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I found a helpful footnote regarding this by Thomas Taylor while reading through his translation of Maximus Tyrius: "The intellectual philosophers of antiquity by the word θεός, God, either denoted the highest god, or all the gods; because, according to the ancient theology, all the divine powers which proceeded from the first God are concentrated and rooted in him, so as to form as it were one divine orb in which the union of these divinities with each other and their ineffable principle is most transcendent, and at the same time their separation from each other surpasses every conceivable mode of distinct subsistence. Let it be observed, however, that Jupiter is properly the fabricator and father of all things; and that, according to Plato, the highest god is superior to a fabricative energy."