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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

But, What necessity can there now be, that I should bring to light, how the wise men …

But, What necessity can there now be, that I should bring to light, how the wise men collected themselves together in ranks, as it were, sectioned themselves off, separated, and mightily armed themselves against one another, just as in battle array, and met with shields, spears, and hosts,—as one of the Poets says, “Behold the abundance of the uproar thickened—of the destroying and the perishing?”—for Plato termed their warfare with one another, the conflict of Giants when he thus spoke,—

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