[39] Ovid, _Fasti_, iii, 267. _Licia dependent longas velantia saepes, et posita est meritae multa tabella deae_. [40] Virgil, AEn. x, 423. [41] Horace, _Odes_, iii, 13. [42] W. Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 240. [43] Cf. Tertullian, _de Baptismo_, 5. _Annon et alias sine ullo Sacramento immundi spiritus aquis incubant, adfectantes illam in primordio divini spiritus gestationem? Sciunt opaci quique fontes, et avii quique rivi, et in balneis piscinae et euripi in domibus, vel cisternae et putei, qui rapere dicuntur, scilicet per vim spiritus nocentis. Nympholeptos et lymphaticos et hydrophobos vocant quos aquae necaverunt aut amentia vel formidine exercuerunt. Quorsum ista retulimus? Ne quis durius credat angelum dei sanctum aquis in salutem hominis temperandis adesse._ [44] Ovid, _Fasti_, vi, 155 f. [45] Cf. (Lucian) _Asinus_, 24. _poi badixeis aoria talaipore; oude ta daimonia dedoikas_. [46] Pliny, _N.H._ xxxvi, 204. [47] Lampridius, _Alex. Sev._ 29. 2. [48] _Fasti_, v. 145. Cf. Prudentius, _adv. Symm_, ii, 445 f. [49] _Odes_, iii, 23. _Farre pio_. [50] On _Georgic_ i, 302, See Varro, _ap._ Aug. _C.D._ vii, 13. Also _Tert. de Anima_, 39, _Sic et omnibus genii deputantur, quod daemonum nomen est. Adeo nulla ferme nativitas munda, utique ethnicorum_. [51] Hor. _Ep._ ii. 2, 187 f. Howes' translation. Cf. _Faerie Queene_, II, xii, 47. [52] See J. H. Moulton in _Journal of Theological Studies_, III, 514. [53] Burkitt, _Early Eastern Christianity_, p. 222. [54] _Fasti_, iii, 57; Seneca, _Ep._ 18. 1, _December est mensis: cum maxime civitas sudat, ius luxuries publicae datum est ... ut non videatur mihi errasse qui dixit: olim mensem Decembrem fuisse nunc annum_. [55] Cf. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, lect. xi. [56] Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, pp. 106 f. [57] Ovid, _Fasti_, ii, 409 f. Warde Fowler, _op. cit._ pp. 306 f. [58] Ovid, _Fasti_, v, 490. [59] _De Divinatione_, i, 1, 2. [60] _ib._ i, 3, 5. [61] _ib._ i, 39, 84. [62] _De Divinatione_, i, 38, 82, 83. Cf. Tertullian, _de Anima_, 46. _Sed et Stoici deum malunt providentissimum humanae institutioni inter cetera praesidia divinatricum artium et disciplinarum somnia quoque nobis indidisse, peculiare solatium naturalis oraculi_. [63] Panaetius and Seneca should be excepted from this charge. [64] Cic. _de Div._ ii, 72, 149, 150. Cf. _de Legg._ ii, 13, 32. Plutarch also has the same remark about sleep and superstition. [65] Cf. _Odes_, iii, 27. [66] _Tusculans_, i, 21, 48. [67] Hor. _Ep._ ii, 2, 208; Howes. [68] Tertullian, de _Idol._ 9, _seimus magiae et astrologiae inter se societatem_. [69] Pliny the elder on Magic, _N.H._ xxx, opening sections; _N.H._ xxviii, 10, on incantations, _polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum_. [70] Livy, xxix, 11, 14; Ovid, fasti, iv, 179 f. The goddess was embodied in a big stone. [71] Lucretius, ii, 608 f. [72] Cf. Strabo, c. 470; Juvenal, vi, 511 f.