'For he is the king of all, and monarch
Of the immortals, and there is none that can vie with him in power.'
"And Sophocles, the son of Sophilus, says:—
'One, in truth, one is God,
Who made both heaven and the far-stretching earth;
And ocean's blue wave, and the mighty winds;
But many of us mortals, deceived in heart,
Have set up for ourselves, as a consolation in our afflictions,
Images of the gods, of stone, or wood, or brass,
Or gold, or ivory;