860 δὴ καὶ Hertlein suggests, δὲ καὶ V, καὶ MSS. 861 _Phaedrus_ 250 D, _Timaeus_ 47 A, _Republic_ 507‐508. 862 Porphyry, _On the Cave of the Nymph_ 22, says that Cancer and Capricorn are the two gates of the sun; and that souls descend through Cancer and rise aloft through Capricorn. 863 This seems to identify Attis with the sun’s rays. 864 Chaldean astrology and the Chaldean oracles are often cited with respect by the Neo‐Platonists; for allusions to their worship of the Seven‐rayed Mithras (Helios) cf. Damascius 294 and Proclus on _Timaeus_ 1. 11. 865 _e.g._ Iamblichus and especially Maximus of Ephesus who is a typical theurgist of the fourth century A.D. and was supposed to work miracles. 866 δὴ Shorey, δὲ Hertlein, MSS. 867 αὐτὴ Wright, αὕτη MSS., Hertlein. 868 ἱερέων Hertlein suggests, ἱερῶν MSS. 869 The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone; the Lesser were celebrated in February, the greater in September. 870 Plato, _Gorgias_ 497 C; Plutarch, _Demetrius_ 900 B. 871 αὐτὸς εἰρηκώς Hertlein suggests, εἰρηκὼς MSS. 872 προüφεστώσῃ Hertlein suggests, προεστεώσῃ MSS. 873 δὲ Hertlein suggests, γε MSS. 874 cf. _Oration_ 4. 131 A. 875 Attis. 876 ᾗ Hertlein suggests, οὗ MSS. 877 cf. 168 D‐169 A, 171 C. 878 παρακελεύονται Wyttenbach, μολλαχοῦ παρακελεύονται Hertlein, MSS. 879 The construction of καὶ καλάμης is not clear; Petavius suspects corruption or omission. 880 ποιητικώτερον Naber, τι καὶ ποιητικὸν Hertlein, MSS. 881 ὁρμῶντα Naber. 882 _Theaetetus_ 176 A; cf. _Oration_ 2. 90 A. 883 _i.e._ to the intelligible world and the One; cf. 169 C. 884 Porphyry, _On Abstinence_ 3. 5, gives a list of these sacred birds; _e.g._ the owl sacred to Athene, the eagle to Zeus, the crane to Demeter. 885 ἅπαντα Hertlein suggests, ἅπαντας MSS. 886 συγχωρεῖ Hertlein suggests, συγχωροίη MSS. 887 φήσει Hertlein suggests, φήσειεν MSS. 888 cf. Aristotle, _On the Generation of Animals_ 736 b. 37, for the breath πνεῦμα, that envelops the disembodied soul and resembles aether. The Stoics sometimes defined the soul as a “warm breath,” ἔνθερμον πνεῦμα. 889 The phrase probably occurred in an oracular verse. 890 Oration 6. 203 C; Demosthenes, _De Corona_ 308, συνείρει ... ἀπνευστί. 891 ἕνεκά του Shorey, ἕνεκα τοῦ Hertlein, MSS. 892 The epithet means “favoured by Aphrodite.” 893 In this rendering of λόγος (which may here mean “Reason”) I follow Mau p. 113, and Asmus, _Julians Galiläerschrift_ p. 31. 894 πράξεις Hertlein suggests, τάξεις MSS.