[306] Rom. i. 20.

[307] Ch. [14].

[308] De Deo Socratis.

[309] Virgil, Æn. 7. 338.

[310] Virgil, Æn. 4. 492, 493.

[311] Virgil, Ec. 8. 99.

[312] Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxviii. 2) and others quote the law as running: "Qui fruges incantasit, qui malum carmen incantasit.... neu alienam segetem pelexeris."

[313] Before Claudius, the prefect of Africa, a heathen.

[314] Another reading, "whom they could not know, though near to themselves."

[315] These quotations are from a dialogue between Hermes and Æsculapius, which is said to have been translated into Latin by Apuleius.