t. Pomp._ 24.

[139:3] +ekgonos tou protou theou.+ Plato (Diels, 305); Stoics, ib. 547,
l. 8.

[140:1] Aristotle (Diels, 450). +hosas de einai tas sphairas, tosoutous
hyparchein kai tous kinountas theous.+ Chrysippus (Diels 466);
Posidonius, ib. (cf. Plato, _Laws_. 898 ff.). See Epicurus's Second
Letter, especially Usener, pp. 36-47 = Diog. La. x. 86-104. On the food
required by the heavenly bodies cf. Chrysippus, fr. 658-61, Arnim.

[140:2] +ho de Epikouros ouden touton enkrinei.+ Diels, 307{a} 15. Cf.
432{a} 10.

[141:1] Heath, _Aristarchos of Samos_, pp. 301-10.

[142:1] Pythagoras in Diels, p. 555, 20; the best criticism is in
Aristotle, _De Caelo_, chap. 9 (p. 290 b), the fullest account in
Macrobius, _Comm. in Somn. Scipionis_, ii.

[142:2] See Diels, _Elementium_, 1899, p. 17. These magic letters are
still used in the Roman ritual for the consecration of churches.

[143:1] A seven-day week was known to Pseudo-Hippocrates +peri sarkon+
_ad fin._, but the date of that treatise is very uncertain.

[143:2] Aesch., _Ag._ 6; Eur., _Hip._ 530. Also _Ag._ 365, where +astron
belos+ goes together and +mete pro kairou meth' hyper+.

[143:3] Proclus, _In Timaeum_, 289 F; Seneca, _Nat. Quaest._ iii. 29, 1.

[145:1] Chrysippus, 1187-95. Esse divinationem si di sint et
providentia.

[145:2] Cicero, _De Nat. De._ iii. 11, 28; especially _De Divinatione_,
ii. 14, 34; 60, 124; 69, 142. 'Qua ex coniunctione naturae et quasi
concentu atque consensu, quam +sympatheian+ Graeci appellant, convenire
potest aut fissum iecoris cum lucello meo aut meus quaesticulus cum
caelo, terra rerumque natura?' asks the sceptic in the second of these
passages.

[145:3] Chrysippus, 939-44. Vaticinatio probat fati necessitatem.

[145:4] Chrysippus, 1214, 1200-6.

[146:1] _Eine Mithrasliturgie_, 1903. The MS. is 574 Supplement grec de
la Bibl. Nationale. The formulae of various religions were used as
instruments of magic, as our own witches used the Lord's Prayer
backwards.

[146:2] _Refutatio Omnium Haeresium_, v. 7. They worshipped the Serpent,
N[=a]h[=a]sh (=nachash=).

[147:1] Bousset, p. 351. The hostility of Zoroastrianism to the old
Babylonian planet gods was doubtless at work also. Ib. pp. 37-46.

[147:2] Or, in some Gnostic systems, of the Mother.

[148:1] Harrison, _Prolegomena_, Appendix on the Orphic tablets.

[148:2] Ap. _Metamorphoses_, xi.

[149:1] 2 Cor. xii. 2 and 3 (he may be referring in veiled language to
him