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Hierocles On Fraternal Love

On Brotherly Love

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Date: c. 120 C.E.

Hierocles' treatise on brotherly love, preserved as fragments in Stobaeus' Anthology (4.84.20-23). Brothers are described as parts of one another, like eyes and hands of a single body. The English text is based on Thomas Taylor's 1822 translation, with archaic language lightly modernized.

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