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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And Plato having said, "Wherefore also the gods, knowing men, release sooner from life those they value most," Menander wrote:--

"Whom the gods love, dies young."

And Euripides having written in the OEnomaus:--

"We judge of things obscure from what we see;"

and in the Phoenix:--

"By signs the obscure is fairly grasped,"--

Hyperides says, "But we must investigate things unseen by learning from signs and probabilities." And Isocrates having said, "We must conjecture the future by the past," Andocides does not shrink from saying, "For we must make use of what has happened previously as signs in reference to what is to be." Besides, Theognis having said:--

"The evil of counterfeit silver and gold is not intolerable,

O Cyrnus, and to a wise man is not difficult of detection;

But if the mind of a friend is hidden in his breast,

If he is false, [3227] and has a treacherous heart within,

This is the basest thing for mortals, caused by God,

And of all things the hardest to detect,"--

[3227] psudnos = psudros--which, however, occurs nowhere but here--is adopted as preferable to psednos (bald), which yields no sense, or psuchros. Sylburgius ms. Paris; Ruhnk reads psudros.

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