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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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And Eubulus, also a comic poet, thus writes respecting sacrifices:--

"But to the gods the tail alone

And thigh, as if to paederasts you sacrifice."

And introducing Dionysus in Semele, he represents him disputing:--

"First if they offer aught to me, there are

Who offer blood, the bladder, not the heart

Or caul. For I no flesh do ever eat

That's sweeter than the thigh." [3550]

And Menander writes:--

"The end of the loin,

The bile, the bones uneatable, they set

Before the gods; the rest themselves consume."

[3550] These lines are translated as arranged by Grotius, who differs in some parts from the text.

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