{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1885,"date_label":"1885 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1885,"edition_year":1885,"edition_year_basis":"Original ANF II title and imprint 1885; physical transcription printing date uncertain; original credit allocation and transcription differences remain qualified","id":"ws-library-full-note:df486eac2fb8911ff1f8:cite_note-49","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter III.—The Cruelty of the Sacrifices to the Gods., editorial note cite_note-49","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["oracles that Solon utters. You shall easily take him up. Nothing but true, O Barbarian, shall you find by proof this oracle to be, when you are placed on the pyre. Whence I cannot help wondering, by what plausible reasons those who first went astray were impelled to preach superstition to men, when they exhorted them to worship wicked demons, whether it was Phoroneus or Merops, or whoever else that raised temples and altars to them; and besides, as is fabled, were the first to offer sacrifices to them. But, unquestionably, in succeeding ages men invented for themselves gods to worship. It is beyond doubt that this Eros, who is said to be among the oldest of the gods, was worshipped by no one till Charmus took a little boy and raised an altar to him in Academia,—a thing more seemly than the lust he had gratified; and the lewdness of vice men called by the name of Eros, deifying thus unbridled lust. The Athenians, again, knew not who Pan was till Philippides told them."],"source_library_url":"/library/df486eac2fb8911ff1f8/#ws-library-full-note:df486eac2fb8911ff1f8:cite_note-49","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_II/Exhortation_to_the_Heathen#cite_note-49","translator":"William Wilson (original ANF II translator credit), Alexander Roberts (Edinburgh series editor), James Donaldson (Edinburgh series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American revision with prefaces and notes), Jesse Ames Spencer (typographical and Scripture-reference corrections)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0056/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"e0df170d421dcd73bd0a76f61768b09f25dd2e36668f01c873ba3f2300ffa8a2","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:df486eac2fb8911ff1f8:cite_note-49"},"verified":true,"work":"Exhortation to the Heathen","work_id":"ws-anf2-remaining-1885-df486eac2fb8911ff1f8"}