Note 2 — Chapter VI · Of Numa Pompilius.
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Alexander wished to be considered a son of Jupiter. Perseus pretended to be a son of the same God and the virgin Danae; Plato, of Apollo, and a virgin, which, perhaps, is the cause of the belief among the Egyptians that the Spirit of God Λνεὗρα Πσεᾶγ2 could get a woman with child as the wind did the Iberian mares.3