Then he details still more plainly the licentiousness of the fabled Zeus:
“But he nor food nor cleansing water touched,
But heart-stung went to bed, and that whole night
Wantoned.”
But let these be resigned to the follies of the theatre.
Heraclitus plainly says: “But of the word which is eternal men are not able to understand, both before they have heard it, and on first hearing it.” And the lyrist Melanippides says in song:
“Hear me, O Father, Wonder of men,
Ruler of the ever-living soul.”
And Parmenides the great, as Plato says in the Sophist, writes of God thus:
“Very much, since unborn and indestructible He is,