of the same
family, and the phrase "dear brethren" as used by our preachers, was
already in use among the votaries of Jupiter Dolichenus (_fratres
carissimos_, _CIL_, VI, 406 = 30758).

83. Renan mentioned this fact in his _Apotres_, p. 297 = _Journal
Asiatique_, 1859, p. 259. Cf. Jalabert, _Mel. faculte orient. Beyrout_, I,
1906, p. 146.

84. This is the term (_virtutes_) used by the pagans. See the inscription
_Numini et virtutibus dei aeterni_ as reconstructed in _Revue de
Philologie_, 1902, p. 9; _Archiv fuer Religionsw._, _loc. cit._, p. 335, n.
1 and _infra_, ch. VIII, n. 20.

85. _CIL_, VII, 759 = Buecheler, _Carm. epig._, 24.--Cf. Lucian, _De dea
Syria_, 32.

86. Macrobius, _Sat._, I, 23, Sec. 17: "Nominis (Adad) interpretatio
significat unus unus."

87. Cicero, _Somnium Scip._, c. 4: "Sol dux et princeps et moderator
luminum reliquorum, mens mundi et temperatio." Pliny, _H. N._, II, 6, Sec. 12:
"Sol ... siderum ipsorum caelique rector. Hunc esse mundi totius animam ac
planius mentem, hunc principale naturae regimen ac numen credere decet,"
etc. Julian of Laodicea, _Cat. codd. astr._, I, p. 136, l. 1:

[Greek: Helios basileus kai hegemon tou sumpantos kosmou kathestos, panton
kathegoumenos kai panton on genesiarches.]

88. We are here recapitulating some conclusions of a study on _La theologie
solaire du paganisme romain_ published in _Memoires des savants etrangers
presentes a l'Acad. des Inscr._, XII, 2d part, pp. 447 ff., Paris, 1910.
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89. The hymns of Synesius (II, 10 ff., IV, 120 ff., etc.) contain peculiar
examples of the combination of the old astrological ideas with Christian
theology.

VI. PERSIA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: We shall not attempt here to give a bibliography of the works
devoted to Mazdaism. We shall merely refer the reader to that of Lehmann in
Chantepie de la Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_, II, p. 150.
We should mention, in the first place, Darmesteter, _Le Zend Avesta_, 1892
ff., with introductions and commentary.--In my _Textes et monuments
relatifs aux mysteres de Mithra_ (2 vols., 1894-1900), I, pp. xx ff., I
have furnished a list of the earlier works on this subject; the conclusions
of the book have been published separately without the notes, under the
title: _Les Mysteres de Mithra_, (2d ed., Paris and Brussels, 1902; English
translation, Chicago, 1903). See also the article "Mithra" in the
_Dictionnaire des antiquites_ of Daremberg and Saglio, 1904.--General