[995]. Herod. ii. 52.
[996]. History of Greece, i. 97. Dioscorides in Athenæus observes that no sacrifice is so acceptable to the gods as that which is offered up by members of a family living in unison.—i. 15. In the earliest ages of the world the first-born of every family was esteemed a prophet.—Godwin, Moses et Aaron, i. 6. 2.
[997]. Plato, Crit. t. vii. 146.
[998]. Plat. de Legg. t. viii. p. 182.
[999]. The air was Zeus.—Lycoph. Cassand. 80. Meurs. Comm. p. 1179. To some particular state of which the ancients alluded when they spoke of Kronos seeking to devour his children and swallowing stones instead of them. For the teeth of time which produce no effect on the air appear to devour whatever is composed of the element of earth. Mythologists, however, have generally omitted to remark that the stones which Kronos mistook for his children were not ordinary blocks of basalt or granite but rather so many statues of children endued, pro tempore, with life.—Ἔτι δέ, φησὶν, ἐπενόησε θεὸς Οὐρανὸς βαιτύλια, λίθοις ἐμψύχοις μηχανησάμενος.—Sanchon. ap. Euseb. Præp. Evang. l. i. c. 10. p. 37.
[1000]. Crit. t. vii. p. 173.
[1001]. Poll. i. 5.
[1002]. Muret. ad Plat. Rep. p. 726.
[1003]. Muret. ad Plat. Rep. p. 727.
[1004]. Iliad, υ. 242. seq.