[271.1] Eusebius, Vita Const., iii. 58; Frazer, Adonis, 1906, 22 note 2. I am uncertain how far Professor Frazer adheres to this interpretation (see Adonis3, 33 note). Eusebius, it is true, was a contemporary; but he was a bitter partizan, and wrote in a rhetorical style, exaggerating everything that could bring glory to his hero Constantine. Socrates, on the other hand, was a lawyer, a man of wider and more liberal views, and of fairer judgement. Sozomen too was a lawyer. They wrote a century later; but they wrote at Constantinople, and probably had access to official documents. To my mind, if their statements be irreconcilable, these qualifications entitle them to greater credit than the not-too-scrupulous ecclesiastic.
[271.2] Socrates, loc. cit.
[273.1] Ramsay, i. 94, 115; Frazer, Adonis, 34. Such religious prostitutes were, of course, common in Western Asia. Cf. Strabo, xii. 3, 36.
[273.2] Clement of Alexandria, Protrept., ii; Arnobius, Adv. Gentes, v. 19; Firmicus Maternus, De Errore Prof. Rel., x; Apollodorus, Bibl., iii. 14, 3.
[274.1] The service of the hierai is discussed by Ramsay, op. cit., 135-7. See also below, [p. 279].
[274.2] On the other hand, it must not be forgotten that at a marriage among the Auziles and the Nasamonians the guests who enjoyed the bride’s favours were expected to reward her with a gift. Similarly, in modern Europe, a gift is also found as the return for a kiss or a dance with the bride. I have collected several cases, Leg. Perseus, ii. 361, 355-8, and many more might be added. Compare the Suahili custom mentioned below, [p. 277].
[275.1] Roth, Ethnol. Studies, 174.
[275.2] Howitt, 664; J. A. I., xx. 87. See also Ploss, i. 308.
[276.1] Spencer and Gillen, C. T., 92.
[276.2] Globus, xci. 313.