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] clear uncovering of the dry land, when he says of Tethys and Oceanus:

Again, power in all things is by the most intellectual among the Greeks ascribed to God; Epicharmus—he was a Pythagorean—saying:

And the lyric poet:

He alone who is able to make night during the period of day is God.

In the Phænomena Aratus writes thus:

He adds:

that is, by creation.

And before him, Homer, framing the world in accordance with Moses on the Vulcan-wrought shield, says: