Assimilation with himself abjure,

Which yet with all the nostril that he may

Zeus snuffs from Antioch’s sacrifice to-day.

Besides, beyond the reach of allegory

The gods themselves in their own oracles

Doubly themselves convict—

As when they urge two nations on to war,

By promising the victory to each;

Whereby on one side their omniscience

Suffers, as their all-goodness on the other.