[415] 'Unbroken speech prolonged from the first light of dawn till the shadows of the dark night.'—iv. 537-38.
[416] 'Now, too, let us examine the "Homoeomeria" of Anaxagoras, as the Greeks call it, though the poverty of our native speech does not admit of its being named in our language.'—i. 830-33.
[417] 'Whence returning victorious he brings back to us tidings of what may and what may not come into existence: on what principle, in fine, the power of each thing is determined and the deeply-fixed limit of its being.'—i. 75-77.
[418] 'According to what condition all things have been created, what necessity there is that they abide by it, and how they may not annul the mighty laws of the ages.'—v. 56-58.
[419] 'Since it is absolutely decreed, what each thing can and what it cannot do, by the conditions of nature.'—i. 586.
[420] 'It is fixed and ordered where each thing may grow and exist.'—iii. 787.
[421] ii. 254.
[422] ii. 1091.
[423] vi. 32.
[424] 'This, in these circumstances, I think I can establish, that such faint traces of our native elements are left beyond the powers of our reason to dispel, that nothing prevents us from leading a life worthy of the gods.'—iii. 319-22.