Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But O man, who lovest the human race better, and art truer than Apollo,\r\npity him that is bound on the pyre. Do thou,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_50\">[50]</span> O Solon, declare truth;\r\nand thou, O Cyrus, command the fire to be extinguished. Be wise, then,\r\nat last, O Crœsus, taught by suffering. He whom you worship is an\r\ningrate; he accepts your reward, and after taking the gold plays false.\r\n“Look again to the end,” O Solon. It is not the demon, but the man\r\nthat tells you this. It is not ambiguous oracles that Solon utters.\r\nYou shall easily take him up. Nothing but true, O Barbarian, shall\r\nyou find by proof this oracle to be, when you are placed on the pyre.\r\nWhence I cannot help wondering, by what plausible reasons those who\r\nfirst went astray were impelled to preach superstition to men, when\r\nthey exhorted them to worship wicked demons, whether it was Phoroneus\r\nor Merops, or whoever else that raised temples and altars to them; and\r\nbesides, as is fabled, were the first to offer sacrifices to them. But,\r\nunquestionably, in succeeding ages men invented for themselves gods to\r\nworship. It is beyond doubt that this Eros, who is said to be among the\r\noldest of the gods, was worshipped by no one till Charmus took a little\r\nboy and raised an altar to him in Academia,—a thing more seemly<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_52\" id=\"FNanchor_52\">[52]</a>\r\nthan the lust he had gratified; and the lewdness of vice men called by\r\nthe name of Eros, deifying thus unbridled lust. The Athenians, again,\r\nknew not who Pan was till Philippides told them.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER III. THE CRUELTY OF THE SACRIFICES TO THE GODS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_52","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-128"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3ed0d3e9b640002ff41f13b0a0e60b66cb078d864a372f94aa34d7a0f226ffbd","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_52","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_52","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_52\" id=\"Footnote_52\">[52]</a> If we read χαριἐστερον, this is the only sense that can\r\nbe put on the words. But if we read χαριστήριον, we may translate, “a\r\nmemorial of gratified lust.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_52","text_sha256":"7fef8c639ee5f70cbed03d31cae3c9cbd4f5ed1223554b08c5538bd6e11865c4","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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