Cicero, De Natura
Deorum, Lib. I. 27: “Pythagoras thought that God
was the soul pervading all nature.” The doctrine was
accepted both by Stoics and Platonists, and became very general.
Cf. Virg. Georg. iv. 221:
Deum namque ire per omnis
Terrasque, tractusque maris, cælumque
profundum.
and Æn. vi. 726:
Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus
Meus agitat molem, et magno se corpore
miscet.