Miscellanies 5.14.132 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:415

Ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ μαντικώτατος Ἀπόλλων, μαρτυρῶν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ θεοῦ, λέγειν ἀναγκάζεται περὶ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς, ἡνίκα ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐστράτευον οἱ Μῆδοι, ὡς ἐδεῖτό τε καὶ ἱκέτευε τὸν Δία περὶ τῆς Ἀττικῆς. ἔχει δὲ ὧδε ὁ χρησμός· οὐ δύναται Παλλὰς Δίʼ Ὀλύμπιον ἐξιλάσασθαι, λισσομένη πολλοῖσι λόγοις καὶ μήτιδι πυκνῇ· πολλοὺς δʼ ἀθανάτων νηοὺς μαλερῷ πυρὶ δώσει, οἵ που νῦν ἱδρῶτι ῥεεύμενοι ἑστήκασιν δείματι παλλόμενοι, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις.

English · Claude translation

Besides these, most prophetic Apollo, bearing witness to the glory of God, is compelled to say of Athena, when the Medes were marching against Greece, how she begged and entreated Zeus for Attica. The oracle runs thus: “Pallas cannot appease Olympian Zeus, though she entreats him with many words and close-woven counsel; many temples of immortals he will give to raging fire, which now stand, I think, streaming with sweat, trembling with fear,” and what follows.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:415 · 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

Herodotus, Hist. 7.140–141 (Herodotus, Histories) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The oracle is in Herodotus 7.141 (the lines on the temples are from the first oracle, 7.140). Corrected Δἴ to Δίʼ (elided Δία).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (elision mark misread as a breathing in the digital text): Δἴ Ὀλύμπιον → Δίʼ Ὀλύμπιον.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 5.14.132 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/5/14/132/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 5.14.132 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/5/14/132/).