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 learn by means of fiction, nor appropriate for the
 Cynic to invent that sort of thing at all, why did we
-not spare that wasteful expense, 3 and moreover why
+not spare that wasteful expense, and moreover why
 did we waste our time in inventing and composing
 trivial myths and then making stories of them and
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 navigators ? Because, as people say, they despise
 death ; as though bandits were not inspired by the
-same frenzied courage ! So says at any rate he 3 who
+same frenzied courage ! So says at any rate he who
 with you counts as a poet and mythologist, though, as
 a Pythian god proclaimed to certain bandits who
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 they entertain their friends with similes and myths,
 like the wise men of to-day. For as Euripides well
-says, 3 "Simple and unadorned is the language of
+says, "Simple and unadorned is the language of
 truth." Only the liar and the dishonest man, he
 says, have any use for a mysterious and allusive style.
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 dently try to see what sort of myths they must be
 that suit one or the other of those two branches of
-philosophy; 3 and no longer need we call in the aid of
+philosophy; and no longer need we call in the aid of
 witnesses from the remote past for all points, but we
-will follow in the fresh footprints of one 4 whom
+will follow in the fresh footprints of one whom
 next to the gods I revere and admire, yes, equally
 with Aristotle and Plato. He does not treat of all
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 to contend with, I mean lack of food and loneliness ;
 and then there is his journey over the sea itself in
-a golden cup, 3 though, by the gods, I do not think it
+a golden cup, though, by the gods, I do not think it
 was really a cup, but my belief is that he himself
-walked on the sea as though it were dry land. 4 For
+walked on the sea as though it were dry land. For
 what was impossible to Heracles ? Which was there
 of the so-called elements that did not obey his
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 birth, Zeus in the pangs of travail came to the
 nymphs, and they by their song over the thigh
-"Undo the stitching " 2 brought to light for us the
+"Undo the stitching " brought to light for us the
 dithyramb. Whereupon the god was driven mad by
 Hera, but the Mother of the Gods healed him of his
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 in sacred things ? For she was J;he daughter of
 Phoenician Cadmus, and the god himself bears
-witness to the wisdom of the Phoenicians 3 when he
+witness to the wisdom of the Phoenicians when he
 says " The Phoenicians too have learned many of the
-roads travelled by the blessed gods." 4 I think then
+roads travelled by the blessed gods." I think then
 that she was the first among the Greeks to perceive
 that there was to be before long a visible manifes-
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 father Zeus among the intelligible gods, and further
 his birth independently of generation in this our
-world. 2 ... in the whole universe, and in their proper
+world. ... in the whole universe, and in their proper
 order all those other facts which are well worth
 studying but too difficult for me at any rate to
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 impudence, the insolence, and in a word everything
 of the sort. They say that they are travelling the
-short and ready road to virtue. 2 I would that you
+short and ready road to virtue. I would that you
 were going by the longer ! For you would more
 easily arrive by that road than by this of yours.
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 instrument.
-So much for that, as the saying is. 3 Now to go
+So much for that, as the saying is. Now to go
-back to the point at which I digressed. 4 Since, as I
+back to the point at which I digressed. Since, as I
 was saying, myths ought to be addressed either to
 those who though grown men are children in intelli-
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 myth-maker.
-A certain rich man 2 had numerous flocks of sheep
+A certain rich man had numerous flocks of sheep
-and herds of cattle and "ranging flocks of goats" 3
+and herds of cattle and "ranging flocks of goats"
 and many times ten thousand mares ' ( grazed his
-marsh-meadows." 4 Many shepherds too he had,
+marsh-meadows." Many shepherds too he had,
 both slaves and hired freedmeii, neatherds and goat-
 herds and grooms for his horses, and many estates
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 themselves had had no better education. Then
 ensued a general slaughter, and heaven brought the
-tragic curse 2 to fulfilment. For " by the edge of the
+tragic curse to fulfilment. For " by the edge of the
 sword they divided their patrimony" and everything
 was thrown into confusion. The sons demolished the
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 Now when all was in confusion, and many mar-
-riages that were no marriages 2 were being con-
+riages that were no marriages were being con-
 cluded, and the laws of god and man alike had
 been profaned, Zeus was moved with compassion
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 filth and darkness and there is danger that the spark
 of fire which thou didst implant in him will be
-quenched, unless thou clothe thyself with might. 2
+quenched, unless thou clothe thyself with might.
