The Metamorphosis, Or, Golden Ass, And Philosophical Works, of Apuleius
The Metamorphosis, Or, Golden Ass, And Philosophical Works, of Apuleius
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For it would not be conformable to the majesty of the celestial Gods, that any one of them should either devise a dream for Hannibal, or snatch the victim from Fla- minius, or direct the flight of the bird to Accius Navius, or versify the predictions of the Sibyl, or be willing to enatch the hat from the head of Tarquin, and immediately restore it, or produce a splendid flame from the head of Servius, but not such as would bum hhn. It is not fit ^at the supernal Gods should descend to things of... this » For a copious account ofdaBtnons, their nature, and different orders, see the notes on the First Alcibiades, in vol. i, of my PlaCo, and also my tranahitjon oi'Iambiichus on the Mysteries. 300 APULKIUS ON TH£ GOD OF SOCRATES• kind. This is the province of the intermediate Gods, who dwell in the regions of the air, which border on the earth, and yet are no less conversant with the confines of the heavens; just as in every part of the world there are animals adapted to the several parts, the volant living in the air, and the gradient on the earth.
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