POEMANDEES. V. 39 



without measure, but without Master (a), neither this, 

 Child ! For if the unordered is defective (b), in that it 

 doth not keep the way of the order, yet it is under a 

 Master, Him having not yet ordained the order to it. 1 



5. I wish it were possible for thee becoming winged to 

 fly up into the air, and being lifted up in the midst between 

 the Earth and Heaven to behold the solidity of the Earth 

 and the fluidity of the Sea, the flowings of rivers, the loose- 

 ness of the air, the vehemence of fire, the course of stars, 

 the very swift circling (c) of heaven around these. most 

 fortunate spectacle that, Child ! at one glance to behold 

 all these, the immovable in movement, and the invisible 

 apparent ; by means of which is effected the very order of 

 the World, and this the World of the order. 



6. If thou wouldest behold the Creator also through the 

 things mortal, those upon the earth and those in depth, 

 consider, Child! the man fabricated (d) in the belly, 

 and examine accurately the art of the fabricator (e), and 

 learn who it is fabricating this beautiful and divine image 

 of the Man. Who is He having circumscribed (/) the eyes, 

 who He having perforated the nostrils and the ears, who 

 He having opened the mouth, who He having stretched 

 out and bound together the nerves, who He having formed 

 in channels the veins, who He having hardened the bones, 

 who He having cast the skin about the flesh, who He 

 having separated the fingers and the limbs, who He having 

 widened a basis for the feet, who He having opened the pores, 

 who He having extended the spleen, who He having formed 

 the heart pyramidwise, who He having put together the 

 sides, who He having widened the liver, who He having 

 hollowed out (g) the lung, who He having made the stomach 



(a) aSgWorof. (6) IvBfigj. (c) irspifittwv. (d) 



(e) TOW B>7a/oy/jy^<7yro?. (/) irepiyptyeis. 



1 Plato (Timaeus, 30), " For The God having willed that all things 

 "be good, and nothing according to His might, be bad (<pt/Aoi>), thus 

 taking up everything as much as was seen, not being at rest but 

 moved confusedly and disorderly, brought it into order from this 

 disorder." 



