spit out the deadly venom, so that it may be granted to you as far as possible to strip off corruption, as it is to them to strip off old age. Hearken to me, and do not stop your ears, nor block up your hearing, but lay to mind the things that are spoken. Good is the medicine of immortality; halt at length your creeping trails: For the enemies of the Lord shall lick the dust (Ps. 71:9), says the Scripture. Raise your heads from the earth to the ether, look up to heaven, wonder, cease lying in wait for the heel of the righteous, and hindering the way of truth (2 Pet. 2:2); become prudent and harmless; (perchance the Lord will bestow upon you a wing of simplicity; for He has purposed to give wings to the earth-born;) so that, leaving your holes, you may inhabit the heavens. Only let us repent with our whole heart, so as to be able to contain God in our heart. Hope in Him, it says, all the congregation of the people; pour
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Footnotes

(86) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Δηώσας› · call in col 221 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Δηώσας. Δηΐωσας Nov. Χαλκῷ δηῶσαι phrasis est Homerica. Conf. Il. Θ, v. 354; Il. Ξ, v. 517, 518. Mox, εἴρηται pro εἴληται, Flor. Sylb. Scribi possit εἴληπται.

"Having slain". Δηΐωσας Nov. "To slay with the bronze" is a Homeric phrase. Compare Iliad 8.354; 14.517–518. Next, εἴρηται for εἴληται, Florence edition and Sylburg. One could write εἴληπται.

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(87) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ὄφεσιν› · call in col 221

Ὄφεσιν. De aspide aures obturante Psal. LVII, 5; Sirach. xii, 13 et xxvii, 15. H. Ibidem nota ἀποκέκλειται absque σ. SYLBURG. — Verum id librarii errore contigit. Nam ms. Nov. habet ἀποκέκλεισται.

"Serpents". On the asp that stops its ears, Ps. 57(58):5; Sirach 12:13 and 27:15. H. In the same place note ἀποκέκλειται without σ. Sylburg. — But that came about by a copyist's error, for the Nov. manuscript has ἀποκέκλεισται.

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(88) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Φωνῆς› · call in col 221

Φωνῆς. Φωνὴν Bibl. Gr. Paulo ante, ὡσεὶ pro ὡς. Nov. Bibl. Gr.

"Of the voice". "The voice" (accusative) Greek Bible. A little before, ὡσεὶ for ὡς, Nov., Greek Bible.

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(89) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἥμερον καὶ ὑμέτερον› · call in col 221

Ἥμερον καὶ ὑμέτερον. A. τὸν ἡμέτερον καὶ ὑμέτερον, nostrum et vestrum; rectius, quanquam etiam legi possit τὸν ἥμερον. Hervetus interpres sane ἥμερον secutus est. SYLBURG. — Vera lectio est, quam exhibet Nov. τὸν ἥμερον καὶ ἡμέτερον· ludit enim in simili vocum sono: et ἥμερον Λόγον opponit τῷ δηλητηρίῳ ἰῷ.

"Gentle and yours". Perhaps "ours and yours" — more correctly, though "the gentle one" could also be read. The translator Hervet certainly followed "gentle". Sylburg. — The true reading is the one Nov. gives, "the gentle and ours": for he plays on the like sound of the words, and sets the gentle Word against the deadly venom.

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Ἀποδύσατε. A. ἀποδύσητε· sed fortasse potius, retento ἀποδύσατε, mox legendum ἀποφράξατε, idemque per omnia cola erit verborum modus. SYLBURG. — Verum Nov. habet ἀποφύσητε, pro ἀποδύσατε· subjunctivum itaque praetulerim indicativo.

"Strip off". Perhaps ἀποδύσητε; but perhaps rather, keeping ἀποδύσατε, read ἀποφράξατε just after, and the mood of the verbs will be the same through all the clauses. Sylburg. — But Nov. has ἀποφύσητε for ἀποδύσατε; so I would prefer the subjunctive to the indicative.

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Τοὺς ὁλκοὺς ἑρπ. Τοὺς ὁλκοὺς τοὺς ἑρπ. Nov. recte.

"The creeping coils". "The coils, the creeping ones" Nov., rightly.

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Φησὶν, ἡ Γραφὴ λέγει. Φησὶ pleonasticum hoc loco, ut infra quoque. SYLBURG.

"He says, the Scripture says". "Says" is pleonastic here, as below too. Sylburg.

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Καραδοκοῦντες. Respicit Genes. xlix, 17; Ps. LV, 7. Mox recitat Christi dictum, verbis paulum immutatis, Matth. X, 16: Γίνεσθε οὖν φρόνιμοι ὡς οἱ ὄφεις, καὶ ἀκέραιοι ὡς αἱ περιστεραί.

"Watching for". He has in view Gen. 49:17; Ps. 55(56):7. Next he quotes Christ's saying with the words a little changed, Matt. 10:16: "Be therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves."

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Πτερόν. Facta ad columbas allusione, sequitur alarum mentio. Praeterea vero respicere videtur Clemens Platonis locum, quo refert eos, qui pietatem ac justitiam colunt, alis vestitos in coelum sublimes ferri, Phaedri pag. 1222: Πέφυκεν ἡ πτεροῦ δύναμις τὸ ἐμβριθὲς ἄγειν, ἄνω μετεωρίζουσα, ᾗ τὸ τῶν θεῶν γένος οἰκεῖ. Κεκοινώνηκε δέ πη μάλιστα τῶν περὶ τὸ σῶμα τοῦ θείου ψυχή· τὸ δὲ θεῖον, καλὸν, σοφὸν, ἀγαθὸν, καὶ πᾶν ὅτι τοιοῦτο. Τούτοις δὲ τρέφεταί τε καὶ αὔξεται μάλιστα τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς πτέρωμα, αἰσχρῷ δὲ καὶ κακῷ καὶ τοῖς ἐναντίοις διόλλυται. Naturalis alarum vis est, grave in sublime attollere, ubi deorum inhabitat genus. Omnium vero, quae sunt circa corpus, maxime particeps divini est animus. Divinum autem, pulchrum, sapiens, bonum, et quidquid tale dici potest. His utique alitur maxime, augeturque ipsa alatio animi: turpi autem et malo, contrariisque hujusmodi deficit atque interit.

"Wing". Having alluded to doves, he goes on to mention wings. Besides, Clement seems to have in view the passage of Plato in which he says that those who cultivate piety and justice are borne aloft to heaven clothed with wings, Phaedrus p. 1222: "The natural power of the wing is to carry the heavy upward, lifting it to where the race of the gods dwells. Of all things that belong to the body, the soul has the greatest share in the divine; and the divine is beautiful, wise, good, and everything of that kind. By these above all the soul's plumage is nourished and grows, and by the shameful and the evil and their contraries it wastes and perishes." [The Latin repeats the passage in translation.]

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ¹⁴ Matth. VI, 20, 21. ¹⁵ Psal. LVII, 5, 6.

14 Matt. 6:20–21. 15 Ps. 57(58):5–6.

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ετε ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ πάσας τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, πρὸς τοὺς καινοὺς τῆς πονηρίας, λέγει, ἐλεεῖ, καὶ δικαιοσύνης πληροῖ. Πίστευσον, ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ Θεῷ· πίστευσον, ἄνθρωπε, τῷ παθόντι, καὶ προσκυνουμένῳ Θεῷ ζῶντι. Πιστεύσατε, οἱ δοῦλοι, τῷ νεκρῷ· πάντες ἄνθρωποι, πιστεύσατε μόνῳ τῷ πάντων ἀνθρώπων Θεῷ. Πιστεύσατε, καὶ μισθὸν λάβετε σωτηρίαν· ἐκζητήσατε τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ ζήσεται ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν. Ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεὸν τὴν ἰδίαν πολυπραγμονεῖ σωτηρίαν. Εὗρες τὸν Θεόν; ἔχεις τὴν ζωήν. Ζητήσωμεν οὖν, ἵνα καὶ ζήσωμεν. Ὁ μισθὸς τῆς εὑρέσεως ζωὴ παρὰ Θεῷ. Ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν καὶ εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάντες οἱ ζητοῦντές σε· καὶ λεγέτωσαν διὰ παντὸς, Μεγαλυνθήτω ὁ Θεός. Καλὸς ὕμνος τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀθάνατος ἄνθρωπος, δικαιοσύνῃ οἰκοδομούμενος, ἐν ᾧ τὰ λόγια τῆς ἀληθείας ἐγκεχάρακται. Ποῦ γὰρ ἀλλαχόθι ἢ ἐν σώφρονι ψυχῇ δικαιοσύνην ἐγγραπτέον; ποῦ ἀγάπην; αἰδῶ δὲ, ποῦ; πραότητα δὲ ποῦ; Ταύτας, οἶμαι, τὰς θείας γραφὰς ἐναποσφραγισαμένους χρὴ τῇ ψυχῇ, καλὸν ἀφετήριον σοφίας ἡγεῖσθαι τοῖς ἐφ' ὁτιοῦν τοῦ βίου τραφεῖσι μέρος, ὅρμον τε τὸν αὐτὸν ἀκύμονα σωτηρίας σοφίαν νομίζειν· δι' ἣν ἀγαθοὶ μὲν πατέρες τέκνων οἱ τῷ Πατρὶ προσδεδραμηκότες, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ γονεῖς υἱέσιν οἱ τὸν Υἱὸν νενοηκότες· ἀγαθοὶ δὲ ἄνδρες γυναικῶν οἱ μεμνημένοι τοῦ Νυμφίου· ἀγαθοὶ δὲ οἰκετῶν δεσπόται οἱ τῆς ἐσχάτης δουλείας λελυτρωμένοι. Ὢ μακαριώτερα τῆς ἐν ἀνθρώποις πλάνης τὰ θηρία! ἃ ἐπινέμεται τὴν ἄγνοιαν, ὡς ὑμεῖς, οὐχ ὑποκρίνεται δὲ τὴν ἀλήθειαν. Οὐκ ἔστι παρ' αὐτοῖς κολάκων γένη· οὐ δεισιδαιμονοῦσιν ἰχθύες· οὐκ εἰδωλολατρεῖ τὰ ὄρνεα ἕνα. Μόνον ἐκπλήττεται τὸν οὐρανὸν, ἐπεὶ Θεὸν νοῆσαι μὴ δύναται, ἀπηξιωμένα τοῦ λόγου. Εἶτ' οὐκ αἰσχύνεσθε, καὶ τῶν ἀλόγων σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἀλογωτέρους πεποιηκότες, οἱ διὰ τοσούτων ἡλικιῶν ἐν ἀθεότητι κατατέτριφθε; Παῖδες γεγόνατε, εἶτα μειράκια, εἶτα ἔφηβοι, εἶτα ἄνδρες· χρηστοὶ δὲ οὐδέποτε. Κἂν τὸ γῆρας αἰδέσθητε, ἐπὶ δυσμαῖς τοῦ βίου γενόμενοι· σωφρονήσατε κἂν ἐπὶ τέλει τοῦ βίου· τὸν Θεὸν ἐπίγνωτε· ὡς δὴ τὸ τέλος ὑμῖν τοῦ
out before Him all your hearts (Ps. 61:9), unto the novices from wickedness, He says, He shows mercy, and fills them with righteousness. Believe in Him Who is man and God; believe, O man, in Him Who suffered and is worshipped as the living God. Believe, O slaves, in Him Who was dead; all men, believe in Him Who alone is the God of all men. Believe, and receive salvation as your reward: Seek out God, and your soul shall live (Ps. 68:33). He who seeks out God busies himself about his own salvation. Have you found God? You have life. Let us seek, therefore, that we may also live. The reward of finding is life with God. Let all who seek Thee exult and be glad in Thee; and let them say continually, Let God be magnified (Ps. 69:5). A noble hymn of God is an immortal man, built up in righteousness, in whom the oracles of truth have been engraved. For where else than in a temperate soul is righteousness to be inscribed? Where love? And where modesty? And where meekness? Those who have stamped these divine writings, I think, upon their soul ought to deem wisdom a noble starting-point for men turned to whatever part of life, and to consider the same wisdom a waveless haven of salvation; through which those who have run to the Father are good fathers of children, and those who have known the Son are good parents to sons; and those who have remembered the Bridegroom are good husbands of wives; and those who have been ransomed from the uttermost slavery are good masters of household servants. O how much happier than the error among men are the wild beasts! They dwell in ignorance, as you do, but they do not counterfeit the truth. There are no tribes of flatterers among them; fishes are not superstitious; the birds do not worship a single idol. Only the heaven do they marvel at, since they are unable to conceive of God, having been deemed unworthy of reason. Then are you not ashamed, having made yourselves even more irrational than the irrational creatures, you who through so many stages of life have been worn away in godlessness? You have been boys, then striplings, then youths, then men; but good, never. Respect at least old age, having come to the sunset of life; become sober at least at the end of life; recognize God, so that the end of your
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(95) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐκχέετε› · call in col 224 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Ἐκχέετε. Ἐκχέατε Bibl. Graec. Mox, πάσας deest, ibid.

"Pour out". Ἐκχέατε Greek Bible. Next, "all" is missing there.

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Πρὸς τοὺς καινοὺς τῆς πον. Πρὸς τοὺς καιροὺς τῆς πονηρίας, temporibus iniquis, Sylb., Flor., Heins. Recentiores editt. alteram lectionem exhibent, Herveti conjecturam secuti, quam firmat Nov. Posset etiam sic distingui: Πρὸς τοὺς καινοὺς τῆς πονηρίας, λέγει, ἐλεεῖ. Ad novos, hoc est a peccatis ad pietatem nuper conversos, dicit, improbitatis miseretur.

"To those new … of wickedness". "In the times of wickedness", in evil times, Sylburg, Florence edition, Heinsius. The more recent editions give the other reading, following Hervet's conjecture, which Nov. confirms. One could also punctuate thus: "To those new from wickedness, he says, he shows mercy" — to the new, that is, to those lately turned from sins to godliness, he says, he has mercy on their wickedness.

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Πίστευσον. Observavit Cl. Bullus, Clementem hoc loco « Christum non modo hominem, sed et Deum, Deum illum viventem, qui adoratur (quae manifesta est veri Dei periphrasis), denique, unicum hominum omnium Deum pronuntiare. » Defens. Fid. Nicaen., sect. 2, cap. 6.

"Believe". The distinguished Bull observed that in this passage Clement "declares Christ to be not only man but also God, that living God who is worshipped (which is a plain periphrasis for the true God), and finally the one God of all men." Defence of the Nicene Faith, sect. 2, ch. 6.

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Διὰ παντός. Διαπαντὸς Bibl. Graec.

"Continually". Written as one word in the Greek Bible.

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Καλὸς ὕμνος. Simili allusione Christum superius vocavit καινὸν ᾆσμα, p. 6.

"A beautiful hymn". With a like allusion he called Christ "a new song" above, p. 6.

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Σοφίας. Σοφίαν Nov. Quam lectionem receptae praetulerim, quia respondet posteriori hujus sententiae membro. Vult enim Clemens, veram sapientiam esse utriusque, ἀφετηρίου et ὅρμου, loco habendam; quod ab ea scilicet incipiendum, et in ea desinendum sit.

"Of wisdom". "Wisdom" (accusative) Nov. I would prefer this reading to the received one, because it answers to the second member of the sentence. For Clement means that true wisdom is to be held as both starting-post and harbour: that is, that one must begin from it and end in it.

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Τραφεῖσι. Scribe τραπεῖσι, a τρέπω. Quemadmodum superius ἐπιτέτραπται pro ἐπιτέθραπται. Sunt enim casus verborum τρέπω et τρέφω valde εὐμετάβολοι. Conf. sup. not. 57.

"To those nourished". Write τραπεῖσι ("to those turned"), from τρέπω, just as above ἐπιτέτραπται stood for ἐπιτέθραπται. For the forms of the verbs τρέπω and τρέφω are very easily interchanged. Compare note 57 above.

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Γονεῖς υἱέσιν. Harum sententiarum ἀντιστοιχία requirit, ut scribamus υἱοί, vel υἱεῖς, γονεῦσιν.

"Parents to sons". The correspondence of these sentences requires us to write "sons to parents".

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Κἂν τὸ γ. Haec malim sic distinguere cum Nov.: Κἂν τὸ γῆρας αἰδέσθητε, ἐπὶ δυσμαῖς τοῦ βίου γενόμενοι, σωφρονήσατε· κἂν ἐπὶ τέλει τοῦ βίου, τὸν Θεὸν ἐπίγνωτε, ὡς, κ. τ. λ. Saltem senectutem reveremini: jam ad occasum vitae provecti, resipiscite; saltem in fine vitae Deum agnoscite, ut vitae finis fiat vobis salutis principium.

"Even if … old age". I would prefer to punctuate thus, with Nov.: "Respect at least old age; having come to the sunset of life, come to your senses; at least at the end of life acknowledge God, so that", etc. — at least revere old age; now advanced to life's setting, come to your senses; at least at the end of life acknowledge God, so that the end of life may become for you the beginning of salvation.

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ¹⁶ Psal. LXXI, 9. ¹⁷ II Petr. II, 2. ¹⁸ Psal. LXI, 9. ¹⁹ Psal. LXIX, 33. ²⁰ Psal. LXIX, 5.

