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[HOMILY E.] On the following day in Tyre, then, having come to the quiet place as we had arranged, and having seen and greeted the others with certain other people, but not having seen Appion, I asked the reason for his not being there. And someone said that his little body had been unwell since that very evening. And when I said it was reasonable to set out at once to visit him, almost all of them asked that I first converse with them, and that afterwards I could visit him too. Therefore, since all were of one mind, I began to speak: Yesterday, having departed from here, O friends, I confess that I was so very anxious about the coming inquiry with Appion that I was not able to get any sleep. And while I was lying awake, the things I had contrived against him in Rome came to my mind. They were of this sort. From childhood I, Clement, being a lover of truth and seeking the things that concern the soul and spending my time on refutations and constructions, and being able to find nothing perfect, through distress I ran aground into a sickness. And indeed while I was lying down, Appion came to Rome, being a friend of my father, and he stayed with me as a guest and, learning that I was bedridden, he comes to me as one not uninitiated in medicine and asks the cause of my confinement. But I, not being ignorant that the man held the Jews in utter aversion, so much so that he had written many books against them, and that he now accepted Simon into friendship not out of a love of learning, but because he knows he is a Samaritan and an anti-Jew and has come out against the Jews, for this reason he attached himself to him, so that he might be able to learn something against the Jews from him. I, knowing this beforehand about Appion, as soon as he asked the cause of the sickness, answered deceitfully that I was suffering the passions of the young and was pained in my soul. And he said to this: “Child, speak with confidence as to a father, what is the sickness of your soul?” And when I, again feigning, groaned as though ashamed to speak of love, through my silence and nodding downwards I gave him the suspicion of what I wanted to indicate. And he, being truly persuaded that I was in love with a woman, said: “There is nothing in life that cannot find help. For when I myself was young, having fallen in love with a most worthy woman, I not only thought it was impossible to have her, but I never even hoped to address her. And yet, having chanced upon a certain Egyptian who was very exact in the arts of the magi, and having been befriended, I reveal my love, and not only did he give himself to me for whatever I wanted, but being more generous toward me he was not reluctant to teach also the incantation by which I succeeded. And from his secret instruction, being persuaded by the generosity of the one who taught me and having succeeded once, I ceased from the love. Wherefore if you too have suffered some such human thing, have confidence in us to be free from care; for within seven days I will certainly make you succeed with her.” Hearing these things, I, looking to my own purpose, said: “Forgive me for not quite believing that magic exists; for many promising many things and proving false—”

