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Formerly, in all their sacrifices, the Pelasgians called upon gods without giving name or appellation to any (I know this, because I was told at Dodona); for as yet they had not heard of such. They called them gods1 from the fact that, besides setting everything in order, they maintained all the dispositions.

1 On the supposition that θεός meant “a disposer,” connected with θεσμός, τίθημι, etc.

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