16 Ps. 71(72):9. 17 2 Pet. 2:2. 18 Ps. 61(62):9. 19 Ps. 69:33. 20 Ps. 69:5.

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βίου ἀρχὴν ἀναλάβοι σωτηρίας. Ἐγηράσατε πρὸς δεισιδαιμονίαν· νέοι ἀφίκεσθε πρὸς θεοσέβειαν· παῖδας ἀκάκους ἐγκρινεῖ ὁ Θεός. Ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀθηναῖος τοῖς Σόλωνος ἑπέσθω νόμοις· καὶ ὁ Ἀργεῖος τοῖς Φορωνέως· καὶ ὁ Σπαρτιάτης τοῖς Λυκούργου· εἰ δὲ σεαυτὸν ἀναγράφεις τοῦ Θεοῦ, οὐρανὸς μέν σοι ἡ πατρὶς, ὁ δὲ Θεὸς νομοθέτης. Τίνες δὲ καὶ οἱ νόμοι; Οὐ φονεύσεις· οὐ μοιχεύσεις· οὐ παιδοφθορήσεις· οὐ κλέψεις· οὐ ψευδομαρτυρήσεις· ἀγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου. Εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ τούτων τὰ παραπληρώματα, λόγιοι νόμοι, καὶ ἅγιοι λόγοι, ἐν αὐταῖς ἐγγραφόμενοι ταῖς καρδίαις· Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς ἑαυτόν· καὶ, Τῷ τύπτοντί σε εἰς τὴν σιαγόνα, πάρεχε καὶ τὴν ἄλλην· καὶ, Οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις· ἐπιθυμίᾳ γὰρ μόνῃ μεμοίχευκας. Πόσῳ γοῦν ἄμεινον τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τοῦ τυγχάνειν τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν τὸ τὴν ἀρχὴν μηδὲ ἐπιθυμεῖν ἐθέλειν ὧν μὴ δεῖ; Ἀλλ' ὑμεῖς μὲν τὸ αὐστηρὸν τῆς σωτηρίας ὑπομένειν οὐ καρτερεῖτε· καθάπερ δὲ τῶν σιτίων τοῖς γλυκέσιν ἡδόμεθα διὰ τὴν λειότητα τῆς ἡδονῆς προτιμῶντες· ἰᾶται δὲ ἡμᾶς καὶ ὑγιάζει τὰ πικρὰ τραχύνοντα τὴν αἴσθησιν, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς τὸν στόμαχον ῥώννυσιν ἡ τῶν φαρμάκων αὐστηρία· οὕτως ἥδει μὲν καὶ γαργαλίζει ἡ συνήθεια· ἀλλ' ἡ μὲν εἰς τὸ βάραθρον ὠθεῖ, ἡ συνήθεια· ἡ δὲ εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀνάγει, ἡ ἀλήθεια. Τραχεῖα μὲν τὸ πρῶτον, ἀλλ' ἀγαθὴ κουροτρόφος· καὶ σεμνὴ μὲν ἡ γυναικωνῖτις αὕτη, σώφρων δὲ ἡ γερουσία· οὐδέ ἐστι δυσπρόσιτος, οὐδὲ ἀδύνατος λαβεῖν, ἀλλ' ἔστιν ἐγγυτάτω, ἐν οἴκοις ἡμῶν· ᾗ φησιν αἰνιττόμενος ὁ πάνσοφος Μωϋσῆς· τρισὶ τοῖς καθ' ἡμᾶς ἐνδιαιτωμένη μέρεσι, χερσὶ, καὶ στόματι, καὶ καρδίᾳ· σύμβολον τοῦτο γνήσιον τρισὶ τοῖς πᾶσι συμπληρουμένης τῆς ἀληθείας, βουλῇ, καὶ πράξει, καὶ λόγῳ. Μηδὲ γὰρ τόδε δείμαινε, μή σε τὰ πολλὰ καὶ ἐπιτερπῆ φανταζόμενον ἀφέληται σοφίας· αὐτὸς ἑκὼν ὑπερβήσῃ τὸν λῆρον τῆς συνηθείας, καθάπερ καὶ οἱ παῖδες τὰ ἀθύρματα, ἄνδρες γενόμενοι, ἀπέῤῥιψαν. Τάχει μὲν δὴ ἀνυπερβλήτῳ εὐνοίᾳ τε εὐπροσίτῳ ἡ
life may recover a beginning of salvation. You have grown old towards superstition; come young towards godliness; God will enrol you as guileless children. Let the Athenian, then, follow the laws of Solon; and the Argive those of Phoroneus; and the Spartan those of Lycurgus; but if you enrol yourself as belonging to God, heaven is your fatherland, and God your lawgiver. And what are the laws? You shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not corrupt boys; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness (Exod. 20:13–16); you shall love the Lord your God (Deut. 6:5; Matt. 22:37). And there are also the complements of these, rational laws and holy words, inscribed in the very hearts: You shall love your neighbour as yourself (Matt. 22:39); and, To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also (Luke 6:29); and, You shall not lust; for by lust alone you have committed adultery (Matt. 5:28). How much better, then, is it for men not even to wish to lust at the outset after the things one ought not, than to obtain their lusts? Yet you do not endure to bear the austerity of salvation; but just as we delight in sweet foods, preferring them because of the smoothness of the pleasure, whereas bitter things, though roughening the sense, heal us and make us whole, and the austerity of medicines strengthens those who are weak in the stomach; so custom pleases and tickles; yet the one, custom, pushes into the pit, while the other, truth, leads up into heaven. Rough indeed at first, yet a good nurse of youths; and reverend is this women's apartment, and temperate the council of elders; nor is she hard of access, or impossible to lay hold of, but is very near, in our homes; as the all-wise Moses says, hinting at her, dwelling in three parts of ours, in hands, and mouth, and heart (Deut. 30:14); this is a true symbol of truth fulfilled in all three things, in counsel, and action, and speech. And do not fear this either, lest the many and delightful things that present themselves to your fancy draw you away from wisdom; you yourself of your own will shall step over the nonsense of custom, just as boys too, having become men, have cast away their playthings. With unsurpassable swiftness indeed and approachable good-will the
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(5) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Οὐ παιδοφθορήσεις› · call in col 225 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Οὐ παιδοφθορήσεις. Hoc praeceptum, licet id nec Exodus, nec Deuteron. agnoscant, cum οὐ μοιχεύσεις, etc., rursus junxit Clemens Paedag. lib. ii, cap. 10, pag. 191; lib. iii, cap. 12, pag. 260; Strom. iii, pag. 440. Idem praeterea factum ab auctore Constitut. apost. lib. vii, c. 2, et ante eos a Barnaba, epist. c. 19. Scelus id vetat Moyses Levit. XVIII, 22.

"You shall not corrupt boys". Though neither Exodus nor Deuteronomy knows this precept, Clement joined it again with "you shall not commit adultery", etc., in Paedagogus book 2, ch. 10, p. 191; book 3, ch. 12, p. 260; Strom. 3, p. 440. The same was done besides by the author of the Apostolic Constitutions, book 7, ch. 2, and before them by Barnabas, Epistle ch. 19. Moses forbids that crime in Lev. 18:22.

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Ἀγαπήσεις. Haec Clemens partim e Matthaeo, partim e Luca consarcinavit; e memoria scilicet, pro more suo, Christi dicta recitans.

"You shall love". Clement has patched these together partly from Matthew, partly from Luke, quoting Christ's sayings from memory, as is his habit.

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Ὡς ἑαυτόν. A. mavult ὡς σεαυτόν, secundum legitimam sermonis regulam, ut infra. SYLBURG. — Σεαυτὸν habet N. Test. textus.

"As himself". A. prefers "as yourself", according to the proper rule of the language, as below. Sylburg. — The New Testament text has "yourself".

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Τὸ τήν. Haec verba omittit Nov.

"The … the". Nov. omits these words.

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Τραχεῖα. Respicit Odyss. I, v. 27, quo Ulysses de Ithaca dicit: Τρηχεῖ', ἀλλ' ἀγαθὴ κουροτρόφος.... Aspera, sed bona juvenum altrix.

"Rough". He has in view Odyssey 9.27, where Ulysses says of Ithaca: "Rough, but a good nurse of young men …" [The Latin repeats the line in translation.]

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Γυναικωνῖτις. Apud Lacedaemonios, Romanos, aliasque gentes, virgines inter mulieres in γυναικωνίτιδι degebant; juvenes in senum consessum, vel senatum duci solebant, ut eorum exemplis praeceptisque ad bonos mores instruerentur.

"Women's quarters". Among the Spartans, the Romans and other peoples, maidens lived among the women in the women's quarters; young men used to be brought into the assembly of the elders, or senate, so as to be trained in good conduct by their examples and precepts.

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Οὐδέ ἐστι. Respicit Deuteron. xxx, 14: Ἐγγύς σου ἐστὶ τὸ ῥῆμα σφόδρα, ἐν τῷ στόματί σου, καὶ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, καὶ ἐν ταῖς χερσί σου ποιεῖν αὐτό. Philo Judaeus, De nominum mut., pag. 1081: Μωϋσῆς, διδάσκων, ὅτι ἡ ἀγαθὴ κτῆσις οὔτ' ἀδύνατός ἐστιν, οὔτε δυσθήρατος, φησίν· Οὐκ εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀναπτῆναι δεῖ, οὐδ' ἄχρι περάτων γῆς καὶ θαλάττης ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν σύλληψιν αὐτοῦ· ἀλλ' ἔστιν ἐγγὺς, καὶ σφόδρα ἐγγύς· εἶτα μόνον οὐχ ὀφθαλμοφανῶς δείκνυσι· Πᾶν ἔργον, φησὶ, τῷ στόματί σου, καὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ, καὶ ταῖς χερσί· συμβολικῶς ἐν λόγοις, ἐν βουλαῖς, ἐν ἔργοις. Moyses docens bonam illam possessionem, neque impossibilem esse, nec investigatione difficilem, ait: « Non opus esse in coelum volare, aut usque ad extremos terrae marisque fines se conferre, ut ea percipiatur, sed prope esse, ac valde prope. » Deinde illam propemodum ante oculos ponit, dicens: « Omne opus in ore tuo, et in corde, et in manibus. » Quae verba idem notant ac haec: In verbis, in consiliis, in operibus.

"Nor is it". He has in view Deut. 30:14: "The word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart and in your hands, to do it." Philo the Jew, On the Change of Names, p. 1081: "Moses, teaching that the good possession is neither impossible nor hard to hunt down, says: one need not fly up to heaven, nor go to the ends of earth and sea to lay hold of it; but it is near, very near. Then he all but shows it before the eyes: 'Every work', he says, 'in your mouth, and in your heart, and in your hands' — symbolically, in words, in counsels, in deeds." [The Latin repeats the Philo passage in translation.]

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Καθ' ἡμᾶς. Sic A. rectius, quam quod olim legebatur, καθ' ὑμᾶς.

"Our". So A., more correctly than the former reading, "your".

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ²¹ Exod. XX, 13, 14, 15, 16. ²² Deut. VI, 5; Matth. XXII, 37, etc. ²³ Ibid, 39. ²⁴ Luc. VI, 29. ²⁵ Matth. V, 28.

21 Exod. 20:13–16. 22 Deut. 6:5; Matt. 22:37, etc. 23 Ibid. 39. 24 Luke 6:29. 25 Matt. 5:28.

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δύναμις ἡ θεϊκὴ ἐπιλάμψασα τῇ γῇ, σωτηρίου σπέρματος ἐνέπλησε τὸ πᾶν. Οὐ γὰρ ἂν οὕτως ἐν ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ τοσοῦτον ἔργον ἄνευ θείας κηδεμονίας ἐξήνυσεν ὁ Κύριος, ὄψει καταφρονούμενος, ἔργῳ προσκυνούμενος, ὁ καθάρσιος, καὶ σωτήριος, καὶ μειλίχιος, ὁ θεῖος Λόγος, ὁ φανερώτατος ὄντως Θεὸς, ὁ τῷ Δεσπότῃ τῶν ὅλων ἐξισωθείς· ὅτι ἦν υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ, οὔθ' ὅτε τὸ πρῶτον προεκηρύχθη ἀπιστηθεὶς, οὔθ' ὅτε τὸ ἀνθρώπου προσωπεῖον ἀναλαβὼν, καὶ σαρκὶ ἀναπλασάμενος, τὸ σωτήριον δρᾶμα τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος ὑπεκρίνετο, ἀγνοηθείς· γνήσιος γὰρ ἦν ἀγωνιστὴς, καὶ τοῦ πλάσματος συναγωνιστής· τάχιστα δὲ εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους διαδοθεὶς, θᾶττον ἡλίου ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀνατείλας τῆς πατρικῆς βουλήσεως, ῥᾷστα ἡμῖν ἐπέλαμψε τὸν Θεόν· ὅθεν τε ἦν αὐτὸς, καὶ ὃς ἦν, δι' ὧν ἐδίδαξε καὶ ἐνεδείξατο, παραστησάμενος, ὁ σπονδοφόρος, καὶ διαλλακτὴς, καὶ Σωτὴρ ἡμῶν Λόγος, πηγὴ ζωοποιὸς, εἰρηνικὴ, ἐπὶ πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς χεόμενος· δι' ὃν, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, τὰ πάντα ἤδη πέλαγος γέγονεν ἀγαθῶν.
divine power, having shone upon the earth, has filled the universe with saving seed. For the Lord would not have accomplished so great a work in so short a time without divine providence, He Who in appearance was despised, in deed worshipped, the Purifier, and Saviour, and Gracious One, the divine Word, the most manifest true God, He Who was made equal to the Master of the universe; because He was His Son, and the Word was in God (John 1:1), neither disbelieved when He was first proclaimed beforehand, nor unacknowledged when, having taken up the mask of man, and having refashioned Himself in flesh, He acted out the saving drama of humanity; for He was a true champion, and a fellow-champion with His creature; and having been most swiftly distributed unto all men, having risen swifter than the sun out of the Father's will itself, most easily did He make God shine upon us; having proved whence He Himself was, and Who He was, through the things which He taught and showed forth, the Herald of truce, and Reconciler, and Word our Saviour, a life-giving, peaceful spring, poured out over the whole face of the earth; through Whom, so to speak, all things have already become an ocean of good things.
Μικρὸν δὲ, εἰ βούλει, ἄνωθεν ἄθρει τὴν θείαν εὐεργεσίαν. Ὁ πρῶτος, ὅτε ἐν παραδείσῳ ἔπαιζε λελυμένος, ἐπεὶ παιδίον ἦν τοῦ Θεοῦ· ὅτε δὲ ὑπέπιπτεν ἡδονῇ· (ὄφις ἀλληγορεῖται ἡδονὴ ἐπὶ γαστέρα ἕρπουσα, κακία γηΐνη, εἰς ὕλας τρεφομένη·) παρήγετο ἐπιθυμίαις ὁ παῖς, ἀνδριζόμενος ἀπειθείᾳ· καὶ παρακούσας τοῦ Πατρὸς, ἠσχύνετο τὸν Θεόν. Οἷον ἴσχυσεν ἡδονή. Ὁ δι' ἁπλότητα λελυμένος ἄνθρωπος ἁμαρτίαις εὑρέθη δεδεμένος. Τῶν δεσμῶν λῦσαι τοῦτον ὁ Κύριος αὖθις ἠθέλησεν· καὶ σαρκὶ ἐνδεθεὶς, μυστήριον θεῖον! τούτῳ τὸν ὄφιν ἐχειρώσατο, καὶ τὸν τύραννον ἐδουλώσατο, τὸν θάνατον· καὶ τὸ παραδοξότατον, ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν ἡδονῇ πεπλανημένον, τὸν τῇ φθορᾷ δεδεμένον χερσὶν ἡπλωμέναις ἔδειξε λελυμένον. Ὢ θαύματος μυστικοῦ! Κέκλιται μὲν ὁ Κύριος, ἀνέστη δὲ ἄνθρωπος· καὶ ὁ
And survey from a little higher up, if you will, the divine beneficence. The first man, when he was in paradise, sported free, since he was a child of God; but when he fell under pleasure (for the serpent crawling upon its belly, earthy wickedness nourished for fuel, is allegorized as pleasure), the boy was led astray by lusts, growing to manhood in disobedience; and having disobeyed the Father, he was ashamed before God. How great was the power of pleasure! Man, who because of simplicity was free, was found bound in sins. The Lord wished to loose him from his bonds again; and having been bound in flesh—O divine mystery!—by this He subdued the serpent, and enslaved the tyrant, death; and most paradoxical of all, that very man who had gone astray through pleasure, who was bound to corruption, by His outstretched hands He showed to be loosed. O mystic wonder! The Lord has been bowed down, and man has risen up; and he who
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Τῇ γῇ. Τὴν γῆν Nov.

"To the earth". "The earth" (accusative) Nov.

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Κηδεμονίας. Κομιδῆς Nov.

"Of care". "Of tending" Nov.

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Ὁ καθάρσιος, καὶ σωτήριος, καὶ μειλίχιος. Tria Jovis cognomina.

"The Purifier, and Saviour, and Gracious". Three surnames of Jupiter.

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Ὁ θεῖος Λόγος. Insignis locus contra Arianos. Conf. quae adnotavit doctissimus Bullus, Defens. fid. Nicaen., sect. 2, c. 6, p. 88, et sect. 2, cap. 2, p. 260, 261. Porro φανερώτατος ὄντως Θεός idem est ac φανερώτατος ὢν Θεός, manifestissime Deus exsistens. Quemadmodum Strom. v, p. 547, dicitur σοφία καὶ χρηστότης φανερωτάτη τοῦ Θεοῦ, Dei sapientia et benignitas manifestissima.

