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Miscellanies 6.2.25

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

Summary: Some Greek writers stole not only ideas and phrases but whole works, publishing them under their own names.

Greek text · Stählin 2:441–442

Αἱ μὲν οὖν ἰδέαι τῆς κατὰ διάνοιαν Ἑλληνικῆς κλοπῆς εἰς ὑπόδειγμα ἐναργὲς τῷ διορᾶν δυναμένῳ τοιαίδε οὖσαι ἅλις ἔστωσαν. ἤδη δὲ οὐ τὰς διανοίας μόνον καὶ λέξεις ὑφελόμενοι καὶ παραφράσαντες ἐφωράθησαν, ὡς ἐδείχθη, ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ τὰ φώρια ἄντικρυς ὁλόκληρα ἔχοντες διελεγχθήσονται· αὐτοτελῶς γὰρ τὰ ἑτέρων ὑφελόμενοι ὡς ἴδια ἐξήνεγκαν, καθάπερ Εὐγάμμων ὁ Κυρηναῖος ἐκ Μουσαίου τὸ περὶ Θεσπρωτῶν βιβλίον ὁλόκληρον καὶ Πείσανδρος ὁ Καμιρεὺς Πεισίνου τοῦ Λινδίου τὴν Ἡράκλειαν, Πανύασσίς τε ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσεὺς παρὰ Κρεωφύλου τοῦ Σαμίου τὴν Οἰχαλίας ἅλωσιν.

English · Claude translation

Let these, then, suffice as the kinds of Greek theft of thought, being such as they are, as a clear example for anyone able to see. But now they have been caught not only stealing and paraphrasing thoughts and phrases, as has been shown; they will also be convicted of holding the stolen goods openly and entire. For they took the works of others outright and published them as their own: so Eugammon of Cyrene took the whole book on the Thesprotians from Musaeus, Pisander of Camirus took the Heraclea of Pisinus of Lindus, and Panyassis of Halicarnassus took the Capture of Oechalia from Creophylus of Samos.

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Source
Stählin 2:441–442 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (final sigma inside a word in the digital text): Πανύαςςίς → Πανύασσίς.

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/25/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 6.2.25 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/6/2/25/).

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