declares to us that whosoever shall examine the contention of
Benfeius "will be bound, in common honesty, to confess that it is
untenable." This, Father, is "one for Benfeius," as the saying
goes. And as Muellerus holds that these matters "admit of almost
mathematical precision," it would seem that Benfeius is but a
Dummkopf, as the Alemanni say, in their own language, when they
would be pleasant among themselves.

Now, wouldst thou credit it? despite the mathematical plainness of
the facts, other Alemanni agree neither with Muellerus, nor yet with
Benfeius, and will neither hear that Athene was the Dawn, nor yet
that she is "the feminine of the Zend Thraetana athwyana." Lo, you!
how Prellerus goes about to show that her name is drawn not from
Ahana and the old Brachmanae, nor athwyana and the old Medes, but
from "the root [Greek text], whence [Greek text], the air, or [Greek
text], whence [Greek text], a flower." Yea, and Prellerus will have
it that no man knows the verity of this matter. None the less he is
very bold, and will none of the Dawn; but holds to it that Athene
was, from the first, "the clear pure height of the Air, which is
exceeding pure in Attica."

Now, Father, as if all this were not enough, comes one Roscherus in,
with a mighty great volume on the Gods, and Furtwaenglerus, among
others, for his ally. And these doctors will neither with
Rueckertus and Hermannus, take Athene for "wisdom in person;" nor
with Welckerus and Prellerus, for "the goddess of air;" nor even,
with Muellerus and mathematical certainty, for "the Morning-Red:"
but they say that Athene is the "black thunder-cloud, and the
lightning that leapeth therefrom"! I make no doubt that other
Alemanni are of other minds: quot Alemanni tot sententiae.