33. Cf. Drexler in Roscher, s. v. "Isis," II, p. 425; Harnack, _Ausbreitung des Christentums_, II, pp. 147 ff.--Some curious details showing the persistence of the Isis cult among the professors and students of Alexandria during the last years of the {233} fifth century are given in the life of Severus of Antioch by Zachariah the Scholastic (_Patrol. orient._, I, ed. Kugener), pp. 17 ff., 27 ff. 34. Ps.-Apul., 34. Compare with a similar prophecy in the Sibylline oracles, V, 184 f. (p. 127, Geffcken ed.). 35. Iseum of Beneventum; cf. _Notizie debgli scavi di ant._, 1904, pp. 107 ff. Iseum of the Campus Martius: see Lanciani, _Bollet. communale di Roma_, 1883, pp. 33 ff.; Marucchi, _ibid._, 1890, pp. 307 f.--The _signa Memphitica_ (made of Memphian marble), are mentioned in an inscription (Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 4367-8).--The term used in connection with Caracalla: "Sacra Isidis Romam deportavit," which Spartianus (_Carac._, 9; cf. Aur. Vict., _Caes._, 21, 4) no longer understood, also seems to refer to a transfer of sacred Egyptian monuments. At Delos a statue of a singer taken from some grave of the Sais period had been placed in the temple. Everything Egyptian was looked upon as sacred. (Ruhl, _op. cit._, p. 53). 36. Gregorovius, _Gesch. des Kaisers Hadrian_, pp. 222 ff.; cf. Drexler, _loc. cit._, p. 410. 37. The term is Wiedemann's. 38. Naville, _op. cit._, pp. 89 ff. 39. On the [Greek: hierogammateus] Cheremon, see Otto, _Priester und Tempel_ II, p. 216; Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa, _Realenc._, III, col. 2025 ff. 40. Doctrines of Plutarch: cf. Decharme, _Traditions religieuses chez les Grecs_, pp. 486 ff. and _supra_, ch. I, n. 20.