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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1965] Timæus, p. 22 B.
[1966] About which the learned have tortured themselves greatly. The reference is doubtless here to some pillar inscribed with what was deemed a writing of importance. But as to Acicarus nothing is known.
[1967] Otherwise Zaratus, or Zabratus, or Zaras, who, Huet says, was Zoroaster.
[1968] [Direct testimony, establishing one important fact in the history of philosophy.]
[1969] Adopting Lowth’s emendation, Σιβύλλην φἀναι.
[1970] Or, according to the reading in Pausanias, and the statement of Plutarch, “who was the daughter of Poseidon.”
[1971] Or Samanæi.
[1972] Altered for Ἀλλόβιοι in accordance with the note of Montacutius, who cites Strabo as an authority for the existence of a sect of Indian sages called Hylobii, ὑλόβιοι—Silvicolæ.
[1973] Βούττα
[1974] Cæsar, Gallic War, book i. chap. 50.
[1975] Sozomen also calls Philo a Pythagorean.
Chapter XVI.—That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians.
[1976] [Elucidation XI. infra; also p. 428, infra.]
[1977] νάβλα and ναυλα, Lat. nablium; doubtless the Hebrew נִבֶל
(psaltery, A. V.), described by Josephus as a lyre or harp of twelve strings (in Ps. xxxiii. it is said ten), and played with the fingers. Jerome says it was triangular in shape.
[1978] ἀυτὀχθων, Eusebius. The text has αὐτοσχέδιον, off-hand.
[1979] Literally, fist-straps, the cæstus of the boxers.
[1980] σαμβύκη, a triangular lyre with four strings.
[1981] “King of the Egyptians” in the mss. of Clement. The correction is made from Eusebius, who extracts the passage.
[1983] By one or other of the parties in the case, it being a practice of advocates in ancient times to compose speeches which the litigants delivered.
[1984] [Elucidation XII., infra.]
Chapter XVII.—On the Saying of the Saviour, “All that Came Before Me Were Thieves and Robbers.”
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