1973), 17–46, esp. 40–42; also Dibelius, Studies, 50–51 n. 76; M. Pohlenz, “Paulus,” 101–4. ‘For we too are his offspring.’ These words are quoted from the third-century astronomical poem of the Stoic, Aratus, who was born in Soli (in Cilicia) ca. 315 B.C.: tou gar kai genos eimen, “of him we too are offspring” (Phaenomena 5). Luke may have changed the Ionic eimen to Attic esmen, but he more likely found it so in a source, because the Attic form was current. It appears also in frg. 4 of the second-century