{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Numa, the king of the Romans was a Pythagorean, and aided by the\r\nprecepts of Moses, prohibited from making an image of God in human\r\nform, and of the shape of a living creature. Accordingly, during the\r\nfirst hundred and seventy years, though building temples, they made\r\nno cast or graven image. For Numa secretly showed them that the Best\r\nof Beings could not be apprehended except by the mind alone. Thus\r\nphilosophy, a thing of the highest utility, flourished in antiquity\r\namong the barbarians, shedding its light over the nations. And\r\nafterwards it came to Greece. First in its ranks were the prophets\r\nof the Egyptians; and the Chaldeans among the Assyrians; and the\r\nDruids among the Gauls; and the Samanæans among the Bactrians; and the\r\nphilosophers of the Celts; and the Magi of the Persians, who foretold\r\nthe Saviour’s birth, and came into the land of Judæa guided by a\r\nstar. The Indian gymmnosophists are also in the number, and the other\r\nbarbarian philosophers. And of these there<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_399\">[399]</span> are two classes, some of\r\nthem called Sarmanæ,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_941\" id=\"FNanchor_941\">[941]</a> and others Brahmins. And those of the Sarmanæ\r\nwho are called Hylobii<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_942\" id=\"FNanchor_942\">[942]</a> neither inhabit cities, nor have roofs over\r\nthem, but are clothed in the bark of trees, feed on nuts, and drink\r\nwater in their hands. Like those called Encratites in the present day,\r\nthey know not marriage nor begetting of children.</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_942","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-732"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3b881796fae57821b3fdbd49c5d0d68c76e64273285ac9f34ad0d206ede78e25","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_942","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_942","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_942\" id=\"Footnote_942\">[942]</a> Altered for Ἀλλόβιοι in accordance with the note of\r\nMontacutius, who cites Strabo as an authority for the existence of a\r\nsect of Indian sages called Hylobii, ὐλόβιοι—Silvicolæ.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_942","text_sha256":"f1465a21b373c6adb9626c2b2c9d7bfbaaad66999c0acf0b762c782b48962092","verified":false,"work_id":null}