{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">nor, I would add, stain her cheeks, nor paint her eyes. Unawares the\r\npoor wretches destroy their own beauty, by the introduction of what\r\nis spurious. At the dawn of day, mangling, racking, and plastering\r\nthemselves over with certain compositions, they chill the skin,\r\nfurrow the flesh with poisons, and with curiously prepared washes,\r\nthus blighting their own beauty. Wherefore they are seen to be\r\nyellow from the use of cosmetics, and susceptible to disease, their\r\nflesh, which has<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_278\">[278]</span> been shaded with poisons, being now in a melting\r\nstate. So they dishonour the Creator of men, as if the beauty given\r\nby Him were nothing worth. As you might expect, they become lazy in\r\nhousekeeping, sitting like painted things to be looked at, not as if\r\nmade for domestic economy. Wherefore in the comic poet the sensible\r\nwoman says, “What can we women do wise or brilliant, who sit with\r\nhair dyed yellow, outraging the character of gentlewomen; causing the\r\noverthrow of houses, the ruin of nuptials, and accusations on the part\r\nof children?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_631\" id=\"FNanchor_631\">[631]</a> In the same way, Antiphanes the comic poet, in\r\n<i>Malthaca</i>, ridicules the meretriciousness of women in words that\r\napply to them all, and are framed against the rubbing of themselves\r\nwith cosmetics, saying:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER II. AGAINST EMBELLISHING THE BODY."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_631","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-489"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"47d80933168ea33d42f28e859666ba0f45a06c070363357d8f80034a275b66ae","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_631","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_631","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_631\" id=\"Footnote_631\">[631]</a> Aristophanes, <i>Lysistrata</i>.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_631","text_sha256":"d4f97e35b381e65db33405416b22135d6f686ca9d5beb270f4aa79fb420bb524","verified":false,"work_id":null}