After Life in Roman Paganism

Part 21

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_Cf._ _ibid._, p. 95 s.

Footnote 384:

II _Reg._, 2, 11.

Footnote 385:

Kornemann, _Klio_, VII, p. 278; _cf._ _Études syriennes_, p. 98, n. 3.

Footnote 386:

Eunap., _Hist._, fr. 26 (F. H. G. IV, 25; _cf._ _Études syriennes_, p. 104).

Footnote 387:

See above, Lecture III, p. 102.

Footnote 388:

Weichert, _Der Seelenvogel in der alten Literatur und Kunst_, Leipzig, 1902; see above, Lecture III, p. 93.

Footnote 389:

_Études syriennes_, p. 38 ss.

Footnote 390:

_Phaedr._, p. 246 C.

Footnote 391:

_Anth. Pal._, VII, 62 = Diog. Laert., III, 44; _cf._ _Études syriennes_, p. 88:

Αἰετέ τίπτε βέβηκας ὑπὲρ τάφον; ἢ τίνος, εἰπέ, ἀστεροέντα θεῶν οἶκον ἀποσκοπέεις;— Ψυχῆς εἰμὶ Πλάτωνος ἀποπταμένης εἰς Ὄλυμπον εἰκών· σῶμα δὲ γῆ γηγενὲς Ἀτθὶς ἔχει.

Footnote 392:

_Cf._ _Études syriennes_, p. 57 ss.

Footnote 393:

_Études syriennes_, 1917, p. 87, fig. 39.

Footnote 394:

See Introd., p. 28.

Footnote 395:

See Lecture III, p. 100.

Footnote 396:

_Études syriennes_, p. 106 s.; _cf._ Lecture III, p. 101.

Footnote 397:

See Lecture I, p. 59.

Footnote 398:

Diog. Laert., VIII, 1, 27.

Footnote 399:

Jul., _Or._, V, p. 172 C.

Footnote 400:

Cic., _Tusc._, I, 42 ss.; Sextus Empir., _Adv. Math._, IX, 71, 4; _cf._ above, Introd., p. 29.

Footnote 401:

Winds and souls, see below, Lecture VII, p. 185.

Footnote 402:

See below, Lecture VII, p. 186; _cf._ Lecture II, p. 81.

Footnote 403:

See Introd., p. 29; _cf._ Lecture VII, p. 185.

Footnote 404:

See below, Lecture VII, p. 185.

Footnote 405:

See above, Lecture III, p. 93, and p. 96 s.

Footnote 406:

Dieterich, _Eine Mithrasliturgie_^2, 1910.

Footnote 407:

Plato, _Phaedo_, p. 107 D, 108 B.

Footnote 408:

Kaibel, _Epigr. Graeca_, 650 = _Inscr. Sic. Ital._, 2461.

Footnote 409:

Haussoullier, _Revue de philologie_, XXIII, 1909, p. 6; _cf._ Lecture III, p. 105.

Footnote 410:

See above, Lecture IV, p. 112.

Footnote 411:

_Cf._ Rohde, _Psyche_, II^4, p. 376 s.

Footnote 412:

See above, Lecture I, p. 45 ss., 59 ss.

Footnote 413:

_Cf._ Cic., _Tusc._, I, 16, 37.

Footnote 414:

See below, Lecture VIII, p. 199 ss.

Footnote 415:

Lucretius, I, 124: “Simulacra modis pallentia miris.”

Footnote 416:

See, for instance, above, p. 156.

Footnote 417:

_Cf._ Proclus, _In Rempubl._, I, p. 290, 10 ss., Kroll.

Footnote 418:

On this _katoptromanteia_, _cf._ _Revue archéologique_, V, 1917, p. 105 ss.; Ganschinietz in _Realencycl._, s. v.

Footnote 419:

See above, Lecture V, p. 130.

Footnote 420:

See above, Lecture II, p. 79.

Footnote 421:

_Cf._ _Revue de philologie_, XLIV, 1920, p. 237 ss.

