[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.