Tel l’arbre de Sandal que frappe un furieux,
Couvre de ses parfums le fer qui le dechire.”
[371] Edda Island; Hâvamâl.
[372] Diogen. Laërt., In Prœm., p. 5.
[373] Pœmander et Asclepius.
[374] This is the vast collection of Brahmanic morals. One finds there many of the lines repeated word for word in the Sepher of Moses.
[375] In them, antiquity goes back three thousand years before our era. There is mention of an eclipse of the sun, verified for the year 2155 B.C.
[376] Senec., De Sen., l. vi., c. 2.
[377] Hiérocl., Aur. carmin., v. 18.
[378] Jamblic., De Vitâ Pythag.; Porphyr., ibid., et de Abstin.; Vitâ Pythag. apud; Phot., Cod., 259; Diog. Laërt., In Pythag., l. viii.; Hierocl., Comment. in Aur. Carm.; ibid., De Provident.; Philost., In Vitâ Apollon; Plutar., De Placit. philos.; ibid., De Procreat. anim.; Apul.., In Florid.; Macrob., In Saturn., et "Somn. Scip.; Fabric., Bibl. græc. in Pythag.; Clem. Alex., Strom., passim., etc.