[140:2] ὁ δὲ Ἐπίκουρος οὐδὲν τούτων ἐγκρίνει. 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 περὶ σαρκῶν _ad fin._, but the date of that treatise is very uncertain. [143:2] Aesch., _Ag._ 6; Eur., _Hip._ 530. Also _Ag._ 365, where ἀστρῶν βέλος goes together and μήτε πρὸ καιροῦ μήθ' ὕπερ. [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 συμπάθειαν 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 Supplément 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, Nāhāsh (נָחָשׁ). [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 himself); Gal. i. 12 ff.; Acts ix. 1-22. On the difference of tone and fidelity between the Epistles and the Acts see the interesting remarks of Prof. P. Gardner, _The Religious Experience of St. Paul_, pp. 5 ff.