"The divine Word". A notable passage against the Arians. Compare what the most learned Bull noted, Defence of the Nicene Faith, sect. 2, ch. 6, p. 88, and sect. 2, ch. 2, pp. 260–261. Further, "truly most manifest God" is the same as "being most manifestly God". Just as in Strom. 5, p. 547, one reads of "the most manifest wisdom and kindness of God".

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Ὁ Λόγος. Respicit Joan. I, 1: Ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν.

"The Word". He has in view John 1:1: "The Word was with God."

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Γνήσιος. Superius similia dixit pag. 5, ubi conf. not.

"Genuine". He said similar things above, p. 5; see the note there.

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Ὑπέπιπτεν. Ἐπέπιπτεν Nov.

"Fell under". "Fell upon" Nov.

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Ὄφις. Serpentis allegoria est apud Philonem Hexaemero. H. Sic idem Philo de legum allegor. Πολύπλοκός γε καὶ ποικίλη ὥσπερ τοῦ ὄφεως ἡ κίνησις, οὕτως καὶ τῆς ἡδονῆς. A. SYLBURG. — Item lib. De agricultura p. 201, 202, et alibi saepe.

"Serpent". The allegory of the serpent is in Philo's Hexaemeron. H. So the same Philo, On the Allegory of the Laws: "As the serpent's motion is many-coiled and intricate, so also is pleasure's." A. Sylburg. — Likewise in the book On Husbandry, pp. 201–202, and often elsewhere.

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Τούτῳ. Τοῦτον Nov.

"By this". "This one" Nov.

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ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου πεσὼν, μεῖζον ὑπακοῆς ἆθλον, οὐρανοὺς ἀπολαμβάνει. Διό μοι δοκεῖ, ἐπεὶ αὐτὸς ἧκεν ὡς ἡμᾶς οὐρανόθεν ὁ Λόγος, ἡμᾶς ἐπ' ἀνθρωπίνην ἰέναι μὴ χρῆναι διδασκαλίαν ἔτι, Ἀθήνας καὶ τὴν ἄλλην Ἑλλάδα, πρὸς δὲ καὶ Ἰωνίαν, πολυπραγμονοῦντας. Εἰ γὰρ ἡμῖν ὁ διδάσκαλος, ὁ πληρώσας τὰ πάντα δυνάμεσιν ἁγίαις, δημιουργίᾳ, σωτηρίᾳ, εὐεργεσίᾳ, νομοθεσίᾳ, προφητείᾳ, διδασκαλίᾳ, πάντα νῦν ὁ διδάσκαλος κατηχεῖ, καὶ τὸ πᾶν ἤδη Ἀθῆναι καὶ Ἑλλὰς γέγονε τῷ Λόγῳ. Οὐ γὰρ δὴ μύθῳ μὲν ἐπιστεύετε ποιητικῷ, τὸν Μίνω τὸν Κρῆτα, τοῦ Διὸς, ὡς ἄριστον, ἀναγράφοντι, ἡμᾶς δὲ ἀπιστήσετε μαθητὰς Θεοῦ γεγονότας, τὴν ὄντως ἀληθῆ σοφίαν ἐπανῃρημένους, οὐδ' ἣν φιλοσοφίας ἄκροι μόνον ᾐνίξαντο, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ μαθηταὶ καὶ κατειλήφασιν καὶ ἀνεκήρυξαν. Καὶ δὴ καὶ πᾶς, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, ὁ Χριστὸς, οὐ μερίζεται, οὔτε βάρβαρός ἐστιν, οὔτε Ἰουδαῖος, οὔτε Ἕλλην· οὐκ ἄῤῥεν, οὐ θῆλυ· καινὸς δὲ ἄνθρωπος, Θεοῦ Πνεύματι ἁγίῳ μεταπεπλασμένος. Εἶθ' αἱ μὲν ἄλλαι συμβουλαί τε καὶ ὑποθῆκαι λυπραὶ, καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐπὶ μέρους εἰσὶν, εἰ γαμητέον, εἰ πολιτευτέον, εἰ παιδοποιητέον, καθολικὴ δὲ ἄρα προτροπὴ μόνη καὶ πρὸς ὅλον δηλαδὴ τὸν βίον, ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ, ἐν πάσῃ περιστάσει πρὸς τὸ κυριώτατον τέλος, τὴν ζωὴν, συντείνουσα, ἡ θεοσέβεια, καθ' ὃ καὶ μόνον ἐπάναγκές ἐστι ζῇν, ἵνα ζήσωμεν ἀεί. Φιλοσοφία δὲ, ᾗ φασιν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι, πολυχρόνιός ἐστι συμβουλὴ σοφίας, ἀΐδιον μνηστευομένη ἔρωτα· ἐντολὴ δὲ Κυρίου τηλαυγὴς, φωτίζουσα ὀφθαλμούς. Ἀπόλαβε τὸν Χριστὸν, ἀπόλαβε τὸ βλέπειν, ἀπόλαβέ σου τὸ φῶς·
fell from paradise receives a greater prize of obedience, the heavens. Wherefore it seems to me, since the Word Himself has come to us from heaven, that we ought no longer to go to human teaching, busying ourselves with Athens and the rest of Greece, and Ionia besides. For if our Teacher is He Who has filled all things with holy powers—creation, salvation, beneficence, legislation, prophecy, teaching—the Teacher now instructs us in all things, and the whole world has already become Athens and Greece by the Word. For surely you will not believe a poetic myth which enrols Minos the Cretan as the bosom friend of Zeus, and yet disbelieve us who have become disciples of God, who have taken up the truly genuine wisdom, that which the chief men of philosophy only hinted at, whereas the disciples of Christ have both grasped and proclaimed aloud. And indeed the whole Christ, so to speak, is not divided; there is neither barbarian, nor Jew, nor Greek; neither male, nor female; but a new man (Gal. 3:28; 6:15; Eph. 4:24), refashioned by God's Holy Spirit. Moreover, the other counsels and precepts are meager, and concern particular matters—whether one ought to marry, whether one ought to engage in politics, whether one ought to beget children—whereas clearly the only universal exhortation, extending to the whole of life, in every season, in every circumstance, towards the supreme end, life, is godliness, according to which alone it is necessary to live, that we may live for ever. Philosophy, as the elders say, is a long-continued counsel of wisdom, wooing an eternal love; whereas the commandment of the Lord is far-shining, enlightening the eyes (Ps. 18:9). Receive Christ, receive sight, receive your light,
Ὄφρ' εὖ γινώσκοις ἠμὲν Θεὸν, ἠδὲ καὶ ἄνδρα.
That you may well know both God and man.
Γλυκὺς ὁ Λόγος ὁ φωτίσας ἡμᾶς, ὑπὲρ χρυσίον καὶ λίθον τίμιον· ποθεινός ἐστιν ὑπὲρ μέλι καὶ κηρίον. Πῶς γὰρ οὐ ποθεινὸς, ὁ τὸν ἐν σκότει κατορωρυγμένον νοῦν ἐνεργῆ ποιησάμενος, καὶ τὰ φωσφόρα τῆς ψυχῆς ἀποξύνας ὄμματα; καὶ
Sweet is the Word Who has enlightened us, above gold and precious stone; He is to be desired above honey and the honeycomb (Ps. 18:11). For how is He not to be desired, Who has made active the mind that was buried in darkness, and sharpened the light-bearing eyes of the soul? And
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Ἀνθρωπίνην. Haec eo non tendunt, ut humaniores litteras penitus rejiciamus, quarum utilitatem postea copiose ostendit, principio Strom. i, sed tantum ne illas divinis praeferamus.

"Human". These words do not aim at our rejecting humane letters altogether — he later shows their usefulness at length at the beginning of Strom. 1 — but only at our not preferring them to divine things.

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Τοῦ Διὸς, ὡς ἄριστον, ἀναγράφοντι. Procul dubio legendum τοῦ Διὸς ὀαριστὴν ἀναγρ. ex hoc versu Odyss. Τ: .... ἔνθα τε Μίνως Ἐννέωρος βασίλευε Διὸς μεγάλου ὀαριστής. SYLBURG. COLLECT. — Atque hanc emendationem firmat Nov.

"To one who records Zeus as best". Beyond doubt read "who records [Minos as] the familiar of Zeus", from this verse of Odyssey 19: "… where Minos reigned in nine-year terms, familiar friend of great Zeus." Sylburg; Collect. — And Nov. confirms this emendation.

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Ἀπιστήσετε. Sic legendum esse, pro ἀπιστήσατε, monuit A. Sylburg.

"You will disbelieve". A. Sylburg advised that it be read so, for ἀπιστήσατε.

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Καὶ δὴ καὶ πᾶς. Gentium discrimen apud Christum non esse, docet Paulus Coloss. III, et Gal. III. SYLBURG.

"And indeed every". That with Christ there is no distinction of nations Paul teaches in Col. 3 and Gal. 3. Sylburg.

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Καινὸς δὲ ἄν. Haec sic distinguit Nov.: Καινὸς δὲ ἄνθρωπος Θεοῦ, Πνεύμ. ἁγ. κ. Novus autem homo Dei, Spiritu S. transformatus.

"But new man". Nov. punctuates thus: "But a new man of God, [transformed] by the Holy Spirit" — a new man of God, transformed by the Holy Spirit.

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Σοφίας. Haec vox ad sequentia referri debet, ut fit in Nov. Vult enim philosophiam esse συμβουλὴν σοφίας· quemadmodum apud Diogenem Laertium in Platone, philosophia dicitur ὄρεξις τῆς θείας σοφίας, appetitio divinae sapientiae, item a Philone, ἐπιτήδευσις σοφίας, meditatio sapientiae, lib. De congr. quaer. erud. grat., pag. 435. Idem lib. De mundi opific., pag. 17, de contemplatione dicit: Ἀφ' ἧς πληχθεὶς ὁ νοῦς, ἔρωτα καὶ πόθον ἔσχε τῆς τούτων ἐπιστήμης· ὅθεν τὸ φιλοσοφίας ἀνεβλάστησε γένος. Qua perculsa mens, amorem et desiderium hujusmodi rerum concipit; unde prognata est philosophia. Nam philosophia non est ipsa sapientia, sed ejus amor, si vocis originem spectemus. Unde Pythagoras sese non σοφόν, sed φιλόσοφον appellari voluit.

"Of wisdom". This word should be referred to what follows, as is done in Nov. For he means that philosophy is a counsel of wisdom; just as in Diogenes Laertius, in his Plato, philosophy is called "the longing for divine wisdom", and by Philo "the practice of wisdom", in the book On Mating with the Preliminary Studies, p. 435. The same, On the Creation of the World, p. 17, says of contemplation: "Struck by it, the mind conceived a love and longing for the knowledge of these things; whence the race of philosophy sprang up." For philosophy is not wisdom itself but the love of it, if we look at the word's origin. Hence Pythagoras wished to be called not wise but a lover of wisdom. [Each Greek phrase is followed by its Latin version.]

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Ὄφρ' εὖ. Hic versus exstat Il. Ε, v. 128, quo loco γινώσκῃς pro γινώσκοις scriptum est.

"That you may well …". This verse is found in Iliad 5.128, where γινώσκῃς is written for γινώσκοις.

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Ἐνεργῆ. Scribe ἐναργῆ ex Nov. quod Latine vertimus.

"Active". Write ἐναργῆ ("clear"), from Nov., which is what we have translated into Latin.

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Φωσφόρα. Phrasis poetica, e Platone comico sumpta. Euripides etiam dixit φωσφόροι κόραι.

"Light-bearing". A poetic phrase, taken from Plato the comic poet. Euripides too said "light-bearing pupils".

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ²⁶ Galat. iii, 28; vi, 15; Ephes. IV, 25. ²⁷ Psal. XVIII, 9. ²⁸ Ibid. 11.

26 Gal. 3:28; 6:15; Eph. 4:25. 27 Ps. 18(19):9. 28 Ibid. 11.

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γὰρ ὥσπερ ἡλίου μὴ ὄντος, ἕνεκα τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων νὺξ ἂν ἦν τὰ πάντα· οὕτως, εἰ μὴ τὸν Λόγον ἔγνωμεν, καὶ τούτῳ κατηυγάσθημεν, οὐδὲν ἂν τῶν σιτευομένων ὀρνίθων ἐλειπόμεθα, ἐν σκότει πιαινόμενοι, καὶ θανάτῳ τρεφόμενοι. Χωρήσωμεν τὸ φῶς, ἵνα χωρήσωμεν τὸν Θεόν· χωρήσωμεν τὸ φῶς, καὶ μαθητεύσωμεν τῷ Κυρίῳ. Τοῦτό τοι καὶ ἐπήγγελται τῷ Πατρί· Διηγήσομαι τὸ ὄνομά σου τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς μου· ἐν μέσῳ Ἐκκλησίας ὑμνήσω σε. Ὕμνησον, καὶ διηγήσομαι τὸν πατέρα σου, τὸν Θεόν· σώζει σου τὰ διηγήματα, παιδεύσει με ἡ ᾠδὴ, ὡς μέχρι νῦν ἐπλανώμην, ζητῶν τὸν Θεόν. Ἐπεὶ δέ με φωταγωγεῖς, Κύριε, καὶ τὸν Θεὸν εὑρίσκω διὰ σοῦ, καὶ τὸν Πατέρα ἀπολαμβάνω παρὰ σοῦ, γίνομαί σου συγκληρονόμος, ἐπεὶ, τὸν ἀδελφὸν οὐκ ἐπῃσχύνθης. Ἀφέλωμεν οὖν, ἀφέλωμεν τὴν λήθην τῆς ἀληθείας, τὴν ἄγνοιαν· καὶ τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐμποδὼν, ὡς ἀχλὺν ὄψεως καταγαγόντες, τὸν ὄντως ὄντα Θεὸν ἐποπτεύσωμεν, ταύτην αὐτῷ πρῶτον ἀνυμνήσαντες τὴν φωνήν· Χαῖρε, φῶς· ὅτι φῶς ἡμῖν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, τοῖς ἐν σκότει κατορωρυγμένοις, καὶ ἐν σκιᾷ θανάτου κατακεκλεισμένοις, ἐξέλαμψεν, ἡλίου καθαρώτερον, ζωῆς τῆς ἐνταῦθα γλυκύτερον. Τὸ φῶς ἐκεῖνο ζωή ἐστιν ἀΐδιος· καὶ ὅσα μετείληφεν αὐτοῦ, ζῇ. Ἡ νὺξ δὲ εὐλαβεῖται τὸ φῶς· καὶ δύνουσα διὰ τὸν φόβον, παραχωρεῖ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ Κυρίου. Τὰ πάντα φῶς ἀκοίμητον γέγονε, καὶ ἡ δύσις εἰς ἀνατολὴν περιέστηκεν. Τοῦτο ἡ κτίσις ἡ καινὴ βεβούληται· ὁ γὰρ τὰ πάντα καθιππεύων δικαιοσύνης Ἥλιος ἐπίσης περιπολεῖ τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα, τὸν Πατέρα μιμούμενος, ὃς ἐπὶ πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἀνατέλλει τὸν ἥλιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταψεκάζει τὴν δρόσον τῆς ἀληθείας· Οὗτος τὴν δύσιν εἰς ἀνατολὴν μετήγαγε, καὶ τὸν θάνατον εἰς ζωὴν ἀνεσταύρωσεν· ἐξαρπάσας δὲ τῆς ἀπωλείας τὸν ἄνθρωπον, προσεκρέμασεν αἰθέρι, μεταφυτεύων τὴν φθορὰν εἰς ἀφθαρσίαν, καὶ γῆν μεταβάλλων εἰς οὐρανοὺς, ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ γεωργὸς, Δεξιὰ σημαίνων, λαοὺς δ' ἐπὶ ἔρ-
for just as if the sun did not exist, for all the other stars all things would have been night; so, had we not known the Word, and been illuminated by Him, we would have been in no way inferior to birds that are being crammed, fattened in darkness, and nourished for death. Let us receive the light, that we may receive God; let us receive the light, and become disciples to the Lord. This indeed He has also promised to the Father: I will declare Thy name to My brethren; in the midst of the Church I will hymn Thee (Ps. 21:23). Hymn, and declare to me your Father, God; your declarations save, your song will instruct me how until now I was wandering in error, seeking God. But since You lead me into the light, O Lord, and I find God through You, and receive the Father from You, I become Your fellow-heir (Rom. 8:17), since You were not ashamed of Your brother (Heb. 2:11). Let us take away, therefore, let us take away the forgetfulness of the truth, ignorance; and having stripped off the darkness that stands in the way, like a mist over the sight, let us behold the truly existing God, having first raised to Him this voice of praise: Hail, O light! Because a light from heaven has shone forth upon us who were buried in darkness and shut up in the shadow of death (Isa. 9:2; Matt. 4:16), purer than the sun, sweeter than life here below. That light is eternal life; and whatsoever things have partaken of it live. And night shrinks back from the light, and sinking down through fear, gives way to the day of the Lord. All things have become sleepless light, and the setting has trusted in the rising. This is what the new creation has willed; for the Sun of righteousness (Mal. 4:2), Who rides over all things, traverses humanity equally, imitating the Father, Who makes His sun to rise upon all men (Matt. 5:45), and sprinkles down the dew of truth. He has transferred the setting into the rising, and crucified death into life; and having snatched man out of destruction, He has suspended him in the ether, transplanting corruption into incorruption, and transforming earth into heavens, He the Husbandman of God, showing favourable signs, and rousing peoples to a
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Σιτευομένων ὀρνίθων. Varro lib. iii, c. 9, De re rustica: De tribus generibus gallinae saginantur maxime villaticae. Eas includunt in locum tepidum, et angustum, et tenebricosum; quod motus earum et lux pinguedini inimica; vel, ut alii legunt, vindicta. Martialis lemmate, Gallina altilis, Pascitur et dulci facilis gallina farina, Pascitur et tenebris: ingeniosa gula est. Paulo post, ἀφέλωμεν τὴν λήθην τῆς ἀληθείας, τὴν ἄγνοιαν, auferamus oblivionem veritatis ignorantiam. Sic Platonici scientiam dicebant esse reminiscentiam. COLLECT.

"Of birds being fattened". Varro, On Farming, book 3, ch. 9: "Of the three kinds of hens, the farmyard ones are chiefly fattened. They shut them in a warm, narrow and dark place, because movement and light are hostile to their fat" — or, as others read, "a punishment". Martial, under the heading "The fattened hen": "The easy hen is fed on sweet meal, and fed on darkness too: the gullet is ingenious." A little after: "let us take away the forgetting of the truth, the ignorance" — let us remove ignorance, the forgetting of the truth. So the Platonists said that knowledge is recollection. Collect.

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Χωρήσωμεν. Χωρίσωμεν Nov.

"Let us make room". "Let us separate" Nov.

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Ὕμνησον, καὶ διηγήσομαι τὸν π. Ὕμν. καὶ διηγήσομαί σοι τ. π. Nov. Scribi debet, ὕμνησον, καὶ διήγησόν μοι τὸν πατέρα· quod in Latina versione expressimus. Sunt enim verba hominis Christo per prosopopoeiam respondentis. Sed scriptor aliquis parum attentus διηγήσομαι, quod paulo superius occurrit, hic repetendum putasse videtur.

"Hymn, and I will tell of the Father". "Hymn, and I will tell you of the Father" Nov. One should write "Hymn, and tell me of the Father", which we have expressed in the Latin version. For they are the words of a man answering Christ by prosopopoeia. But some inattentive copyist seems to have thought that διηγήσομαι, which occurs a little above, was to be repeated here.

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Ἀχλύν. Respicere videtur locum Iliad. Ε, paulo superius laudatum, quo Minerva Diomedem his alloquitur: Ἀχλὺν δ' αὖ τοι ἀπ' ὀφθαλμῶν ἕλον, ἣ πρὶν ἐπῆεν, Ὄφρ' εὖ γινώσκῃς ἠμὲν θεὸν ἠδὲ καὶ ἄνδρα.

"Mist". He seems to have in view the passage of Iliad 5 cited a little above, where Minerva addresses Diomedes thus: "And I have taken from your eyes the mist that was on them before, so that you may well know both god and man."

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Ἀνυμνήσαντες. Jul. Firmicus, De errore prof. rel. c. 20: Dicis etiam Χαῖρε, νυμφίε, χαῖρε, φῶς. Quid miserum hominem per abrupta praecipitas calamitosa persuasio? Quid illi falsae spei polliceris insignia? Nullum apud te lumen est, nec aliquis sponsus, qui hoc mereatur audire. Unum tamen est, unus est aliquis sponsus hominum, quorum gratiam Christus accepit. COLLECT.

"Having hymned". Julius Firmicus, On the Error of Profane Religions, ch. 20: "You also say, 'Hail, bridegroom, hail, light.' Why, disastrous persuasion, do you hurl a wretched man down the cliffs? Why do you promise him the badges of a false hope? With you there is no light, nor any bridegroom who deserves to hear this. There is one, however, one only bridegroom of men, whose favour Christ has received." Collect.

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Ὅτι φ. Ὅτι omittit Nov.

"That light …". Nov. omits "that".

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Καθιππεύων. Alludit ad solis equos.

"Riding over". He alludes to the horses of the sun.

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Δεξιὰ σημαίνων. Non ad aliud quid alludit, sed Arati carmina usurpat. Sic enim habent Graeca, Δεξιὰ σημαίνει, λαοὺς δ' ἐπὶ ἔργον ἐγείρει, Μιμνήσκων βιότοιο.... Quae reperies apud hunc ipsum Clementem lib. v Strom.: Isque et numine dextera significat, etc. Festus Avienus: Hoc duce per tumidi ferimur freta gurgitis, isto Praeceptore solum gravidis versamur aratris, Iste modum statuit signis. (continues)

"Signalling favourable things". He is not alluding to anything else but borrows the verses of Aratus. For the Greek runs: "He signals favourable things, and rouses the peoples to work, reminding them of their livelihood …" — which you will find in Clement himself, Strom. 5: "And he with his power signals favourable things", etc. Festus Avienus: "With him as guide we are borne across the straits of the swelling flood; with him as teacher we turn the soil with heavy ploughs; he has set the measure by the signs." (continues)

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ²⁹ Psal. XXI, 23. ³⁰ Rom. VIII, 17. ³¹ Hebr. II, 11. ³² Matth. IV, 16; Isa. ix, 2. ³³ Malach. IV, 2. ³⁴ Matth. V, 45.

29 Ps. 21(22):23. 30 Rom. 8:17. 31 Heb. 2:11. 32 Matt. 4:16; Isa. 9:2. 33 Mal. 4:2. 34 Matt. 5:45.

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γον ἀγαθὸν ἐγείρων, μιμνήσκων βιότοιο ἀληθινοῦ· καὶ τὸν μέγαν ὄντως καὶ θεῖον καὶ ἀναφαίρετον τοῦ Πατρὸς κλῆρον χαριζόμενος ἡμῖν, οὐρανίῳ διδασκαλίᾳ θεοποιῶν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, διδοὺς νόμους εἰς τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίαν γράφων αὐτούς. Τίνας ὑπογράφει νόμους; Ὅτι πάντες εἴσονται τὸν Θεὸν, ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου· καὶ ἵλεως, φησὶν ὁ Θεὸς, ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς, καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν οὐ μνησθῶ. Δεξώμεθα τοὺς νόμους τῆς ζωῆς· πεισθῶμεν προτρεπομένῳ Θεῷ· μάθωμεν αὐτὸν, ἵνα ἵλεως ᾖ· ἀποδῶμεν καὶ μὴ δεομένῳ μισθὸν εὐχάριστον, εὐπάθειαν, οἱόντι ἐνοίκιον, τὴν εὐσέβειαν τῷ Θεῷ, τῆς ἐνταῦθα ἐνοικήσεως.
good work, reminding them of the true livelihood; and freely bestowing upon us the truly great and divine and inalienable inheritance of the Father, deifying man by heavenly teaching, giving laws into their mind, and writing them upon their heart. What laws does He prescribe? That all shall know God, from the small unto the great; and I will be merciful to them, says God, and their sins I will remember no more (Jer. 31:33–34; Heb. 8:10–12). Let us receive the laws of life; let us obey God when He exhorts us; let us learn Him, that He may be merciful; let us render even to Him Who needs nothing a thankful recompense, a good disposition, as a sort of rent for our dwelling here below, godliness towards God.
Χρύσεα χαλκείων, ἑκατόμβοι' ἐννεαβοίων,
Golden for bronze, a hundred oxen's worth for the worth of nine,
ὀλίγης πίστεως γῆν σοι δίδωσι τὴν τοσαύτην γεωργεῖν, ὕδωρ πίνειν, καὶ ἄλλο πλεῖν, ἀέρα ἀναπνεῖν, πῦρ ὑπουργεῖν, κόσμον οἰκεῖν· ἐντεῦθεν εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀποικίαν στείλασθαί σοι συγκεχώρηκεν· τὰ μεγάλα ταῦτα καὶ τοσαῦτά σοι δημιουργήματα καὶ χαρίσματα, ὀλίγης πίστεως μεμίσθωκεν. Εἶθ' οἱ μὲν τοῖς γόησι πεπιστευκότες τὰ περίαπτα καὶ τὰς ἐπαοιδὰς, ὡς σωτηρίους δῆθεν, ἀποδέχονται· ὑμεῖς δὲ οὐ βούλεσθε τὸν οὐράνιον αὐτὸν περιάψασθαι, τὸν Σωτῆρα Λόγον· καὶ τῇ ἐπῳδῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ πιστεύσαντες ἀπαλλαγῆναι μὲν παθῶν, ἃ δὴ ψυχῆς νόσοι, ἀποσπασθῆναι δὲ ἁμαρτίας· θάνατος γὰρ ἀΐδιος ἁμαρτία. Ἢ τέλεον νωδοὶ καὶ τυφλοὶ, καθάπερ οἱ σπάλακες, οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ ἐσθίοντες, ἐν σκότῳ διαιτᾶσθε, περικαταῤῥέοντες τῇ φθορᾷ. Ἀλλ' ἔστιν ἡ ἀλήθεια ἡ κεκραγυῖα· Ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψει. Λαμψάτω οὖν ἐν τῷ
for a little faith He gives you this so great earth to till, water to drink, and other water to sail upon, air to breathe, fire to serve you, a world to inhabit; from here He has permitted you to send forth a colony into the heavens; these great and so numerous works of creation and gifts of grace He has let out to you for a little faith. Then do those who have put their trust in sorcerers welcome amulets and charms, as being saving, forsooth; while you do not wish to bind upon yourselves the heavenly One Himself, the Saviour Word, and trusting in the charm of God to be freed from passions, which are diseases of the soul, and to be torn away from sin—for sin is eternal death? Truly, utterly toothless and blind, like moles, doing nothing else than eating, you pass your life in darkness, crumbling away on all sides in corruption. Yet it is the truth that cries aloud: Out of darkness light shall shine (2 Cor. 4:6). Let the light shine, therefore, in the
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Θεοποιῶν. Superius adnotatum est, Clementem saepe dicere, homines per pietatem ac virtutem non solum Deo assimilari, sed quodammodo in divinam naturam transformari ac deos fieri. Str. vi, p. 670: Δύναμιν λαβοῦσα κυριακὴν ἡ ψυχὴ, μελετᾷ εἶναι θεός. Anima, cum Domini vim et gratiam accepit, meditatur esse deus. Str. vii, p. 710: Θεαταὶ, ἄγγελοι καὶ θεοί, Spectatores, angeli et dii. Ubi deos appellat beatorum animas. Ibid., p. 732: Τὴν ἐσομένην ἡμῖν κατὰ Θεὸν μετὰ θεῶν δίαιταν. Futurum nobis secundum Deum cum diis convictum, id est cum justis animabus. Mox ibidem: Θεοὶ τὴν προσηγορίαν κέκληνται οἱ σύνθρονοι τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν τῶν ὑπὸ τῷ Σωτῆρι πρώτων τεταγμένων γενησόμενοι. Deorum appellantur nomine, qui in iisdem sedibus sunt collocati, in quibus alii dii, qui sunt primi a Servatore constituti. Ibid., p. 761, dixit eum, qui Christo paret, ἐν σαρκὶ περιπολοῦντα θεόν, in carne versantem deum esse. Conf. p. 134, 405, 529, 535, 651, 702, etc. Huic autem loquendi modo ansam dedit S. Scriptura, quibus locis homines deos appellavit. Clemens Protrept. p. 76, ad eos, qui sancte in hoc mundo versantur, Psalmi verba applicat, Ego dixi: Dii estis, et filii Altissimi. Conf. Paedag. lib. i, cap. 6, pag. 93; Strom. ii, p. 414. Et Str. iv, p. 534: Τούτῳ, inquit, δυνατὸν τῷ τρόπῳ τὸν γνωστικὸν ἤδη γενέσθαι θεόν. Ἐγὼ εἶπα· Θεοί ἐστε, καὶ υἱοὶ Ὑψίστου. Str. vi, p. 687: Τοὺς ἐπιγνόντας αὐτὸν, υἱοὺς ἀναγορεύει καὶ θεούς. E philosophis non unus huic metaphorae favit. Clemens Heraclitum adduxit Paedag. lib. iii, cap. 1: Ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος, ᾧ σύνοικος ὁ Λόγος... μορφὴν ἔχει τοῦ Λόγου, ἐξομοιοῦται τῷ Θεῷ... Θεὸς δὲ ἐκεῖνος ὁ ἄνθρωπος γίνεται, ὅτι βούλεται ὁ Θεός. Ὀρθῶς ἄρα εἶπεν Ἡράκλειτος· Ἄνθρωποι θεοί· θεοὶ ἄνθρωποι. Item Platonem Strom. iv, p. 536, 537: Εἰκότως οὖν καὶ Πλάτων τὸν τῶν ἰδεῶν θεωρητικὸν θεὸν ἐν ἀνθρώποις ζήσεσθαί φησι. Mox: Καὶ ἐν τῷ Σοφιστῇ δὲ τὸν Ἐλεάτην ξένον, διαλεκτικὸν ὄντα, ὁ Σωκράτης θεὸν ὀνομάζει· οἵους τοὺς θεοὺς ξείνοισιν ἀλλοδαποῖσιν, ἐπιφοιτῶντας τοῖς ἄστεσιν.

"Making gods". It was noted above that Clement often says that through godliness and virtue men are not only made like God but are in a way transformed into the divine nature and become gods. Strom. 6, p. 670: "The soul, having received the Lord's power, practises being god." Strom. 7, p. 710: "Spectators, angels and gods" — where he calls the souls of the blessed gods. Ibid., p. 732: "the life that will be ours, according to God, with the gods", that is, with the souls of the just. Next, in the same place: "They are called by the name of gods who will be enthroned with the other gods, those first ranked under the Saviour." Ibid., p. 761, he said that one who obeys Christ is "a god going about in the flesh". Compare pp. 134, 405, 529, 535, 651, 702, etc. Holy Scripture gave occasion for this way of speaking in the passages where it called men gods. Clement, Protrepticus p. 76, applies to those who live holily in this world the Psalm's words, "I said, You are gods, and sons of the Most High." Compare Paedagogus book 1, ch. 6, p. 93; Strom. 2, p. 414. And Strom. 4, p. 534: "In this way," he says, "the gnostic can already become a god. 'I said, You are gods, and sons of the Most High.'" Strom. 6, p. 687: "Those who have come to know him he proclaims sons and gods." More than one of the philosophers favoured this metaphor. Clement cited Heraclitus, Paedagogus book 3, ch. 1: "That man with whom the Word dwells … has the form of the Word, is made like God … and that man becomes god, because God wills it. Rightly then did Heraclitus say: Men are gods, gods are men." Likewise Plato, Strom. 4, pp. 536–537: "Fittingly, then, Plato too says that he who contemplates the Ideas will live as a god among men." Next: "And in the Sophist Socrates calls the Eleatic stranger, who is a dialectician, a god — 'such as are the gods who, in the guise of foreign strangers, visit the cities'." [Each Greek quotation in the first part is followed by its Latin version, which says the same.]

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Διδοὺς νόμ. Haec Clemens διὰ μνήμης recitans Scripturae sensum potius quam verba exhibuit.

"Giving laws". Quoting these from memory, Clement gave the sense of Scripture rather than its words.

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Ἀποδῶμεν. Persius, Sat. 2, v. 71: Quin damus id superis, de magna quod dare lance Non possit magni Messalae lippa propago, Compositum jus fasque animi, sanctosque recessus Mentis, et incoctum generoso pectus honesto: Haec cedo, ut admoveam templis, et farre litabo.

"Let us render". Persius, Satire 2, line 71: "Why not give the gods what great Messalla's blear-eyed offspring could not give from his great dish: right and justice well ordered in the soul, the holy recesses of the mind, and a breast steeped in noble honour? Let me bring these to the temples, and I will sacrifice acceptably with meal."

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Χρύσεα χαλκ. Ex Iliad. Ζ, v. 236. Porro cum manifeste ad ea, quae sequuntur, pertineat hic versus, priores Clementis editiones eum unanimiter praecedentibus adnectunt, excepta Flor. in qua ambiguum est, utram ad partem pertineat.

"Gold for bronze". From Iliad 6.236. Further, though this verse plainly belongs with what follows, the earlier editions of Clement unanimously attach it to what precedes, except the Florence edition, in which it is ambiguous which side it belongs to.

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Νωδοί. Haud scio, an aptius νωθοί, seu νωθροί, ignavi et pigri; nisi forte, quia sequitur ἐσθίοντες, νωδοὶ peculiariter hic intelligendi, qui segnius comedunt: cum alias νωδοὶ sint, qui comedere non possunt, dentibus carentes, edentuli. SYLBURG.

"Toothless". I wonder whether νωθοί or νωθροί, "sluggish and lazy", would be more fitting; unless perhaps, since "eating" follows, νωδοί is to be understood here in a special sense, of those who eat sluggishly — whereas elsewhere νωδοί are those who cannot eat, lacking teeth, the toothless. Sylburg.

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Ἀλλ' ἔστιν ἡ ἀλ. Ἀλλ' ἔστιν, ἔστιν ἡ ἀλ. Nov.

"But it is the truth". "But it is, it is the truth" Nov.

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Λάμψει. A. mavult λάμψαι ex II Cor. IV, 6. SYLBURG.

"Will shine". A. prefers λάμψαι ("to shine"), from 2 Cor. 4:6. Sylburg.

