ias: _Vorsokr._ 81, B 25.--W. Nestle, _Jahrbb. f. Philol._ xi.
(1903), pp. 81 and 178, gives an exhaustive treatment of the subject, but
I cannot share his view of it.

P. 46. Euripides: _Suppl._ 201.--Moschion: _Trag. Fragm._ ed. Nauck (2nd
ed.), p. 813.--Plato: _Rep._ ii. 369b.

P. 47. Democritus: Reinhardt in _Hermes_, xlvii (1912), p. 503 In spite of
Wilamowitz's objections (in his _Platon_, ii. p. 214), I still consider it
probable that Plato alludes to a philosophical theory.--Protagoras on the
original state: _Vorsokr._ 74, B 8_b_.

P. 48. Euripides: _Electra, 737_ (Euripides does not believe in the tale
that the sun reversed its course on account of Thyestes's fraud against
Atreus, and then adds: "Fables that terrify men are a profit to the
worship of the gods").--Aristotle: _Metaph._ A 8, 1074_b_; see text, p.
85.--Polybius: vi. 56; see text pp. 90 and 114.--Plato's _Gorgias_, p. 482
and foll.

P. 49.--Callicles: see _e.g._ Wilamowitz, _Platon_, i. p. 208.

P. 50.--Thrasymachus: Plato, _Rep._ i. pp. 338_c_, 343_a_; comp. also ii.
p. 358_b_. His remark on Providence (_Vorsokr._ 78, B 8) runs thus: "The
gods do not see the things that are done among men; if they did, they
would not overlook the greatest human good, justice. For we find that men
do not follow it." Comp. text, p. 61.--Diagoras as Critias's source:
Nestle, _Jahrbb._, 1903, p. 101.

P. 51. Euripides: see W. Nestle, _Euripides_ (Stuttgart, 1901) pp. 51-152.
Here, too, the material is set forth exhaustively; the results seem to me
inadmissible. Browning's theory (_The Ring and the Book_, x. 1661 foll.)
that Euripides did believe in the existence of the gods, but did not
believe them to be perfect, is a possible, perhaps even a probable,
explanation of many of his utterances; but it will hardly fit all of them.
I have examined the question in an essay, "Browning om Euripides" in my
_Udvalgte Afhandlinger_, p. 55.

P. 52. Gods identified with the Elements: _Bacch._ 274; fragm. 839. 877,
941 (Nestle, p. 153).

P. 53. Polemic against sophists: Nestle, p. 206.--_Bellerophon_: fragm.
286.

P. 54. "If the gods----": fragm. 292, 7.

P. 55. _Melanippe_: fragm. 480. The words are said to have given offence
at the rehearsal, so that Euripides altered them at the production of the
play (Plut. _Amat._ ch. 13).--Aeschylus: _Agam._ 160.--Aristophanes:
_Thesmoph._ 450.--In the _Frogs_, 892, Euripides prays to the Ether and
other abstractions, not to the go