[181] 426 B.
[182] 1051 E.
[183] 1052 E.
[184] De Defectu Orac., 420 E.
[185] Æschylus: Prometheus Vinctus, 210.
[186] De Iside et Osiride, 352 A. We need not here trouble with Plutarch’s fanciful philology, almost as fanciful as that of some modern Aryanists. His meaning is clear—Absolute Being is the object of the worship of Isis—cf. Max Müller: Selected Essays, vol. i. p. 467: “Comparative philologists have not yet succeeded in finding the true etymology of Apollo.” (Plato’s derivations are given in the Cratylus, 266 C.)
[187] Iliad, xiii. 354. (Chapman’s translation.)
[188] De Iside et Osiride, 351 E.
[189] Neoplatonism, by C. Bigg, D.D. (“Chief Ancient Philosophies”), p. 216.
[190] Cf. the De Placitis Philosophorum, 881 B.