(scripture reference, numbered, printed above the notes) ³⁵ Hebr. VIII, 10, 11, 12; Jer. XXXI, 33, 34.

35 Heb. 8:10–12; Jer. 31:33–34.

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  • running head: CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI
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ἀποκεκρυμμένῳ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ, τὸ φῶς· καὶ τῆς γνώσεως αἱ ἀκτῖνες ἀνατειλάτωσαν, τὸν ἐγκεκρυμμένον ἔνδον ἐκφαίνουσαι καὶ ἀποστίλβουσαι ἄνθρωπον, τὸν μαθητὴν τοῦ φωτὸς, τὸν Χριστοῦ γνώριμόν τε καὶ συγκληρονόμον· μάλιστα ἐπειδὰν τὸ τιμιώτατον καὶ σεβασμιώτατον, εὐσεβεῖ τε καὶ ἀγαθῷ παιδὶ ἀγαθοῦ Πατρὸς ὄνομα εἰς γνῶσιν ἀφίκηται, προστάττοντος ἤπια, καὶ τῷ παιδὶ ἐγκελευομένου τὰ σωτήρια. Ὁ δὲ πειθόμενος αὐτῷ κατὰ πάντα δὴ πλεονεκτεῖ, ἕπεται τῷ Θεῷ, πείθεται τῷ Πατρὶ, ἔγνω πλανώμενος αὐτὸν, ἠγάπησε τὸν Θεὸν, ἠγάπησε τὸν πλησίον, ἐπλήρωσε τὴν ἐντολὴν, τὸ ἆθλον ἐπιζητεῖ, τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν ἀπαιτεῖ. Πρόκειται δὲ ἀεὶ τῷ Θεῷ, τὴν ἀνθρώπων ἀγέλην σώζειν· ταύτῃ καὶ τὸν ἀγαθὸν ποιμένα ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἀπέστειλεν Θεός. Ἁπλώσας δὲ ὁ Λόγος τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἔδειξε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὸ ὕψος τῆς σωτηρίας, ὅπως ἢ μετανοήσαντες σωθῶσιν, ἢ, μὴ ὑπακούσαντες, κριθῶσιν· τοῦτο τῆς δικαιοσύνης τὸ κήρυγμα, ὑπακούουσιν εὐαγγέλιον, παρακούσασιν κριτήριον. Ἀλλὰ σάλπιγξ μὲν ἡ μεγαλόκλονος, ἠχήσασα, στρατιώτας συνήγαγεν, καὶ πόλεμον κατήγγειλεν· Χριστὸς δὲ, εἰρηνικὸν ἐπὶ τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς ἐπιπνεύσας μέλος, οὐ συνάξει ἄρα τοὺς εἰρηνικοὺς στρατιώτας τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ; Συνήγαγε μὲν οὖν, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, τὸ στρατιωτικὸν τὸ ἀναίμακτον, αἵματι καὶ λόγῳ· καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν αὐτοῖς ἐνεχείρησεν. Σάλπιγξ ἐστὶ Χριστοῦ τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον αὐτοῦ· ὁ μὲν ἐσάλπισεν, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἠκούσαμεν. Ἐξοπλισώμεθα εἰρηνικῶς, ἐνδυσάμενοι τὸν θώρακα τῆς δικαιοσύνης, καὶ τὴν ἀσπίδα τῆς πίστεως ἀναλαβόντες, καὶ τὴν κόρην τοῦ σωτηρίου περιθέμενοι· καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν τοῦ Πνεύματος, ὅ ἐστι ῥῆμα Θεοῦ, ἀκονήσωμεν. Οὕτως ἡμᾶς ὁ Ἀπόστολος εἰρηνικῶς ἐκτάττει· ταῦτα ἡμῶν τὰ ὅπλα τὰ ἄτρωτα· τούτοις ἐξοπλισάμενοι παραταξώμεθα τῷ πονηρῷ· τὰ πεπυρακτωμένα τοῦ πονηροῦ ἀποσβέσωμεν βέλη ταῖς ὑδατίναις ἀκμαῖς, ταῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ Λόγου βεβαμμέναις, εὐχαρίστοις ἀμειβόμενοι τὰς εὐποιίας εὐλογίαις, καὶ τὸν Θεὸν τῷ θείῳ γεραίροντες Λόγῳ. Ἔτι γὰρ λαλοῦντός σου, ἐρεῖ, φησὶν· Ἰδοὺ πάρειμι. Ὢ τῆς ἁγίας καὶ μακαρίας ταύτης δυνάμεως, δι' ἧς ἀνθρώποις συμπολιτεύεται Θεός. Λώϊον οὖν καὶ ἄμεινον, τῆς ἀρίστης τῶν ὄντων οὐσίας μιμητὴν ὁμοῦ καὶ θεραπευτὴν γενέσθαι· οὐ γὰρ μιμεῖσθαί τις δυνήσεται τὸν Θεὸν, ἢ δι' ὧν ὁσίως θεραπεύσει· οὐδ' ἂν θεραπεύειν καὶ σέβειν, ἢ μιμούμενος· ὁ γέ τοι οὐράνιος καὶ θεῖος ὄντως ἔρως, ταύτῃ προσγίνεται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, ὅτ' ἂν ἐν αὐτῇ που τῇ ψυχῇ τὸ ὄντως καλὸν, ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου Λόγου ἀναζωπυρούμενον, ἐκλάμπειν δυνηθῇ· καὶ τὸ μέγιστον, ἅμα τῷ βουληθῆναι γνησίως τὸ σωθῆναι συντρέχει, ὁμοζυγούντων, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν,
hidden part of man, in the heart, the light; and let the rays of knowledge rise, revealing and making shine the man hidden within, the disciple of the light, the acquaintance and fellow-heir of Christ; especially when the most precious and most venerable name of the good Father comes to the knowledge of a pious and good child, commanding gentle things, and enjoining upon the child the things that bring salvation. And he who obeys Him has the advantage in all things, follows God, obeys the Father, came to know Him while wandering, loved God, loved his neighbour, fulfilled the commandment, seeks the prize, claims the promise. And it is always set before God to save the flock of men; wherefore the good God also sent the good Shepherd. And the Word, having unfolded the truth, showed to men the height of salvation, so that either repenting they might be saved, or, not obeying, they might be judged; this is the proclamation of righteousness, to those who obey, glad tidings, to those who disobey, a criterion of judgement. Yet the loud-dinning trumpet, when it sounded, gathered soldiers together, and proclaimed war; and shall not Christ, having breathed a peaceful strain unto the ends of the earth, gather together His own peaceful soldiers? He did indeed gather together, O man, the bloodless host, by blood and word, and entrusted to them the kingdom of the heavens. The trumpet of Christ is His Gospel; He sounded the trumpet, and we heard. Let us arm ourselves peacefully, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and taking up the shield of faith, and placing around our head the helmet of salvation; and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, let us sharpen. Thus the Apostle peacefully draws us up in battle array; these are our invulnerable weapons; armed with these let us array ourselves against the evil one; let us quench the fiery darts of the evil one with the watery points dipped by the Word, requiting His benefits with grateful praises, and honouring God with the divine Word. For while you are yet speaking, He shall say, it says: Behold, here I am. O this holy and blessed power, through which God holds fellowship with men! It is better, therefore, and nobler to become at once an imitator and a servant of the best essence of all things; for no one will be able to imitate God save through the things whereby he piously serves Him, nor yet to serve and worship Him save by imitating Him; for the heavenly and truly divine love comes to men in this way, whenever within the soul itself that which is truly fair, kindled anew by the divine Word, is able to shine forth; and, what is greatest, together with the genuine willing, salvation runs alongside, as there are yoked together, so to speak,
Editors' notes and page, col. 236

Footnotes

(46) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐπειδὰν τὸ τιμ.› · call in col 236 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Ἐπειδὰν τὸ τιμ. Ἐπειδὰν τὸ τιμιώτατον εὐσεβῆ τε καὶ ἀγ. Nov.

"Since the most precious …". "Since the most precious, both godly and good …" Nov.

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(47) ‹anchor: ὑδατίναις (47) ἀκμαῖς› · call in col 236

Ὑδατίναις. Aqua sc. baptismi constantibus. Mox alludit ad ferrum, quod aqua tingi solet, ut indurescat.

"Watery". That is, consisting of the water of baptism. Next he alludes to iron, which is commonly dipped in water to harden it.

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(48) ‹anchor: οὐδ' ἂν (48) θεραπεύειν› · call in col 236

Ἄν. Et ἂν retineri potest, et αὖ pro eo substitui; subaudiendum vero ex praecedente membro δυνήσεται. SYLBURG.

"Would". Both ἄν can be kept and αὖ ("again") substituted for it; but "will be able" is to be supplied from the preceding clause. Sylburg.

(scripture references, numbered, printed above the notes) ³⁶ II Cor. IV, 6. ³⁷ Rom. VIII, 17. ³⁸ Ephes. VI, 14, 16, 17; I Thess. V, 8; Isa. lix, 17. ³⁹ Isa. lviii, 9.

36 2 Cor. 4:6. 37 Rom. 8:17. 38 Eph. 6:14, 16, 17; 1 Thess. 5:8; Isa. 59:17. 39 Isa. 58:9.

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  • running head: CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI 236
  • marginal letters: A ἀποκεκρυμμένῳ τοῦ; B Ἁπλώσας δὲ; C πίστεως ἀναλαβόντες; D οὐ γὰρ
  • old-edition numerals: (none)
  • other: (none)
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προαιρέσεως καὶ ζωῆς. Τοιγάρτοι μόνη αὕτη ἡ τῆς ἀληθείας προτροπὴ τοῖς πιστοτάτοις ἀπείκασται τῶν φίλων, μέχρι τῆς ἐσχάτης ἀναπνοῆς παραμένουσα, παραπομπὸς ἀγαθὴ ὅλῳ καὶ τελείῳ τῷ τῆς ψυχῆς πνεύματι τοῖς εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀπαίρουσι γινομένη. Τί δή σε προτρέπω; Σωθῆναί σε ἐπείγομαι· τοῦτο Χριστὸς βούλεται· ἑνὶ λόγῳ, ζωήν σοι χαρίζεται. Καὶ τίς ἐστιν οὗτος; μάθε συντόμως· Λόγος ἀληθείας, Λόγος ἀφθαρσίας, ὁ ἀναγεννῶν τὸν ἄνθρωπον, εἰς ἀλήθειαν αὐτὸν ἀναφέρων, τὸ κέντρον τῆς σωτηρίας, ὁ ἐξελαύνων τὴν φθορὰν, ὁ ἐκδιώκων τὸν θάνατον, ὁ ἐν ἀνθρώποις οἰκοδομήσας νεὼν, ἵνα ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἱδρύσῃ τὸν Θεόν. Ἅγνισον τὸν νεὼν, καὶ τὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ τὰς ῥᾳθυμίας, ὥσπερ ἄνθος ἐφήμερον, καταλίμπανε ἀνέμῳ καὶ πυρί· σωφροσύνης δὲ τοὺς καρποὺς γεώργησον ἐμφρόνως, καὶ σεαυτὸν ἀκροθίνιον ἀνάστησον τῷ Θεῷ, ὅπως οὐκ ἔργον μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ χάρις ᾖ τοῦ Θεοῦ· πρέπει δὲ ἄμφω, τῷ Χριστῷ γνώριμον καὶ βασιλείας ἄξιον φανῆναι, καὶ βασιλείας κατηξιῶσθαι.
choice and life. Wherefore this exhortation of truth alone is likened to the most faithful of friends, abiding until the last breath, becoming for those departing into heaven a good escort with the whole and perfect spirit of the soul. Why then do I exhort you? I am eager that you be saved; this Christ wills; in one word, He freely grants you life. And who is He? Learn briefly: the Word of truth, the Word of incorruption, He Who regenerates man, leading him back to truth, the goad of salvation, He Who drives out corruption, He Who banishes death, He Who built a temple in men, that He might establish God in men. Purify the temple, and abandon pleasures and laxities, like a flower of a day, to wind and fire; and wisely cultivate the fruits of temperance, and dedicate yourself as a first-fruit offering to God, so that you may be not the work only, but also the grace of God; and both befit one known to Christ, to appear worthy of the kingdom and to have been counted worthy of the kingdom.
Φύγωμεν οὖν τὴν συνήθειαν, φύγωμεν, οἷον ἄκραν χαλεπὴν, ἢ Χαρύβδεως ἀπειλὴν, ἢ Σειρῆνας μυθικάς· ἄγχει τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τῆς ἀληθείας ἀποτρέπει, ἀπάγει τῆς ζωῆς· παγίς ἐστι, βάραθρόν ἐστι, βόθρος ἐστὶ, λίχνος ἐστὶ, κακὸν ἡ συνήθεια·
Let us flee custom, then, let us flee it like a rugged headland, or the threat of Charybdis, or the mythic Sirens; it chokes man, turns him away from truth, leads him away from life; custom is a snare, is an abyss, is a pit, is greedy, is an evil:
Κείνου μὲν καπνοῦ καὶ κύματος ἐκτὸς ἔεργε Νῆα. . . .
Keep the ship outside that smoke and wave . . .
Φεύγωμεν, ὦ συνναῦται, φεύγωμεν τὸ κῦμα τοῦτο, πῦρ ἐρεύγεται· νῆσός ἐστι πονηρὰ, ὀστοῖς καὶ νεκροῖς σεσωρευμένη· ᾄδει δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ πορνίδιον ὡραῖον, ἡδονὴ, πανδήμῳ τερπόμενον μουσικῇ·
Let us flee, O shipmates, let us flee this wave; it belches fire; it is an evil island, heaped with bones and corpses; and in it sings a fair little harlot, pleasure, delighting in vulgar music:
Δεῦρ' ἄγ' ἰὼν, πολύαιν' Ὀδυσεῦ, μέγα κῦδος Ἀχαιῶν·
Come hither, much-praised Odysseus, great glory of the Achaeans;
Νῆα κατάστησον, ἵνα θειοτέρην ὄπ' ἀκούσῃς.
Bring your ship to a stand, that you may hear a diviner voice.
Ἐπαινεῖ σε, ὦ ναῦτα, καὶ πολυύμνητον λέγει, καὶ τὸ κῦδος τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἡ πόρνη σφετερίζεται· ἔασον αὐτὴν
She praises you, O sailor, and calls you much-hymned, and the harlot appropriates to herself the glory of the Greeks; leave her
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Footnotes

(49) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τῷ› · call in col 237 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Τῷ. Hunc articulum omittit Nov.

"The". Nov. omits this article.

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(50) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Γινομένη› · call in col 237

Γινομένη. Γενομένη Nov.

"Becoming". "Having become" Nov.

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(51) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Λόγος ἀφθ.› · call in col 237

Λόγος ἀφθ. Λόγος omittit Nov.

"Word of incorruption". Nov. omits "Word".

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(52) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ τὰς ῥᾳθυμίας› · call in col 237

Τὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ τὰς ῥᾳθυμίας. Fortasse cum interprete Herveto legendum τὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ τὰς θρύψεις. A. SYLBURG. — Perperam, nam paulo post, ῥᾳθυμίας eodem plane sensu occurrit.

"The pleasures and the idlenesses". Perhaps, with the translator Hervet, read "the pleasures and the luxuries". A. Sylburg. — Wrongly, for a little after ῥᾳθυμίας occurs in exactly the same sense.

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(53) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Πρέπει δὲ ἄμφω› · call in col 237

Πρέπει δὲ ἄμφω, τῷ Χριστῷ γνώριμον. Scribe, πρέπει δὲ ἀμφότερον, τὸν Χριστοῦ γνώριμον καὶ βασιλείας ἄξιον φανῆναι, καὶ βασιλείας κατηξιῶσθαι. Hoc est: utrumque decet, ut qui Christi est amicus, et dignus videatur regno, et regno dignatus sit. HEINSIUS.

"Both befit, to Christ a friend". Write: "Both befit him: that the friend of Christ should appear worthy of the kingdom, and should be deemed worthy of the kingdom." That is: both are fitting — that one who is Christ's friend should both seem worthy of the kingdom and be granted it. Heinsius.

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(54) ‹anchor: λίχνος (54)› · call in col 237

Λίχνος. Malim λίκνον.

"Greedy". I would prefer λίκνον ("winnowing-fan").

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(55) ‹anchor: καπνοῦ (55)› · call in col 237

Κείνου μὲν κ. Pro κείνου apud Homerum legitur τούτου. Proverbialiter autem καπνοῦ καὶ κύματος ἐκτὸς βαίνειν usurpat etiam Philo lib. III Περὶ ὀνείρων, editionis nostrae, p. 144. H. SYLBURG. — Τούτου habet etiam Nov. Proinde ea vera lectio est. Sunt autem haec apud Homerum Ulyssis verba, quibus navis suae gubernatorem Scyllam vitare monet. Odyss. Μ, v. 226.

"That smoke". For κείνου, Homer reads τούτου ("this"). Philo too uses "to go clear of smoke and wave" as a proverb, On Dreams book III, p. 144 of our edition. H. Sylburg. — Nov. too has τούτου; so that is the true reading. In Homer these are the words of Ulysses warning his ship's helmsman to avoid Scylla, Odyssey 12.226.

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(56) ‹anchor: κῦμα (56)› · call in col 237

Τὸ κῦμα. Respicit Odyss. Μ, v. 237, ubi poeta fluctum, quem evomuit Charybdis, comparat λέβητι ἐν πυρὶ πολλῷ· lebeti in igne multo.

