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Justin Martyr
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Introductory Note to the Writings of Justin Martyr
[2499] Apollo accidentally killed Hyacinthus by striking him on the head with a quoit.
Chapter III.—Follies of the Greek mythology.
[2500] Τριέσπερον, so called, as some think, [from his origin: “ex concubitu trium noctium.”]
[2501] Thyestes seduced the wife of his brother Atreus, whence the tragic career of the family.
[2502] There is no apodosis in the Greek.
[2503] Not, as the editors dispute, either the tongue of the buckle with which he put out his eyes, nor the awl with which his heels were bored through, but the goad with which he killed his father.
[2504] Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἡμῶν.
[2505] [He seems to quote Gal. iv. 12.]
[2506] [N. B. —It should be stated that modern critics consider this work as not improbably by another author.]
Chapter I.—Reasons for addressing the Greeks.
[2507] Literally, “former.”
Chapter II—The poets are unfit to be religious teachers.
[2508] Iliad, xiv. 302.
[2509] Iliad, xix. 224.
[2510] That is, Venus, who, after Paris had sworn that the war should be decided by single combat between himself and Menelaus, carried him off, and induced him, though defeated, to refuse performance of the articles agreed upon.
[2511] Iliad, xvi. 433. Sarpedon was a son of Zeus.
[2512] Iliad, xxii. 168.
[2513] Iliad, i. 399, etc.
[2514] Iliad, xiv. 315. (The passage is here given in full from Cowper’s translation. In Justin’s quotation one or two lines are omitted.)
[2515] Iliad, v. 382 (from Lord Derby’s translation).
[2516] Iliad, xx. 66 (from Lord Derby’s translation).
Chapter III.—Opinions of the school of Thales.
[2517] i.e., these teachers.
[2518] Literally, “those who knew.”
Chapter IV.—Opinions of Pythagoras and Epicurus.
[2519] μονάδα καὶ τὴν ἀόριστον δυάδα. One, or unity, was considered by Pythagoras as the essence of number, and also as God. Two, or the indefinite binary, was the equivalent of evil. So Plutarch, De placit. philosoph., c. 7; from which treatise the above opinions of the various sects are quoted, generally verbatim.
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