himself who gives us any information with regard
to him is Eusebius. The only points on which his works now extant inform
us are his date and his instructors. In the _Stromateis_, while
attempting to show that the Jewish Scriptures were older than any
writings of the Greeks, he invariably brings down his dates to the death
of Commodus, a circumstance which at once suggests that he wrote in the
reign of the emperor Severus, from 193 to 211 A.D. (see _Strom._ lib. i.
cap. xxi. 140, p. 403, Potter's edition). The passage in regard to his
teachers is corrupt, and the sense is therefore doubtful (_Strom._ lib.
i. cap. i. 11, p. 322, P.).

"This treatise," he says, speaking of the _Stromateis_, "has not been
contrived for mere display, but memoranda are treasured up in it for
my old age to be a remedy for forgetfulness,--an image, truly, and an
outline of those clear and living discourses, and those men truly
blessed and noteworthy I was privileged to hear. One of these was in
Greece, the Ionian, the other was in Magna Graecia; the one of them
was from Coele Syria, the other from Egypt; but there were others in
the East, one of whom belonged to the Assyrians, but the other was in
Palestine, originally a Jew. The last of those whom I met was first in
power. On falling in with him I found rest, having tracked him while
he lay concealed in Egypt. He was in truth the Sicilian bee, and,
plucking the flowers of the prophetic and apostolic meadow, he
produced a wonderfully pure knowledge in the souls of the listeners."

Some have supposed that in this passage seven teachers are named, others
that there are only five, and various conjectures have been hazarded as
to what persons were meant. The only one about whom conjecture has any
basis for speculating is the last, for Eusebius states (_H.E._ v. 11)
that Clement made mention of Pantaenus as his teacher in the
_Hypotyposes_. The reference in this passage is plainly to one whom he
might well designate as his teacher.

To the information which Clement here supplies subsequent writers add
little. By Eusebius and Photius he is called Titus Flavius Clemens, and
"the Alexandrian" is added to his name. Epiphanius tells us that some
said Clement was an Alexandrian, others that he was an Athenian (_Haer._
xxxii. 6), and a modern writer imagined that he reconciled this
discordance by the supposition that he was born at Athens, but lived at
Alexandria. We know nothi