Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Some of these women eating mastich, going about, show their teeth to\r\nthose that come near. And others, as if they had not fingers, give\r\nthemselves airs, scratching their heads with pins; and these made\r\neither of tortoise or ivory, or some other dead creature they procure\r\nat much pains. And others, as if they had certain efflorescences, in\r\norder to appear comely in the eyes of spectators, stain their faces\r\nby adorning them with gay-coloured unguents. Such a one is called by\r\nSolomon “a foolish and bold woman,” who “knows not shame. She sits at\r\nthe door of her house, conspicuously in a seat, calling to all that\r\npass by the way, who go right on their ways;” by her style and whole\r\nlife manifestly saying, “Who among you is very silly? let him turn to\r\nme.” And those devoid of wisdom she exhorts, saying, “Touch sweetly\r\nsecret bread, and sweet stolen water;” meaning by this, clandestine\r\nlove (from this point the Bœotian Pindar, coming to our help, says,\r\n“The clandestine pursuit of love is something sweet”). But the\r\nmiserable man “knoweth not that the sons of earth perish beside her,\r\nand that she tends to the level of hell.” But says the Instructor:\r\n“Hie away, and tarry not in the place; nor fix thine eye on her: for\r\nthus shalt thou pass over a strange water, and cross to Acheron.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_727\" id=\"FNanchor_727\">[727]</a>\r\nWherefore thus saith the Lord by Isaiah, “Because the daughters of Sion\r\nwalk with lofty neck, and with winkings of the eyes, and sweeping their\r\ngarments as they walk, and playing with their feet; the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_324\">[324]</span> Lord shall\r\nhumble the daughters of Sion, and will uncover their form”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_728\" id=\"FNanchor_728\">[728]</a>—their\r\ndeformed form. I deem it wrong that servant girls, who follow women\r\nof high rank, should either speak or act unbecomingly to them. But I\r\nthink it right that they should be corrected by their mistresses. With\r\nvery sharp censure, accordingly, the comic poet Philemon says: “You may\r\nfollow at the back of a pretty servant girl, seen behind a gentlewoman;\r\nand any one from the Platæicum may follow close, and ogle her.” For\r\nthe wantonness of the servant recoils on the mistress; allowing those\r\nwho attempt to take lesser liberties not to be afraid to advance to\r\ngreater; since the mistress, by allowing improprieties, shows that\r\nshe does not disapprove of them. And not to be angry at those who act\r\nwantonly, is a clear proof of a disposition inclining to the like. “For\r\nlike mistress like wench,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_729\" id=\"FNanchor_729\">[729]</a> as they say in the proverb.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER XI. A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_729","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-593"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"59ff27ec43fdf568206c884e9eaa9aec72a404397df7bceffe8a706983c261e5","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_729","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_729","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_729\" id=\"Footnote_729\">[729]</a> ά κύων, catella. The literal English rendering is\r\ncoarser and more opprobrious than the original, which Helen applies to\r\nherself (<i>Iliad</i>, vi. 344, v. 356).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_729","text_sha256":"714eace74b437da2319ec14170d7cb75de99a8524ca84403351998f8d8f87ddd","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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