Miscellanies 6.2.10 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:429–430

Λάβοις δʼ ἂν ἐκ παραλλήλου τῆς κλοπῆς τὰ χωρία κἀκ τῶν συνακμασάντων καὶ ἀνταγωνισαμένων σφίσι τὰ τοιαῦτα, Εὐριπίδου μὲν ἐκ τοῦ Ὀρέστου· ὦ φίλον ὕπνου θέλγητρον, ἐπίκουρον νόσου, Σοφοκλέους δʼ ἐκ τῆς Ἐριφύλης· ἄπελθε· κινεῖς ὕπνον ἰητρὸν νόσου, καὶ Εὐριπίδου μὲν ἐξ Ἀντιγόνης· ὀνόματι μεμπτὸν τὸ νόθον, ἡ φύσις δʼ ἴση, Σοφοκλέους δὲ ἐξ Ἀλεαδῶν· ἅπαν τὸ χρηστὸν τὴν ἴσην ἔχει φύσιν, πάλιν Εὐριπίδου μὲν ἐκ Τημένου· τῷ γὰρ πονοῦντι καὶ θεὸς συλλαμβάνει, Σοφοκλέους δὲ ἐν Μίνῳ· οὐκ ἔστι τοῖς μὴ δρῶσι σύμμαχος τύχη, ναὶ μὴν Εὐριπίδου μὲν ἐξ Ἀλεξάνδρου· χρόνος δὲ δείξει σʼ· ᾧ τεκμηρίῳ μαθὼν ἢ χρηστὸν ὄντα γνώσομαί σε ἤτοι κακόν, Σοφοκλέους δὲ ἐξ Ἱππόνου· πρὸς ταῦτα κρύπτε μηδέν, ὡς ὁ πάνθʼ ὁρῶν καὶ πάντʼ ἀκούων πάντʼ ἀναπτύσσει χρόνος.

English · Claude translation

You could also take, set side by side, passages of theft from those who flourished together and competed against one another, such as these: from Euripides' Orestes, “O dear charm of sleep, helper in sickness,” and from Sophocles' Eriphyle, “Go away; you are disturbing sleep, the healer of sickness”; and from Euripides' Antigone, “The bastard is blamed in name, but its nature is equal,” and from Sophocles' Aleadae, “Everything good has an equal nature”; again from Euripides' Temenus, “For the god too helps the one who toils,” and from Sophocles in the Minos, “Fortune is no ally to those who do nothing”; and yes, from Euripides' Alexander, “Time will show you; learning by that proof I shall know you to be either good or bad,” and from Sophocles' Hipponous, “Therefore hide nothing, since Time, which sees all and hears all, unfolds all things.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:429–430 · 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

Euripides, Orestes 211; fragments (Euripides (plays and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Sophocles, fragments (Sophocles (plays and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The first line is Euripides, Orestes 211; the rest are fragments of lost plays of Euripides and Sophocles.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misreading in the digital text (δ)): Εὐριπίσου → Εὐριπίδου.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/10/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/10/).