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Single Idea 407

[filed under theme 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism ]

Full Idea

Mortals believe the gods to be created by birth, and to have raiment, voice and body like mortals'.

Gist of Idea

Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals

Source

Xenophanes (fragments/reports [c.530 BCE], B14), quoted by Clement - Miscellanies 5.109.2

Book Ref

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.22