Footnote 422:

See Lecture III, p. 103.

Footnote 423:

_Cf._ Lecture III, p. 107.

Footnote 424:

Plato, _Phaedr._, 247 B; _cf._ _Phaedo_, p. 113 D.

Footnote 425:

_Timaeus_, p. 41 D E.

Footnote 426:

See above, Lecture III, p. 106 s., and Introd., p. 41; _cf._ p. 24.

Footnote 427:

_Odyssey_, XI, 576 s.

Footnote 428:

_Cf._ Rohde, _Psyche_, I^4, p. 61 ss.

Footnote 429:

_Cf._ Plut., _De superst._, 7, p. 168 D.

Footnote 430:

_Cf._ above, Lecture II, p. 75.

Footnote 431:

_Cf._ Dieterich, _Nekyia_, p. 206 ss.

Footnote 432:

Plut., _De sera num. vind._, p. 567 B.

Footnote 433:

Dieterich, _Nekyia_, 1893 (2^d ed. 1913).

Footnote 434:

Even the devout Plutarch rejects them as superstitious imaginations; _cf._ _De superst._, 167 A.

Footnote 435:

_Aen._, VI, 625–628.

Footnote 436:

Dieterich, _op. cit._, p. 197 ss.

Footnote 437:

Punishment by fire is mentioned for the first time in Philodemos, Περὶ θεῶν, XIX, 16 ss. Philodemos being a Syrian, it is not unlikely that this tenet is of Oriental origin. _Cf._ Diels, _Abhandl. Akad. Berlin_, 1916, p. 80, n. 3.

Footnote 438:

See above, Introd., pp. 8, 17 s., and Lecture II, p. 83.

Footnote 439:

Herodotus, II, 123.

Footnote 440:

The Druses have even preserved the ancient doctrine that the number of souls is always the same in the world. _Cf._ Silvestre de Sacy, _Religion des Druses_, 1838, II, p. 459.

Footnote 441:

Dussaud, _Les Nosaïris_, Paris, 1900, p. 120 ss.

Footnote 442:

See above, Lecture III, p. 101.

Footnote 443:

_Cf._ Lucian, _Alex._, 43.

Footnote 444:

Hermes Trismeg. ap. Stob., _Ecl._, I, 49, p. 398, 16 ss., Wachsmuth.

Footnote 445:

Tim. Locr., p. 104 E.

Footnote 446:

Ps.-Plut., _Vita Homeri_, 126; Porph. ap. Stob., _Ecl._, I, 49, 60, p. 445, Wachsmuth.

Footnote 447:

See above, p. 176.

Footnote 448:

See above, Lecture II, p. 78.

Footnote 449:

_Cf._ _Revue de philologie_, XLIV, 1921, p. 232 ss.

Footnote 450:

Above, Introd., p. 13.

Footnote 451:

Museum of the University of California; Kaibel, _Inscr. Sicil. et Ital._, 12, 1196. The sentence is taken from _Republ._, X, 617 C.

Footnote 452:

Porph., _De regressu anim._, fr. 11, Bidez = Aug., _Civ. Dei_, X, 30; Jamblich. ap. Nemes., _De nat. hom._, 2; _cf._ Zeller, _Philos. Gr._, V^4, p. 713.

Footnote 453:

“Has omnes, ubi mille rotam volvere per annos, Lethaeum ad fluvium deus evocat agmine magno, Scilicet immemores super ut convexa revisant, Rursus et incipiant in corpore velle reverti.” _Aen._, VI, 749–753.

Footnote 454:

See above, Lecture VI, p. 162, and Introd., p. 29.

Footnote 455:

_Études syriennes_, p. 70.

Footnote 456:

See Lecture VI, p. 161; _cf._ below, Lecture VIII, p. 196.

Footnote 457:

Virg., _Aen._, VI, 740 ss.

Footnote 458:

Plut., _De facie lunae_, p. 943 B.

