Miscellanies 2.21.131

Clement of Alexandria · Miscellanies · ca. 198–203 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Metrodorus, Epicurus's disciple, locates the soul's good in a stable bodily condition and the hope of keeping it.

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Greek text · Stählin 2:185

ὅ τε Μητρόδωρος ἐν τῷ Περὶ τοῦ μείζονα εἶναι τὴν παρʼ ἡμᾶς αἰτίαν πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν τῆς ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀγαθὸν φησὶ ψυχῆς τί ἄλλο ἢ τὸ σαρκὸς εὐσταθὲς κατάστημα καὶ τὸ περὶ ταύτης πιστὸν ἔλπισμα;

English · Claude translation

And Metrodorus, in his work On the Cause of Happiness within Us Being Greater than That from Things, says: “What else is the good of the soul but the stable condition of the flesh and the confident hope about it?”

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Source: Stählin 2:185 · 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.
Topics: Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Metrodorus (fragment 5 Körte). Chapter 22 continues with a section also numbered 131 in the edition.

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.21.131 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/2/21/131/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.21.131 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/2/21/131/).

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