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[OΜIΛIA E.] Τῇ μὲν οὖν ἐν Τύρῳ ἐπιούσῃ ἡμέρᾳ καθὰ συνεταξάμεθα εἰς τὸν ἡσύ- χιον τόπον ἐλθών, τοὺς μὲν ἑτέρους μετά τινων καὶ ἄλλων ἰδὼν καὶ προσ- αγορεύσας, Ἀππίωνα δὲ μὴ ἑωρακώς, ἠρόμην τοῦ μὴ παρεῖναι ἐκεῖνον τὴν αἰτίαν. καί τις ἔφη δυσαρρώστως αὐτὸν ἀπ' αὐτῆς ἑσπέρας ἐσχηκέναι τὸ σωμάτιον. ἐμοῦ δὲ φήσαντος εὔλογον εἶναι παραχρῆμα ὁρμήσαντας ἐπισκέ- ψασθαι αὐτόν, σχεδὸν οἱ πάντες ἠξίουν πρότερον διαλεχθῆναί με αὐτοῖς, εἶθ' οὕτως κἀκεῖνον ἐπισκέψασθαι δύνασθαι αὐτόν. μιᾶς οὖν πάντων γνώ- μης γενομένης λέγειν ἠρξάμην· Ἐχθὲς ἐντεῦθεν ἀπαλλαγείς, ὦ φίλοι, ὁμολογῶ ὅτι πάνυ φροντίζων ὑπὲρ τῆς πρὸς Ἀππίωνα μελλούσης ἔσεσθαι ζητήσεως ὕπνου τυχεῖν οὐκ ἐδυ- νάμην. ἀγρυπνοῦντος δέ μου εἰσέδραμεν τὰ ἐν Ῥώμῃ πρὸς αὐτόν μοι μεμηχανημένα. ἦν δὲ τοιαῦτα. ἐκ παιδὸς ἐγὼ Κλήμης ἀληθείας ἐρῶν καὶ ζητῶν τὰ ψυχῇ διαφέροντα καὶ εἰς ἀνασκευὰς καὶ κατασκευὰς δαπανῶν τοὺς χρόνους καὶ μηθὲν τέλειον εὑρεῖν δυνάμενος, ὑπὸ τῆς ἀνίας ἐξώκειλα εἰς νόσον. καὶ δὴ ἐμοῦ κατακειμένου ὁ Ἀππίων ἐπιδημεῖ τῇ Ῥώμῃ, πατρι- κὸς ὤν μοι φίλος, καὶ ἐπιξενοῦται ἐμοὶ καὶ κλινήρη μαθὼν πρὸς ἐμὲ εἰσέρχεται ὡς ἰατρικῆς οὐκ ἀμύητος καὶ πυνθάνεται τῆς κατακλίσεως τὴν αἰτίαν. ἐγὼ δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα οὐκ ἀγνοῶν πάνυ Ἰουδαίους δι' ἀπεχ- θείας ἔχοντα, ὡς καὶ πολλὰ βιβλία κατ' αὐτῶν συγγεγραφέναι, καὶ αὐτὸν Σίμωνα νῦν οὐ διὰ φιλομάθειαν αὐτὸν εἰς φιλίαν προσέμενον, ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ Σαμαρέα αὐτὸν οἶδεν μισοιουδαῖόν τε ὄντα καὶ κατὰ Ἰου- δαίων προεληλυθότα, διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὸν προσῳκειώσατο, ἵνα δύναιτο κατὰ Ἰουδαίων τι παρ' αὐτοῦ μανθάνειν. ταῦτα ἐγὼ προειδὼς περὶ τοῦ Ἀππίωνος, ἅμα τῷ πυθέσθαι αὐτὸν τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς νόσου προσποιη- τῶς ἀπεκρινάμην, ὅτι τὰ νέων πάσχω καὶ ἀλγῶ τὴν ψυχήν. ὁ δὲ πρὸς ταῦτα ἔφη· Τέκνον, ὡς πατρὶ θαρσήσας λέγε, τίς σου τῆς ψυχῆς ἡ νόσος; ἐμοῦ δὲ προσποιητῶς πάλιν ἀναστενάξαντος ὡς δὴ περὶ ἔρωτος εἰπεῖν αἰδουμένου, διά γε τῆς σιωπῆς καὶ τοῦ κάτω νεύειν περὶ οὗ ἤθελον ἐν- δείκνυσθαι παρεῖχον τὴν ὑπόνοιαν. ὁ δὲ ἐρᾶν με γυναικὸς ἀληθῶς ἀναπεισθεὶς ἔφη· Oὐδέν ἐστιν ἐν τῷ βίῳ βοηθείας τυχεῖν μὴ δυνάμενον· καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸς ὅτε νέος ἤμην, ἐρασθεὶς γυναικὸς ἀξιολογωτάτης οὐ μόνον αὐτῆς τυχεῖν ἡγούμην ἀδύνατον εἶναι, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ προσαγορεῦσαί ποτε ἤλπιζον· καὶ ὅμως περιτυχών τινι Aἰγυπτίῳ, πάνυ τὰ μάγων ἀκριβοῦντι, καὶ φιλωθεὶς ἐκφαίνω μου τὸν ἔρωτα, καὶ οὐ μόνον ἑαυτόν μοι παρεῖ- χεν πρὸς πᾶν ὃ ἐβουλόμην, ἀλλὰ δαψιλέστερον πρὸς μὲ φιλοτιμούμενος καὶ τὴν ἐπαοιδήν, δι' ἧς ἔτυχον, διδάσκειν οὐκ ἐφθόνεσεν. ἐκ δὲ τῆς ἐκείνου λαθραίας ὑποδείξεως πεισθεὶς τῇ τοῦ διδάξαντος ἀφθονίᾳ καὶ ἅπαξ ἐπιτυχών, ἐπαυσάμην τοῦ ἔρωτος. ὅθεν εἰ καὶ σὺ τοιοῦτόν τι πέπονθας ἀνθρωπίνως, θάρσησον ἡμῖν πρὸς τὸ ἀμέριμνον· ἐντὸς γὰρ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ πάντως αὐτῆς ἐπιτυχεῖν σε ποιήσω. ταῦτα ἀκούσας ἐγώ, εἰς τὸν ἐμὸν σκοπὸν ἀποβλέπων ἔφην· Σύγγνωθί μοι μὴ πάνυ πιστεύοντι μαγείαν ὑφεστάναι· πολλῶν γὰρ πολλὰ ἐπαγγελλομένων καὶ διαψευσα-