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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Euripides writes:--

"Oh Zeus, why hast thou given to men clear tests

Of spurious gold, while on the body grows

No mark sufficing to discover clear

The wicked man?"

Hyperides himself also says, "There is no feature of the mind impressed on the countenance of men."

Again, Stasinus having composed the line:--

"Fool, who, having slain the father, leaves the children,"--

Xenophon [3228] says, "For I seem to myself to have acted in like manner, as if one who killed the father should spare his children." And Sophocles having written in the Antigone:--

"Mother and father being in Hades now,

No brother ever can to me spring forth,"--

[3228] A mistake for Herodotus.

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