Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We were induced to mention these things, because the poets of the epic\r\ncycle are placed amongst those of most remote antiquity. Already, too,\r\namong the Greeks, many diviners are said to have made their appearance,\r\nas the Bacides, one a Bœotian, the other an Arcadian, who uttered many\r\npredictions to many. By the counsel of Amphiletus the Athenian,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1035\" id=\"FNanchor_1035\">[1035]</a>\r\nwho showed the time for the onset, Pisistratus, too, strengthened his\r\ngovernment. For we may pass over in silence Cometes of Crete, Cinyras\r\nof Cyprus, Admetus the Thessalian, Aristæas the Cyrenian, Amphiaraus\r\nthe Athenian, Timoxeus<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1036\" id=\"FNanchor_1036\">[1036]</a> the Corcyræan, Demænetus the Phocian,\r\nEpigenes the Thespian, Nicias the Carystian, Aristo the Thessalian,\r\nDionysius the Carthaginian, Cleophon the Corinthian, Hippo the daughter\r\nof Chiro, and Bœo, and Manto, and the host of Sibyls, the Samian,\r\nthe Colophonian, the Cumæan, the Erythræan, the Pythian,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1037\" id=\"FNanchor_1037\">[1037]</a> the\r\nTaraxandrian, the Macetian, the Thessalian, and the Thesprotian, And\r\nCalchas again, and Mopsus, who lived during the Trojan war. Mopsus,\r\nhowever, was older, having sailed<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_438\">[438]</span> along with the Argonauts. And\r\nit is said that Battus the Cyrenian composed what is called <i>the\r\nDivination</i> of Mopsus. Dorotheus in the first <i>Pandect</i> relates\r\nthat Mopsus was the disciple of Alcyon and Corone. And Pythagoras\r\nthe Great always applied his mind to prognostication, and Abaris\r\nthe Hyperborean, and Aristæas the Proconnesian, and Epimenides the\r\nCretan, who came to Sparta, and Zoroaster the Mede, and Empedocles of\r\nAgrigentum, and Phormion the Lacedæmonian; Polyaratus, too, of Thasus,\r\nand Empedotimus of Syracuse; and in addition to these, Socrates the\r\nAthenian in particular. “For,” he says in the <i>Theages</i>, “I am\r\nattended by a supernatural intimation, which has been assigned me\r\nfrom a child by divine appointment. This is a voice which, when it\r\ncomes, prevents what I am about to do, but exhorts never.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1038\" id=\"FNanchor_1038\">[1038]</a> And\r\nExecestus, the tyrant of the Phocians, wore two enchanted rings, and\r\nby the sound which they uttered one against the other determined the\r\nproper times for actions. But he died, nevertheless, treacherously\r\nmurdered, although warned beforehand by the sound, as Aristotle says in\r\nthe <i>Polity of the Phocians</i>.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXI. THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF FAR HIGHER ANTIQUITY THAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GREEKS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1038","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-785"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"886498c11c91b44812529d971ff6aa02a677506a6e5d613d3a1bbe018d672675","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_1038","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_1038","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1038\" id=\"Footnote_1038\">[1038]</a> Plato’s <i>Theages</i>, p. 93.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1038","text_sha256":"758d8174bed01703d8a0d6b1406bb72216415b115d9ad5271b5e3ce46a32e5c2","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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