Great observations, Eugenios, and those are very helpful to add here. I know when i first read the book that I did not go through the footnotes systematically so it is very helpful that you are doing so and posting about them. i do think I remember also thinking that the letter-writing comment seemed stretched, so I am in pretty much full agreement with your comments here. I think the detail on the gods speaking Greek is in the chapter on the true Piety, citing Cicero's 'On the Nature of the God…