Roman Stoicism / being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire

by Edward Vernon Arnold

And from the good things that are seen they gained not power to know him that is,

Neither by giving heed to the works did they recognise the artificer;

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But either fire, or wind, or swift air,

Or circling stars, or raging water, or the luminaries of heaven,

They thought to be gods that rule the world.

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And if it was through delight in their beauty that they took them to be the gods,

Let them know how much better than these is their sovereign Lord:

For the first author of beauty created them: