He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. (Cassell's, 1907)
Σοφὸς ἦν τις, ὃς τὸ θεῖον εἰσηγήσατο.
• I maintain,
Some shrewd man first, a man in counsel wise,
Discovered unto men the fear of Gods,
Thereby to frighten sinners should they sin
E'en secretly in deed, or word, or thought.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Σοφὸς ἦν τις, ὃς τὸ θεῖον εἰσηγήσατο.
• I maintain,
Some shrewd man first, a man in counsel wise,
Discovered unto men the fear of Gods,
Thereby to frighten sinners should they sin
E'en secretly in deed, or word, or thought." in the context of "Sisyphus fragment, in Sextus Empiricus, Against the Physicists, bk. 1 sec. 54 (tr. R. G. Bury, L311)
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. (Cassell's, 1907)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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