How One Should Behave toward One's Relatives
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Date: c. 120 C.E.
Hierocles' treatise on how one should behave toward one's other relatives, preserved as fragments in Stobaeus' Anthology (4.84.23). This fragment includes Hierocles' famous image of concentric circles, with the self at the center and the human race at the outermost ring, and instructs us to draw the outer circles inward. The English text is based on Thomas Taylor's 1822 translation, with archaic language lightly modernized.
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