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 104 Fkagm. XLII. B. Euaeb. Pr(pp. Ev. IX. 6,—pp. 410 0, D (ed. Colon. 1688). Ex Clem. Alex. Again, in addition to this, farther on he writes thus : — " Megasthenes, the writer who lived with Se- leukos Mkator, writes most clearly on this point and to this effect ; — * All that has been said,* " &c. Fbagm. XLII.O. CyriU. Coni/ra JuUan. IV. (0pp. ed. Paris, 1638, T. VI. p. 134 Al. Ex Clem. Alex.t Aristobonlos the Peripatetic somewhere writes to this effect : — " All that has been said," &c. Feagm. XLIII. • Clem. Alex. Strom. I. p. 305, A, B (ed. Colon. 1688). Of the Philosophers of India. [Philosophy, then, with all its blessed advantages to man, flourished long ages ago among the barbarians, diffasing its Ught among the Gentiles, and eventually penetrated into Greece. Its hierophants were the prophets among the Egyp- tians, theChaldssans among the Assyrians, the Druids among the Grauls, the Sarmansaans who were the philosophers of theBaktrians and the Kelts, the Magi among the Persians, who, as you know, announced beforehand the birth of the Saviour, being led by a star till they arrived in the land of Judssa, and among the Indians the Gymno- sophists, and other philosophers of barbarous nations.] There are two sects of these Indian philoso- phers — one called the Sarm&nai and the other the Brachmanai. Connected with the Sarm&nai are the philosophers called the H y 1 o b i o i, J who t " In this passage, though Cynl follows Clemens, he wrongly attributes the narrative of Megasthenes to Aristo- bouloB the Peripatetic, whom Clemens only praises."— Schwanbeck, p. 50. X The reading of the MSS is Allobioi. Digitized by Google