Miscellanies 1.21.108 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:69–70

Καὶ οὔτι γε μόνος οὗτος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ Σίβυλλα Ὀρφέως παλαιοτέρα· λέγονται γὰρ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐπωνυμίας αὐτῆς καὶ περὶ τῶν χρησμῶν τῶν καταπεφημισμένων ἐκείνης εἶναι λόγοι πλείους, Φρυγίαν τε οὖσαν κεκλῆσθαι Ἄρτεμιν καὶ ταύτην παραγενομένην εἰς Δελφοὺς ᾆσαι· ὦ Δελφοί, θεράποντες ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνος, ἦλθον ἐγὼ χρήσουσα Διὸς νόον αἰγιόχοιο, αὐτοκασιγνήτῳ κεχολωμένη Ἀπόλλωνι. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλη Ἐρυθραία Ἡροφίλη καλουμένη· μέμνηται τούτων Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικὸς ἐν τῷ Περὶ χρηστηρίων. ἐῶ δὲ τὴν Αἰγυπτίαν καὶ τὴν Ἰταλήν, ἣ τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ Κάρμαλον ᾤκησεν, ἧς υἱὸς Εὔανδρος ὁ τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ τοῦ Πανὸς ἱερὸν τὸ Λουπέρκιον καλούμενον κτίσας.

English · Claude translation

Not only he, but the Sibyl too is older than Orpheus. For there are several accounts of her name and of the oracles attributed to her: that, being a Phrygian, she was called Artemis, and that she came to Delphi and sang: “O Delphians, servants of far-shooting Apollo, I have come to declare the mind of aegis-bearing Zeus, angry with my own brother Apollo.” There is also another, the Erythraean, called Herophile; Heraclides of Pontus mentions them in his work On Oracles. I pass over the Egyptian and the Italian, who lived in the Carmalum at Rome, whose son Evander founded at Rome the shrine of Pan called the Lupercal.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:69–70 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 2, Stromata Buch I–VI, GCS 15 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1906); vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 2–3 (GCS 15, 17, 1906–1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 15, 17. 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), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1906–1909); 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) · Book 3 is left partly untranslated (in Latin) there.

Extrabiblical texts

Sib. Or. (Sibylline Oracles) · quotation, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ἣ): καὶ τὴν Ἰταλήν, ἥ τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ → καὶ τὴν Ἰταλήν, ἣ τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.108 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/108/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.108 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/108/).