And she, the Hours, gold-diademed, fair-fruited, good, brought forth.”[905]
He, then, who is not obedient to the truth, and is puffed up with human teaching, is wretched and miserable, according to Euripides:
“Who these things seeing, yet apprehends not God,
But mouthing lofty themes, casts far
Perverse deceits; stubborn in which, the tongue
Its shafts discharges, about things unseen,
Devoid of sense.”
Let him who wishes, then, approaching to the true instruction, learn from Parmenides the Eleatic, who promises:
“Ethereal nature, then, and all the signs
In Ether thou shalt know, and the effects,