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Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Euhemerus’ work was one of the first Greek books to be translated into
Latin. See Cicero, _De Nat. Deor._ c. 42.
Footnote 87:
Droysen, _op. cit._ III. p. 341, n. 3. Rhys Davids, _Buddhist India_,
1903, p. 298, thinks it possible that the missions although duly
recorded on stone were never sent.
Footnote 88:
See Chapter II _infra_.
Footnote 89:
Foucart, _Les Associations Religieuses_, etc., pp. 66-84. Cf. Maury,
_Rel. de la Grèce_, II. p. 427. The composition of hymns was
peculiarly the care of these associations; Foucart, _op. cit._ p. 114.
Footnote 90:
Foucart, _op. cit._ p. 85.
Footnote 91:
Franz Cumont, “Hypsistos,” _Revue de l’Instruction publique en
Belgique_, 1897, pp. 5-6; _id._ _Les Religions Orientales dans le
Paganisme Romain_, Paris, 1906, p. 155 and note.
Footnote 92:
Foucart, _Ass. Rel._ pp. 135, 136, 158.
Footnote 93:
See Chapter IV _infra_.
Footnote 94:
Plutarch, _Alexander_, c. II.
Footnote 95:
See Foucart, _op. cit._ p. 158, for the cases of Ninos and Theoris,
priestesses who were condemned for such traffic.
Footnote 96:
Plutarch, _Pythian Responses_, c. XXV.
Footnote 97:
Lucian, _Alexander or Pseudomantis_, _passim_. The story is well
summarized by Sir Samuel Dill, in _Nero to Marcus_, pp. 473 _sqq._
Footnote 98:
Léon Fivel, “Le Dieu Glycon à Nicomédie,” _Gazette Archéol._ 1879, p.
186.
Footnote 99:
Maury, _Rel. de la Grèce_, II. pp. 418 _sqq._ Cf. Döllinger,
_Judenthum und Heidenthum_ (English edition), I. p. 214.
Footnote 100:
Foucart, _Ass. Rel._ pp. 33-35.
Footnote 101:
_Id._ _op. cit._ pp. 150, 151.
Footnote 102:
Hogarth, _Philip and Alexander_, pp. 277, 282. Cf. Bouché-Leclercq in
Droysen, _op. cit._ I. p. vii.
CHAPTER II
THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES
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