I grant it; but this I assert, that the Gods could not take their form from men; for the Gods always existed, and never had a beginning, if they are to exist eternally; but men had a beginning: therefore that form, of which the immortal Gods are, must have had existence before mankind; consequently, the Gods should not be said to be of human form, but our form should be called divine.

However, let this be as you will.

I now inquire how this extraordinary good fortune came about; for you deny that reason had any share in the formation of things.

But still, what was this extraordinary fortune?
Whence proceeded that happy concourse of atoms which gave so sudden a rise to men in the form of Gods?
Are we to suppose the divine seed fell from heaven upon earth, and that men sprung up in the likeness of their celestial sires?
I wish you would assert it; for I should not be unwilling to acknowledge my relation to the Gods.

But you say nothing like it; no, our resemblance to the Gods, it seems, was by chance.