On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 9:36:00 AM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
Lucio Russo traces this to Gilles Ménage's printing of a passage from
Plutarch's On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon. in which Aristarchus
jokes with Cleanthes, who is head of the Stoics, a sun worshipper, and opposed
to heliocentrism. In the manuscript of Plutarch's text, Aristarchus says
Cleanthes should be charged with impiety. Ménage's version, published shortly
after the trials of Galileo and Giordano Bruno, transposes an accusative and
nominative so that it is Aristarchus who is purported to be impious. The
resulting misconception of an isolated and persecuted Aristarchus is still
transmitted today"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos

Why, thank you.

That led me to look Plutarch's work up:

https://archive.org/details/plutarchonfacewh00plut

John Savard