Note 347 — PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. (continued 4)

The same application of this myth is made by Eustatheus, the commentator on Homer (ad Odyss., iv., 417), and by Heraclides Ponticus (Gale’s Opuscula Mytholog., p. 490). The words of Heraclides are very striking: “That hence it was with good reason that the formless matter was called Proteus; and that Providence which modified each being with its peculiar form and character was called Eidothia.”