) _inventor
fuit sideralis scientiae_"; cf. Solinus, 56, Sec. 3; Achilles, _Isag._, 1
(Maass, _Comm. in Arat._, p. 27): [Greek: Beloi ten heuresin anathentes].
Let us remember that Hammurabi's code was represented as the work of
Marduk.--In a general way, the gods are the authors of all inventions
useful to humanity; cf. Reitzenstein, _Poimandres_, 1904, p. 123;
Deissmann, _Licht von Osten_, 91 ff. Likewise in the Occident: _CIL_, VII,
759 = Buecheler, _Carm. epigr._, 24: "(Dea Syria) ex quis muneribus nosse
contigit deos," etc., cf. Plut., _Crass._, 17.--"Religion im Sinne des
Orients ist die Erklaerung alles dessen was ist, also eine Weltauffassung"
(Winckler, _Himmelsbild der Babylonier_, 1903, p. 9).

15 _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, p. 312.--Manicheism likewise brought a complete
cosmological system from Babylonia. Saint Augustine criticizes the book of
that sect for containing long dissertations and absurd stories about
matters that have nothing at all to do with salvation; see my _Recherches
sur le manicheisme_, 1908, p. 53.

16 Cf. Porphyry, _Epist. Aneb._, 11; Jambl., _De myst._, II, 11. {221}

17 This upright character of the Roman religion has been thoroughly
expounded by G. Boissier (_op. cit._, I, 30 ff, 373 ff). See also the
remarks by Bailey, _Religion of Ancient Rome_, London, 1907, pp. 103 ff.

18 Varro in Augustine _De civ. Dei_, IV, 27; VI, 5; cf. Varro, _Antiq.
rerum divin._, ed. Aghad, pp. 145 ff. The same distinction between the
religion of the poets, of the legislators and of the philosophers has been
made by Plutarch, _Amatorius_, 18, p. 763 C. The author of this division is
Posidonius of Apamea. See Diels, _Doxographi Graeci_, p. 295, 10, and
Wendland, _Archiv fuer Gesch. der Philos._, I, pp. 200 ff.

19 Luterbacher, _Der Prodigienglaube der Roemer_, Burgdorf, 1904.

20 Juvenal, II, 149; cf. Diodorus, I, 93, Sec. 3. Cf. Plutarch also in
speaking of future punishment (_Non posse suaviter vivi_, c. 26, p. 1104
C-E: _Quo modo poetas aud._, c. 2, p. 17 C-E; _Consol. ad Apollon._, c. 10,
p. 106 F), "nous laisse entendre que pour la plupart de ses contemporains
ce sont la des contes de nourrice qui ne peuvent effrayer que des enfants"
(Decharme, _Traditions religieuses chez les Grecs_, 1904, p. 442).

21 Aug., _Civ. Dei_, VI, 2; Varro, _Antiqu._, ed. Aghad, 141; "Se timere ne
(dii) pereant non incursu hostili sed civium neglegentia."

22 I have developed this point in my _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, pp. 27