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Then the superhuman and divine is absolutely incapable of

falsehood?

Yes.

Then is God perfectly simple and true both in word and deed; he

changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or

waking vision.

Your thoughts, he said, are the reflection of my own.

You agree with me then, I said, that this is the second type or

form in which we should write and speak about divine things. The

gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they

deceive mankind in any way.

I grant that.

Then, although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the

lying dream which Zeus sends to Agamemnon; neither will we praise

the verses of Aeschylus in which Thetis says that Apollo at her

nuptials