[74] Acad. des Insc., t. v., p. 117.
[75] Procl., In Tim., l. v., p. 330; Cicero, Somm. Scip., c. 2, 3, 4, 6.
[76] Montesquieu and Buffon have been the greatest adversaries of poetry, they were very eloquent in prose; but that does not prevent one from applying to them, as did Voltaire, the words of Montaigne: “We cannot attain it, let us avenge ourselves by slandering it.”
[77] Horat., De Arte poét.; Strab., l. x.
[78] Origen, Contr. Cels., l. i., p. 12; Dacier, Vie de Pythagore.
[79] Ἱερὸς λόγος.
[80] Θρονισμοὶ μητρῶοι.
[81] Fabric., Bibl. græc., p. 120, 129.
[82] Apollon, Argon., l. i., v. 496.
[83] Plutar., De Placit. philos., c. 13; Euseb., Præp. Evang., l. xv., c. 30; Stobeus, Eclog. phys., 54. Proclus quotes the verses of Orpheus on this subject, In Tim., l. iv., p. 283. Voyez La Biblioth. græc. de Fabricius, p. 132.