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 adopted by the Pythagoreans in the latter sense, while Plato, who believed in none of these things, had, on one or two occasions, by the use of philosophic "myth" replete with more than Socratic irony, described these beings as playing a part between God and man which might be tolerantly regarded as not greatly dissimilar from that popularly assigned to the lesser deities of the Hellenic Olympus. In the "Statesman," the creation-myth, to which the Stranger invites the

Voraussetzung aus ''dass diese Gottheiten wesentlich Hellenische sind" (Volkmann, vol. ii. p. 23). But these varying views are simply two different ways of regarding the real fact, which is that Plutarch regards foreign myths and Greek alike as different expressions of the conception of Divine Unity—such Unity not being either Hellenic or Egyptian, but simply absolute (see subsequent analysis of the De Iside et Osiride'').]." This libellus I cannot identify with any enumerated in the catalogue of Lamprias.)]
 * [Footnote: der Ægyptischen Mythen von Isis und Osiris geht von der ausdrücklichen