“Isteic is est Jupiter, quem dico, Græci vocant
Aera; quique ventus est, et nubes, imber postea,
Atque ex imbre frigus; ventus post fit, aer denuo:
Istæc propter Jupiter sunt ista, quæ dico tibei,
Qui mortales urbeis, atque belluas omneis juvat[210].”
This system, which had been previously adopted by the Etruscans, and had been promulgated in some of the Orphic hymns, nearly corresponds with that announced by Cato, in Lucan’s Pharsalia—
“Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quocunque moveris;”
and is not far different from the Spinozism, in Pope’s Essay on Man—
“Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees;