{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">And the people accompanied him, saying, “Bedu,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_777\" id=\"FNanchor_777\">[777]</a>\r\nZaps, Chthon, Plectron, Sphinx, Cnaxzbi, Chthyptes, Phlegmos, Drops.”\r\nCallimachus relates the story in iambics. Cnaxzbi is, by derivation,\r\nthe plague, from its gnawing (κναίειν) and destroying (διαφθείρειν),\r\nand θῦψαι is to consume with a thunderbolt. Thespis the tragic poet\r\nsays that something else was signified by these, writing thus: “Lo, I\r\noffer to thee a libation of white Cnaxzbi, having pressed it from the\r\nyellow nurses. Lo, to thee, O two-horned Pan, mixing Chthyptes cheese\r\nwith red honey, I place it on thy sacred altars. Lo, to thee I pour as\r\na libation the sparkling gleam of Bromius.” He signifies, as I think,\r\nthe soul’s first milk-like nutriment of the four-and-twenty elements,\r\nafter which solidified milk comes as food. And last, he teaches of\r\nthe blood of the vine of the Word, the sparkling wine, the perfecting\r\ngladness of instruction. And Drops is the operating Word, which,\r\nbeginning with elementary training, and advancing to the growth of the\r\nman, inflames and illumines man up to the measure of maturity.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF THE SYMBOLIC STYLE BY POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_777","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-375"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a1dbe453305c04175a387fbb82597561bfd46b0a58657e0e88a5aeddbae7b357","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_777","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_777","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_777\" id=\"Footnote_777\">[777]</a> Βέδυ, Ζὰψ, Χθὼν, Πλῆκτρον, Σφὶγξ, Κυαξζβὶ, Χθύπτης,\r\nΦλεγμὸς, Δρώψ. On the interpretation of which, much learning and\r\ningenuity have been expended.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_777","text_sha256":"8acfa3784a66c679c44e88117d05e42f3cff324092597f27f30a86b7ab45abd5","verified":false,"work_id":null}