Similarly also, the comic poet Diphilus having said:--
"The life of men is prone to change,"--
Posidippus says:--
"No man of mortal mould his life has passed
From suffering free. Nor to the end again
Has continued prosperous."
Similarly [3224] speaks to thee Plato, writing of man as a creature subject to change. Again, Euripides having said:--
"Oh life to mortal men of trouble full,
How slippery in everything art thou!
Now grow'st thou, and thou now decay'st away.
And there is set no limit, no, not one,
For mortals of their course to make an end,
Except when Death's remorseless final end
Comes, sent from Zeus,"--
[3224] The text has kat' alla. And although Sylburgius very properly remarks, that the conjecture katallela instead is uncertain, it is so suitable to the sense here, that we have no hesitation in adopting it.
Clement of Alexandria in Print
