{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Thus also those skilled in the mysteries forbid “to eat the heart;”\r\nteaching that we ought not to gnaw and consume the soul by idleness and\r\nby vexation, on account of things which happen against one’s wishes.\r\nWretched, accordingly, was the man whom Homer also says, wandering\r\nalone, “ate his own heart.” But again, seeing the Gospel supposes\r\ntwo ways—the apostles, too, similarly with all the prophets—and\r\nseeing they call that one “narrow and confined” which is circumscribed\r\naccording to the commandments and prohibitions, and the opposite one,\r\nwhich leads to perdition, “broad and roomy,” open to pleasures and\r\nwrath, and say, “Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel\r\nof the ungodly, and standeth not in the way of sinners.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_762\" id=\"FNanchor_762\">[762]</a> Hence\r\nalso comes the fable of Prodicus of Ceus about Virtue and Vice.\r\nAnd Pythagoras shrinks not from prohibiting to walk on the public\r\nthoroughfares, enjoining the necessity of not following the sentiments\r\nof the many, which are crude and inconsistent. And Aristocritus, in\r\nthe first book of his <i>Positions against Heracliodorus</i>, mentions\r\na letter to this effect: “Atœeas king of the Scythians to the people\r\nof Byzantium: Do not impair my revenues in case my mares drink your\r\nwater;” for the Barbarian indicated symbolically that he would make war\r\non them. Likewise also the poet Euphorion introduces Nestor saying,</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER V. ON THE SYMBOLS OF PYTHAGORAS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_762","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-341"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"096ee3b90244607716440ccfe8cdd883a14a892889f6f9557e9fe6200b1e7da8","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. i. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_762","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_762","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_762\" id=\"Footnote_762\">[762]</a> Ps. i. 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_762","text_sha256":"92f564585454c586c0af326bd383f274c423da84b6e9c33119956c59d8f1f661","verified":false,"work_id":null}