GODS
Hoeder, the blind old god
Whose feet are shod with silence.
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| work = Tegner's Drapa. St. 6.
Janus am I; oldest of potentates!
Forward I look and backward and below
I count—as god of avenues and gates—
The years that through my portals come and go.
I block the roads and drift the fields with snow,
I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen;
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow,
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Written for the Children's Almanac.
Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aer,
Et ccelum, et virtus? Superos quid quaerimus
ultra?
Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris.
Has God any habitation except earth, and
sea, and air, and heaven, and virtue? Why do
we seek the highest beyond these? Jupiter is
wheresoever you look, wheresoever you move.
Lucanus—PharsaMa. Bk. IX. 578.
A. boy of five years old serene and gay,
Unpitying Hades hurried me away.
Yet weep not for Callimaohus: if few
The days I lived, few were my sorrows too.
Lucian—In Greek Anthology.
Apparet divom numen, sedesque quiets;
Quas neque concutiunt ventei, nee nubila nimbeis.
Aspergunt, neque nix acri concreta pruina
Cana cadens violat; semper sine nubibus a?ther
Integer, et large diffuso lumine ridet.
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear,
which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with
showers, nor does the white snow, hardened byfrost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is
without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light
diffused. Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. III. 18.
Vo wonder Cupid is a murderous boy;
^. fiery archer making pain his joy.
ffis dam, while fond of Mars, is Vulcan's wife,
^nd thus 'twixt fire and sword divides her life.
Meleager—In Greek Anthology.
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| text = Deus ex machina.
A god from a machine (artificial or mechanical contrivance).
Menander. (From the Greek.) Theop. 5.
Lucan—Hermo. Plato—Bratylus. 425.
Quoted by Socrates.
Who knows not Circe,
lie daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup
Vhoever tasted, lost his upright shape,
tnd downward fell into a groveling swine?
| author = Milton
| work = Camus. L. 50.
» That moly
"hat Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.
| author = Milton
| work = Comus. L. 637.
GODS
Le seigneur Jupiter sait dorer la pilule.
My lord Jupiter knows how to gild the pill.
Moliere—Amphitryon. III. 11.
Man is certainly stark mad ; he cannot make a
flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Montaigne—Apology for Raimond Sebond.
Bk. II. Ch.XII.
To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create.
James Oppenheim—Jottings. To Be a God.
In War and Laughter.
Expedit esse deos: et, ut expedit, esse putemus.
It is expedient there should be gods, and as
it is expedient, let us believe them to exist.
Ovrrj—Ars Amatoria. Bk. I. L. 637. According to Teetdllian—Ad Nationes. Bk.
II. Ch. 2, Diogenes said, "I do not know,
only there ought to be gods."
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| text = <poem>Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo
Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.
Let the crowd delight in things of no value;
to me let the golden-haired Apollo minister
full cups from the Castalian spring (the fountain of Parnassus).
Ovid—Amorum. Bk. I. 15. 35.
Motto on title-page of Shakespeare's "Venus
and Adonis." Another reading: "Castalia;
aqua?," of the Castalian spring.
The god we now behold with opened eyes,
A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. Bk. III. L. 789. Addison's trans.
Jocos et Dii amant.
Even the gods love jokes.
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| text = <poem>The Graces sought some holy ground,
Whose' sight should ever please;
And in their search the soul they found
Of Aristophanes.
Plato—In Greek Anthology.
Di nos quasi pilas homines habent.
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLADTDS—Cap/m Prologue. XXII.
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Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt
lucri.
The gods give that man some profit to whom
they are propitious.
Pladtus—Persa. IV. 3. 1.
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| num = | text = <poem>Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.
In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. Plautus—Rudens. Actni. 1. 1; Mercator. Act II.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|King Lear)
