The Religious Thought of the Greeks, from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity

by Clifford Herschel Moore

[289] Plutarch, de Is. et Osir., 67.

[290] Apuleius, Met. XI, 23.

[291] Apuleius, Met. XI, 19-30.

[292] Published by Cumont, Mystères de Mithra², p. 132, fig. 18.

[293] Lydus, de mens. IV, 59. Cf. Cumont, The Oriental Religions, pp. 55 ff. Some scholars doubt the evidence and would place the introduction of the festivals in the time of the Antonines; so Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer², p. 322.

[294] The same name was used in the festival of Isis. Cf. p. 273.

[295] CIL. X, 1596.

[296] Ibid. VI, 497-504; cf. IGSI. 1019, 1020.

[297] Prudentius, Persiteph. 10, 1011 ff.; Anon., Carmen contra Paganos 57 ff.

[298] CIL. VI, 512, iterato viginti annis expletis taurobolii sui. Probably we should read taurobolio suo.