FOOTNOTES:
[51] See the account of the traveller Pausanias.
[52] "There are," says Hesiod, "30,000 gods on the fruitful earth."
[53] Greek scholars formed a select society of twelve gods and goddesses, but their choice was arbitrary, and all did not agree on the same series. The Greeks of different countries and of different epochs often represented the same god under different forms. Further, the majority of the gods seem to us to have vague and undetermined attributes; this is because they were not the same everywhere.
[54] Iliad, viii., 18.
[55] In the dialogue "Eutyphron."