Note 14 — INTRODUCTION
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De Natura Deorum, c. XXVIII. The statement is put into the mouth of Balbus whose arguments Cicero declares to have in his opinion “the greater probability.” See also Athenagoras, Legatio, c. XXII. and Minucius Felix, c. XIX. With such interpretations or mythoplasms, Philo of Alexandria was familiar. Cf. F. C. Conybeare, Apology of Apollonius, 1894, p. 9.