{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And Plato does not deny that he procured all that is most excellent\r\nin philosophy from the barbarians; and he admits that he came into\r\nEgypt. Whence, writing in the <i>Phædo</i> that the philosopher can\r\nreceive aid from all sides, he said: “Great indeed is Greece, O Cebes,\r\nin which everywhere there are good men, and many are the races of the\r\nbarbarians.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_932\" id=\"FNanchor_932\">[932]</a> Thus Plato thinks that some of the barbarians,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_396\">[396]</span>\r\ntoo, are philosophers. But Epicurus, on the other hand, supposes that\r\nonly Greeks can philosophise. And in the <i>Symposium</i>, Plato,\r\nlauding the barbarians as practising philosophy with conspicuous\r\nexcellence,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_933\" id=\"FNanchor_933\">[933]</a> truly says: “And in many other instances both among\r\nGreeks and barbarians, whose temples reared for such sons are already\r\nnumerous.” And it is clear that the barbarians signally honoured their\r\nlawgivers and teachers, designating them gods. For, according to Plato,\r\n“they think that good souls, on quitting the super-celestial region,\r\nsubmit to come to this Tartarus, and assuming a body, share in all\r\nthe ills which are involved in birth, from their solicitude for the\r\nrace of men;” and these make laws and publish philosophy, “than which\r\nno greater boon ever came from the gods to the race of men, or will\r\ncome.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_934\" id=\"FNanchor_934\">[934]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XV. THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN GREAT PART DERIVED FROM THE BARBARIANS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_934","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-728"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a717ab9425fd2b9febaf83efe8b8ca67510040405c5a9498bb709b970da34db5","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_934","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_934","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_934\" id=\"Footnote_934\">[934]</a> Plato, <i>Timæus</i>, p. 47 A.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_934","text_sha256":"7b92346bf67359894241dc422d4e30e61bb4867b48302fcd05a20974e1fc3706","verified":false,"work_id":null}