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 1 2 |  aside the impious worship of gods which are made by the hand
 2 4 | understood that there were no gods, but that he said those
 3 4 |       he spoke respecting the gods for the sake of driving
 4 4 |     and so that he leaves the gods in words, but takes them
 5 8 |    thus:--~"For the nature of gods must ever in itself of necessity
 6 10|   heavenly? They say that the gods are without contamination,
 7 10| together of atoms. For if the gods also had been made up of
 8 10|     others? But I ask why the gods did not build for themselves
 9 10|      and made the heaven, the gods would still be suspended
10 11|     that there cannot be many gods; because, if the divine
11 11|  persuasion s respecting many gods come to men? Without doubt,
12 11|   those who are worshipped as gods were men, and were also
13 11|    book, On the Nature of the Gods, destroyed the public religions;
14 11|       among the number of the gods. I speak of him who, on
15 11|       nations and cities have gods of their own people. Aristotle,
16 11|     in short, who worship the gods, often acknowledge the Supreme