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  1. I owe this translation to my colleague Professor J. P. Brown, Assistant Professor of Classical Languages, American University of Beirut.

  2. Creation. by Antony Flew and D. M. MacKinnon, inNew Essays in Philosophical Theology (SCM Press, Ltd., London, 1955), pps. 171–2.

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  4. Vide: The Presocratic Philosophers, by G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven (Cambridge University Press, 1957), p. 250. It is interesting that long after Plato the Stoics thought of “justice” as spatially extended (Ibid.) As late as the Fourth Centurv A.D. God was often conceived in corporeal terms (Vide: Augustine,Confessions, Bk. V, Chapter X).

  5. Marcus Dodds’ translation (Modern Library edition, Random House, 1950).

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Puccetti, R. Before creation. SOPH 3, 24–36 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02807865

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