Footnote 459:

Ps. Apul., _Asclep._, 28.

Footnote 460:

_Jahresh. Institut Wien_, XII, 1910, p. 213.

Footnote 461:

See above, Lecture III, p. 107.

Footnote 462:

Macrob., _Comm. Somn. Scip._, I, 11, 8; Proclus, _In Tim._, II, 48, 15 ss., Diehl.

Footnote 463:

Lecture II, p. 87 ss.

Footnote 464:

See Lecture I, p. 64 ss.

Footnote 465:

Tibullus, II, 6, 30: “Sic bene sub tenera parva quiescat humo.”

Footnote 466:

Tertull., _De testimonio animae_, 4.

Footnote 467:

_Securitati aeternae_; _cf._ Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 8025 ss., 8149.

Footnote 468:

Cic., _Catil._, IV, 7; _cf._ _Tusc._, I, 11, 25; 49, 118.

Footnote 469:

Sen., _Dial._, VI, 19, 5.

Footnote 470:

Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 8024 and note; _cf._ Cic., _Tusc._, I, 41, 97; and Introd., p. 10.

Footnote 471:

Bücheler, _Carm. epigr._, 1274:

“Morborum vitia et vitae mala maxima fugi. Nunc careo poenis, pace fruor placida.”

Footnote 472:

Bücheler, _ibid._, 573:

“Qui post tantum onus, multos crebrosque labores Nunc silet et tacito contentus sede quiescit.”

Footnote 473:

Bücheler, _ibid._, 507: “Poena fuit vita, requies mihi morte parata est.”

Footnote 474:

Transl. by J. C. Anderson (in my _Astrology and Religion_, p. 171).

Footnote 475:

Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 8393, 79: “Te di Manes tui ut quietam patiantur atque ita tueantur opto.”

Footnote 476:

See above, Lecture I, p. 68; II, p. 86, n. 39; V, p. 134.

Footnote 477:

See above, Lecture VI, p. 143.

Footnote 478:

Virg., _Aen._, VI, 705: “Domos placidas.”

Footnote 479:

See Introd., p. 34 ss.

Footnote 480:

_Comptes rendus Acad. Inscr._, 1912, p. 151 ss.; _cf._ Bücheler, _Carm. epigr._, 513.

Footnote 481:

Lecture III, p. 95.

Footnote 482:

Lecture VI, p. 150.

Footnote 483:

_Odyssey_, VI, 42 ss.

Footnote 484:

Lucretius, III, 18 ss.

Footnote 485:

Zeno, fr. 147 (von Arnim, _Fragm. Stoicorum_, I, p. 40): “Zeno docuit sedes piorum ab impiis esse discretas et illos quidem quietas ac delectabiles habitare regiones.”

Footnote 486:

See Introd., p. 25; Lecture III, p. 96.

Footnote 487:

Macrob., _Somn. Scip._, I, 11, 6: “Vitae mortisque confinium.”

Footnote 488:

See above, Lecture II, p. 81 s.

Footnote 489:

See Lecture VII, p. 185 s.

Footnote 490:

Sen., _Consol. Marc._, 24, 5: “(Animus) nititur illo unde demissus est; ibi illum aeterna requies manet e confusis crassisque pura et liquida visentem.”

Footnote 491:

Plotin., IX, 8, 9, p. 768 A; IX, 8, 11, p. 770 C.

Footnote 492:

_Cf._ Aug., _Serm._, CCLX (P.L. XXXVIII, 1132, 38): “Dixerunt Platonici ... animas, ire ad superna caelorum et requiescere ibi in stellis et luminibus istis conspicuis.”

Footnote 493:

Lecture I, p. 45 ss.

Footnote 494:

_Ibid._, p. 69.

Footnote 495:

St. Ambrose, _De bono mortis_, 9; _cf._ Kaibel, _Inscr. Sic. It._, 2117.

Footnote 496:

Aug., _De anima_, II, 12.

