{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">And barbarians were inventors not only of philosophy, but almost of\r\nevery art. The Egyptians were the first to introduce astrology among\r\nmen. Similarly also the Chaldeans. The Egyptians first showed how\r\nto burn lamps, and divided the year into twelve months, prohibited\r\nintercourse with women in the temples, and enacted that no one should\r\nenter the temples from a woman without bathing. Again, they were the\r\ninventors of geometry. There are some who say that the Carians invented\r\nprognostication by the stars. The Phrygians were the first who attended\r\nto the flight of birds. And the Tuscans, neighbours of Italy, were\r\nadepts at the art of the Haruspex. The Isaurians and the Arabians\r\ninvented augury, as the Telmesians divination by dreams. The Etruscans\r\ninvented the trumpet, and the Phrygians the flute. For Olympus and\r\nMarsyas were Phrygians. And Cadmus, the inventor of letters among\r\nthe Greeks, as Euphorus says, was a Phœnician; whence also Herodotus\r\nwrites that they were called Phœnician letters. And they say that the\r\nPhœnicians and the Syrians first invented letters; and that Apis, an\r\naboriginal inhabitant of Egypt, invented the healing art before Io came\r\ninto Egypt. But afterwards they say that Asclepius improved the art.\r\nAtlas the Libyan was the first who built a ship and navigated the sea.\r\nKelmis and Damnaneus, Idæan Dactyli, first discovered iron in Cyprus.\r\nAnother Idæan discovered the tempering of brass; according to Hesiod,\r\na Scythian. The Thracians first invented what is called a<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_402\">[402]</span> scimitar\r\n(ἄρπη),—it is a curved sword,—and were the first to use shields on\r\nhorseback. Similarly also the Illyrians invented the shield (πέλτη).\r\nBesides, they say that the Tuscans invented the art of moulding clay;\r\nand that Itanus (he was a Samnite) first fashioned the oblong shield\r\n(θυρεός). Cadmus the Phœnician invented stonecutting, and discovered\r\nthe gold mines on the Pangæan mountain. Further, another nation, the\r\nCappadocians, first invented the instrument called the nabla,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_946\" id=\"FNanchor_946\">[946]</a>\r\nand the Assyrians in the same way the dichord. The Carthaginians were\r\nthe first that constructed a trireme; and it was built by Bosporus,\r\nan aboriginal.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_947\" id=\"FNanchor_947\">[947]</a> Medea, the daughter of Æetas, a Colchian, first\r\ninvented the dyeing of hair. Besides, the Noropes (they are a Pæonian\r\nrace, and are now called the Norici) worked copper, and were the first\r\nthat purified iron. Amycus the king of the Bebryci was the first\r\ninventor of boxing-gloves.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_948\" id=\"FNanchor_948\">[948]</a> In music, Olympus the Mysian practised\r\nthe Lydian harmony; and the people called Troglodytes invented the\r\nsambuca,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_949\" id=\"FNanchor_949\">[949]</a> a musical instrument. It is said that the crooked pipe\r\nwas invented by Satyrus the Phrygian; likewise also diatonic harmony\r\nby Hyagnis, a Phrygian too; and notes by Olympus, a Phrygian; as also\r\nthe Phrygian harmony, and the half-Phrygian and the half-Lydian, by\r\nMarsyas, who belonged to the same region as those mentioned above. And\r\nthe Doric was invented by Thamyris the Thracian. We have heard that\r\nthe Persians were the first who fashioned the chariot, and bed, and\r\nfootstool; and the Sidonians the first to construct a trireme. The\r\nSicilians, close to Italy, were the first inventors of the phorminx,\r\nwhich is not much inferior to the lyre. And they invented castanets. In\r\nthe time of Semiramis queen of the Assyrians,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_950\" id=\"FNanchor_950\">[950]</a><span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_403\">[403]</span> they relate that\r\nlinen garments were invented. And Hellanicus says that Atossa queen\r\nof the Persians was the first who composed a letter. These things are\r\nreported by Scamo of Mitylene, Theophrastus of Ephesus, Cydippus of\r\nMantinea, also Antiphanes, Aristodemus, and Aristotle; and besides\r\nthese, Philostephanus, and also Strato the Peripatetic, in his books\r\n<i>Concerning Inventions</i>. I have added a few details from them, in\r\norder to confirm the inventive and practically useful genius of the\r\nbarbarians, by whom the Greeks profited in their studies. And if any\r\none objects to the barbarous language, Anacharsis says, “All the Greeks\r\nspeak Scythian to me.” It was he who was held in admiration by the\r\nGreeks, who said, “My covering is a cloak; my supper, milk and cheese.”\r\nYou see that the barbarian philosophy professes deeds, not words. The\r\napostle thus speaks: “So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a\r\nword easy to be understood, how shall ye know what is spoken? for ye\r\nshall speak into the air. There are, it may be, so many kind of voices\r\nin the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore\r\nif I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that\r\nspeaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto\r\nme.” And, “Let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may\r\ninterpret.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_951\" id=\"FNanchor_951\">[951]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XVI. THAT THE INVENTORS OF OTHER ARTS WERE MOSTLY BARBARIANS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_950","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-737"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b522dc57ca768cea59c3a45d2b270e675a0b1a708bfef941004f55a55104be96","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_950","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. 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