Miscellanies 6.2.22 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:439–440

Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ ἰατροῦ Ἱπποκράτους ἐπιβλέπειν οὖν δεῖ καὶ ὥρην καὶ χώρην καὶ ἡλικίην καὶ νόσους γράφοντος Εὐριπίδης ἐν ἑξαμέτρῳ τινὶ ῥήσει φησίν· ὃς οἶδʼ ἰατρεύειν καλῶς, πρὸς τὰς διαίτας τῶν ἐνοικούντων πόλιν τὴν γῆν τʼ ἰδόντα τὰς νόσους σκοπεῖν χρεών. Ὁμήρου πάλιν ποιήσαντος· μοῖραν δʼ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν, ὅ τε Ἀρχῖνος λέγει· πᾶσι μὲν ἀνθρώποις ὀφείλεται ἀποθανεῖν ἢ πρότερον ἢ εἰς ὕστερον, ὅ τε Δημοσθένης· πᾶσι μὲν γὰρ ἀνθρώποις τέλος τοῦ βίου θάνατος, κἂν ἐν οἰκίσκῳ τις αὑτὸν καθείρξας τηρῇ.

English · Claude translation

And when Hippocrates the physician wrote: “So one must look to the season, the region, the age, and the diseases,” Euripides says in a speech in hexameter: “He who knows how to heal well must look to the ways of life of those who dwell in the city and, having seen the land, consider the diseases.” Again, when Homer composed: “No one of men, I say, has escaped his fate,” Archinus says: “For all men it is owed to die, either sooner or later,” and Demosthenes: “For all men the end of life is death, even if someone shuts himself up in a little room and keeps guard.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:439–440 · 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

Homer, Il. 6.488 (Homer, Iliad) · quotation, high confidence
Euripides, fragment (Euripides (plays and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Demosthenes (Demosthenes (orations)) · quotation, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The sources are Il. 6.488, Demosthenes, On the Crown 97, a Hippocratic passage (compare Airs, Waters, Places 1–2; uncertain), and fragments of Euripides and Archinus. The Euripides lines as printed are iambic, not hexameter.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/22/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.22 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/22/).