{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">These are the times of the oldest wise men and philosophers among the\r\nGreeks. And that the most of them were barbarians by extraction, and\r\nwere trained among barbarians, what need is there to say? Pythagoras\r\nis shown to have been either a Tuscan or a Tyrian. And Antisthenes was\r\na Phrygian. And Orpheus was an Odrysian or a Thracian. The most, too,\r\nshow Homer to have been an Egyptian. Thales was a Phœnician by birth,\r\nand was said to have consorted with the prophets of the Egyptians; as\r\nalso Pythagoras did with the same persons, by whom he was circumcised,\r\nthat he might enter the adytum and learn from the Egyptians the mystic\r\nphilosophy. He held converse with the chief of the Chaldeans and the\r\nMagi; and he gave a hint of the church, now so called, in the common\r\nhall<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_931\" id=\"FNanchor_931\">[931]</a> which he maintained.</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_931","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-727"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"061c36c46368849f0425867064dc351d491fc02371b3c1afa26b9eaaa08394fb","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_931","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_931","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_931\" id=\"Footnote_931\">[931]</a> ὁμακοεῖον.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_931","text_sha256":"6db01168c71efbc29f7be95f1265e20023fe97f57241aa15cbd47f4265ce42e2","verified":false,"work_id":null}