Euthymius Zigabenus, Panoplia Dogmatica; Theodoretus, Historia Religiosa

> The two, therefore, were played with by the children of the Greeks and let them be played with; the one, concerning the anarchic, disorderly. And the polyarchic, factional and thus, anarchic; and thus, unstable; for both lead to the same thing; disorder; and the one leads to dissolution. Disorder is especially of dissolution. Monarchy is the honored one; but monarchy is not that which is circumscribed by one person, and so on. Therefore, a few and concise words; against the anarchic and godless fabrications; and of the other polyarchic; and polytheistic Greeks having been refuted; and having refuted and overthrown the opposite error of these, both then and now, by way of digression, let us proceed to our own matters. For of the ancient Greeks, some honored the sun; others, the moon; others, the multitude of stars; others, the one together with these, to whom they have given the leading of the whole; by what kind or amount of motion; others, the elements; earth; water; air; fire; to be run through with good laws; neither is it possible for human life to stand. Others, that each of the visible things was worshipped by chance; in which they worshipped the most beautiful things as gods. Epicurus, however, casting out both mind and providence; nature alone; and the atoms; but the term atom is multivalent; for it is spoken of in four ways; as the diamond; and that which is entirely uncuttable, as the incorporeal; and that which is among the philosophers, the particular and individual; which can be cut; but when cut, it is destroyed; like Socrates for example. For when he is cut Likely scribal error for "being cut" into head; and hands; and stomach; and feet, he is no longer Socrates. The fourth atom; that which cannot be cut due to its smallness; as the point, among geometers; the unit, among arithmeticians; but in time; the instantaneous; such an atom, also that which appears in the solar ray in the air; and as if it were reflected from it without transparency; into some little eyes these dusty things seem.