NOTES ON THE PHENOMENA.
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5.Τοῡ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν………
5.And we his offspring are.
The ancient philosophers considered the proœmium of Aratus, of which this passage forms a part, as applicable either μυθικῶς to Jove, Δημισνργὸς the Creator, or φυσικῶς to Jove, Ἀιθὴρ the air.
"Πρὸς το, ῾Πατὴρ άνδρών τε (
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(Scholiast.)
From these words, which St Paul quoted to the philosophers of Athens to prove the unity of the godhead, Manillius deduces an argument for the immortality of the soul
"Jam nusquam natura latet: pervisimus omne,
Et capto potimur mundo, nostrumque parentem
Stirps sua perspicimus, genitique accedimus astris.
An dubium est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro?
In coelumque redire animas coeloque venire?"
(Lib. Iv. 883.)
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16. Αὐτὸς, καὶ προτέρη γνεή………
"Vide Scholiasten, qui heroes, Perseum, Oriona, aliosque intelligit. Nonnulli ad Jovem ipsum referunt, et explicant (Greek characters), qui et ipse es et prima propago: cui quidem