Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">There are, then, four reasons for the bath (for from that point I\r\ndigressed in my oration), for which we frequent it: for cleanliness,\r\nor heat, or health, or lastly, for pleasure. Bathing for pleasure is\r\nto be omitted. For unblushing pleasure must be cut out by the roots;\r\nand the bath is to be taken by women for cleanliness and health, by men\r\nfor health alone. To bathe for the sake of heat is a superfluity, since\r\none may restore what is frozen by the cold in other ways. Constant use\r\nof the bath, too, impairs strength and relaxes the physical energies,\r\nand often induces debility and fainting. For in a way the body drinks,\r\nlike trees, not only by the mouth, but also over the whole body in\r\nbathing, by what they call the pores. In proof of this, often people,\r\nwhen thirsty, by going afterwards into the water, have assuaged their\r\nthirst. Unless, then, the bath is for some use, we ought not to indulge\r\nin it. The ancients called them places for fulling<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_686\" id=\"FNanchor_686\">[686]</a> men, since\r\nthey wrinkle men’s bodies sooner than they ought, and by cooking them,\r\nas it were, compel them to become prematurely old. The flesh, like\r\niron, being softened by the heat, hence we require cold, as it were,\r\nto temper and give an edge. Nor must we bathe always; but if one is a\r\nlittle exhausted, or, on the other hand, filled to repletion, the bath\r\nis to be forbidden, regard being had to the age of the body and the\r\nseason of the year. For the bath is not beneficial to all, or always,\r\nas those who are skilled in these things own. But due proportion, which\r\non all occasions we call as our helper in life, suffices for us. For<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_309\">[309]</span>\r\nwe must not so use the bath as to require an assistant, nor are we to\r\nbathe constantly and often in the day as we frequent the market-place.\r\nBut to have the water poured over us by several people is an outrage\r\non our neighbours, through fondness for luxuriousness, and is done\r\nby those who will not understand that the bath is common to all the\r\nbathers equally.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER IX. WHY WE ARE TO USE THE BATH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_686","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-553"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"646fe808d3bc4c9fe8a2deeb212c81cfabcc735618aa5ba35fe40ecc5bce3644","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_686","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_686","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_686\" id=\"Footnote_686\">[686]</a> ἀνθρωπογναφεῖα.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_686","text_sha256":"210fee7f1f85594a01acbb17d2c71e9b80f619f29ca17ff386131ddd85cab25d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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