ng to Marcellinus, it was built by Peleus of Thessaly. l. 22. c. 16.
p. 264.
[530] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 328.
[531] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 328. built by Actis.
[532] Apollodorus. l. 2. p. 62. Clemens. l. 1. Strom. p. 383. from
Aristippus.
[533] See Josephus contra Apion. l. 1. c. 3. p. 439.
[534] [Greek: Hoi gar Hellenon logoi polloi kai geloioi, hos emoi
phainontai.] Apud Jamblichum--See notes. p. 295.
[535] [Greek: Polun autoi epegon tuphon, hos me rhadios tina sunorain ta
kat' aletheian genomena.] He therefore did not apply to Grecian
learning--[Greek: Ou ten par' Hellesi, diaphonos gar aute kai
philoneikoteron hup' enion mallon, e pros aletheian suntetheisa.] Philo
apud Euseb. P. E. l. 1. c. ix. p. 32.
See the same writer of their love of allegory. p. 32.
[536] [Greek: Platon ouk arneitai ta kallista eis philosophian para ton
barbaron emporeuesthai.] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 355.
[Greek: --Kleptas tes barbarou philosophias Hellenas.] Clemens Alexand.
Strom. l. 2. p. 428.
Clemens accuses the Grecians continually for their ignorance and vanity:
yet Clemens is said to have been an Athenian, though he lived at
Alexandria. He sacrificed all prejudices to the truth, as far as he could
obtain it.
[537] [Greek: Phusei gar Hellenes eisi neotropoi, kai attontes pherontai
pantache, ouden echontes herma en heautois, oud' oper dexontai para tinon
diaphulattontes; alla kai touto oxeos aphentes panta kata ten astaton
heuresilogian metaplattousi. Barbaroi de monimoi tois ethesin ontes, kai
tois logois bebaios tois autois emmenousi.] Jamblichus. sect. 7. c. 5. p.
155.
[538] [Greek: Doxes gar kenes kai mataiou pantes houtoi erasthentes, oute
autoi to alethes egnosan, oute men allous epi ten aletheian proetrepsanto.]
Theophilus ad Autol. l. 3. p. 382.
[539] [Greek: Par' hemin de tes kenodoxias ho himeros ouk esti; dogmaton de
poikiliais ou katachrometha.] Tatianus contra Graecos, p. 269.
[540] [Greek: Tous men Sakas, tous de Massagetas ekaloun, ouk echontes
akribos legein peri auton ouden, kaiper pros Massagetas ton Kurou polemon
historountes; alla oute peri touton oudeis ekriboto pros aletheian ouden,
oute ta palaia ton Person, oute ton Medikon, e Suriakon, es pistin
aphikneito megalen dia ten ton sungrapheon haploteta kai ten philomuthian.
Horontes gar tous phaneros muthographous eudokimountas, oethesan kai autous
parexesthai ten graphen hedeian, ean en historias schemati legosin, ha
medepote eidon,
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