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The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.

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There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

Mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are,
and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form.

For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.

Ethiopians say that their gods are snubnosed and black
Thracians that they are pale and red-haired.

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