eus Bronton
(the Thunderer) of Phrygia, prominently mentioned in Roman epigraphy. See
Pauly-Wissowa, _Realenc._, s. v. and Suppl. I, col. 258.

25. Cf. _CIL_, VI, 499: "Attidi menotyranno invicto." "Invictus" is the
characteristic epithet of the solar divinities.

26. P. Perdrizet, "Men" (_Bull. corr. hell._, XX), 1896; Drexler in
Roscher, _Lexikon_, s. v., II, col. 2687.

27. _CIL_, VI, 50 = _Inscr. graec._, XIV, 1018.

28. Schuerer, _Sitzungsb. Akad. Berlin_, XIII, 1897, p. 200 f. and our
_Hypsistos_ (Suppl. _Revue instr. publ. en Belgique_), 1897.

29. The term is taken from the terminology of the mysteries: the
inscription cited dates back to 370 A. D. In 364, in connection with
Eleusis, Agorius Praetextatus spoke of [Greek: sunechonta to anthropeion
genos hagiotata musteria] (Zozimus, IV, 3, 2). Earlier the "Chaldean
oracles" applied to the intelligible god the term [Greek: metra sunechousa
ta panta] (Kroll, _De orac. Chaldeicis_, p. 19).

30. Henri Graillot, _Les dieux Tout-Puissants, Cybele et Attis_ (_Revue
archeol._, 1904, I), pp. 331 ff.--Graillot is rather inclined to admit a
Christian influence, but _omnipotentes_ was used as a liturgic epithet in
288 A. D., and at about the same date Arnobius (VII, 32) made use of the
periphrasis _omnipotentia numina_ to designate the Phrygian gods, and he
{227} certainly was understood by all. This proves that the use of that
periphrasis was general, and that it must have dated back to a much earlier
period. As a matter of fact a dedication has been found at Delos, reading
[Greek: Dii toi panton kratounti kai Metri megalei tei panton kratousei]
(_Bull. corr. hellen._, 1882, p. 502, No. 25), that reminds the reader of
the [Greek: pantokrator] of the Septuagint; and Graillot (loc. cit., p.
328, n. 7) justly observes, in this connection, that on certain bas-reliefs
Cybele was united with the Theos Hypsistos, that is to say, the god of
Israel; see Perdrizet, _Bull. corr. hell._, XXIII, 1899, p. 598. On the
influence of Judaism on the cult of Men cf. Sam. Wide, _Archiv fuer
Religionsw._, 1909, p. 227.--On the omnipotence of the Syrian gods, see ch.
V, pp. 128 ff.

31. We are here giving the substance of a short essay on "Les mysteres de
Sabazius et le judaisme," published in the _Comptes Rendus Acad. Inscr._,
Febr. 9, 1906, pp. 63 ff. Cf. "A propos de Sabazius," _Musee belge_, XIV,
1910, pp. 56 ff.

32. Cf. _Monuments myst. de Mithra_, I, p. 333 f. The very early
assim