{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The expression, “Know thyself,” some supposed to be Chilon’s. But\r\nChamæleon, in his book <i>About the Gods</i>, ascribes it to Thales;\r\nAristotle to the Pythian. It may be an injunction to the pursuit of\r\nknowledge. For it is not possible to know the parts without the essence\r\nof the whole; and one must study the genesis of the universe, that\r\nthereby we may be able to learn the nature of man. Again, to Chilon the\r\nLacedæmonian they attribute, “Let nothing be too much.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_927\" id=\"FNanchor_927\">[927]</a> Strato, in\r\nhis book <i>Of Inventions</i>, ascribes the apophthegm to Stratodemus\r\nof Tegea. Didymus assigns it to Solon; as also to Cleobulus the saying,\r\n“A middle course is best.” And the expression, “Come under a pledge,\r\nand mischief is at hand,” Cleomenes says, in his book <i>Concerning\r\nHesiod</i>, was uttered before by Homer in the lines:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XIV. SUCCESSION OF PHILOSOPHERS IN GREECE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_927","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-722"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"aac4a7086b143369b1255fdd1364ffb6024158a63f790d9c1653937249954824","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_927","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_927","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_927\" id=\"Footnote_927\">[927]</a> “Nequid nimis.” Μηδὲν ἄγαν.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_927","text_sha256":"bd1fd32288ad0441aec2eba457d922b000b8dc29269dc82e1a38c0b8477bdd76","verified":false,"work_id":null}