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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And from the Hipponos of Sophocles:--

"Besides, conceal thou nought; since Time,

That sees all, hears all, all things will unfold."

But let us similarly run over the following; for Eumelus having composed the line,

"Of Memory and Olympian Zeus the daughters nine,"

Solon thus begins the elegy:--

"Of Memory and Olympian Zeus the children bright."

Again, Euripides, paraphrasing the Homeric line:--

"What, whence art thou? Thy city and thy parents, where?" [3218]

employs the following iambics in Aegeus:--

"What country shall we say that thou hast left

To roam in exile, what thy land--the bound

Of thine own native soil? Who thee begat?

And of what father dost thou call thyself the son?"

[3218] Odyss., xiv. 187.

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