Saturn, 172;
Baal and, 21.
Saviour, 223 n. 36.
Scaevola, 6, 35.
Science, 43;
and faith, 32, 34;
and the priesthood, 32;
Christians opposed to, 283 n. 17;
Magic a, 183f.
Sciences, Astrology queen of, 162.
Scipio Nasica, 47.
Scopas, 76.
Seleucides, 62, 121, 128, 138.
Seleucus, 256 n. 67;
Callinicus, 79.
Semele and Isis, 89.
Semitic paganism, 116;
religions, Diffusion of the, 111ff.
Seneca, 217 n. 17.
Senses, Influence of Oriental religions on, 28ff., 43.
_Septizonia_, 164.
Serapis, x, 22, 73ff., 126;
chief of demons, 266 n. 37.
Serpent sacred to AEsculapius, 173.
Set, 98.
Severi, 140, 167, 196.
Severus of Antioch, 233 n. 33.
Sextus Empiricus, 167.
Shamash and Mithra, 146.
Showerman, xiv, 225 n. 15.
Sibylline oracles, 233 n. 34.
Sibyls, 46.
Sicily, Slave revolution in, 105.
Sidereal immortality, 254 n. 64,
worship, 133, 251 n. 57, 254 n. 64.
See also "Stars."
_Signa Memphitica_, 233 n. 35.
Simios and Mercury, 123.
Sky, 208. See "Caelus."
Slave revolution in Sicily, 105.
_Sol invictus_, 114, 146, 205;
_sanctissimus_, 249 n. 47.
Soldiers of fate, xx;
Faith of Syrian, 112;
Persian cult spread by, 149.
Souls, Abode of, in the stars, 125, 159, 269 n. 54, 287 n. 25;
Abode of, in the earth, 159;
Clothing of, 269 n. 54.
Sources, 11ff.
Spear, Sacred, 67.
Species, Variation of, 25.
Spencer, Herbert, 222 n. 34.
Spirit imprisoned in matter, 43.
Spring of water, 239 n. 90.
Stars, 129;
Deified, 199;
Soul in the, 125, 159, 269 n. 54, 287 n. 25.
Steer, the author of creation, 68.
Stoics, 14, 148, 167, 171, 177, 180, 214 n. 6;
Philosophy of, xx.
_Stolistes_, 94, 96, 97.
Stones, Worship of, 116.
See also "Litholatry."
Strabo, 32, 122, 145, 247 n. 41.
Strategus, God a, 214 n. 6.
Sulla, 54, 81.
Sun, Supreme, 133. See also "_Sol invictus_."
Superstition, 36, 277 n. 58.
_Supplicium_, The term, 219 n. 9.
Symmachus, xxiv, 204, 211.
Sympathy, 171, 194.
Synesius, Hymns of, 260 n. 89.
Syria, Isis in, 79.
Syrian goddess, 14, 104.
Syrians in Italy, 106f.

Tabu, 120, 157.
Taurobolium, xviii, 66, 198, 206, 208;
compared to baptism, 70.
Tetrabiblos, 170, 182, 271 n. 5.
Thasos, Attis in, 61.
Thaumaturgus, 188.
Thebes, Sepulchers of, 99.
Themistius, 200.
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 153.
Theology, 33;