83. Renan mentioned this fact in his _Apotres_, p. 297 = _Journal Asiatique_, 1859, p. 259. Cf. Jalabert, _Mel. faculte orient. Beyrout_, I, 1906, p. 146. 84. This is the term (_virtutes_) used by the pagans. See the inscription _Numini et virtutibus dei aeterni_ as reconstructed in _Revue de Philologie_, 1902, p. 9; _Archiv fuer Religionsw._, _loc. cit._, p. 335, n. 1 and _infra_, ch. VIII, n. 20. 85. _CIL_, VII, 759 = Buecheler, _Carm. epig._, 24.--Cf. Lucian, _De dea Syria_, 32. 86. Macrobius, _Sat._, I, 23, Sec. 17: "Nominis (Adad) interpretatio significat unus unus." 87. Cicero, _Somnium Scip._, c. 4: "Sol dux et princeps et moderator luminum reliquorum, mens mundi et temperatio." Pliny, _H. N._, II, 6, Sec. 12: "Sol ... siderum ipsorum caelique rector. Hunc esse mundi totius animam ac planius mentem, hunc principale naturae regimen ac numen credere decet," etc. Julian of Laodicea, _Cat. codd. astr._, I, p. 136, l. 1: [Greek: Helios basileus kai hegemon tou sumpantos kosmou kathestos, panton kathegoumenos kai panton on genesiarches.] 88. We are here recapitulating some conclusions of a study on _La theologie solaire du paganisme romain_ published in _Memoires des savants etrangers presentes a l'Acad. des Inscr._, XII, 2d part, pp. 447 ff., Paris, 1910. {260} 89. The hymns of Synesius (II, 10 ff., IV, 120 ff., etc.) contain peculiar examples of the combination of the old astrological ideas with Christian theology. VI. PERSIA. BIBLIOGRAPHY: We shall not attempt here to give a bibliography of the works devoted to Mazdaism. We shall merely refer the reader to that of Lehmann in Chantepie de la Saussaye, _Lehrbuch der Religionsgeschichte_, II, p. 150. We should mention, in the first place, Darmesteter, _Le Zend Avesta_, 1892 ff., with introductions and commentary.--In my _Textes et monuments relatifs aux mysteres de Mithra_ (2 vols., 1894-1900), I, pp. xx ff., I have furnished a list of the earlier works on this subject; the conclusions of the book have been published separately without the notes, under the title: _Les Mysteres de Mithra_, (2d ed., Paris and Brussels, 1902; English translation, Chicago, 1903). See also the article "Mithra" in the _Dictionnaire des antiquites_ of Daremberg and Saglio, 1904.--General outlines of certain phases of this religion have been since given by Grill, _Die persische Mysterienreligion und das Christentum_, 1903; Roeses, _Ueber Mithrasdienst_, Stralsund, 1905; G. Wolff, _Ueber Mithrasdienst und Mithreen_, Frankfort, 1909; Reinach, _La morale du mithraisme_ in _Cultes, mythes_, II, 1906, pp. 220 ff.; Dill, _op. cit._, pp. 594-626; cf. also Bigg, _op. cit._ [p. 321], 1905, p. 46 ff.; Harnack, _Ausbreitung des Christent._, II, p. 270. Among the learned researches which we cannot enumerate here, the most important is that of Albrecht Dieterich, _Eine Mithrasliturgie_, 1903. He has endeavored with some ingenuity to show that a mystical passage inserted in a magic papyrus preserved at Paris is in