Chapter V.—The vain pretensions of false gods.

But concerning those who think that they shall share the holy and perfect name, which some have received by a vain tradition as if they were gods, Menander in the Auriga says:—

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The same Menander, in the Sacerdos, says:—

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Again, the same Menander, stating his opinion about those who are received as gods, proving rather that they are not so, says:—

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And in the Depositum:—

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And Euripides the tragedian, in Orestes, says:—

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The same also in Hippolytus:—

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And in Ion:—

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And in Archelaus:—

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And in Bellerophon:—

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And again in the same:—

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And Menander in Diphilus:—

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The same also in the Piscatores:—

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The same in the Fratres:—

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And in the Tibicinæ:—

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And the tragedian in Phrixus:—

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In Philoctetes:—

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In Hecuba:—

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and,—

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