 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.