{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">But really I have unwittingly deviated in spirit from the order, to\r\nwhich I must now revert, and must find fault with having large numbers\r\nof domestics. For, avoiding working with their own hands and serving\r\nthemselves, men have recourse to servants, purchasing a great crowd\r\nof fine cooks, and of people to lay out the table, and of others to\r\ndivide the meat skilfully into pieces. And the staff of servants is\r\nseparated into many divisions: some labour for their gluttony, carvers\r\nand seasoners, and the compounders and makers of sweetmeats, and\r\nhoney-cakes, and custards; others are occupied with their too numerous\r\nclothes; others guard the gold, like griffins; others keep the silver,\r\nand wipe the cups, and make ready what is needed to furnish the festive\r\ntable; others rub down the horses; and a crowd of cup-bearers exert\r\nthemselves in their service, and herds of beautiful boys, like cattle,\r\nfrom whom they milk away their beauty. And male and female assistants\r\nat the toilet are employed about the ladies—some for the mirrors,\r\nsome for the head-dresses, others for the combs. Many are eunuchs; and\r\nthese panders serve without suspicion those that wish to be free to\r\nenjoy their pleasures, because of the belief that they are unable to\r\nindulge in lust. But a true eunuch is not one who is unable, but one\r\nwho is unwilling, to indulge in pleasure. The Word, testifying by the\r\nprophet Samuel to the Jews, who had transgressed when the people asked\r\nfor a king, promised not a loving lord, but threatened to give them a\r\nself-willed and voluptuous tyrant, “who shall,” He says, “take your\r\ndaughters to be perfumers, and cooks, and bakers,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_656\" id=\"FNanchor_656\">[656]</a><span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_293\">[293]</span> ruling by the\r\nlaw of war, not desiring a peaceful administration. And there are many\r\nCelts, who bear aloft on their shoulders women’s litters. But workers\r\nin wool, and spinners, and weavers, and female work and housekeeping,\r\nare nowhere.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER IV. WITH WHOM WE ARE TO ASSOCIATE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_656","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-524"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1658db5fedbb03c0aed82ea8dd48d17113f0c3c1c7139f6a69a61dda55af542b","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_656","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_656","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_656\" id=\"Footnote_656\">[656]</a> 1 Sam. viii. 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_656","text_sha256":"c76c06ecad6fb4a991d609100ba4ca4a3947b7e033ee4d134bfdb4153d1a7bd2","verified":false,"work_id":null}