Ramsay, _ibid._ I. pp. 93, 94. The Galli or priests of Cybele, who mutilated themselves in religious ecstasy, seem to have been the feature of Anatolian religion which most struck the Romans, when the statue of the Mother of the Gods first appeared among them. Cf. next page. For the other side of the religion, see Lucian, _de Dea Syria_, cc. VI., XLIII., and Apuleius, _Metamorph._ Bk VIII. c. 29. Footnote 105: As in the hymn to Attis said to have been sung in the Great Mysteries, given in the _Philosophumena_ (see p. 54, _infra_). Cf. Ramsay, _Cities_, etc., I. pp. 132, 263, 264, for other identifications. The Anatolian name of the _Dea Syria_ to whose cult Nero was addicted, was Atargatis, which Prof. Garstang would derive from the Babylonian Ishtar (Strong, _Syrian Goddess_, 1913, p. vii); see Cumont, _Les Religions Orientales dans le Paganisme Romain_, Paris, 1906, p. 126. The whole of Cumont’s chapters on Syria and Asia Minor (_op. cit._ pp. 57-89) can be consulted with advantage. The American edition, 1911, contains some additional notes. See, too, Decharme’s article on Cybele in Daremberg and Saglio’s _Dict. des Antiq._ Footnote 106: Dill, _Nero to Marcus Aurelius_, pp. 548 _sqq._ Footnote 107: See n. 1, _supra_; Suetonius, _Nero_, c. LVI. Footnote 108: Dill, _loc. cit._, and authorities there quoted. Footnote 109: Cumont, _Rel. Or._ p. 77, and see index to American edition, 1911. Footnote 110: Ezekiel viii. 14. Footnote 111: Jeremiah vii. 18; lxiv. 17-19. Footnote 112: Ramsay, _Cities_, etc., II. p. 674, quoting _Neubauer, Géographie du Talmud_. Footnote 113: Cicero, _pro Flacc._ c. XXVIII. The Jews of the Dispersion in Egypt had temples of their own, in one at least of which Yahweh had for assessors a goddess Anat and a subordinate god Bethel. See René Dussaud, “Les Papyrus judéo-araméens d’Elephantiné,” _R.H.R._ t. LXIV. (1911) p. 350. Footnote 114: Acts xvi. 2, 3. See n. 3, p. 28, _supra_. Footnote 115: Layard, _Nineveh and Babylon_, 1853, pp. 509 _sqq._ Was this why Daniel was called “Master of the Magicians”? Dan. iv. 9; v. 11. Footnote 116: Thus, in a Coptic spell, the Words from the Cross: “Eli, eli, lama sabachthani,” are described as “the revered names of God.” See Rossi, _“Trattato gnostico”_ in _Mem. della Real. Accad. di Torino_, Ser. B, XLII. fol. 9. So in mediaeval magic the word “Eieazareie” or “Escherie” is frequently used, apparently without any suspicion that it covers the אהיה אשר אהיה ’Ehyeh ’asher ’ehyeh—“I am that I am” of Exodus. Footnote 117: Hausrath, _Hist. of New Testament Times_, Eng. ed. 1878, I. pp. 126, 127, and authorities there quoted. Footnote 118: