Monday, June 19, 2023
Pleasure-Lovers
Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 2.20.119.5-6 (v. 1, p. 178 Stählin; tr. John Ferguson):
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[5] Sensuality is simply a form of voluptuous gluttony, an excessive superfluity on the part of those dedicated to the passion of pleasure. [6] Diogenes [88 TrGF 1h] wrote revealingly in one of his tragedies:Those who are sated at heart by pleasuresand so on—shameful words and typical of pleasure-seekers.
of abominably effeminate luxury
are unwilling for hardships however small,
[5] τί γὰρ ἕτερον ἡ τρυφὴ ἢ φιλήδονος λιχνεία καὶ πλεονασμὸς περίεργος πρὸς ἡδυπάθειαν ἀνειμένων; [6] ἐμφαντικῶς ὁ Διογένης ἔν τινι τραγῳδίᾳ γράφει·οἱ τῆς ἀνάνδρου καὶ διεσκατωμένηςκαὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις ὅσα αἰσχρῶς μὲν εἴρηται, ἐπαξίως δὲ τῶν φιληδόνων.
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