[66] G. B. iii. p. 142.
[67] G. B. ii. p. 144.
[68] Later (Rev. de Philol., xxi. 3, pp. 152, 153), M. Cumont dates the Greek at about 500-600 A.D., because there were then apprehensions, as in the MS., of the end of the world. But so there were in 1000 A.D.
[69] December 16-23. So also thinks M. Parmentier, Rev. Phil. xxi. p. 143, note 1. M. Parmentier says that we must either suppose the victim to have been selected by lot a whole month in advance (of which practice I think we have no evidence), or else cast doubt on the whole story, except the mere martyrdom of Dasius. But the latter measure M. Parmentier thinks too sceptical.
[70] Porphyry, De Abstinentia, ii. 56; Lactantius, i. 21.
[71] G. B. iii. 147.
[72] G. B. iii. 148.
[73] G. B. iii. 147, note 2; 148, note 2.
[74] G. B. ii. 253, 254.
[75] G. B. ii. 254.