[145] The Hermes of the Greeks, the Mercury of the Romans, the Teut of the Celts, and the great teacher of the one unknown God, before Egypt sank into the grossest superstition.
[146] Perhaps the idea may be fanciful, but, to my ear, nothing more clearly reflects the image than the very words of the sentence—
"R[']an ăl[']ong ŭp[']on thĕ gr[']ound"
Handel, in his sublime Oratorio, "Israel in Egypt," seems to have felt this.
[147] Thomas, as by tradition we receive, chose Parthia; Andrew, Scythia (Eusebius).
[148] "Scythicæ non mitior ara Dianæ" (Lucan).
[149] See the exquisite tragedy of "[Iphigenia in Tauris]," by Euripides. Euripides may be alluded to here, as St Paul quoted Menander.
[150] "Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him" (Acts xvii. 18),—a singular and most interesting circumstance.
[151] Epicurus.
[152] The Hill of Mars. How striking the coincidence! Ovid says—