C***r 发帖数: 759 | 1 CHAP. 23.--CONCERNING THE EARTH, WHICH VARRO AFFIRMS TO BE A
GODDESS, BECAUSE THAT SOUL OF
THE WORLD WHICH HE THINKS TO BE GOD PERVADES ALSO THIS
LOWEST PART OF HIS BODY, AND IMPARTS
TO IT A DIVINE FORCE.
Surely the earth, which we see full of its own living
creatures, is one; but for all that, it is but a mighty mass
among the elements and the lowest
part of the world. Why, then, would they have it to be a
goddess? Is it because it is fruitful? Why, then, are not
men rather held to be gods, who |
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