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[2]"F/RAGILIS\ et laboriosa mortalitas in partes ista digessit,
infirmitatis suae memor, ut portionibus quisquis coleret, quo maxime
indigeret." ['Frail, toiling mortality, remembering its own
weakness, has divided such deities into groups, so as to worship in
sections, each the deity he is most in need of.'] Pliny, History>, Bk. II, Ch. 5, Sect. 15. So early as H/ESIOD'S\ time there
were 30,000 deities. , Bk. I, Line 250. But the task
to be performed by these seems still too great for their number. The
provinces of the deities were so subdivided, that there was even a
God of . See A/RISTOTLE\, , Bk. 33, Ch.
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