[936]. Justin Martyr, First Apology, c. LXVI.
[937]. Porphyry, de antro nymph. c. 15. Tertullian, de Praescpt. c. 40.
[938]. Porphyry, op. et loc. cit.
[939]. See Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 339, for authorities.
[940]. Augustine, In Johann. evang. tractatus, VII. or Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 59. This last thinks it more probable that the passage refers to Attis, as there is an allusion in it to redemption by blood. But this would hardly apply to the self-mutilation of the Galli, while it would to the blood-bath of the Taurobolium and Criobolium which so many high initiates of Mithras boast of undergoing.
[941]. J. Maurice, “La Dynastie Solaire des Seconds Flaviens,” Rev. Archeol. t. XVII. (1911), p. 397 and n. 1.
[942]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 339, quoting Minucius Felix.
[943]. Op. cit. I. p. 65.
[944]. The remains of five Mithraea were found in Ostia alone.
[945]. Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 204, Fig. 30, and p. 493, Fig. 430; or P.S.B.A. 1912, Pl. XIII. Figs. 1 and 2.