{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Euphorus and many other historians say that there are seventy-five\r\nnations and tongues, in consequence of hearing the statement made by\r\nMoses: “All the souls that sprang from Jacob, which went down into\r\nEgypt, were seventy-five.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1041\" id=\"FNanchor_1041\">[1041]</a> According to the true reckoning, there\r\nappear to be seventy-two generic dialects, as our Scriptures hand\r\ndown. The rest of the vulgar tongues are formed by the blending of\r\ntwo, or three, or more dialects. A dialect is a mode of speech which\r\nexhibits a character peculiar to a locality, or a mode of speech which\r\nexhibits a character peculiar or common to a race. The Greeks say, that\r\namong them are five dialects—the Attic, Ionic, Doric, Æolic, and the\r\nfifth the Common; and that the languages of the barbarians, which are\r\ninnumerable, are not called dialects, but tongues.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXI. THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF FAR HIGHER ANTIQUITY THAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GREEKS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1041","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-800"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"99cb3413df311319f905ca039682f77f16693e5937393d88b1559ab72c7e37b3","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":46,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xlvi. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_1041","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_1041","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1041\" id=\"Footnote_1041\">[1041]</a> Gen. xlvi. 27.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1041","text_sha256":"f2cfdbc965afd01234cacd810541dffbb4d312941a97c5591b7364ddf37aaa12","verified":false,"work_id":null}