7 and 9.
The province of copulation, suitably to the importance and dignity
of it, was divided among several deities.
[3]
, Bk. VIII, Ch. 2, Sect. 2.
[4]The following lines of E/URIPIDES\ are so much to the
present purpose, that I cannot forbear quoting them:
[Greek Quote]
H/UCUBA\, Lines 956 ff.
"There is nothing secure in the world; no glory, no prosperity. The
gods toss all life into confusion; mix every thing with its reverse;
that all of us, from our ignorance and uncertainty, may pay them the
more worship and reverence."
[5]Diodorus Siculus, , Bk. III, Ch. 47,
Sect. 1.
[6], Bk. VII, Ch. 4.
[7]Pere* le Comte, Journey Through the Empire of China>.
[8]Jean-Francois Regnard, .
[9]Diodorus Siculus, , Bk. I, Ch. 86, Sect.
3. Lucian, "On Sacrifices," Sect. 14. Ovid alludes to the same
tradition, , Bk. V, Line 321 ff. So also Manilius,
, Bk. IV, Lines 580 and 800.
[10]Herodotus, , Bk. I, Ch. 172.
[11]Caesar, , Bk.
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