{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1271.tlg006.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1271.tlg006.local001","title":"Ὁμίλαι","titleGreek":"Ὁμίλαι","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Clemens Romanus","authorityName":"CLEMENS ROMANUS Theol. et","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1271-clemens-romanus-theol-et/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1271-clemens-romanus-theol-et/","editors":["Albert Schwegler"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Clementis Romani quae feruntur homiliae","edition":null,"publisher":"A. Becheri","place":"Stuttgart","date":"1847","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Proofreading","names":[]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.50178386&view=1up&seq=32","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Clemens Romanus. Ὁμίλαι. ed. Albert Schwegler. Clementis Romani quae feruntur homiliae, Stuttgart, A. Becheri, 1847. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1271.tlg006.local001","excerpt":"Ἐγὼ Κλήμης, Ρωμαίων πολίτης ὥν, καὶ τὴν πρώτην ἡλικίαν σωφρόνως ζῆσαι δεδύνημαι, τῆς ἐννοίας μου οὐκ παιδὸς ἀποσχολούσης τὴν ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐπιθυμίαν εἴς τε ἀθυμίας καὶ πόνους. συνῆν γάρ μοι λογισμὸς οὐκ οἶδα πόθεν τὴν ἀρχὴν λαβών, περὶ θανάτου πυκνὰς ποιέμενος ὑπομνήσεις, ὅτι ἄρα θανὼν ἐκ εἰμὶ καὶ ἐδὲ μνήμην τις ποιήσει μού ποτε, τοῦ ἀπείρου χρόνου πάντων τὰ πάντα εἰς λήθην φέροντος, ἔσομαι δὲ ἐκ ὤν, ἐκ ὄντας εἰδώς, οὐ γνώσκων, οὐ γινωσκόμενος, οὐ γεγονώς , οὐ γινόμενος καὶ ἆρά ποτε γέγονεν ὁ κόσμος, καὶ πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι τί ἄρα ἦν; εἰ γὰρ ἦν ἀεὶ, καὶ ἔσται· εἰ δὲ γέγονε, καὶ λυθήσεται· καὶ μετὰ λύσιν τί ἄρα ἔσται πάλιν, εἰ μὴ τάχα σιγὴ καὶ λήθη ; καὶ τάχα ἔσται τι, ὅ νῦν νοῆσαι οὐ δυνατόν. Ταῦτά τε καὶ τὰ τούτοις ὅμοια ἐκ οἶδα πόθεν ἀπαύστως ἐνθυμούμενος ὀδυνηρὰν εἰχον λύπην τοσοῦτον, ὡς ὠχριακότα με τήκεσθαι· καὶ τὸ δεινότατον, εἴ ποτε ἀπώσασθαι τὴν φροντίδα ὡς ἀνωφελῆ ἐβουλευσάμην,…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/#tlg1271-tlg006-local001-19"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1271.tlg006.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271/tlg006/local001.json.gz"}}