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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria

[3203] Iliad, ix. 116.

[3204] Ξυνός. So Livy, “communis Mars;” and Cicero, “cum omnis belli Mars comunis.”

[3205] Iliad, xviii. 309.

[3206] Ξυνός. So Livy, “communis Mars;” and Cicero, “cum omnis belli Mars comunis.”

[3207] The text has: Νίκης ἀνθρώποισι θεῶν ἐκ πείρατα κεῖται. In Iliad, vii. 101, 102, we read:

 

αὐτὰρ ϋὕερθεν

Νίκης πείρατ᾽ ἔχονται ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν.

 

[3208] Iliad, xvi. 235.

[3209] Odyss., xiv. 228.

[3210] The text is corrupt and unintelligible. It has been restored as above.

[3211] In some lost tragedy.

[3212] Said by Ajax of the sword received from Hector, with which he killed himself.

[3213] The imitator of Thucydides, said to be weaker but clearer than his model. He is not specially clear here.

[3214] The text has, ἀσφαλέστερα παρὰ δόξαν καὶ κακοπραγίαν: for which Lowth reads, ἐπισφαλέστερα πρὸς κακοπραγίαν, as translated above.

[3215] Iliad, xxiv. 44, 45. Clement’s quotation differs somewhat from the passage as it stands in Homer.

[3216] The text has δοίη, which Stobæus has changed into δ᾽ ἰ´ση, as above. Stobæus gives this quotation as follows:—

 

“The bastard has equal strength with the legitimate;

Each good thing has its nature legitimate.”

 

[3217] As no play bearing this name is mentioned by any one else, various conjectures have been made as to the true reading; among which are Clymene Temenos or Temenides.

[3218] Odyss., xiv. 187.

[3219] [See, supra, book ii. cap. ii. p. 242.] In Theognis the quotation stands thus:—

 

Οἵνον τοι πίνειν πουλὸν κακόν ἢν δέ τις αὐτὸν

Πίνη ἐπισταμένως, οὐ κακὸς ἀλλ᾽ ἀγαθός.

“To drink much wine is bad; but if one drink

It with discretion, ’tis not bad, but good.”

 

[3220] From Jupiter’s address (referring to Pandora) to Prometheus, after stealing fire from heaven. The passage in Hesiod runs thus:—

 

“You rejoice at stealing fire and outwitting my mind:

But I will give you, and to future men, a great plague.

And for the fire will give to them a bane in which

All will delight their heart, embracing their own bane.”

 

[3221] Translated as arranged by Grotius.

[3222] Odyss., xvii. 286.

[3223] συμμανῆναι is doubtless here the true reading, for which the text has συμβῆναι.

 

 

 

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