air6; and others, a compound7 of these. They also introduced many male, as they likewise did, female Deities. Marriage too, and the bringing forth of children, they perverted by natural metaphors, and the specious diction of the fictitious stories of the Poets, to the adorning of (this their) vain glory8. So that these also, fell down again, as it were by perverseness, from the heights above, upon the material elements and sensible portions of the universe! 23. Others however, exclusive of these,