Chapter V.—The vain pretensions of false gods.

But concerning those who think that they shall share the holy and perfect name, which some have received by a vain tradition as if they were gods, Menander in the Auriga says:—

The same Menander, in the Sacerdos, says:—

Again, the same Menander, stating his opinion about those who are received as gods, proving rather that they are not so, says:—

And in the Depositum:—

And Euripides the tragedian, in Orestes, says:—

The same also in Hippolytus:—

And in Ion:—

And in Archelaus:—

And in Bellerophon:—

And again in the same:—

And Menander in Diphilus:—

The same also in the Piscatores:—

The same in the Fratres:—

And in the Tibicinæ:—

And the tragedian in Phrixus:—

In Philoctetes:—

In Hecuba:—

and,—