Footnote 497:

_Book of Enoch_, 39.

Footnote 498:

IV _Esdr._, VII, 91: “Requiescent per septem ordines”; _cf._ VII, 95 (p. 131 ss., Violet).

Footnote 499:

IV _Esdr._, VII, 36, 38 (p. 146, Violet).

Footnote 500:

Ambrose, _De bono mortis_, 12, § 53 (P.L., XIV, 154); _cf._ IV _Esdr._, VII, 39.

Footnote 501:

See Lecture I, p. 50.

Footnote 502:

See Lecture I, p. 54.

Footnote 503:

_Ibid._, p. 57.

Footnote 504:

Calder, _Journal of Roman Studies_, 1912, p. 254.

Footnote 505:

See above, Lecture I, p. 55 ss.

Footnote 506:

See Introd., p. 35; Lecture IV, p. 126.

Footnote 507:

Lucian, _Verae hist._, II, 14.

Footnote 508:

Best reproduction, Wilpert, _Pitture delle Catacombe Romane_, II, 132–133.

Footnote 509:

See above, Introd., pp. 35, 37.

Footnote 510:

Aelius Arist., XLV (VIII), 27 (p. 360, Keil).

Footnote 511:

See my _Oriental Religions_, Chap. IV, end.

Footnote 512:

See Lecture IV, p. 122; Introd., p. 34.

Footnote 513:

CIL, III, 14165.

Footnote 514:

See Lecture I, p. 68; II, p. 86; V, p. 134.

Footnote 515:

Bücheler, _Carm. epigr._, 1317 = CIL, VI, 142; _cf._ Plato, _Phaedo_, p. 107D.

Footnote 516:

As it is elsewhere; _cf._ Introd., p. 11.

Footnote 517:

Lagrange, _Religions sémitiques_^2, 1905, p. 493.

Footnote 518:

Horace, _Od._, III, 3, 12.

Footnote 519:

Lecture IV, p. 113 s., 116 ss.

Footnote 520:

See, for instance, Kaibel, _Epigr. Graeca_, 312, 13.

Footnote 521:

Julian, _Caesares_, p. 307 C; _cf._ Introd., p. 29; Lecture III, p. 98.

Footnote 522:

_Patrologia Orientalis_, I, p. 1014.

Footnote 523:

See above, Lecture I, p. 55 s.

Footnote 524:

Lecture IV, p. 121.

Footnote 525:

For instance, by the physician Thessalus (under Nero); _cf._ _Cat. codd. astrol._, VIII, 3, p. 137; VIII, 4, p. 257.

Footnote 526:

_Cf._ Lecture IV, pp. 121, 125 s.

Footnote 527:

See above, Lecture IV, p. 126.

Footnote 528:

P. 896 C; _cf._ p. 992 B.

Footnote 529:

See above, Lecture IV, p. 126.

Footnote 530:

The true interpretation has been given by Bevan, _Stoics and Sceptics_, 1913, p. 112 s.

Footnote 531:

_Georg._, II, 489 ss.:

“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnis et inexorabile Fatum Subiecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.”

Footnote 532:

Νηφάλιος μέθη, Philo., probably after Posidonius.

Footnote 533:

_Cf._ Lecture IV, p. 126.

Footnote 534:

_Anthol. Palatina_, IX, 577:

Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων μαστεύω πυκινὰς ἀμφιδρομους ἕλικας οὐκετ’ ἐπιψαύω γαίης ποσὶν, ἀλλὰ παρ’ αὐτῷ Ζανὶ θεοτρεφέος πίμπλαμαι ἀμβροσίης.

Footnote 535:

See Introd., p. 4.

Footnote 536:

See Lecture III, p. 108.

Footnote 537:

Μόνος πρὸς μόνῳ. The expression had been used by religion before being taken over by philosophy. _Cf._ _Le culte égyptien et le mysticisme de Plotin_, in _Monuments Piot_, XXV, 1922, p. 78 ss.

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