It may be interesting to refer to another passage in the _Dea Syria_, in
which Lucian is describing the splendour of the temple of Hierapolis; he
says that the deities themselves are really present:--

[Greek: "Kai Theoi de karta autoisi emphanees; idrôei gar dê ôn para
sphisi ta xoata,"]

When the very images sweat, and he adds, are moved and utter oracles. It is
probable Milton had this in recollection when, in his noble _Nativity Ode_,
he sings of the approach of the true Deity, at whose coming

"... the chill marble seems to sweat,
While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat."

L.I.M.

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MINOR NOTES.

_Gaudentio di Lucca._--Sir James Mackinstosh, in his _Dissertation on the
Progress of Ethical Philosophy_, adverts to the belief that Bishop Berkeley
was the author of _Gaudentio di Lucca_, but without adopting it.

"A romance," he says, "of which a journey to an Utopia, in the centre
of Africa, forms the chief part, called _The Adventures of Signor
Gaudentio di Lucca_, has been commonly ascribed to him; probably on no
other ground than its union of pleasing invention with benevolence and
elegance."--_Works_, vol. i. p. 132. ed. 1846.