"The wave". He has in view Odyssey 12.237, where the poet compares the flood that Charybdis spewed out to "a cauldron on a great fire".

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(57) ‹anchor: νῆσός (57)› · call in col 237

Νῆσος. Respicit ejusdem Odyss. Μ, v. 46, ubi, Sirenum insulam describens, haec dicit: Ἀλλά τε σειρῆνες λιγυρῇ θέλγουσιν ἀοιδῇ, Ἥμεναι ἐν λειμῶνι· πολὺς δ' ἀμφ' ὀστεόφιν θὶς Ἀνδρῶν πυθομένων, περὶ δὲ ῥινοὶ μινύθουσιν. Sed Sirenes dulci demulcent cantilena, Sedentes in prato; ingens vero circum ex ossibus acervus Virorum putrefactorum, undique autem cutes minuuntur.

"Island". He has in view the same poet's Odyssey 12.46, where, describing the Sirens' island, he says: "But the Sirens bewitch with clear song, sitting in a meadow; and about them is a great heap of bones of rotting men, and the skins shrivel round them." [The Latin repeats the lines in translation.]

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(58) ‹anchor: πανδήμῳ (58)› · call in col 237

Ἡδονὴ, πανδήμῳ. Ἡδονῇ πανδήμῳ conjuncte, Nov.

"Pleasure, [delighting] in vulgar …". "In vulgar pleasure", joined, Nov.

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(59) ‹anchor: Δεῦρ' ἄγ' (59)› · call in col 237

Δεῦρ' ἄγ'. Sirenum verba, quibus Ulyssem ad sese pertrahere conabantur, Odyss. Μ, v. 184.

"Come hither". The Sirens' words, with which they tried to draw Ulysses to themselves, Odyssey 12.184.

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(60) ‹anchor: ὄπ' ἀκούσῃς (60)› · call in col 237

Θειοτέρην ὄπ' ἀκ. Νωϊτέρην ὄπ' editiones vulgatae habent Odyss. Μ. A. SYLBURG. — Utitur hoc (continues)

"Hear a more divine voice". The common editions of Odyssey 12 have "our voice". A. Sylburg. — He uses this … (continues)

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Editors' prose

CAPUT XII.

CHAPTER XII.

Hortatur ut missis erroribus et cupiditatibus pristinis, se Christo, unico veritatis magistro, instituendos praebeant.

He exhorts them that, having dismissed their former errors and desires, they offer themselves to Christ, the only teacher of truth, to be instructed.

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  • running head: 237 COHORTATIO AD GENTES.
  • marginal letters: A προαιρέσεως καὶ; B πυρί· σωφροσύνης; C [ἔεργε; D λέβητι ἐν πυρὶ (foot, note 56)
  • old-edition numerals: P. 91 ED. POTTER, 73 ED. PARIS. after ἔασον αὐ-
  • other: after Θεοῦ· the words πρέπει δὲ ἄμφω, τῷ Χριστῷ γνώριμον καὶ βα- stand across the gutter in col. 238 before σιλείας ἄξιον; full-width chapter heading CAPUT XII. and Latin summary Hortatur ut missis... printed across cols. 237-238 and cut off at the right edge, not set; ends mid-word ἔασον αὐ-
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  • running head: COHORTATIO AD GENTES. 238
  • marginal letters: A coelum tendit; B pulus est; C Navem; D (none in this column; the D at the foot stands with col. 237's note 56)
  • old-edition numerals: 33 after ossibus
  • old-edition marker: ✠ before veluti primitias (Latin), keyed to the foot line "✠ P. 91 ED. POTTER, 73 ED. PARIS."
  • other: facing Latin version (coelum tendit... suam facere conatur meretrix) left out; one Greek line (πρέπει δὲ ἄμφω... καὶ βα-) printed across the gutter below the first Latin paragraph is set in col. 237 in reading order (before σιλείας) and NOT repeated here, so this part sets no paragraph (Q4 2026-11-08: checked against the page; no duplication); its footnote (53) stands in n237; full-width CAPUT XII. and Latin summary (Hortatur... praebeant) across cols. 237-238 are set once as editors' prose in n237
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  • running head: 239 CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI
  • marginal letters: A Sine ipsam; B Atqui mihi; C castis umbrosus; D Festina, Tiresia
  • old-edition numerals: P. 92 ED. POTTER, 74 ED. PARIS. after Geminasque Thebas
  • other: facing Latin version, not set
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ἐπινέμεσθαι τοὺς νεκροὺς, Πνεῦμά σε οὐράνιον βοηθεῖ· πάριθι τὴν ἡδονὴν, βουκολεῖ·
to feed among the corpses; a heavenly Spirit helps you; pass by pleasure, she beguiles:
Μηδὲ γυνή σε νόου πυγοστόλος ἐξαπατάτω,
And let not a woman with flaunting train deceive your mind,
Αἱμύλα κωτίλλουσα, τεὴν διφῶσα καλιήν.
Prattling coaxingly, seeking out your barn.
Παράπλει τὴν ᾠδὴν, θάνατον ἐργάζεται. Ἐὰν ἐθέλῃς μόνον, νενίκηκας τὴν ἀπώλειαν· καὶ τῷ ξύλῳ προσδεδεμένος ἁπάσης ἔσῃ τῆς φθορᾶς λελυμένος· κυβερνήσει σε ὁ Λόγος ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τοῖς λιμέσι καθορμίσει τῶν οὐρανῶν τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. Τότε μου κατοπτεύσεις τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐκείνοις τελεσθήσῃ μυστηρίοις, καὶ τῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἀπολαύσεις ἀποκεκρυμμένων, τῶν ἐμοὶ τετηρημένων, ἃ οὔτε οὖς ἤκουσεν, οὔτε ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνέβη τινός.
Sail past the song, it works death. If only you are willing, you have conquered destruction; and bound to the wood you shall be loosed from all corruption; the Word of God will steer you, and the Holy Spirit will bring you to anchor in the havens of the heavens. Then you shall behold my God, and be initiated into those holy mysteries, and enjoy the things hidden in the heavens, the things reserved for me, which neither ear has heard, nor have they entered into the heart of anyone.
Καὶ μὴν ὁρᾷν μοι δύο μὲν ἡλίους δοκῶ,
And truly I seem to myself to see two suns,
Δισσὰς δὲ Θήβας,
And a twofold Thebes,
βακχεύων ἔλεγέ τις εἰδώλοις, ἀγνοίᾳ μεθύων ἀκράτῳ. Ἐγὼ δ' αὐτὸν οἰκτείραιμι παροινοῦντα, καὶ τὸν οὕτω παρανοοῦντα ἐπὶ σωτηρίαν παρακαλέσαιμι σωφρονοῦσαν ὅτι καὶ Κύριος μετάνοιαν ἁμαρτωλοῦ, καὶ οὐχὶ θάνατον ἀσπάζεται. Ἦκε, ὦ παραπλὴξ, μὴ θύρσῳ σκηριπτόμενος, μὴ κιττῷ ἀναδούμενος· ῥίψον τὴν μίτραν, ῥίψον τὴν νεβρίδα, σωφρόνησον. Δείξω σοι τὸν Λόγον, καὶ τοῦ Λόγου τὰ μυστήρια, κατὰ τὴν σὴν διηγούμενος εἰκόνα. Ὄρος ἐστὶ τοῦτο Θεῷ πεφιλημένον· οὐ τραγῳδίαις ὡς Κιθαιρὼν ὑποκείμενον, ἀλλὰ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀνακείμενον δράμασιν· ὄρος νηφάλιον, ἁγναῖς ὕλαις σύσκιον· βακχεύουσι δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ οὐχ αἱ Σεμέλης τῆς κεραυνίας ἀδελφαὶ αἱ Μαινάδες, αἱ δύσαγνον κρεανομίαν μυούμεναι, ἀλλ' αἱ τοῦ Θεοῦ θυγατέρες, αἱ ἀμνάδες αἱ καλαὶ, τὰ σεμνὰ τοῦ Λόγου θεσπίζουσαι ὄργια, χορὸν ἐγείρουσαι σώφρονα. Ὁ χορὸς οἱ δίκαιοι· τὸ ᾆσμα ὕμνός ἐστι τοῦ πάντων βασιλέως. Ψάλλουσιν αἱ κόραι, δοξάζουσιν ἄγγελοι, προφῆται λαλοῦσιν· ἦχος στέλλεται μουσικῆς, δρόμῳ τὸν θίασον διώκουσι· σπεύδουσιν οἱ κεκλημένοι, Πατέρα ποθοῦντες ἀπολαβεῖν. Ἦκέ μοι, ὦ πρέσβυ, καὶ σὺ, τὰς Θήβας λιπὼν, καὶ τὴν μαντικὴν καὶ τὴν Βακχικὴν ἀπορρίψας, πρὸς ἀλήθειαν χειραγωγοῦ. Ἰδού σοι τὸ ξύλον ἐπερείδεσθαι δίδωμι· σπεῦσον, Τειρεσία, πίστευσον, ὄψει. Χριστὸς ἐπιλάμπει φαιδρότερον ἡλίου, δι' ὃν ὀφθαλμοὶ τυ-
said someone revelling in Bacchic frenzy to idols, drunk with unmixed ignorance. Yet I would pity him in his drunken folly, and would exhort one thus frantic unto a sober salvation, because the Lord also welcomes the repentance of a sinner, and not his death. Come, O madman, not leaning on the thyrsus, not crowned with ivy; cast away the headband, cast away the fawnskin, return to your sober senses. I will show you the Word, and the mysteries of the Word, recounting them after the fashion of your own imagery. This is a mountain beloved by God, not subject to tragedies like Cithaeron, but consecrated to the dramas of truth; a sober mountain, shaded with pure woods; and in it revel not the sisters of thunder-stricken Semele, the Maenads, initiated in an impure distribution of flesh, but the daughters of God, the fair lambs, declaring the venerable rites of the Word, raising a sober chorus. The chorus is the righteous; the song is a hymn of the King of all. The maidens sing, angels glorify, prophets speak; a sound of music goes forth, at a run they pursue the sacred band; those who are called hasten, longing to receive the Father. Come to me, O old man, you too, leaving Thebes, and casting away divination and Bacchic frenzy, be led by the hand unto truth. Behold, I give you the wood to lean upon; hasten, Tiresias, believe, you shall see. Christ shines forth brighter than the sun, through Whom the eyes of the blind-
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Footnotes

(61) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Πνεῦμά σε οὐρ.› · call in col 240 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Πνεῦμά σε οὐρ. Pro σέ H. mavult σοί dat. casu, ut alibi. Idem cum A. pro vulg. et corrupto πάραθι, reposuit παράθει, praetercurre. Nostrum πάριθι probat etiam C. Ibidem mox rectius cum A. legimus βουκολεῖ, seducit, seu abducit ab armento. SYLBURG.

"A heavenly breeze [bears] you". For σέ ("you"), H. prefers the dative σοί, as elsewhere. He too, with A., for the common and corrupt πάραθι, restored παράθει, "run past". Our πάριθι ("go past") C. also approves. In the same place, just after, we more rightly read with A. βουκολεῖ, "beguiles", or "leads away from the herd". Sylburg.

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(62) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Νόου› · call in col 240

Νόου. Νόου etsi excusari possit, usitatior tamen est νόον, subaudita praep. κατά, vel simili; atque adeo νόον habent etiam Hesiodi edit. vulgatae sub finem τῶν Ἔργων. V. SYLBURG. — Quam lectionem firmat etiam Nov.

"Of mind". Although νόου could be excused, νόον is more usual, with the preposition κατά or the like understood; indeed the common editions of Hesiod also have νόον near the end of the Works. V. Sylburg. — Nov. also confirms this reading.

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(63) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τῷ ξύλῳ› · call in col 240

Τῷ ξύλῳ. Allusio a malo navis, cui alligatus Ulysses Sirenas evasit, ad lignum crucis.

"To the wood". An allusion from the ship's mast, bound to which Ulysses escaped the Sirens, to the wood of the cross.

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(64) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Μοῦ› · call in col 240

Μοῦ. Pro μοῦ rectius μοί legimus dat. casu ut passim. SYLBURG. — Sed mox iterum primam personam adhibet.

"Of me". For μοῦ we more rightly read the dative μοί, as everywhere. Sylburg. — But just after he again uses the first person.

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(65) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Καὶ μὴν ὁρ.› · call in col 240

Καὶ μὴν ὁρ. Verba Penthei a Baccho in furorem acti apud Euripid. Bacch. v. 9[?]6. Ea rursus laudavit Clemens Paedag. lib ii, cap. 2, pag. 153.

"And indeed I see". The words of Pentheus, driven mad by Bacchus, in Euripides, Bacchae, line 9[?]6 [middle digit damaged in the scan]. Clement quoted them again in Paedagogus book 2, ch. 2, p. 153.

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(66) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἀκράτῳ› · call in col 240

Ἀκράτῳ. Alludit ad eos, qui merum, ἄκρατον, bibendo inebriantur.

"Unmixed". He alludes to those who get drunk by drinking undiluted wine.

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(67) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Κύριος› · call in col 240

Κύριος. Respicit Ezechielis xxxiii, 11, xviii, 32. In iis, quae statim sequuntur, Bacchanalia celebrantes describit. Illi enim, exemplo Bacchi, thyrsum manibus gestantes, hedera redimiti, pellibus induti, insanientium more, montes camposque oberrabant. Conf. Meursii Dionysia.

"The Lord". He has in view Ezek. 33:11; 18:32. In what follows immediately he describes those celebrating the Bacchanalia. For they, after Bacchus's example, carrying the thyrsus in their hands, crowned with ivy, clad in skins, roamed over mountains and plains like madmen. Compare Meursius, Dionysia.

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(68) ‹anchor: ἀληθείας (68)› · call in col 240

Τῆς ἀλ. Τοῖς ἀλ. Nov. His similia superius dixit p. 5.

"Of the truth". "To the [dramas] of truth" Nov. He said things like these above, p. 5.

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(69) ‹anchor: Τειρεσία (69)› · call in col 240

Τειρεσία. Tiresiae fortasse mentionem injecit, quod versus Euripidis paulo superius laudatos (continues)

"Tiresias". Perhaps he brought in a mention of Tiresias because the verses of Euripides cited a little above … (continues)

(scripture reference, numbered, printed above the notes) ⁴⁰ I Cor. II, 9.

40 1 Cor. 2:9.

