Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>As, then, in the fashioning of our clothes, we must keep clear of all\r\nstrangeness, so in the use of them we must beware of extravagance. For\r\nneither is it seemly for the clothes to be above the knee, as they say\r\nwas the case with the Lacedæmonian virgins; nor is it becoming for any\r\npart of a woman to be exposed. Though you may with great propriety use\r\nthe language addressed to him who said, “Your arm is beautiful; yes,\r\nbut it is not for the public gaze. Your thighs are beautiful; but,\r\nwas the reply, for my husband alone. And your face is comely. Yes;\r\nbut only for him who has married me.” But I do not wish chaste women\r\nto afford cause for such praises to those who, by praises, hunt after\r\ngrounds of censure; and not only because it is prohibited to expose the\r\nankle, but because it has also been enjoined that the head should be\r\nveiled and the face covered; for it is a wicked thing for beauty to be\r\na snare to men. Nor is it seemly for a woman to wish to make herself\r\nconspicuous, by using a purple veil. Would it were possible to abolish\r\npurple in dress, so as not to turn the eyes of spectators on the face\r\nof those that wear it! But the women, in the manufacture of all the\r\nrest of their dress, have made everything of purple, thus inflaming the\r\nlusts. And, in truth, those women who are crazy about<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_263\">[263]</span> these stupid and\r\nluxurious purples, “purple (dark) death has seized,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_607\" id=\"FNanchor_607\">[607]</a> according to\r\nthe poetic saying. On account of this purple, then, Tyre and Sidon, and\r\nthe vicinity of the Lacedæmonian Sea, are very much desired; and their\r\ndyers and purple-fishers, and the purple fishes themselves, because\r\ntheir blood produces purple, are held in high esteem. But crafty women\r\nand effeminate men, who blend these deceptive dyes with dainty fabrics,\r\ncarry their insane desires beyond all bounds, and export their fine\r\nlinens no longer from Egypt, but some other kinds from the land of\r\nthe Hebrews and the Cilicians. I say nothing of the linens made of\r\nAmorgos<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_608\" id=\"FNanchor_608\">[608]</a> and Byssus. Luxury has outstripped nomenclature.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON CLOTHES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_607","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-454"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"789e2c58eacdc6689dcef71c55ecc40e68c6bcb7d4005c6bfe610476ebe9ee90","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_607","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_607","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_607\" id=\"Footnote_607\">[607]</a> <i>Iliad</i>, v. 83.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_607","text_sha256":"05afa7b998554438f11861c25fbf99ebc58c819af2914e1f0cd4f15e7c72b41e","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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