{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Erechtheus of Attica and Marius the Roman<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_50\" id=\"FNanchor_50\">[50]</a> sacrificed<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_49\">[49]</span> their\r\ndaughters,—the former to Pherephatta, as Demaratus mentions in his\r\nfirst book on <i>Tragic Subjects</i>; the latter to the evil-averting\r\ndeities, as Dorotheus relates in his first book of <i>Italian\r\nAffairs</i>. Philanthropic, assuredly, the demons appear, from\r\nthese examples; and how shall those who revere the demons not be\r\ncorrespondingly pious? The former are called by the fair name of\r\nsaviours; and the latter ask for safety from those who plot against\r\ntheir safety, imagining that they sacrifice with good omens to them,\r\nand forget that they themselves are slaying men. For a murder does not\r\nbecome a sacrifice by being committed in a particular spot. You are not\r\nto call it a sacred sacrifice, if one slays a man either at the altar\r\nor on the highway to Artemis or Zeus, any more than if he slew him\r\nfor anger or covetousness,—other demons very like the former; but a\r\nsacrifice of this kind is murder and human butchery. Then why is it, O\r\nmen, wisest of all creatures, that you avoid wild beasts, and get out\r\nof the way of the savage animals, if you fall in with a bear or lion?</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER III. THE CRUELTY OF THE SACRIFICES TO THE GODS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_50","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-125"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"132f249ffe735dfc859c4f53c4fbe1a0091947a09021e8684a4dfcee40f1e51f","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_50","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_50","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_50\" id=\"Footnote_50\">[50]</a> Plutarch, xx.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_50","text_sha256":"730ac82600dbfa3a6db34681bc5186ded2ab10db2cf696dfed26e09c6c12361b","verified":false,"work_id":null}