{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Explore not then too curiously the shrines of impiety, or the mouths\r\nof caverns full of monstrosity, or the Thesprotian caldron, or the\r\nCirrhæan tripod, or the Dodonian copper. The Gerandryon,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_26\" id=\"FNanchor_26\">[26]</a> once\r\nregarded sacred in the midst of desert sands, and the oracle there\r\ngone to decay with the oak itself, consign to the region of antiquated\r\nfables. The fountain of Castalia is silent, and the other fountain\r\nof Colophon; and, in like manner, all the rest of the springs of\r\ndivination are dead, and stripped of their vainglory, although at a\r\nlate date, are shown with their fabulous legends to have run dry.\r\nRecount to us also the useless<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_27\" id=\"FNanchor_27\">[27]</a> oracles of that other kind of\r\ndivination, or rather madness, the Clarian, the Pythian, the Didymæan,\r\nthat of Amphiaraus, of Apollo, of Amphilochus; and if you will,\r\ncouple<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_28\" id=\"FNanchor_28\">[28]</a> with them the expounders of prodigies, the augurs, and\r\nthe interpreters of dreams. And bring and place beside the Pythian\r\nthose that divine by flour, and those that divine by barley, and the\r\nventriloquists still held in honour by many. Let the secret shrines of\r\nthe Egyptians and the necromancies<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_27\">[27]</span> of the Etruscans be consigned to\r\ndarkness. Insane devices truly are they all of unbelieving men. Goats,\r\ntoo, have been confederates in this art of soothsaying, trained to\r\ndivination; and crows taught by men to give oracular responses to men.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER II. THE ABSURDITY AND IMPIETY OF THE HEATHEN MYSTERIES AND FABLES ABOUT THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THEIR GODS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_27","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-56"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3c109e21bea13da03a811229d8cc0d87272738f15bfa85efbbfa19e14df981a0","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_27","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_27","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_27\" id=\"Footnote_27\">[27]</a> ἂχρηστα χρηστήρια</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_27","text_sha256":"341228a6fd33eb8b16375af03a9fec32f28abda8c95b2356c81d88a23b160b66","verified":false,"work_id":null}