How One Should Behave toward One's Parents
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Date: c. 120 C.E.
Hierocles' treatise on how one should behave toward one's parents, preserved as fragments in Stobaeus' Anthology (4.79.53). Parents are treated as terrestrial gods, benefactors, and the closest of relatives. The English text is based on Thomas Taylor's 1822 translation, with archaic language lightly modernized.
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