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Lucian is the Voltaire of a credulous age. As for sacerdotal magic, Ovid explicitly ascribed the ex opere operato doctrine to the Greeks. Graecia principium moris fuit; illa nocentes impia lustratos ponere facta putat, a nimium faciles, qui tristia crimina caedis fluminea tolli posse putatis aqua. The Christian Church was the last great creative achievement of the classical culture.
Mitford make this strange blunder? The most charitable supposition is, that, not reading the Greek, he was misled by an error of punctuation in the Latin version. "Qui cum per tormenta conscios caedis nominare cogeretur," etc. Herodotus says they were both Gephyraeans by descent; a race, according to him, originally Phoenician. Herod. b. v., c. 57. Mr.
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