[887] Jer. x. 12.
[888] Isa. xl. 13.
[889] Iliad, viii. 69.
[890] These lines of Æschylus are also quoted by Justin Martyr, De Monarchia, p. 330. (Dread force, ἄπλατος ὁρμή; Eusebius reads ὁρμῇ, dative. J. Langus has suggested (ἄπλαστος) uncreated; ἄπληστος (insatiate) has also been suggested.) The epithet of the text, which means primarily unapproachable, then dread or terrible, is applied by Pindar to fire.
[891] Ps. lxviii. 8.
[892] This Pythian oracle is given by Herodotus, and is quoted also by Eusebius and Theodoret.
[893] γνωμικώτατα, Eusebius reads γενικώτατον, agreeing with πατέρα.
[894] A game in which a potsherd with a black and white side was cast on a line; and as the black or white turned up, one of the players fled and the other pursued.
[895] Eusebius has κρίνει, which we have adopted, for κρίνειν of the text.
[896] Plato, Rep. book vii.