The Jews among the Greeks and Romans

CHAPTER XIV

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THE PHILOSOPHIC OPPOSITION

Footnote 210:

Cf. the whole Lucianic dialogue on Images, 459-484, and Zeus Tragoedus, 654 seq.

Footnote 211:

Cicero, De Nat. Deorum, i. 23, 63. Athenag. Supp. xii.

Footnote 212:

Josephus, Contra Ap. ii. 37.

Footnote 213:

Euthyphro, viii. 3 (7A).

Footnote 214:

Sophocles, Oed. Rex, 661.

Footnote 215:

Cf. ch. XI., n. 19. Also II. Chron. xi. 15. The שדים are mentioned in Psalms cvi. 37 as deities to whom human sacrifices are made.

Footnote 216:

Isocr. Pan. 155-156; Lycurgus, In Leocr. 80-81.

Footnote 217:

For the Boeotians cf. the common ὗς Βοιωτία; Pind. Ol. vi. 153; _id._ Fr. iv. 9, and Hor. Epp. II. i. 244; for Egyptian _perfidia_, Val. Max. v. 1, 10; for Abdera, Juv. Sat. x. 50; Mart. x. 25, 4; for the Cretans, the famous Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψευσταί, Call. Hymn in Jov. v. 8., a proverb also quoted from Epimenides by Paul, Ep. ad Tit. i. 13. One may also note in this connection the Greek proverb, τρία κάππα κάκιστα · Καππαδοκία καὶ Κρήτη καὶ Κιλικία.

Footnote 218:

Livy, XXXIV. xxiv. 4.

Footnote 219:

Plautus, Rud. v. 50, _scelestus, Agrigentinus, urbis proditor_.

Footnote 220:

Cicero, Pro Fonteio, 14, 30.

Footnote 221:

Cicero, Pro Scauro, 17, 38.

Footnote 222:

Pliny, Hist. Nat. Praef. 25.

Footnote 223:

Africanus, ap. Eus. Praep. Ev. x. 10, 490 B, Clemens Alex Strom. i. 22.

Footnote 224:

Reinach, Textes, p. 122.

Footnote 225:

Cf. ch. VIII., n. 14.

Footnote 226:

Cf. ch. XII., n. 12.

Footnote 227:

Strabo, i. 66; Cic. De Rep. i. 58.

Footnote 228:

Cicero, Paradoxon, iii.: ὁτι ἴσα τὰ ἁμαρτήματα. _Parva, inquit, est res. At magna culpa; nec enim peccata rerum eventis, sed vitiis hominum metienda sunt._

Footnote 229:

Cumont, Les rel. orient. pp. 157 seq.