CHAPTER XXXI ---- OF THE SHAPE OF THE STARS.
'THE Stoics: the stars are spherical, like the universe, Sun; and Moon.
'Cleanthes: conical.
'Anaximenes: like studs fastened in the crystalline sphere.
'But some say that they are plates of fire, as it were pictures.'
Such are the discoveries of the wonderful philosophers concerning what they call visible gods. But learn also from the same Plutarch's voice, what decisions they have pronounced concerning the universe: