(He names it Stephane.) It is an orb of constant light and heat around the heavens; this he calls God; in which there is no room to imagine any divine form or sense.

And he uttered many other absurdities on the same subject; for he ascribed a divinity to war, to discord, to lust, and other passions of the same kind, which are destroyed by disease, or sleep, or oblivion, or age.

The same honor he gives to the stars; but I shall forbear making any objections to his system here, having already done it in another place.
XII.

Empedocles, who erred in many things, is most grossly mistaken in his notion of the Gods.

He lays down four natures[84] as divine, from which he thinks that all things were made.