[185] See Menage in Diogen. Laert., p. 241.
[186] See § 66, tom. vii., p. 359: ed. Bekker.
[187] See all these authorities as quoted by Ackerman.
[188] Hist. de la Méd., i., iii., 4.
[189] It may appear a singular idea that the earth is supported on air, and yet it was very generally held by the learned men of antiquity. The poet Lucan thus alludes to this doctrine:
“Dum terra fretum terramque levabit
Aer.”
Pharsal., i., 89.
And in like manner Ovid:
“Nec circumfuso pendebat in aere tellus