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397 Socrates. Something of this sort, then, is what I suspect: I think the earliest men in Greece believed only in those gods in whom many foreigners believe today— sun, moon, earth, stars, and sky. They saw that all these were always moving in their courses and running, and so they called them gods (θεούς) from this running (θεῖν) nature; then afterwards, when they gained knowledge of the other gods, they called them all by the same name. Is that likely to be true, or not?

397 Hermogenes. Yes, very likely.

397 Socrates. What shall we consider next?

397 Hermogenes. Spirits, obviously.

397 Socrates. Hermogenes, what does the name spirits really mean? See if you think there is anything in what I am going to say.

397 Hermogenes. Go on and say it.

397 Socrates. Do you remember who Hesiod says the spirits are?

397 Hermogenes. I do not recall it.

397 Socrates. Nor that he says a golden race was the first race of men to be born?

397 Hermogenes. Yes, I do know that.

398 Socrates. Well, he says of it:But since Fate has covered up this race, They are called holy spirits under the earth,Noble, averters of evil, guardians of mortal men.Hes. WD 122 ff

398 Hermogenes. What of that?

398 Socrates. Why, I think he means that the golden race was not made of gold, but was good and beautiful. And I regard it as a proof of this that he further says we are the iron race.

398 Hermogenes. True.

398 Socrates. Don’t you suppose that if anyone of our day is good, Hesiod would say he was of that golden race?

398 Hermogenes. Quite likely.

398 Socrates. But the good are the wise, are they not?

398 Hermogenes. Yes, they are the wise.

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