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  • running head: CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI 240
  • marginal letters: A τὴν ἐπινέμεσθαι; B βη τινός; C ἁγναῖς ὕλαις; D ἐπιλάμπει φαιδρότερον
  • old-edition numerals: (none)
  • other: begins mid-word τὴν (from ἔασον αὐ- in col. 237); ends mid-word τυ- (continued as φλῶν in col. 241)
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φλῶν ἀναβλέπουσιν· νύξ σε φεύξεται, πῦρ φοβηθήσεται, θάνατος οἰχήσεται· ὄψει τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, ὦ γέρον, ὁ Θήβας μὴ βλέπων. Ὢ τῶν ἁγίων ὡς ἀληθῶς μυστηρίων! ὢ φωτὸς ἀκηράτου! Δᾳδουχοῦμαι, τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ τὸν Θεὸν ἐποπτεύσας· ἅγιος γίνομαι, μυούμενος. Ἱεροφαντεῖ δὲ ὁ Κύριος, καὶ τὸν μύστην σφραγίζεται φωταγωγῶν· καὶ παρατίθεται τῷ Πατρὶ τὸν πεπιστευκότα, αἰῶσι τηρούμενον. Ταῦτα τῶν ἐμῶν μυστηρίων τὰ βακχεύματα· εἰ βούλει, καὶ σὺ μυοῦ· καὶ χορεύσεις μετ' ἀγγέλων ἀμφὶ τὸν ἀγέννητον καὶ ἀνώλεθρον καὶ μόνον ὄντως Θεὸν, συνυμνοῦντος ἡμῖν τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου. Ἀΐδιος οὗτος, Ἰησοῦς εἷς, ὁ μέγας ἀρχιερεὺς Θεοῦ τε ἑνὸς τοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς, ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπων εὔχεται, καὶ ἀνθρώποις ἐγκελεύεται. Κέκλυτε· μυρία φῦλα, μᾶλλον δὲ ὅσοι τῶν ἀνθρώπων λογικοὶ, καὶ βάρβαροι, καὶ Ἕλληνες· τὸ πᾶν ἀνθρώπων γένος καλῶ, ὧν ἐγὼ δημιουργὸς θελήματι Πατρός· ἥκετε ὡς ἐμὲ, ὑφ' ἕνα ταχθησόμενοι Θεὸν, καὶ τὸν ἕνα Λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ· καὶ μὴ μόνον τῶν ἀλόγων ζώων πλεονεκτεῖτε τῷ λόγῳ· ἐκ δὲ τῶν θνητῶν ἁπάντων ὑμῖν ἀθανασίαν μόνοις καρπώσασθαι δίδωμι. Ἐθέλω γὰρ, ἐθέλω καὶ ταύτης ὑμῖν μεταδοῦναι τῆς χάριτος· ὁλόκληρον χορηγῶν τὴν εὐεργεσίαν, ἀφθαρσίαν· καὶ Λόγον χαρίζομαι ὑμῖν τὴν γνῶσιν τοῦ Θεοῦ, τέλειον ἐμαυτὸν χαρίζομαι. Τοῦτό εἰμι ἐγὼ, τοῦτο βούλεται ὁ Θεὸς, τοῦτο συμφωνία ἐστὶ, τοῦτο ἁρμονία Πατρὸς, τοῦτο Υἱὸς, τοῦτο Χριστὸς, τοῦτο ὁ Λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ, βραχίων Κυρίου, δύναμις τῶν ὅλων, τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Πατρός· ὧν πάλαι μὲν εἰκόνες, οὐ πᾶσαι δὲ ἐμφερεῖς· διορθώσασθαι ὑμᾶς πρὸς τὸ ἀρχέτυπον βούλομαι, ἵνα μοι καὶ ὅμοιοι γένησθε. Χρίσω ὑμᾶς τῷ πίστεως ἀλείμματι, δι' οὗ τὴν φθορὰν ἀποβάλλετε· καὶ γυμνὸν δικαιοσύνης ἐπιδείξω τὸ σχῆμα, δι' οὗ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἀναβαίνετε. Δεῦτε πρός με πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς· ἄρατε τὸν ζυγόν μου ἐφ' ὑμᾶς, καὶ μάθετε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, ὅτι πραΰς εἰμι, καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ· καὶ εὑρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν· ὁ γὰρ ζυγός μου χρηστὸς, καὶ φορτίον μου ἐλαφρόν ἐστιν. Σπεύσωμεν, δράμωμεν, ὦ θεοφιλῆ καὶ
recover their sight; night will flee from you, fire will fear, death will depart; you shall see the heavens, O old man, who do not see Thebes. O truly holy mysteries! O undefiled light! I am led by torches, having gazed upon the heavens and God; I become holy by being initiated. And the Lord is the hierophant, and seals the initiate while illuminating him; and He commends to the Father him who has believed, kept safe for ages. These are the Bacchic revels of my mysteries; if you will, be you also initiated; and you shall dance with angels around the unbegotten and indestructible and only true God, as God the Word joins with us in singing the hymn. This eternal One, the one Jesus, the great High Priest of the one God Who is the same also as Father, prays on behalf of men, and calls aloud to men: Hear, O myriad tribes, or rather as many among men as are rational, both barbarians and Greeks; I call the whole race of men, whose Creator I am by the will of the Father; come unto Me, to be ranged under one God, and the one Word of God; and do not surpass the irrational animals in reason only, for to you alone of all mortal creatures I grant to reap immortality. For I will, I will to impart to you this grace also, supplying the benefit entire, incorruption; and I freely grant you the Word, the knowledge of God, I freely grant My complete self. This am I, this God wills, this is symphony, this is the harmony of the Father, this is the Son, this is Christ, this is the Word of God, the arm of the Lord, the power of the universe, the will of the Father; of which things there were images of old, yet not all of them like; I wish to correct you according to the archetype, that you may also become like Me. I will anoint you with the ungüent of faith, whereby you cast off corruption; and I will show forth the unadorned form of righteousness, whereby you ascend to God. Come unto Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest; take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls; for My yoke is kindly, and My burden is light. Let us hasten, let us run, O God-loved and
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Footnotes

(70) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ὦ γέρον› · call in col 241 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Ὦ γέρον. Odyss. Μ. et Κ. H. SYLBURG.

"O old man". Odyssey 12 and 10. H. Sylburg.

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(71) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Δᾳδουχοῦμαι› · call in col 241

Δᾳδουχοῦμαι. Alludit ad ritus mysteriorum Eleusiniorum; in quibus erat δᾳδοῦχος, qui facem manu ferebat; ἱεροφάντης, qui sacra monstrabat, μύσται et ἐπόπται, quibus mysteriis initiari, eaque intueri permissum est. Hinc Alcibiades impietatis arguebatur, referente Plutarcho in Alcibiade, ἀπομιμούμενος τὰ μυστήρια, καὶ δεικνύων τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ἑταίροις ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ, ἔχων στολὴν, οἵανπερ Ἱεροφάντης ἔχων δεικνύει τὰ ἱερὰ, καὶ ὀνομάζων αὑτὸν μὲν ἱεροφάντην, Πολυτίωνα δὲ δᾳδοῦχον, κήρυκα δὲ Θεόδωρον. Quod imitatus mysteria, ea domi suae sociis ostendisset, indutus vestem, qualem habens Hierophantes ostendit sacra, et appellasset se quidem Hierophantam, Polytionem vero Daduchum, Theodorum vero praeconem.

"I bear the torch". He alludes to the rites of the Eleusinian mysteries, in which there was the torch-bearer, who carried the torch in his hand; the hierophant, who displayed the holy things; and the initiates and the beholders, who were permitted to be initiated into the mysteries and to look upon them. Hence Alcibiades was accused of impiety, as Plutarch reports in his Alcibiades, for "mimicking the mysteries and showing them to his companions in his own house, wearing a robe such as the hierophant wears when he shows the holy things, and calling himself hierophant, Polytion torch-bearer, and Theodorus herald". [The Latin repeats the Plutarch passage in translation.]

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(72) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Σφραγίζεται› · call in col 241

Σφραγίζεται. Alludit ad sigillum baptismi, et signum, seu characterem, qui deorum quorumdam cultoribus imprimi solebat. Unde illud Apocal. xiii, 17: Ne quis possit emere aut vendere, εἰ μὴ ὁ ἔχων τὸ χάραγμα, ἢ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ θηρίου, ἢ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ. Conf. Archaeologiae Graecae, lib. i, c. 10; lib. iii, c. 2.

"Is sealed". He alludes to the seal of baptism, and to the sign or mark that used to be stamped on the worshippers of certain gods. Hence that verse of Rev. 13:17: "that no one could buy or sell except one who had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name". Compare Archaeologia Graeca, book 1, ch. 10; book 3, ch. 2.

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(73) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἀΐδιος οὗτος› · call in col 241

Ἀΐδιος οὗτος, Ἰησοῦς εἷς, ὁ μ. Potes et sic distinguere: Ἀΐδιος οὗτος Ἰησοῦς, εἷς ὁ μέγας ἀρχιερεύς. Interpres Hervetus post εἷς distinguit, aeternus hic est Jesus unus. SYLBURG. Est porro hoc insigne testimonium adversus Arianos.

"This eternal one, Jesus, one, the great …". You may also punctuate thus: "This Jesus is eternal, the one great high priest." The translator Hervet punctuates after "one": "this is the eternal Jesus, one". Sylburg. This, further, is a notable testimony against the Arians.

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(74) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Κέκλυτε› · call in col 241

Κέκλυτε. Hemistichium ex Iliad. Ρ, v. 220.

"Hear". A half-line from Iliad 17.220.

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(75) ‹anchor: πρός με (75)› · call in col 241

Πρός μέ. Omittit Nov.

"To me". Nov. omits it.

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(76) ‹anchor: πρᾶος (76)› · call in col 241

Πρᾶος. Πρᾶός Bibl. Graec. Mox, Χρηστός ἐστι Nov. Dein, καὶ τὸ φορτίον, Bibl. Graec. et Nov.

"Gentle". Πρᾶός (accented thus) Greek Bible. Next, "is kind" Nov. Then, "and the burden", Greek Bible and Nov.

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  • running head: 241 COHORTATIO AD GENTES.
  • marginal letters: A φλῶν ἀναβλέπουσιν; B μᾶλλον δὲ; C διορθώσασθαι ὑμᾶς; D (none)
  • old-edition numerals: P. 93 ED. POTTER, 75 ED. PARIS. after θεοφιλῆ καὶ
  • other: begins mid-word φλῶν (from τυ- in col. 240); ends mid-sentence with καὶ
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  • running head: COHORTATIO AD GENTES. 242
  • marginal letters: A be, visum; B idem Pater; C hoc Christus; D (none)
  • old-edition numerals: (none)
  • other: facing Latin version, not set
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  • running head: 943 CLEMENTIS ALEXANDRINI
  • marginal letters: A corde; et; B quoquam pati; C sobrium esse; D (none)
  • old-edition numerals: 34 after veritatis.; P. 94 ED. POTTER, 76 ED. PARIS. after adverten-
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θεοείκελα τοῦ Λόγου ἄνθρωποι ἀγάλματα· σπεύσωμεν, δράμωμεν, ἄρωμεν τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτοῦ, ὑπολάβωμεν ἀφθαρσίᾳ καλὸν ἡνίοχον ἀνθρώπων, τὸν Χριστόν. Ἀγαπήσωμεν τὸν πῶλον· ὑποζύγιον ἤγαγε σὺν τῷ παλαιῷ· καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν συνωρίδα καταζεύξας εἰς τὸν Θεὸν, πρὸς ἀθανασίαν κατιθύνει τὸ ἅρμα, σπεύδων πληρῶσαι ἐναργῶς, ὃ ᾐνίξατο πρότερον μὲν εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, νῦν δὲ εἰσελαύνων οὐρανούς. Κάλλιστον θέαμα τῷ Πατρὶ, Υἱὸς ἀΐδιος νικηφόρος. Φιλότιμοι τοίνυν πρὸς τὰ καλὰ, καὶ θεοφιλεῖς ἄνθρωποι γενώμεθα, καὶ τῶν ἀπαθῶν τὰ μέγιστα, Θεὸν καὶ ζωὴν, κτησώμεθα. Ἀρωγὸς δὲ ὁ Λόγος· θαῤῥῶμεν αὐτῷ· καὶ μήποτε ἡμᾶς τοσοῦτος ἀργύρου καὶ χρυσοῦ, μὴ δόξης ἐπέλθῃ πόθος, ὅσος αὐτοῦ τοῦ τῆς ἀληθείας Λόγου. Οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τῷ Θεῷ αὐτῷ ἀρεστὸν, εἰ ἡμεῖς τὰ μὲν πλείστου ἄξια ὑπὲρ ἐλαχίστου ποιούμεθα, ἀνοίας δὲ, καὶ ἀμαθίας, καὶ ῥᾳθυμίας, καὶ εἰδωλολατρείας ὕβρεις περιφανεῖς, καὶ τὴν ἐσχάτην δυσσέβειαν, περὶ πλείονος τιθέμεθα. Οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ τρόπου φιλοσόφων παῖδες πάντα ὅσα πράττουσιν οἱ ἀνόητοι, ἀνοσιουργεῖν καὶ ἀσεβεῖν νομίζουσιν, καὶ αὐτήν γε ἔτι τὴν ἄγνοιαν μανίας εἶδος ὑπογράφοντες, οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ μεμηνέναι τοὺς πολλοὺς ὁμολογοῦσιν. Οὐ δὴ οὖν ἀμφιβάλλειν, ἐρεῖ ὁ Λόγος, ὁπότερον αὐτοῖν ἄμεινον, σωφρονεῖν ἢ μεμηνέναι· ἐχομένους δὲ ἀπρὶξ τῆς ἀληθείας, παντὶ σθένει ἕπεσθαι χρὴ τῷ Θεῷ, σωφρονοῦντας, καὶ πάντα αὐτοῦ νομίζειν, ὥσπερ ἐστί· πρὸς δὲ καὶ ἡμᾶς, τὸ κάλλιστον τῶν κτημάτων, μεμαθηκότας ὄντας αὐτοῦ, σφᾶς αὐτοὺς ἐπιτρέπειν τῷ Θεῷ, ἀγαπῶντας Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ τοῦτο παρ' ὅλον τὸν βίον ἔργον ἡγουμένους. Εἰ δὲ κοινὰ τὰ φίλων, θεοφιλὴς δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῷ Θεῷ· καὶ γὰρ οὖν φίλος, μεσιτεύοντος τοῦ Λόγου· γίνεται δὴ οὖν τὰ
God-like images of the Word, you men; let us hasten, let us run, let us take up His yoke, let us receive for incorruption the good Charioteer of men, Christ. Let us love the colt; He led the young beast under the yoke together with the old; and having yoked the two-horse team of men unto God, He directs the chariot towards immortality, hastening to fulfil clearly what He hinted darkly before when riding into Jerusalem, and now into the heavens. A most fair spectacle to the Father is the eternal Son victorious! Let us therefore become ambitious for noble things, and God-loving men, and acquire the greatest of things exempt from passion, God and life. And our helper is the Word; let us take courage in Him; and never let so great a desire for silver and gold, nor for glory, come upon us as for the Word of truth Himself. For neither will it be pleasing to God Himself if we esteem things of the greatest worth as of the least account, while we hold the manifest outrages of folly, and ignorance, and laxity, and idolatry, and uttermost impiety, in higher esteem. For not without reason do the sons of the philosophers consider that in all the things that fools do they act unholily and impiously, and defining ignorance itself too as a species of madness, they confess nothing else than that the multitude are mad. One must not then doubt, the Word will say, which of the two is better, to be of sound mind or to be mad; but clinging fast to the truth, we must with all our strength follow God in soundness of mind, and consider all things to belong to Him, just as they do; and furthermore that we ourselves, the fairest of His possessions, having learned that we are His, should entrust ourselves to God, loving the Lord God, and counting this our work throughout the whole of life. And if the goods of friends are common, and man is dear to God—for indeed he is a friend through the mediation of the Word—all things therefore become
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Footnotes

(77) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ὑπολάβωμεν› · call in col 244 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Ὑπολάβωμεν. H. ὑποβάλωμεν, subjiciamus. SYLBURG. — Quam emendationem firmat Nov.

"Let us take up". H.: ὑποβάλωμεν, "let us put under". Sylburg. — Nov. confirms this emendation.

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(78) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τὸν Χριστόν› · call in col 244

Τὸν Χριστόν. Ἀγ. H. ita distinguit, τὸν Χριστὸν ἀγαπήσωμεν· τὸν πῶλον ὑποζύγιον ἤγαγε. Allusio autem ad Matth. XXI, 5. SYLBURG. — Quem sensum in Latina versione secuti sumus. Lowthius ait: Locus ita forsan corrigendus: Τὸν Χριστὸν ἀγαπήσωμεν (τὸν πῶλον, quod sequitur, inducendo) ὑποζύγιον ἤγαγε σὺν τῷ πώλῳ. Nisi quis legere malit, ἀγαπήσωμεν τὸν πωλοδάμνην, quo titulo Christum compellat lib. i Paedag., cap. 5, p. 87.

"Christ. Let us love". H. punctuates thus: "Let us love Christ; he led the colt, the beast of burden." The allusion is to Matt. 21:5. Sylburg. — We have followed this sense in the Latin version. Lowth says: "The passage might perhaps be corrected thus: 'Let us love Christ' (striking out 'the colt', which follows); 'he led the beast of burden with the colt'." Unless one prefers to read "let us love the colt-tamer", the title by which he addresses Christ in Paedagogus book 1, ch. 5, p. 87.

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(79) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Καταζεύξας εἰς τὸν Θεόν› · call in col 244

Καταζεύξας εἰς τὸν Θεὸν, πρὸς ἀθ. κ. Scribi posset καταζεύξας, εἰς ἀθανασίαν κατιθύνει τὸ ἅρμα, omissis intermediis vocibus τὸν Θεὸν πρός, quae non sunt necessariae. Et quidem in Nov. hoc loco omissae, mox reperiuntur, σπεύδων πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν πληρῶσαι.

"Having yoked [them] to God, towards immortality …". One could write "having yoked them, he steers the chariot to immortality", leaving out the intervening words "God, towards", which are not needed. And indeed in Nov. they are omitted here and found just after: "hastening to fulfil towards God".

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(80) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐπέλθῃ› · call in col 244

Ἐπέλθῃ. Ἐπέλθοι Nov.

"May come upon". Optative ἐπέλθοι Nov.

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(81) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Τιθέμεθα› · call in col 244

Τιθέμεθα. Αἱρώμεθα Nov.

"We set". "Let us choose" Nov.

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(82) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Φιλοσόφων π.› · call in col 244

Φιλοσόφων π. Stoicos intelligit. Hi enim statuebant, referente Stobaeo in Eclogis ethic., c. 4, p. 170: ἱερέα μόνον εἶναι τὸν σοφόν, solum sapientem esse sacerdotem; illum solum esse εὐσεβῆ, καὶ ἔμπειρον τῆς θεῶν θεραπείας, pium, et divini cultus scientia praeditum. E contra dicebant πάντας τοὺς ἄφρονας εἶναι ἀσεβεῖς, omnes insipientes esse impios; eosdemque vocabant φαύλους, ἀνοσίους, ἀκαθάρτους, μιαρούς· pravos, profanos, impuros, sceleratos. Denique πάντ' εἶναι τὸν ἄφρονα θεοῖς ἐχθρόν· omnem stultum esse diis inimicum, affirmabant, ut ibidem refertur pag. 181.

"Sons of the philosophers". He means the Stoics. For they held, as Stobaeus reports in the Ethical Eclogues, ch. 4, p. 170, that the wise man alone is a priest; that he alone is godly and skilled in the service of the gods. On the other hand they said that all the unwise are impious, and called them base, unholy, impure, abominable. Finally they affirmed that every fool is an enemy to the gods, as is reported in the same place, p. 181. [Each Greek phrase is followed by its Latin version.]

