5. Diogenes Laertius, V, 5, Sec. 76: [Greek: Hothen kai tous paianas poiesai tous mechri nun haidomenous]. The [Greek: mechri nun] Diogenes took undoubtedly from his source, Didymus. See Artemidorus, _Onirocr._, II, 44 (p. 143, 25 Hercher).--This information is explicitly confirmed by an inscription which mentions [Greek: he hiera taxis ton paianiston] (_Inscr. Graec._, XIV, 1034). 6. Kaibel, _Epigr._ 1028 = Abel, _Orphica_, p. 295, etc.--See _supra_, ch. I, n. 14.--According to recent opinion, M. de Wilamowitz was good enough to write me, the date of the Andros hymn cannot have been later than the period of Cicero, and it is very probably contemporary with Sulla.--See _supra_, ch. I, n. 14.--On other similar texts, see Gruppe, _Griech. Mythol._, P. 1563. 7. Amelung, _Le Serapis de Bryaxis_ (_Revue archeol_, 1903, II), p. 178. 8. P. Foucart, _Le culte de Dionysos en Attique_ (_Mem. Acad. des Inscr._, XXXVII), 1904. On the Isis cult in ancient Greece, we can now refer to Gruppe, _Griech. Myth._, pp. 1565 ff.; Ruhl, _De Sarapide et Iside in Graecia cultis_ (Diss. Berlin) 1906, has made careful use of the epigraphic texts dating back to the time before the Roman period. 9. The only exception is the Zeus Ammon, who was only half Egyptian and owed his very early adoption to the Greek colonies of Cyrene; see Gruppe, _Griech. Myth._, p. 1558. The addition of other goddesses, like Nephtis or Bubastis to Isis is exceptional. 10. Concerning the impression which Egypt made on travelers, see Friedlaender, _Sittengesch._, II^6, 144 ff.; Otto, _Priester und Tempel_, II, p. 210. 11. Juvenal, XV, 10, and the notes of Friedlaender on these passages.--The Athenian comic writers frequently made fun of the Egyptian zoolatry (Lafaye, _op. cit._, p. 32). Philo of Alexandria considered the Egyptians as the most idolatrous heathens and he attacked their animal worship, in particular {231} (_De Decal._, 16, II, p. 193 M., and _passim_). The pagan writers were no less scandalized (Cicero, _Nat. deor._, III, 15, etc.) except where they preferred to apply their ingenuity to justify it. See Dill, _loc. cit._, p. 571.--The features of this cult in ancient Egypt have been recently studied by George Foucart, _Revue des idees_, Nov. 15, 1908, and _La methode comparative et l'histoire des religions_, 1909, pp. 43 ff. 12. Macrobius, _Sat._, I, 20, Sec. 16. 13. Holm, _Gesch. Siziliens_, I, p. 81. 14. Libanius, Or., XI, 114 (I, p. 473 Foerster). Cf. Drexler in Roscher, _op. cit._, col. 378. 15. Pausan., I, 18, 4: [Greek: Sarapidos hon para Ptolemaiou theon eisegagonto]. Ruhl (op. cit., p. 4) attaches no historic value to this text, but, as he points out himself, we have proof that an official Isis cult existed at Athens under Ptolemy Soter, and that Serapis was worshiped in that city at the beginning of the third century. 16. Dittenberger, _Or. gr. inscr. sel._, No. 16. 17. Apul., _Metam._, XI, 17.