 Take care of him therefore and rear him. For I and
 the Fates yield thee this task." When King Helios
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 he reared the child whom he had withdrawn " from
 the blood and noise of war and the slaughter of
-men." 3 And father Zeus bade Athene also, the
+men." And father Zeus bade Athene also, the
 Motherless Maiden, share with Helios the task
 of bringing up the child. And when, thus reared,
 he had become a youth " With the first down on his
-chin, when youth has all its charms," 4 he learned
+chin, when youth has all its charms," he learned
 the numerous disasters that had befallen his kinsmen
 and his cousins., and had all but hurled himself into
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 of this mountain dwells the father of all the gods.
 Be careful then for herein lies the greatest risk
-of all 2 to worship him with the utmost piety and
+of all to worship him with the utmost piety and
 ask of him whatever thou wilt. Thou wilt choose,
 my child, only what is best." So saying Hermes
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 arms he had brought with him. And when she saw
 his shield and sword and spear, she said, " But where,
-my child, is thy aegis 2 and thy helmet ? " e ' Even
+my child, is thy aegis and thy helmet ? " e ' Even
 these that I have," he replied, " procured with
 difficulty. For in the house of my kinsfolk there
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 warning also do thou heed, my son. Yonder man
 slumbers, and hence he is often deceived, but do
-thou be sober and vigilant, 2 lest the flatterer assume
+thou be sober and vigilant, lest the flatterer assume
 the frankness of a friend and so deceive thee ; which
 is as though a smith covered with smoke and cinders
 should come wearing a white garment and with his
 face painted white, and thus induce thee to give him
-one of thy daughters in marriage. 3 My third
+one of thy daughters in marriage. My third
 warning to thee is this : do thou very zealously keep
 watch over thyself, and reverence us in the first
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 ance of a mouth that foams with morbid rather
 than inspired madness ? l Do you not know that
-Salmoneus 2 in his day was punished by the gods for
+Salmoneus in his day was punished by the gods for
 just this, for attempting, though a mortal man, to
 play the part of Zeus ? Then too there is the
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 philosopher l now present : and later on I arrived at
 the threshold of philosophy to be initiated therein
-by the teaching of one 2 whom I consider superior to
+by the teaching of one whom I consider superior to
 all the men of my own time. He used to teach me
 to practise virtue before all else, and to regard the
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 insolence as yours, and tried to make me more
 temperate than I was by nature. And though, as you
-know, I was armed 3 with great external advantages,
+know, I was armed with great external advantages,
 nevertheless submitted myself to my preceptor and
 to his friends and compeers and the philosophers of
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 the ill-sounding phrase and fill in the blank yourself !
 Or rather, if you please, bear with me when I " put
-it mildly " 2 " what part or lot have you in it ? " You
+it mildly " " what part or lot have you in it ? " You
 criticise everybody, though you yourself do nothing
 to deserve praise ; your praises are in worse taste
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 full of soft, deep grass," and the " scent of
 flowers," and "the season of spring," and other
-figures of the same sort. 3 When did Isocrates ever
+figures of the same sort. When did Isocrates ever
 do this in his panegyrics ? Or when did anyone of
 those ancient writers who were genuine votaries of
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 Plato ? What was Aristotle's attitude in these
 matters ? Is it not worth while to pay attention to
-this ? Or surely no one will deny that he of Samos 2
+this ? Or surely no one will deny that he of Samos
 was reverent ? For he did not even allow the names
 of the gods to be used on a seal, nor oaths to be
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 ever name pleases her best ; though as for pleasure,
 I know that it has many forms." This is what
-he says in the Philebus 3 and he says the same sort
+he says in the Philebus and he says the same sort
-of thing again in the Timaeus. 4 For he says that we
+of thing again in the Timaeus. For he says that we
 ought to believe directly and without proof what we
 are told, I mean what the poets say about the gods.
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 those things that we are permitted to declare, some,
 it seems to me, we ought to refrain from uttering to
-the vulgar crowd. 2 However the explanation in this
+the vulgar crowd. However the explanation in this
 case is obvious. For since he perceived that the
 man who exhorted him to be initiated neglected to
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 what the hierophant proclaims, when he refuses the
 rite of initiation to him " whose hands are not pure
-or who for any reason ought not ! 3 "
+or who for any reason ought not ! "
 But where would this discourse end if you are
 still unconvinced by what I have said ?
+//The Loeb Classical Library, Edited by T. E. Page, Litt.D. and W. H. D. Rouse, Litt.D. The Works of the Emporer Julian, Volume II with an English Translation by Winmer Cave Wright, Ph. D.//