{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Zoroaster the Magus, Pythagoras showed to be a Persian. Of the secret\r\nbooks of this man, those who follow the heresy of Prodicus boast\r\nto be in possession. Alexander, in his book <i>On the Pythagorean\r\nSymbols</i>, relates that Pythagoras was a pupil of Nazaratus the\r\nAssyrian<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_938\" id=\"FNanchor_938\">[938]</a> (some think that he is Ezekiel; but he is not, as will\r\nafterwards be shown), and will<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_398\">[398]</span> have it that, in addition to these,\r\nPythagoras was a hearer of the Galatæ and the Brahmins. Clearchus the\r\nPeripatetic says that he knew a Jew who associated with Aristotle.\r\nHeraclitus says that, not humanly, but rather by God’s aid, the Sibyl\r\nspoke.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_939\" id=\"FNanchor_939\">[939]</a> They say, accordingly, that at Delphi a stone was shown\r\nbeside the oracle, on which, it is said, sat the first Sibyl, who came\r\nfrom Helicon, and had been reared by the Muses. But some say that\r\nshe came from Milea, being the daughter of Lamia of Sidon.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_940\" id=\"FNanchor_940\">[940]</a> And\r\nSerapion, in his epic verses, says that the Sibyl, even when dead,\r\nceased not from divination. And he writes that, what proceeded from\r\nher into the air after her death, was what gave oracular utterances in\r\nvoices and omens; and on her body being changed into earth, and the\r\ngrass as natural growing out of it, whatever beasts happening to be in\r\nthat place fed on it exhibited to men an accurate knowledge of futurity\r\nby their entrails. He thinks also, that the face seen in the moon is\r\nher soul. So much for the Sibyl.</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_940","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-731"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a80dab65e50aea43e59e68baa4292b734f980086027d61b4a2c00b8fc7351bda","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_940","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_940","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_940\" id=\"Footnote_940\">[940]</a> Or, according to the reading in Pausanias, and the\r\nstatement of Plutarch, “who was the daughter of Poseidon.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_940","text_sha256":"adb662c036a2919f3d613042dec1c233534af364089cfc249a60da501da8196e","verified":false,"work_id":null}