Note * — Chapter XX · The Temples and Gods of Athens.
Reading edition
Cicero, De Nat. Deor, ii. 36.
[+] In praying to a deity of the lower world the hands would be held down. A Greek almost never knelt, even in prayer. He would have counted it degrading.
[&] This formula would be put in, lest some favorite epithet of the divinity be omitted.