[193.1] The “Merseburg charm,” old High German tenth-century MS.: _cf._ R. Chambers, _Fireside Stories_, Edinburgh, 1842. My attention was called to the great antiquity of this Norse charm by Prof. Napier, to whose kindness I owe these references. [193.2] _Sacred Books_, xlii. p. 20. [194.1] Golther, _op. cit._, pp. 647-648. [194.2] In a pre-Conquest Cotton MS. in the British Museum, _vide_ Grein’s _Bibliothek der ängelsächsischen Poesie_: ed. Mülcker, vol. i. p. 316. [195.1] Livy, 22, 10. [196.1] De Re Rustica, 139, 141: Wordsworth, _Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin_, p. 335. [196.2] Clemens, _Strom._, p. 754, Pott. [197.1] _Eumen._, 332. [198.1] Dittenberger, _Sylloge_(2), vol. iii. 816. [198.2] Post, _Afrikanisch. Jurisprud._, 2, p. 128. [199.1] Paus., 10, 12, 10. [200.1] πλεῖστον οὖλον ἵει, ἴουλον ἵει, Athenæ., 618 E. [200.2] The song sung by the children, probably an old weather-spell, called φιληλίας, with the refrain, ἔξεχ᾽ ὦ φίλ᾽ ἥλιε, Pollux, 9, 123, Athenæ., 619 B. [201.1] _Ephem. Archaiol._, 1891, p. 82. [201.2] Plato, _Alcibiad._, 2, p. 148 C. [202.1] Collitz, _Dialect-Inschrift._, 1562, 1563, early fourth century B.C. [202.2] Collitz, 3648. [203.1] Roberts, _Greek Epigraphy_, vol. i. p. 304. [203.2] Nem., 8, 35. [203.3] Ol., 13, 115. [203.4] Med., 635. [203.5] Bergk, _Frag. Lyr. Græc._, vol. iii., Scolia 2. [204.1] _Œcon._, 11, 8. [204.2] _De Superst._, p. 116 D. [204.3] Plat., _Phædr._, 279 B. [204.4] Philostr., _Vit. Apoll._, 4, 41. [205.1] Plat., _Alcib._, 2, p. 143 A. [205.2] Epictet. (Schenkle), p. 479. [205.3] _Id._, p. 158. [205.4] Von der Goltz, _Das Gebet_, p. 292. [206.1] Diog. Laert. 8, 16, 7: yet, according to Clemens, “The Pythagoreans enjoin that prayer should be uttered aloud, so that one might never pray for what one would be ashamed that others should hear,” _Strom._, p. 641, Pott. [206.2] Porphyry ap. Proclus _in Tim._, 2, 64 B: Procl. _in Tim._, 2, 65: Sallustius, _De Diis et Mundo_, c. 16: _cf._ Max. Tyr., _Dissert._ xi. [207.1] Vide _Archiv für vergl. Religionswissensch._, 1904, p. 395. [207.2] The remarkable ethical fragment of an unknown philosopher, Eusebios, in Ionic dialect, quoted by Stobæus, περὶ ἀρετῆς, § 85 (vol. i. p. 39, Meineke), contains moral aspirations that strikingly resemble New Testament doctrine, and may possibly have been intended as a prayer, but it contains no appeal to a divinity: he may belong to the Neo-Platonic sect, _vide_ Orelli, _Opusc. Græc. Sentent._, vol. ii. p. 728. [208.1] _Vedic Hymns_, pt. ii. p. 61. [209.1] _E.g._, “Protect our people all around with those undeceived guardians of thine, oh Agni,” _ib._, p. 158. [210.1] Atharva-Veda (_Sacred Books_, vol. xlii. p. 138). [210.2] _Vedic Hymns_, pt. ii. p. 376. [210.3] _Ib._, p. 273. [210.4] _Ib._, p. 383. [210.5] _Ib._, p. 352. [211.1] Quoted by Prof. Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, vol. ii. p. 339, from Rig Veda, vii. 89, 3. [211.2] _Vedic Hymns_, pt. ii. p. 181.