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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[879] The text has ἀνιέρου, the imperative of ἀνιερόω, which in classical Greek means “to hallow;” but the verb here must be derived from the adjective ἀνίερος, and be taken in the sense “deprive of their holiness,” “no longer count holy.” Eusebius reads ἀνιέρους: “unholy interpreters.”
[880] The cernos some take to be a vessel containing poppy, etc., carried in sacrificial processions. The scholiast says that it is a fan. [I have marked this as a quotation. See below: Eleusinian rites.]
[881] Proserpine or Pherephatta.
[882] The scholiast takes the ῥίμβος to mean a piece of wood attached to a cord, and swung round so as to cause a whistling noise.
[883] [See supra, p. 175, where I have affixed quotation-marks, and adopted the word “tokens” (instead of “signs”) to harmonize these two places]
[884] This sentence is read variously in various editions.
[885] [A scathing retort upon those who called Christians atheists, and accused them of shameful rites.]
[887] Euripides.
[889] Iliad, v. 31.
[890] Iliad, v. 385.
[891] Iliad, xviii. 411.
[892] Iliad, iii. 243. Lord Derby’s translation is used in extracts from the Iliad.
[893] The mss. read “small,” but the true reading is doubtless “tall.”
[894] Iliad, i. 528
[895] Odyss., viii. 324.
[896] Meursius proposed to read, “at Agra.”
[897] The beams of Sol or the Sun is an emendation of Potter’s. The mss. read “the Elean Augeas.”
[898] Odyss., xix. 163.
[899] So Liddell and Scott. Commentators are generally agreed that the epithet is an obscene one, though what its precise meaning is they can only conjecture.
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