{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Democritus appropriated the Babylonian ethic discourses, for he is said\r\nto have combined with his own compositions a translation of the column\r\nof Acicarus.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_937\" id=\"FNanchor_937\">[937]</a> And you may find the distinction notified by him when\r\nhe writes, “Thus says Democritus.” About himself, too, where, pluming\r\nhimself on his erudition, he says, “I have roamed over the most ground\r\nof any man of my time, investigating the most remote parts. I have seen\r\nthe most skies and lands, and I have heard of learned men in very great\r\nnumbers. And in composition no one has surpassed me; in demonstration,\r\nnot even those among the Egyptians who are called Arpenodaptæ, with all\r\nof whom I lived in exile up to eighty years.” For he went to Babylon,\r\nand Persis, and Egypt, to learn from the Magi and the priests.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XV. THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN GREAT PART DERIVED FROM THE BARBARIANS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_937","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-730"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d90da36826cb53e2962a858a903a5583a99a1f8c6d125beaa8b00cd5c22e4eff","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_937","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_937","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_937\" id=\"Footnote_937\">[937]</a> About which the learned have tortured themselves\r\ngreatly. The reference is doubtless here to some pillar inscribed with\r\nwhat was deemed a writing of importance. But as to Acicarus nothing is\r\nknown.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_937","text_sha256":"615615aed23256378afba20dbfb48537d27b9ad23de0d35d003201d470e5889a","verified":false,"work_id":null}