But if oxen and horses and lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make the works that men make, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and oxen like oxen.
The Ethiopians say their gods are snub-nosed and dark, the Thracians that theirs are blue-eyed and red-haired.
No man has seen the clear truth, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and about everything I speak of; for even if one should happen to say what is exactly right, still he himself does not know it. Seeming is wrought over all things.
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