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286 And again:

Let us hear, then, the lyric poet Bacchylldes speaking of the divine:

And also Cleanthes, the Stoic, who writes thus in a poem on the Deity:

And the same, tacitly vilifying the idolatry of the multitude, adds:

We are not, then, to think of God according to the opinion of the multitude.

says Amphion to Antiope. And Sophocles plainly writes:

He further proceeds, and adds: