{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Is not Zeus the Baldhead worshipped in Argos; and another Zeus, the\r\navenger, in Cyprus? Do not the Argives sacrifice to Aphrodite Peribaso\r\n(the protectress),<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_46\" id=\"FNanchor_46\">[46]</a> and the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_45\">[45]</span> Athenians to Aphrodite Hetæra (the\r\ncourtesan), and the Syracusans to Aphrodite Kallipygos, whom Nicander\r\nhas somewhere called Kalliglutos (with beautiful rump). I pass over in\r\nsilence just now Dionysus Choiropsales.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_47\" id=\"FNanchor_47\">[47]</a> The Sicyonians reverence\r\nthis deity, whom they have constituted the god of the muliebria—the\r\npatron of filthiness—and religiously honour as the author of\r\nlicentiousness. Such, then, are their gods; such are they also who make\r\nmockery of the gods, or rather mock and insult themselves. How much\r\nbetter are the Egyptians, who in their towns and villages pay divine\r\nhonours to the irrational creatures, than the Greeks, who worship such\r\ngods as these?</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER II. THE ABSURDITY AND IMPIETY OF THE HEATHEN MYSTERIES AND FABLES ABOUT THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THEIR GODS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_47","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-115"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8dfc3c851d1abf56cc600140e5793ae25e05fa05f32060dd9913998a39946ae5","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_47","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_47","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_47\" id=\"Footnote_47\">[47]</a> An obscene epithet, derived from χοῖρος, a sow, used\r\nmetonymically for <i>muliebria</i>, and θλίβω, to press or rub.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_47","text_sha256":"c65e21ef4330654c937fc311f231c6ac898b3fcc4aa6c7067dabec7a29546d3b","verified":false,"work_id":null}