The Instructor 1.4.11 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 1:96

αὐτὸν κεχωρισμένῳ. κοινὸν οὖν καὶ τοὔνομα ἀνδράσιν καὶ γυναιξὶν ὁ ἄνθρωπος. ταύτῃ μοι δοκοῦσιν οἱ Ἀττικοὶ παιδάριον ἐπικοίνως οὐ μόνον τὸ ἄρρεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ θῆλυ κεκληκέναι, εἴ τῳ πιστὸς καταφαίνεται ὁ κωμικὸς ἐν Ῥαπιζομένῃ Μένανδρος ὧδέ πως λέγων τοὐμὸν θυγάτριον,... πάνυ γάρ ἐστι τῇ φύσει φιλάνθρωπον τὸ παιδάριον σφόδρα. ἄρνες δὲ δὴ ἐπίκοινόν ἐστιν ἀφελείας ὄνομα ἄρρενός τε καὶ θήλεος ζῴου· αὐτὸς δὲ ἡμᾶς ὁ »κύριος ποιμαίνει« εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν. »ἄνευ δὲ ποιμένος οὔτε πρόβατα οὔτε ἄλλο οὐδέν πω βιωτέον, οὐδὲ δὴ παῖδας ἄνευ τοῦ παιδαγωγοῦ, οὐδὲ μὴν οἰκέτας ἄνευ τοῦ δεσπότου.«

English · Claude translation

(… separated from the desire that divides him.) So the name “human being” is common to men and women. This is why, it seems to me, the Athenians called not only the boy but also the girl by the common name paidarion (“little child”), if the comic poet Menander is to be trusted, who says in The Girl Who Was Slapped: “my little daughter … for the little child (paidarion) is very loving by nature.” And “lambs” is a name for simplicity common to male and female animals; and the “Lord himself shepherds” us forever, amen. “Neither sheep nor anything else should live without a shepherd, nor children without an instructor, nor servants without a master.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 1:96 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 1, Protrepticus und Paedagogus, GCS 12 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1905) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 1: Protrepticus und Paedagogus (GCS 12, 1905), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 12. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1905); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Ps 23:1 (22:1 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Plato, Leg. 808d (Plato (works)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The Greek of this section begins with the last word of the sentence in 1.4.10.
The quotations are Menander (fragment 397), Ps 23:1 (22:1 LXX), and Plato, Laws 7.808d.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.4.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/4/11/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.4.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/4/11/).