BOOK I CH. XLIt § 117. 221

Ch. xt § 117 quid est quod: sce § 3 n. and compare the Fr. quest que cest que.
videmus : Madv. Fin. 1 15 says expectabam ‘videamus’, as we have actura sit in § 116 and videantur in § 55; but in both those passages the relative is general or indefinite, meaning ‘of such a kind as’; here there is no reason why we may not take gua as the simple relative referring to a particular known case.
nam. Its force seems to be as follows: ‘What reason is there for adoring the gods when you leave nothing adorable in their nature? Yor in doing away with the divine attributes, you do away not only with superstition but with religion itself’.
quod—soletis: referring to the following Uiberart. For the matter see nn. §§ 54 and 56.
Diagoram aut Theodorum: see on § 63.
Protagoram: see on § 29.
cui neutrum licuerit: cf. quod liqueat § 29, so deliquesco makes delicui, Ov. Met. Iv 253, vit 381.
superstitionem—continetur. On the difference between superst. and rel. see 11 72 n. and cf. Plut. Jf 1101 © Sei pev yap rijs wept Oedv Sdéns, Gorep ews Ajnunv, apaipety thy Sevocdapoviay’ ei S€ TovTo ddvvaroy, py ovvexxorrew pndé tuprody thy miotiv, hv of mrEiotot wepl Gedy ExXovet.
§ 118. ii qui dixerunt—sustulerunt. Sext. Emp. (Math. 1x 51, cf. 14 where Critias is alluded to without being named) giving a list of athe- istical philosophers, mentions Diagoras, Theodorus, Protagoras, Prodicus and Euhemerus, as C. does here, and goes on to say that Critias, one of the Thirty, must be classed among them, as he held that of madaoli vopobéra éricxoméy twa Tav dvOperivey KatopOwpatev kal dpyaprnudrav érdacav rov bedv, trép Tov pydeva AdOpa Tov TAnciov adikeiv, evAaBovpevoy Thy vrd Tov Oedv tipwpiav. In proof of this he quotes from the Sisyphus (a Spapa Sarvpixoy attributed by others to Euripides, cf. Plut. M. 879 E) érer exer) Taupavn pev of vopo | amjyov adrovs epya pn Tpaccew Bia, | Aabpa & énpaccoyv, tnvixadra pot Soxet | muxvos tis GAAos Kal copds yrounv aynp | yeyovevat, Os Ovnroiow e€evpav drras | ein te Seipa Tois Kakoior, kav AdOpa | mpaccwow i A€ywow 7} ppovaci tt, | evtevOev odv Td Oetov eionynoaro | and placed the Gods in the region of storms and lightning in order to make them more terrible. Plato alludes to this theory of religion Leg. x 889 E, Ocovs elvar mpatov aot ovros Téxvn, od HUaet GAAG TLOL VoOpols, Kat TOUTOUS GAXovs aAXots, rn ExagTot EavTois Tvv@poAdynaay vowoberovpevo. Kai 57) Kat Ta Kaha Hvoec pev GAA eivat, vopw S€ Erepa.
Prodicus: see Jntrod. and Art. by Brandis in Dict. of Biog. His name appears in the fragments of Philod. pp. 112 and 76 (quoted in n. on § 38), cf. also p. 71 and Sext. Emp. Math. 1x 18 Tpddccos 6 Keios, wAtov, pyai, Kat oeAnvny kal rotapovs Kal Kpynvas Kal KaboXov Tavra Ta wedodvra Tov Biov judy of madaol Oeods evopicay Sia tiv dm avrav e@dédccav, Kabarep Alyirrioe Tov Neidov, kat Oud ToUTO Tov pév aprov Anuntpay vopicdqva &e, and 7b, 52, Min.
222 BOOK 1: CH. SEI § 118.
Fel. c. 21. Persacus ($ 38) and other Stoics had the same belief (11 60, Plut.