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by the Jews*, which last notion is refuted even by
their enemy Tacitus f.
Such superficial discoveries
about the Celtic divinities I shall abundantly
expose. Yet that Ogmius might be really the
Grecian Hercules, well known in Gaule, it will
be no valid exception that he was by the Druids
theologically made the symboU of the force of eloquence,
for which that country has been ever distinguish'd
and esteem'd : since even in Greece he
was, as Phnrnutus assures us, mystically accounted,
that reason which is diffused thrd all things, according
to ivhich nature is vigorous and strong, invincible
and ever generating; being the power that
communicates virtue and Jinnness to every part of
things-^.. The scholiast of Appollonius affirms,
that the natural philosophers understood by Hercules,
the intelligence and permanence of beings%:
as the Egyptians held him to be that reason, which
is in the tvhole of things, and in every part\\. Thus
* Plutarch, Symposiac, lib, 4- quem prolixius disserentem
otiosus consulas, lector.
f Quia sacerdotes eorum t\h\k tympauisque concinebant, hedera
Tinciebantur, vitisque aurea templo reperta, Liberum patrem
coli, domitorem Orientis, quidam arbltrati sunt, nequaquam.
congrqentibus. institutis: quippe Liber festos laitosque ritus
posuit, Judaeorum mos absurdus sordidusque. Lib, 5. cap, 5.
xoi a^a^iyw^Qi wa-n ; fj^era^orixos to^ue^, kUi thi; irufa [*efo^ a^X7]; vita^x'"^^'
Vbi supra,
§ napa ron $u«-iXOi{ o 'HpoxAnc trmrif xai a^xo Xaf/.^une-ra'.
Ton en wain, nm Jw 'jranram, ^OJ'on; non n\ion, ut corrnpte legi cum Gale#
II
auspicor in lV[acrobi», Saturml. Kb, 1. cap. SO.
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