Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Well, the Greeks, when once a drought had wasted Greece for a\r\nprotracted period, and a dearth of the fruits of the earth ensued, it\r\nis said, those that survived of them, having, because of the famine,\r\ncome as suppliants to Delphi, asked the Pythian priestess how they\r\nshould be released from the calamity. She announced that the only help\r\nin their distress was, that they should avail themselves of the prayers\r\nof Æacus. Prevailed on by them, Æacus, ascending the Hellenic hill, and\r\nstretching out pure<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_949\" id=\"FNanchor_949\">[949]</a> hands to heaven, and invoking the common<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_950\" id=\"FNanchor_950\">[950]</a>\r\nGod, besought him to pity wasted Greece. And as he<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_320\">[320]</span> prayed, thunder\r\nsounded, out of the usual course of things, and the whole surrounding\r\natmosphere was covered with clouds. And impetuous and continued rains,\r\nbursting down, filled the whole region. The result was a copious and\r\nrich fertility wrought by the husbandry of the prayers of Æacus.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER III. PLAGIARISM BY THE GREEKS OF THE MIRACLES RELATED IN THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE HEBREWS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_950","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-686"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"99a28a163e3878859979dda1b57675018a8e0ffb11d366fc19f3f7ae86412b87","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_950","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_950","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_950\" id=\"Footnote_950\">[950]</a> Eusebius reads, “invoking the common Father, God,” viz.\r\nΠανελλήνιος Ζεύς, as Pausanias relates.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_950","text_sha256":"3885cdd030149a75a4add402bb26a9d626160af27533e9ece07b1033368bdae7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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