**TEXT: W. L. Lorimer, Paris, 1933

1‘Ether’, αἰθήρ, is derived from ἀεὶ θεῖν not from αἴθεσθαι.

2Frag. 10 Diels-Kranz.

3Things are said κεκoσμῆσθαι after the κόσμoς.

4Homer, Iliad I 499.

5Frag. 21 Diels-Kranz.

6oὐρανός being derived from ὅρoς ἄ νω.

7῎Oλυμπoς being derived from ꜔ λoλαμπής.

8Odyssey VI 42–5.

9Iliad XV 192.

10Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 4–5.

11Odyssey XV 116.

12ib V 64.

13ib XI 589.

14Frag. 11 Diels-Kranz.

15Zῆνα from ζῆν, Δία from δι’ ὅν.

16The identifications in this paragraph are supported by etymologizing.

17Laws 715E and 730C.