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Xenocrates, On Food Derived from Animals

Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor: On Eating

[2nd-3rd c.] Clement of Alexandria, "On Eating: Xenocrates on Food Derived from Animals," in The Instructor [Paedagogus] [ccel.org] in Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria vol. 2 in Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 edited by A. Roberts and J. Donaldson in 10 vols. [1885-96 American reprint of the 1866-72 Edinburgh edition; Online at Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2004].

Now Xenocrates, treating by himself of "the food derived from animals," and Polemon in his work On Life according to Nature, seem clearly to say that animal food is unwholesome, inasmuch as it has already been elaborated and assimilated to the souls of the irrational creatures.