Miscellanies 6.2.7 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:426–427

Πάλιν Ὁμήρου εἰπόντος· ἀνιπτόποδες, χαμαιεῦναι, Εὐριπίδης ἐν Ἐρεχθεῖ γράφει· ἐν ἀστρώτῳ πέδῳ εὕδουσιν, πηγαῖς δʼ οὐχ ὑγραίνουσιν πόδας. Ἀρχιλόχου τε ὁμοίως εἰρηκότος· ἀλλʼ ἄλλος ἄλλῳ κραδίην ἰαίνεται, παρὰ τὸ Ὁμηρικόν· ἄλλος γάρ τʼ ἄλλοισιν ἀνὴρ ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργοις, Εὐριπίδης ἐν τῷ Οἰνεῖ φησιν· ἀλλὰ ἄλλος ἄλλοις μᾶλλον ἥδεται τρόποις. Ἀκήκοα δὲ Αἰσχύλου μὲν λέγοντος· οἴκοι μένειν χρὴ τὸν καλῶς εὐδαίμονα — καὶ τὸν κακῶς πράσσοντα καὶ τοῦτον μένειν, Εὐριπίδου δὲ τὰ ὅμοια ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς βοῶντος· μακάριος ὅστις εὐτυχῶν οἴκοι μένει, ἀλλὰ καὶ Μενάνδρου ὧδέ πως κωμῳδοῦντος· οἴκοι μένειν χρὴ καὶ μένειν ἐλεύθερον, ἢ μηκέτʼ εἶναι τὸν καλῶς εὐδαίμονα.

English · Claude translation

Again, when Homer said, “with unwashed feet, sleeping on the ground,” Euripides writes in the Erechtheus: “On an unstrewn floor they sleep, and do not wet their feet in springs.” And likewise, when Archilochus had said, “but one man warms his heart with one thing, another with another,” alongside the Homeric “For one man delights in some deeds, another in others,” Euripides says in the Oeneus: “but one man takes pleasure more in some ways, another in others.” And I have heard Aeschylus saying: “He who is truly happy should stay at home, and he who fares badly, he too should stay,” and Euripides crying out the like on the stage: “Blessed is he who, prospering, stays at home,” and Menander too, making comedy of it thus: “One should stay at home and stay free, or no longer be the truly happy man.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:426–427 · 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. 16.235 (Homer, Iliad) · quotation, high confidence
Homer, Od. 14.228 (Homer, Odyssey) · quotation, high confidence
Euripides, fragments (Erechtheus, Oeneus) (Euripides (plays and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Aeschylus, fragment (Aeschylus (plays and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence
Menander (Menander (fragments)) · quotation, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The Homeric lines are Il. 16.235 and Od. 14.228. The lines of Euripides (Erechtheus, Oeneus, and an unnamed play), Aeschylus, Archilochus, and Menander are fragments.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/7/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/7/).