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" but affixed to none of them either name or firname, for they 

 " had no where been informed in this particular ; but they 

 " called them Gods from this caufe, as aptly difpofing pf 

 " all events and of all regions. But, after a long fpace of 

 " time, they received the names [ja. owoficP.ix.') of the other Gods 

 " from Egypt, but tliat of Bacchus a long w-hile after. And 

 " fome time afterward they confulted the oracle at Dodona 

 " concerning thefe names {vBpi ruv Ouij^ojaj/) for this oracle is 

 " efteemed the moft ancient among the Greeks, and was the 

 " only one exifting at that period. Thcfe Pelafgi then, con- 

 " fuking at Dodona whether they fhould make ufe of thofe 

 " names (ra Owof^c^a.) which they had from the barbarians, the 

 " Oracle anfwered that they fhould make ufe of them. And 

 " fo from that time they worfhipped (or facrificed — ESuov) giving 

 " thofe names (tokti Ouvo[j.a<Ti) to the Gods ; and afterward the 

 " Greeks received them from the Pelafgi. But from whence 

 " each of the Gods had his exiftence,. or whether they have all 

 " of them been from eternity, or under what forms, are matters 

 " unknown until y^fterday, as I may fay. For Hefiod and 

 " Homer, whom I believe to have lived four hundred years 

 " before me, and no more, were they who formed a Theogony 

 " for the Greeks, gave firnames (r«f ETruvvfuetg) to the Gods, 

 " diflinguifhed their honours and their fundions, and affigned 

 " to them their feveral forms. To thefe men the poets, who 

 " are reported to have been prior, were, in my opinion, pofte- 

 " rior ; and the firfl things which I have related the prieflefTes of 

 " Dodona told me, but the latter, refpeding Hefiod and Homer, 

 " I myfclf afTert." 

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