[40]E. D. Perry, Preface to A. Koerte, _Hellenistic Poetry_, translated by J. Hammer and M. Hadas (New York, Col. Un. Press, 1929), vii. [41]S. Angus, _Religious Quests of the Graeco-Roman World_ (New York, Scribners, 1929), 76. [42]_Supra_, 77, 86, 87. [43]_Metamorphoses_, xi, 25. Translation from S. Angus, _Mystery Religions and Christianity_ (New York, Scribners, 1925), 240-241. For the hymn from Cyme see P. Roussel, "Un nouvel Hymne a Isis," _Revue des Etudes grecques_, 42 (1929), 138. [44]Cited by Firmicus Maternus, _De errore profanarum religionum_, 20; Migne (PL), XII, 1025; F. Cumont, _Textes et Monuments Figures relatifs aux Mysteres de Mithra_ (Bruxelles, Lamertin, 1899), vol. I, 313. [45]_Contra Faustum_, xv, 5; Migne (PL), xlii, 307. [46]Cumont, _op. cit._ (see note 44), 302. [47]A. Dieterich, _Eine Mithrasliturgie_ (Leipzig, Teubner, 1923), 14; Translation from S. Angus, _op. cit._ (see note 43), 241. [48]_Philosophumena_, V, iv; _Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte, Hippolytus_, vol. iii, edited by Paul Wendland (Leipzig, Hinrich, 1916), 99-100. Translation from _Ante-Nicene Fathers_, V, 56-57. [49]T. Taylor, _The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus_ (London, Dobell and Reeves & Turner, 1896), 63. [50]J. Geffeken, _Der Ausgang des griechisch-roemischen Heidentums_ (Heidelberg, Winter, 1929), 18; M. Hauck, _Die hymnorum Orphicorum aetate_ (Dissertation, Breslau, 1911); O. Kern, _Die Herkunft des Orphischen Hymnenbuch_ in _Carl Robert zum 8. Maerz 1910 Genethliakon_ (Berlin, Weidmann, 1910). [51]R. Reitzenstein, _Poimandres_ (Leipzig, Teubner, 1904), 59, 347f. [52]Translations from S. Angus, _Mystery Religions and Christianity_, 241-242. [53]Phillips, _Hymnody Past and Present_, 13. [54]_Ut queant laxis resonare fibris_ (Paulus Diaconus, d. 799); _Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen_ (Johann Heerman, 1630); _Where is the Friend for whom I'm ever yearning_ (Johann Wallin, 1779-1839). [55]_Acts of Thomas_, IX, 108. Translation from M. R. James, _The Apocryphal New Testament_ (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924), 411. See also B. Pick, _The Apocryphal Acts_ (Chicago, Open Court Pub. Co., 1909), 312. [56]According to Pick _op. cit._ (see note 55), 312, it is a Gnostic development of _Phil. 2:5-11_. [57]O. Bardenhewer, _Patrology_, translated from the 2nd edition by T. J. Shahan (Freiburg im B., Herder, 1908), 107. [58]J. Kroll, _op. cit._ (see note 3), 270. [59]Acts of Thomas, I, 6. Translation from M. R. James, _op. cit._ (see note 55), 367. [60]Acts of John, 94, 95. Translation from M. R. James, _op. cit._ (see note 55), 228, 253. [61]Augustine, _Epistula_ ccxxxvii; Migne (PL), xxxiii, 1034. See also Leclercq, _op. cit._ (see note 1), 2841. [62]_Philosophumena_, v, 5; Text, _op. cit._ (see note 48), 102. Translation from _Ante-Nicene Fathers_, V, 58.