[786]. Plutarch, Vit. Pomp. c. XXIV.
[787]. Cumont, Rel. Or. pp. 167, 168; 173, 174; id. T. et M. I. pp. 9, 10. Cf. P.S.B.A. 1912, pp. 127, 128.
[788]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 247.
[789]. Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, pp. 593-597.
[790]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 248.
[791]. For the list see Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 258, n. 7. He thinks the worship was first introduced here by the legions from Germany.
[792]. Avezou and Picard, “Bas-relief Mithriaque,” R.H.R. t. LXIV. (Sept. Oct. 1911), pp. 179 sqq.
[793]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 223, n. 2.
[794]. Herodotus, Bk I. c. 131. Cf. F. Max Müller, Hibbert Lectures, p. 276. The similarity of name between Varuna and the Greek Ouranos is fairly obvious. Prof. Hope Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, 1913, pp. 391, 392, n. 3, argues that the Persian god of the sky was called Dyaush or Zeus.
[795]. Certainly of the Mitannians, who, according to Prof. Hugo Winckler, were one of the two main branches of the Hittites, and a Syrian people. See his report on Excavations at Boghaz Keui in the Mitteilungen of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft for 1907. The text is given in the J.R.A.S. for 1910, pp. 723 sqq.