Note 148 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
De Ε apud Delphos, 393 D. Cf. De Defectu, 433 E. Ammonius is here evidently referring to a remark made (386 B) by “one of those present” to the effect that “practically all the Greeks identify Apollo with the Sun.” The words of Ammonius quoted in the text are strikingly similar in spirit to the famous verses in the “In Memoriam:”—
“O thou that after toil and storm May’st seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, “Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views; Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. “Her faith through form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good: Oh, sacred be the flesh and blood To which she links a truth divine!”