Clement of Alexandria: STROMATA (MISCELLANIES), Part IV, Complete

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And Epicharmus, saying:--

"Daughter, woe worth the day!

Thee who art old I marry to a youth;" [3210]

and adding:--

"For the young husband takes some other girl,

And for another husband longs the wife,"--

Euripides [3211] writes:--

"'Tis bad to yoke an old wife to a youth;

For he desires to share another's bed,

And she, by him deserted, mischief plots."

Euripides having, besides, said in the Medea:--

"For no good do a bad man's gifts,"--

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

[3211] In some lost tragedy.

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