{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Let revelry keep away from our rational entertainments, and foolish\r\nvigils, too, that revel in intemperance. For revelry is an inebriating\r\npipe, the chain<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_501\" id=\"FNanchor_501\">[501]</a> of an amatory bridge, that is, of sorrow. And\r\nlet love, and intoxication, and senseless passions, be removed from\r\nour choir. Burlesque singing is the boon companion of drunkenness.\r\nA night spent over drink invites drunkenness, rouses lust, and is\r\naudacious in deeds of shame. For if people occupy their time with\r\npipes, and psalteries, and choirs, and dances, and Egyptian clapping\r\nof hands, and such disorderly frivolities, they become quite immodest\r\nand intractable, beat on cymbals and drums, and make a noise on the\r\ninstruments of delusion; for plainly such a banquet, as seems to me,\r\nis a theatre of drunkenness. For the apostle decrees that, “putting\r\noff the works of darkness, we should put on the armour of light,\r\nwalking honestly as in the day, not spending our time in rioting and\r\ndrunkenness, in chambering and wantonness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_502\" id=\"FNanchor_502\">[502]</a> Let the pipe be\r\nresigned to the shepherds, and the flute to the superstitious who\r\nare engrossed in idolatry. For, in truth, such instruments are to be\r\nbanished from a temperate banquet, being more suitable to beasts than\r\nmen, and the more irrational portion of mankind. For we have heard of\r\nstags being charmed by the pipe, and seduced by music into the toils,\r\nwhen hunted by the huntsman. And when mares are being covered, a tune\r\nis played on the flute—a nuptial song, as it were. And every improper\r\nsight and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_216\">[216]</span> sound, to speak in a word, and every shameful sensation of\r\nlicentiousness—which, in truth, is privation of sensation—must by\r\nall means be excluded; and we must be on our guard against whatever\r\npleasure titillates eye and ear, and effeminates. For the various\r\nspells of the broken strains and plaintive numbers of the Carian\r\nmuse corrupt men’s morals, drawing to perturbation of mind, by the\r\nlicentious and mischievous art of music.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER IV. HOW TO CONDUCT OURSELVES AT FEASTS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_501","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-380"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"41511875afb00f8fd27a1b30e58f6c4e6d81c55da4ef66eac8b63c7d46bc767d","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_501","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_501","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_501\" id=\"Footnote_501\">[501]</a> The reading ἄλυσις is here adopted. The passage is\r\nobscure.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_501","text_sha256":"e25a068c2114f41940c778b52fb2271049de1d611ba77cf122fc7de33d77443b","verified":false,"work_id":null}