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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And in addition, Homer, saying:--

"There is no satiating the greedy paunch,

Baneful, which many plagues has caused to men." [3222]

Euripides says:--

"Dire need and baneful paunch me overcome;

From which all evils come."

Besides, Callias the comic poet having written:--

"With madmen, all men must be mad, they say,"--

Menander, in the Poloumenoi, expresses himself similarly, saying:--

"The presence of wisdom is not always suitable:

One sometimes must with others play [3223] the fool."

And Antimachus of Teos having said:--

"From gifts, to mortals many ills arise,"--

[3222] Odyss., xvii. 286.

[3223] summanenai is doubtless here the true reading, for which the text has sumbenai.

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