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

Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.

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Again, Archilochus, transferring that Homeric line:--

"I erred, nor say I nay: instead of many" [3203] --

writes thus:--

"I erred, and this mischief hath somehow seized another."

As certainly also that line:--

"Even-handed [3204] war the slayer slays." [3205]

He also, altering, has given forth thus:--

"I will do it.

For Mars to men in truth is evenhanded." [3206]

Also, translating the following:--

"The issues of victory among men depend on the gods," [3207]

he openly encourages youth, in the following iambic:--

"Victory's issues on the gods depend."

[3203] Iliad, ix. 116.

[3204] Xunos. So Livy, "communis Mars;" and Cicero, "cum omnis belli Mars comunis."

[3205] Iliad, xviii. 309.

[3206] Xunos. So Livy, "communis Mars;" and Cicero, "cum omnis belli Mars comunis."

[3207] The text has: Nikes anthropoisi theon ek peirata keitai. In Iliad, vii. 101, 102, we read:

autar uhuerthen

Nikes peirat' echontai en athanatoisi theoisin.

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