i, 7.
21
Plutarch, Romulus, 21; Cæsar, 61, Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 310 f.
22
Suetonius, Aug. 31, Warde Fowler, op. cit. p. 190.
23
Mommsen, History, i, p. 231, who translates the hymn.
24
Quintilian, i, 6, 40. See specimen in Varro, L.L. vii, 26.
25
Epp. ii, 1, 20-27, 86.
26
Cicero, ad fam. xiv, 4, 1.
27
Hor. Sat. i, 9, 69: Porphyrion is the authority for the comedies.
28
Prudentius, contra Symmachum, i, 197-218.
30
C.D. iv, 8. "To an early Greek," says Mr Gilbert Murray, "the earth, water and air were full of living eyes: of theoi, of daimones, of Kêres. One early poet says emphatically that the air is so crowded full of them that there is no room to put in the spike of an ear of corn without touching one." —Rise of Greek Epic, p. 82.
31
de Spect. 5; cf. de Idol. 16; de cor. mil. 13, gods of the door; de Anima, 39, goddesses of child-birth.
32
Lucr. iv, 580 f. Virg. Æn. viii, 314.
33
Cic. N.D. ii, 2, 6: cf. De Div. i, 45, 101. Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. 256 ff. on the Fauni.
34
Pliny, N.H. viii, 151; xxx, 84.
35
Plutarch, Numa, 15; de facie in orbe lunæ, 30; Ovid, Fasti, iii, 291.
36
Horace's ode attests the power of the Fauns over crops and herds.
39
Ovid, Fasti, iii, 267. Licia dependent longas velantia sæpes, et posita est meritæ multa tabella deæ.
41
Horace, Odes, iii, 13.
42
W. Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 240.
43
Cf. Tertullian, de Baptismo, 5. Annon et alias sine ullo Sacramento immundi spiritus aquis incubant, adfectantes illam in primordio divini spiritus gestationem? Sciunt opaci quique fontes, et avii quique rivi, et in balneis piscinæ et euripi in domibus, vel cisternæ et putei, qui rapere dicuntur, scilicet per vim spiritus nocentis. Nympholeptos et lymphaticos et hydrophobos vocant quos aquæ necaverunt aut amentia vel formidine exercuerunt. Quorsum ista retulimus? Ne quis durius credat angelum dei sanctum aquis in salutem hominis temperandis adesse.
44
Ovid, Fasti, vi, 155 f.
45
Cf. (Lucian) Asinus, 24. poî badixeis aôría talaipôre; oudè tà daimónia dédoikas.
46
Pliny, N.H. xxxvi, 204.
47
Lampridius, Alex. Sev. 29. 2.
48
Fasti, v. 145. Cf. Prudentius, adv. Symm, ii, 445 f.
49
Odes, iii, 23. Farre pio.
50
On Georgic i, 302, See Varro, ap. Aug. C.D. vii, 13. Also Tert. de Anima, 39, Sic et omnibus genii deputantur, quod dæmonum nomen est. Adeo nulla ferme nativitas munda, utique ethnicorum.
51
Hor. Ep. ii. 2, 187 f. Howes' translation. Cf. Faerie Queene, II, xii, 47.
52
See J. H. Moulton in Journal of Theological Studies, III, 514.
53
Burkitt, Early Eastern Christianity, p. 222.
54
Fasti, iii, 57; Seneca, Ep. 18. 1, December est mensis: cum maxime civitas sudat, ius luxuries publicæ datum est … ut non videatur mihi errasse qui dixit: olim mensem Decembrem fuisse nunc annum.
55
Cf. Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites, lect. xi.
56
Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. 106 f.
57
Ovid, Fasti, ii, 409 f. Warde Fowler, op. cit. pp. 306 f.
59
De Divinatione, i, 1, 2.
62
De Divinatione, i, 38, 82, 83. Cf. Tertullian, de Anima, 46. Sed et Stoici deum malunt providentissimum humanæ institutioni inter cetera præsidia divinatricum artium et disciplinarum somnia quoque nobis indidisse, peculiare solatium naturalis oraculi.
63
Panaetius and Seneca should be excepted from this charge.
64
Cic. de Div. ii, 72, 149, 150. Cf. de Legg. ii, 13, 32. Plutarch also has the same remark about sleep and superstition.
67
Hor. Ep. ii, 2, 208; Howes.
68
Tertullian, de Idol. 9, seimus magiæ et astrologiæ inter se societatem.
69
Pliny the elder on Magic, N.H. xxx, opening sections; N.H. xxviii, 10, on incantations, polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum.
70
Livy, xxix, 11, 14; Ovid, fasti, iv, 179 f. The goddess was embodied in a big stone.
72
Cf. Strabo, c. 470; Juvenal, vi, 511 f.
73
See Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, p. 397. The Latins used the word divinus in this way – Seneca, de teata vita, 26, 8.
74
(Lucian) Asinus, 37. The same tale is amplified in Apuleius' Golden Ass, where the episode of these priests is given with more detail, in the eighth book. Seneca hints that a little blood might make a fair show; see his picture of the same, de beata vita, 26, 8.
75
Tertullian, ad Natt. i, 10; Apel. 6. He has the strange fancy that Serapis was originally the Joseph of the book of