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(83) ‹anchor: εἶδος (83)› · call in col 244

Ἄγνοιαν μανίας εἶδος. Stoici, referente Stobaeo pag. 170, dicebant malum omnem insanire, ἄγνοιαν ἔχοντα αὐτοῦ, καὶ τῶν καθ' αὑτὸν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ μανία· ignorantia nempe sui, eorumque quae ad se pertinent, laborantem, quae insania est. Diogenes Laertius lib. ii, seg. 224, memorat Zenonem, Stoicae sectae patrem, tradidisse πάντας ἄφρονας μαίνεσθαι, stultos omnes insanire. Quod Cicero disputavit in Paradox. 3, cui titulus est, Ὅτι πάντες οἱ μωροὶ μαίνονται.

"Ignorance, a kind of madness". The Stoics, as Stobaeus reports on p. 170, said that every bad man is mad, "having ignorance of himself and of what concerns him, which is madness" — suffering, that is, from ignorance of himself and of what pertains to him, which is insanity. Diogenes Laertius, book 2, section 224, records that Zeno, father of the Stoic sect, taught that all the unwise are mad. Cicero argued this in Paradox 3, whose title is "That all fools are mad".

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(84) ‹anchor: ἀμφιβάλλειν (84)› · call in col 244

Οὐ δὴ οὖν ἀμ. A. mavult δεῖ οὖν. Sed et δὴ οὖν retineri potest, subaudito impersonali δεῖ, χρή, aut simili: ut alibi saepe praesertim apud poetas. Stoica porro haec paradoxa tractata etiam a Cicerone. SYLBURG. — Porro χρὴ statim sequitur.

"Not then to doubt". A. prefers "one must then". But δὴ οὖν can also be kept, with the impersonal "one must", "it is needful" or the like understood, as often elsewhere, especially in the poets. These Stoic paradoxes were also treated by Cicero. Sylburg. — Further, χρή ("it is needful") follows immediately.

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(85) ‹anchor: φίλος (85)› · call in col 244

Θεοφιλὴς δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῷ Θεῷ καὶ γὰρ οὖν φ. Scribe, θεοφιλὴς δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, καὶ φίλος τῷ Θεῷ. Hoc est, ἤγουν φίλος τῷ Θεῷ. Et est interpretatio alterius, quod est ambiguum. Siquidem θεοφιλὴς ὁ φιλῶν τὸν Θεόν, ὅ τε ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ φιλούμενος. HEINSIUS. — Verum sola interpunctione mutata, qua et alibi sensus auctoris passim depravatus est, sic scribendum: θεοφιλὴς δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος· τῷ Θεῷ καὶ γὰρ οὖν (vel καὶ γὰρ οὖν τῷ Θεῷ) φίλος, μεσιτεύοντος τοῦ Λόγου, γίνεται δὴ οὖν, etc. Quem sensum Latine expressimus. Porro hanc sententiam Clemens e Philone Judaeo sumpsit, qui lib. i De vita Moysis, pag. 626, haec dicit: Nam si, juxta proverbium, « Amicorum omnia sunt communia, » propheta autem Dei amicus dicitur; inde consequitur, ut divinae possessionis usum habeat. (continues)

"And man is dear to God, to God; for indeed a friend …". Write "And man is dear to God, and a friend to God" — that is, "or rather a friend to God". And it is a gloss on the other word, which is ambiguous, since θεοφιλής means both one who loves God and one who is loved by God. Heinsius. — But by changing only the punctuation, through which the author's sense has been corrupted here and there elsewhere too, one should write: "And man is dear to God; for indeed he is a friend to God (or: for indeed to God a friend), the Word mediating; so then …", etc. We have expressed this sense in the Latin. Further, Clement took this thought from Philo the Jew, who says in book 1 of the Life of Moses, p. 626: "For if, as the proverb has it, 'friends have all things in common', and the prophet is called the friend of God, it follows that he has the use of God's possession." (continues)

(scripture reference, numbered, printed above the notes) ⁴¹ Matth. XI, 28, 29, 30.

41 Matt. 11:28–30.

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πάντα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ὅτι τὰ πάντα τοῦ Θεοῦ· καὶ κοινὰ ἀμφοῖν τοῖν φίλοιν τὰ πάντα, τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπου. Ὥρα οὖν ἡμῖν μόνον τὸν θεοσεβῆ Χριστιανὸν εἰπεῖν πλούσιόν τε, καὶ σώφρονα, καὶ εὐγενῆ· καὶ ταύτῃ εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ μεθ' ὁμοιώσεως καὶ λέγειν καὶ πιστεύειν, δίκαιον καὶ ὅσιον μετὰ φρονήσεως γενόμενον ὑπὸ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καὶ εἰς τοσοῦτον ὅμοιον ἤδη καὶ Θεῷ. Οὐκ ἀποκρύπτεται γοῦν ὁ προφήτης τὴν χάριν, λέγων· Ἐγὼ εἶπον, ὅτι θεοί ἐστε, καὶ υἱοὶ Ὑψίστου πάντες. Ἡμᾶς γὰρ, ἡμᾶς εἰσπεποίηται, καὶ ἡμῶν ἐθέλει μόνων κεκλῆσθαι πατὴρ, οὐ τῶν ἀπειθούντων. Καὶ γὰρ οὖν ὧδέ πως ἔχει τὰ ἡμέτερα τῶν Χριστοῦ ὀπαδῶν· Οἷαι μὲν αἱ βουλαὶ, τοῖοι καὶ οἱ λόγοι· ὁποῖοι δὲ οἱ λόγοι, τοιαίδε καὶ αἱ πράξεις· καὶ ὁποῖα τὰ ἔργα, τοιοῦτος ὁ βίος· χρηστὸς ὁ σύμπας ἀνθρώπων βίος τῶν Χριστὸν ἐγνωκότων. Ἅλις, οἶμαι, τῶν λόγων, εἰ καὶ μακροτέρω προῆλθον ὑπὸ φιλανθρωπίας, ὅτι περ εἶχον ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐκχέων, ὡς ἂν ἐπὶ τὸ μέγιστον τῶν ἀγαθῶν, τὴν σωτηρίαν, παρακαλῶν· περὶ γάρ τοι τῆς παύλης οὐδαμῆ οὐδαμῶς ἐχούσης ζωῆς, οὐκ ἐθέλουσιν οὐδ' οἱ λόγοι παύσασθαί ποτε ἱεροφαντοῦντες. Ὑμῖν δὲ ἔτι τοῦτο περιλείπεται πέρας, τὸ λυσιτελοῦν ἑλέσθαι, ἢ κρίσιν, ἢ χάριν. Ὡς ἔγωγε οὐδ' ἀμφιβάλλειν ἀξιῶ, πότερον ἄμεινον αὐτοῖν· οὐδὲ μὴν συγκρίνεσθαι θέμις ζωὴν ἀπωλείᾳ.
man's, because all things are God's; and all things are common to both the friends, God and man. It is time, then, for us to call the God-fearing Christian alone rich, and temperate, and noble; and in this way both to call and to believe him to be the image of God with likeness, having been made righteous and holy with wisdom by Christ Jesus, and to that extent already like even unto God. Accordingly, the prophet does not conceal the grace, saying: I said, You are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High. For us, us He has adopted, and of us alone He wills to be called Father, not of the disobedient. And indeed the case with us who are followers of Christ stands somewhat thus: As are the counsels, such also are the words; and as are the words, such also are the deeds; and as are the works, such is the life; good is the whole life of men who have come to know Christ. Enough, I think, of words, even if out of love for mankind I have gone on at greater length, pouring out what I had from God, as one exhorting unto the greatest of blessings, salvation; for concerning the life that in no way whatever has any cessation, not even the discourses are willing ever to cease from revealing the sacred mysteries. And for you this end still remains, to choose that which is profitable, either judgement or grace. For I for my part do not think it worthy even to doubt which of the two is better; nor yet is it lawful for life to be compared with destruction.
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Footnotes

(86) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Πλούσιόν τε, καὶ σ.› · call in col 245 (Greek; the Latin carries no call)

Πλούσιόν τε, καὶ σ. Haec epitheta Stoici suo sapienti eique soli tribuerunt; quod apud Stobaeum et Laertium locis superius laudatis videre licet. Conf. Strom. ii, p. 367, et quae ibi adnotata sunt.

"Both rich and …". The Stoics gave these epithets to their wise man, and to him alone, as may be seen in Stobaeus and Laertius at the places cited above. Compare Strom. 2, p. 367, and the notes there.

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(87) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ μεθ' ὁμοιώσεως› · call in col 245

Εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ μεθ' ὁμοιώσεως. Cum Moyses dixerit in Gen. I, Deum hominem creasse κατ' εἰκόνα καὶ ὁμοίωσιν, secundum imaginem et similitudinem suam, Clemens haec duo sic distinguit, ut Dei similitudo sit ejus imagine perfectior; et haec quidem omni homini conveniat, illa solum ei, qui secundum Dei leges vitam instituit, nec in hac vita plena perfectaque unquam sit. Conf. Paedag. lib. i principio c. 12, et quae ibi adnotata sunt.

"The image of God with likeness". Since Moses said in Gen. 1 that God created man after his image and likeness, Clement distinguishes the two thus: God's likeness is more perfect than his image; the image belongs to every man, the likeness only to one who orders his life by God's laws, and it is never full and perfect in this life. Compare Paedagogus book 1, beginning of ch. 12, and the notes there.

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(88) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐγὼ εἶπον, ὅτι θεοί› · call in col 245

Ἐγὼ εἶπον, ὅτι θεοί. Ἐγὼ εἶπα, θεοί Bibl. Graec. Clemens infra Paedag., lib. i, cap. 6, p. 93; Str. ii, p. 414; Str. iv, p. 534.

"I said that [you are] gods". "I said, gods" Greek Bible. Clement below, Paedagogus book 1, ch. 6, p. 93; Strom. 2, p. 414; Strom. 4, p. 534.

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(89) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Οἷαι μὲν αἱ› · call in col 245

Οἷαι μὲν αἱ. Haec poetica sunt, et facile in iambicos versus transeunt: Οἷαι μὲν αἱ βουλαὶ, τοιοίδε χ' οἱ λόγοι· Ὁποῖοι δ' οἱ λόγοι, τοιαίδε χ' αἱ πράξεις· Χ' ὁποῖα τἄργα, τοιοῦτός δ' ἔσθ' ὁ βίος. Οἷος ὁ λόγος, τοῖος ὁ βίος· Qualis sermo, talis vita, bis inferius dixit Clemens, Strom. iii, p. 444, et Str. vii, p. 760. Philo Judaeus hos etiam versus in prosam vertit, lib. De praemiis et poenis p. 922: Nam si qualia sunt consilia, tales sint sermones; et qualia dicta, talia facta: omniaque haec inter se respondeant, conjuncta insolubili harmoniae vinculo, etc.

"Such as the …". These are poetic and pass easily into iambic verses: "As the counsels are, such too the words; and as the words, such too the deeds; and as the works, such is the life." "As the word, such the life" — Clement said twice below, Strom. 3, p. 444, and Strom. 7, p. 760. Philo the Jew also turned these verses into prose, in the book On Rewards and Punishments, p. 922: "For if the words are such as the counsels, and the deeds such as the sayings, and all these answer to one another, joined by an unbreakable bond of harmony", etc.

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(90) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Χρηστὸς ὁ σ.› · call in col 245

Χρηστὸς ὁ σ. Ludit in vocibus χρηστός et Χριστός, ut superius pag. 72, ubi conf. not.

"Good is the …". He plays on the words χρηστός ("good") and Χριστός ("Christ"), as above, p. 72; see the note there.

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(91) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Παύλης› · call in col 245

Παύλης. Rectius H. παῦλαν. SYLBURG.

"Of ending". H. more correctly παῦλαν (accusative). Sylburg.

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(92) ‹anchor: from the lemma: Ἐχούσης ζωῆς› · call in col 245

Ἐχούσης ζωῆς. Ἐχούσης τῆς ζωῆς Nov.

"Of life having". "Of the life having" Nov.

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(93) ‹anchor: ΣΥΓΚΕΚΡΟΤΗΤΑΙ (93)› · call in col 245–246 (in the closing sentence set across both columns)

Συγκεκρότηται. Hanc periochen nonnulli Protreptico, alii Paedagogo adnectunt. Videtur autem de Protreptico dicta, viam quasi parare ad Paedagogum. Porro κεκρότηται pro συγκεκρότηται habet ms. codex in Bibliotheca Regia, et alius in Bodleiana asservatus. Haec vero sententia, cum primo libro Paedagogi, excidit e Nov.

"Has been built together". Some attach this closing period to the Protrepticus, others to the Paedagogus. It seems to be said of the Protrepticus, as if preparing the way to the Paedagogus. Further, the manuscript in the Royal Library, and another kept in the Bodleian, have κεκρότηται for συγκεκρότηται. This sentence, together with the first book of the Paedagogus, has fallen out of Nov.

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(94) ‹anchor: ΥΜΙΝ (94) ΑΥΤΟΙΣ› · call in col 245–246 (in the closing sentence)

Ὑμῖν. Ἡμῖν Reg. Bodl.

"For you". "For us" Royal and Bodleian manuscripts.

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(95) ‹anchor: ΑΙΔΙΟΣ ΟΡΕΞΙΣ (95)› · call in col 245–246 (in the closing sentence)

Ἀΐδιος ὄρεξις. Aeterna appetitio, id est permanens, quae usque ad finem vitae non interit. Sic superius dixit philosophiam ingenerare σοφίας ἀΐδιον ἔρωτα, sapientiae aeternum amorem. Et Paedag. lib. i, cap. 7, p. 108, παιδαγωγίαν ait esse πράξεων ἁγίων ὑποτύπωσιν ἐν αἰωνίῳ διαμονῇ, descriptionem sanctarum actionum in aeterna perseverantia.

"Eternal longing". An everlasting longing, that is, an abiding one, which does not perish before the end of life. So above he said that philosophy begets "an everlasting love of wisdom". And in Paedagogus book 1, ch. 7, p. 108, he says that the tutor's training is "a sketch of holy actions in everlasting continuance".

(printed under page 138) (scripture reference, numbered, printed above the notes) ⁴² Psal. LXXXI, 6.

42 Ps. 81(82):6.

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Ancient version (Latin)

ΣΥΓΚΕΚΡΟΤΗΤΑΙ ΚΡΗΠΙΣ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑΣ, Ω ΠΑΙΔΕΣ ΥΜΕΙΣ, ΥΜΙΝ ΑΥΤΟΙΣ, ΑΓΙΟΥ ΝΕΩ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΘΕΜΕΛΙΟΣ ΓΝΩΣΕΩΣ ΑΡΡΑΓΗΣ, ΠΡΟΤΡΟΠΗ ΚΑΛΗ, ΔΙ' ΥΠΑΚΟΗΣ ΕΥΛΟΓΟΥ ΖΩΗΣ ΑΙΔΙΟΣ ΟΡΕΞΙΣ ΝΟΕΡῼ ΚΑΤΑΒΛΗΘΕΙΣΑ ΧΩΡΙῼ. CONSTRUCTA EST VOBIS, O PUERI, VERITATIS BASIS, SACRI TEMPLI MAGNI DEI FIRMUM COGNITIONIS FUNDAMENTUM, PRAECLARA COHORTATIO, VITAE PER OBEDIENTIAM RATIONABILEM AETERNA APPETITIO INTELLIGENTI SOLO JACTA. <!-- note: Block begins below the short rule that follows the full-width close of the col. 246 Latin ("effundens ... comparare", which is the Latin column's own run-on and NOT set here) and ends above the footnote line "Psal. LXXXI, 6." plus the old-edition marker "P. 95, 96 ED POTTER. 77, 78 ED. PARIS." (both excluded as footnote / old-edition numerals; they sit under the block before the notes in two columns). Note calls (93), (94), (95) removed. Greek set in capitals as printed. UNSURE: "ΔΙ'" is printed in a form resembling "ΔΓ" (read as ΔΙ with elision mark, cf. δι' ὑπακοῆς); ΝΟΕΡῼ and ΧΩΡΙῼ show an iota subscript under Ω, set as ῼ; ΝΕΩ shows none and is set plain; a stray mark after ΘΕΟΥ is ignored. Block is complete on this page; does not continue. -->

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  • running head: 245 COHORTATIO AD GENTES.
  • marginal letters: A πάντα τοῦ; B τοιοῦτος ὁ; C Ante Philonem (foot); D (88) Ἐγὼ εἶπον (foot)
  • old-edition numerals: P. 95, 96 ED POTTER, 77, 78 ED. PARIS. after JACTA.
  • other: full-width Latin lines (effundens, amore hominum...; four lines) printed across cols. 245-246 and cut off at the right edge, not set; the full-width Greek and Latin colophons (ΣΥΓΚΕΚΡΟΤΗΤΑΙ... and CONSTRUCTA EST VOBIS...) are set above under "Ancient version"
PG 8:246
Editors' notes and page, col. 246

Footnotes

(none set here) · pointer: the scripture note ⁴² (Psal. LXXXI, 6), called in this column's facing Latin (after "omnes"), is set once under col 245 (notes/n245.md); the Variorum notes (86)–(95) printed at this page's foot are set under col 245

Page

  • running head: COHORTATIO AD GENTES. 246
  • marginal letters: A tes nos; B expressit propheta; C X' ὁποῖα τἄργα (foot notes, gutter); D (94) Ὑμῖν (foot notes, gutter)
  • old-edition numerals: (none) (the P. 95, 96 ED POTTER, 77, 78 ED. PARIS. line runs across from col 245, recorded there)
  • other: facing Latin version, not set; full-width Latin lines and Greek and Latin colophons printed across cols. 245-246 and cut off at the left edge, not set