. Trucul._ ii.
vi. 8.
"One eye witness is worth more than ten witnesses who speak by hearsay.
They who hear tell what they hear, they who see have a perfect knowledge
of what occurs."
P. 37, l. 50. The title {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} (distinguished by many names) was
often applied by the Greeks to the principal object of their idolatrous
worship. Cleanthes begins his Hymn to Jove in this way,--
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK KORONIS~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}
"Most illustrious of the immortals, having many names"
The Ethiopians believed that there was one God, who was the cause of all
things, but they also reverenced another God, whom they supposed to be
inferior to him, and to have _no name_ ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~})--;_Strab. Geog._ lib.
xvii, p. 822.
P. 37, l. 52 Quid est Deus? Quod vides totum, et quod non vides totum.
"What is God? Every thing which you see, and every thing which you do not
see."--_Senec. Nat. Quest._, lib. i.
P. 38, l. 15 The author of the Asclepian Dialogue, uses _unus omnia_
(one-all things) and _Creator omnium_ (the Creator of all things,) as
equivalent expressions--_Cudworth's Intellectual System_, vol. i. p. 346.
P. 55, l. 44 God was represented by some of the ancient philosophers to
be "the soul of the world, and the soul of the souls of the world."
P. 79, l. 4, and 8
Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit Deus,
Ridetque, si mor
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