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Then he details still more plainly the licentiousness of the fabled Zeus:

But let these be resigned to the follies of the theatre.

Heraclltus plainly says: "But of the word which is eternal men are not able to understand, both before they have heard it, and on first hearing it." And the lyrist Melanippides says in song:

And Parmenides the great, as Plato says in the Sophist, writes of God thus:

Hesiod also says:

Nay more, Tragedy, drawing away from idols, teaches to look up to heaven. Sophocles, as Hecatæus, who composed the histories in the work about Abraham and the Egyptians, says, exclaims plainly on the stage:

And Euripides on the stage, in tragedy, says:

Dost thou this lofty, boundless Ether see, Which holds the earth around in the embrace