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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Homer transcribes:--

"Some of the leaves the wind strews on the ground.

The budding wood bears some; in time of spring,

They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs." [3201]

Again, Homer having said:--

"It is unholy to exult over dead men," [3202]

Archilochus and Cratinus write, the former:--

"It is not noble at dead men to sneer;"

and Cratinus in the Lacones:--

"For men 'tis dreadful to exult

Much o'er the stalwart dead."

[3201] Iliad, vi. 147-149.

[3202] Odyss., xxii. 412.

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