[102] Alcinous, op. cit., c. 12.

[103] Ibid., cc. 9, 12.

[104] ἐδημιούργει. Not created ex nihilo, but made out of existing material as an architect makes a house.

[105] Alcinous, op. cit., cc. 8, 10.

[106] ἐξ αὐτοῦ συνεστάναι αὐτόν. So Cruice. Macmahon reads with Roeper αὐτῆς for αὐτοῦ, “the world was made out of it” (i. e. matter).

[107] The body of the cosmos is evidently meant. Cf. Alcinous, c. 12.

[108] de Legg., IV, 7.

[109] ἀορίστως.

[110] Timæus, c. 16.

[111] Phædrus, c. 166.