{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But these women delight in intercourse with the effeminate. And crowds\r\nof abominable creatures (κιναίδες) flow in, of unbridled tongue,\r\nfilthy in body, filthy in language; men enough for lewd offices,\r\nministers of adultery, giggling and whispering, and shamelessly making\r\nthrough their noses sounds of lewdness and fornication to provoke\r\nlust, endeavouring to please by lewd words and attitudes, inciting to\r\nlaughter, the precursor of fornication. And sometimes, when inflamed\r\nby any provocation, either these fornicators, or those that follow the\r\nrabble of abominable creatures to destruction, make a sound in their\r\nnose like a frog, as if they had got anger dwelling in their nostrils.\r\nBut those who are more refined than these keep Indian birds and Median\r\npea-fowls, and recline with peak-headed<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_662\" id=\"FNanchor_662\">[662]</a> creatures; playing with\r\nsatyrs, delighting in monsters. They laugh when they hear Thersites;\r\nand these women, purchasing Thersiteses highly valued, pride themselves\r\nnot in their husbands, but in those wretches which are a burden on the\r\nearth, and overlook the chaste widow, who is of far higher value than a\r\nMelitæan pup, and look askance at a just old man, who is lovelier in my\r\nestimation than a monster purchased for money. And though maintaining\r\nparrots and curlews, they do not receive the orphan child; but they\r\nexpose children that are born at home, and take up the young of birds,\r\nand prefer irrational to rational creatures; although they ought to\r\nundertake the maintenance of old<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_295\">[295]</span> people with a character for sobriety,\r\nwho are fairer in my mind than apes, and capable of uttering something\r\nbetter than nightingales; and to set before them that saying, “He that\r\npitieth the poor lendeth to the Lord;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_663\" id=\"FNanchor_663\">[663]</a> and this, “Inasmuch as ye\r\nhave done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to\r\nme.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_664\" id=\"FNanchor_664\">[664]</a> But these, on the other hand, prefer ignorance to wisdom,\r\nturning their wealth into stone, that is, into pearls and Indian\r\nemeralds. And they squander and throw away their wealth on fading\r\ndyes, and bought slaves; like crammed fowls scraping the dung of life.\r\n“Poverty,” it is said, “humbles a man.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_665\" id=\"FNanchor_665\">[665]</a> By poverty is meant that\r\nniggardliness by which the rich are poor, having nothing to give away.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER IV. WITH WHOM WE ARE TO ASSOCIATE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_665","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-528"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6eb3a1251bb81ad3025fb4b5c464ae2c9b3bc28beed75dff7c4a1761e1d54684","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. x. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_665","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_665","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_665\" id=\"Footnote_665\">[665]</a> Prov. x. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_665","text_sha256":"9b7367a4df5164d3264c2779d83be262387f22cf785c1626170a8a150603d234","verified":false,"work_id":null}