[97] _de dif. orac._ 40, 432 C-E, _thermoteti gar kai diachysei porous tinas anoigein phantastikous tou mellontos eikos estin_. For these _poroi_ cf. Clem. Alex. _Strom_, vii, 36, with J. B. Mayor's note. [98] _de def. orac._ 46-48, 435 A-437 A (referring to Phaedo, 97 D). The curious mixture of metaphors, the double suggestion of _krasis_, the parallel from music, and the ambiguity of _to enthousiastikon_ (characteristic of the confusion of spiritual and material then prevalent) make a curious sentence in English. On the relation of daemons to oracles, see also _de facie in orbe lunae_, 30, 944 D; also Tertullian, _de Anima_, 46, who gives a lucid account of daemons as the explanation of oracles, and _Apol._ 22--daemons inhabiting the atmosphere have early knowledge of the weather, and by their incredible speed can pass miraculously quickly from one end of the earth to the other, and so bring information--strange, he adds (c. 25), that Cybele took a week to inform her priest of the death of Marcus Aurelius--_o somniculosa diplomata_! ("sleepy post"). [99] _de Iside_, 80, 383 E. Clem. Alex. _Strom._ i, 135, says Greek prophets of old were "stirred up by daemons, or disordered by waters, fragrances or some quality of the air," but the Hebrews spoke "by the power and mind of God." [100] _Praec. Conj._ 19. Cf. Plato, _Laws_, 906 A, _symmachoi de hemin theoi te ama kai daimones, hemeis d' au ktema theon kai daimonon_. [101] _de repugn. Stoic._ 38, 1051 E. [102] _non suaviter_, 20, 1101 B. [103] _non suaviter_ 21, 1101 C. Clem. Alex. _Paed._ ii, 1, says it is "peculiar to man to cleanse the eye of the soul." [104] _non suaviter_, 22, 1102 F. [105] _de Iside_, 1, 351 D. [106] _de Iside_, 2, 352 A. [107] _de Iside_, 9, 354 C, _emphaseis kai diaphaseis_. [108] _de Iside_, 9, 354 C. [109] _de Iside_, 53, 372 E, _Myrionumos_. [110] _de ser. num. vind._ 18, 560 F. [111] _de ser. num. vind._ 17, 560 B-D. Justin, _Apology_, 1, 18, appeals to the belief in the continuance of the soul, which pagans derive from necromancy, dreams, oracles and persons "daemoniolept." [112] In _de sera numinum vindicta_ and _de genio Socratis_. Cf. also the account of the souls of the dead given in _de facie in orbe lunae_, c. 28 ff. [113] _de def. orac._ 18, 419 E. Another curious tale of these remote islands is in Clem. Alex. _Strom._ vi, 33. [114] Cumont, _Mysteries of Mithra_ (tr.), p. 35. Mithraism began to spread under the Flavians, but (p. 33) "remained for ever excluded from the Hellenic world." [115] _de Iside_, 20, 358 F. [116] _de Iside_, 11, 355 C. [117] _de Iside_, 20, 358 E. Cf. the language of Clement in dealing with expressions in the Bible that seem to imply an anthropomorphic conception of God. See p. 291. [118] _de Iside_, 23, 360 A. [119] _de Iside_, 8, 353 E. [120] _de def. orac._ 14, 15, 417 B-F. Cf. Clem. Alex. _Protr._ 42, _apanthropoi kai misanthropoi daimones_ enjoying _anthropoktonias_.