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Alexander Polyhistor quotes Berosus as saying in his book on Babylonia that the first result of the mixture of water and chaos i.e., of Apsu and Tiâmat was the production of monsters partly human, partly bestial. The winged bulls and lions that guarded the approaches to temples and palaces are illustrations of this old notion, and it is to this class of mythical beings that Lakhmu belongs.
Julius Caesar believed that they were worshippers of idols in the same sense as his own countrymen; but he probably stood alone in his opinion. Aristotle, Pythagoras, Polyhistor, Ammianus Marcellinus, considered the Druids as monotheist philosophers. Most of the Greek writers agreed with them, as did all the Alexandrian Fathers of the Church in the third and fourth centuries.
I'm afraid I interrupted eh?" "No, no, not at all. Only some idle scribbling. I'd finished." "You are a poet?" "Only a lunatic. I haven't taken my degree." "Ah! it's a noble gift the gift of song; precious through its rarity." Polyhistor caught a note of emotion in his visitor's voice, and glanced at him curiously. "Surely," he thought, "that vulgar, ruddy little face is transfigured."
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