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ARRIAN 



Chap. witliout the interposition of the Gods. 2 For that Mariners, 

 XXXIV. 



Hor. Canii. 

 L. HI. Od. IV. 



— the understandings of the former being too strong (as Sir W. Jones has remarked 

 in the argument of his Hymn to Surya) to admit the popular belief, but their influence 

 too weak to reform it, and establish in its place, in the public mind at large, the 

 supreme unity of the Deity — 



Qui terram inertein, qui mare temperal 

 Ventorum, et urbes, regnaque tristia, 

 Divosque, mortalesque turmas 

 Iraperio regit unus sequo. 



Homer. Odyss. 



L. III. 48. 



For further notice of this subject, the reader is referred to Maxinius Tyrius, Dis- 

 sert. 17., a Greek philosopher of the second century, contemporary, I believe, with 

 Arrian. 



2. OuSev &vev deuv 'ytyv6fjLevov avQpuivois is ayadhv awoTeXevra. To this we may 

 cite many parallel passages : -rravres Se Bewv x^'''^ov(r' &vQp(i3iroi, says the son of 

 Nestor to the divine attendant of Telemachus. Hesiod begins and ends his poem of 

 the Works and Days with inculcating piety towards the Gods ; the only way to please 

 wiioin and to be happy, he says, is to be religious and strictly moral — 



Opera et Dies eS 8* oiriv adavdrwv fxaKapcav ■Kf(pv\ayfj.4vos fhai. 



vs. 700. 



' ^ aoi^^ ^'^^ ^"^^ '^'^® passages, recommendatory of due reverence of the Gods, less numerous in 

 the lyric and tragic poets of Greece, than in her heroic poets : 



Pindar Pyth. 

 L. I. 79. 



fK 6ea>p yap ixaxaval ira- 

 ffai Ppojeais aperais 



ral Trepiy\(»iT(Tol t e<pvv. 



See also the sublime supplication of Hecuba in the Troades of Euripides, vs. 884. 

 The hymn of Cleanthes, 



ou5e Ti 7171/6x04 ipyov eVi x^"''' "■"'' St'xo:, ^aifiov, 

 oi'Ti Kar^ aldepwv Belov it6\ov, ovt eV2 iroyTqi, k. t. A. 



is considered the forgery of a later age. Not so, however, the beautiful truths of the 

 Greek poet of the Halieutics : 



Oppian. 



llalieulic. 



L. II. 4. 



Tt yap fMspSTreaffty auvcTThv 

 v6ff(f>i 6iwv ; ouS" ocraov utt' ck iroShs Jxi/os aeTpat, 

 ov^ 8(701/ afjiiriTaaai $\e<pdpuv irfpicpata KVK\a, 

 oAA.' avTol KpaTfovai koi iQvvovaiv 'inaaTa, 



