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1 3 | THE TESTIMONIES OF THE POETS CONCERNING THE ONE GOD.~
2 3 | preachers of the one God, poets also, and philosophers,
3 4 | certain than that of the poets. Plato asserts His monarchy,
4 7 | actions, as related both by poets and historians, declare
5 8 | placed her crown, as the poets say, conspicuously among
6 9 | but impurity, which the poets do not venture to confess?~
7 11| EMBLEMS UNDER WHICH THE POETS VEILED THE TURPITUDE OF
8 11| things are feigned by the poets. This is not the usage of
9 11| is not the usage of the poets, to feign in such a manner
10 12| XlI. THE POETS DO NOT INVENT ALL THOSE
11 12| You see, then, that the poets did not invent all things,
12 12| are thus coloured by the poets; and they who are ignorant
13 12| they plainly assent to the poets; for these relations cannot
14 13| EUHEMERUS.~But let us leave the poets; let us come to history,
15 25| FIRST FASHIONED MAN. ~The poets, therefore, with good reason
16 25| time, and afterwards the poets, handed him down as the
17 28| the demons, of whom the poets often speak in their poems,
18 59| neither to philosophers nor to poets, but both introduced them
19 59| advantages of this life only. The poets spoke better who said that
20 59| by men, justice, as the poets relate, being put to flight,
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