In body like a sphere well-rounded on all sides,[142]

it doth roll about the moving orb of things, while it keepeth itself

unmovable. And if we have used no far-fetched reasons, but such as were

placed within the compass of the matter we handled, thou hast no cause

to marvel, since thou hast learned in Plato's school that our speeches

must be like and as it were akin to the things we speak of.

[141] _Vide supra, Tr._ iv. (pp. 56 ff.).

[142] Cf. _Frag._ 8. 43 (Diels, _Vorsokratiker_, i. p. 158).

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