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 Rh God: frag. 91, . This view was adopted by the Roman jurists (cf. Cic. de Legg. ii. 8, “law is no device of man”); and Wordsworth in his Ode to Duty has made the thought current coin—“stern daughter of the voice of God, O Duty!” Cleanthes is several times referred to in Cic. ''de Nat. Deor.—e.g.'' ii. § 13, iii. § 16 (see J. B. Mayor’s notes): cf. also Minucius, 19, § 10.


 * cf. 1. 29, Parmenides, frag. 12, (in the midst of these circles is the), viz. the dea genetrix (Aphrodite, acc. to Plut. Amator. 13; but cf. Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd ed., § 94). For in metaph. sense, see n. in Lightfoot, Ignat.² (Polyc. ii.).

4. : see Acts xvii. 28, where the words are given. St. Paul may have derived them directly from the of Aratus of Soli (in Cilicia), flor. 270 ; but probably they were almost proverbial in the Apostle’s day. The human reason, according to Aratus, is a “fragment” of the divine; it is the doctrine of divine immanence. Man's moral sense is an “efflux of God,” “a particle of Zeus,” and so far is one with the moral movement of the universe (cf. G. H. Rendall, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself, Introd., p, cxxix): cf. Eurip. frag. 1007,, There is a curious parallel to be found in the so-called (from an early Greek papyrus discovered nearly twenty-five years ago): [Jesus said]  (cf. Matt. xviii, 20, John xiv. 20, and other passages quoted in Lock and Sanday’s ed., 1897). Compare William Watson, The Unknown God: