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| | CHURCH FATHERS: The Stromata, Book I (St. Clement of Alexandria) |
 | | Again, to Chilon the Lacedaemonian they attribute, "Let nothing be too much." Strato, in his book Of Inventions, ascribes the apophthegm to Stratodemus of Tegea. |
| | Didymus assigns it to Solon; as also to Cleobulus the saying, "A middle course is best." And the expression, "Come under a pledge, and mischief is at hand," Cleomenes says, in his book Concerning Hesiod, was uttered before by Homer in the lines: "Wretched pledges, for the wretched, to be pledged." |
| | The Aristotelians judge it to be Chilon's; but Didymus says the advice was that of Thales. |
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