[946]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 62.
[947]. The story quoted from Pseudo-Augustine (Cumont, op. cit. I. p. 322) about the hands of the initiates being bound with chickens’-guts which were afterwards severed by a sword might account for the number of birds’ bones.
[948]. Cumont, op. cit. II. p. 21, gives the passage from Lampridius mentioned in n. 1, p. [260], supra.
[949]. Op. cit. I. p. 322, quoting Zacharius rhetor.
[950]. See Chapter II, Vol. I. p. 62, supra.
[951]. Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 18, for the passage in St Jerome in which these degrees are enumerated. They all appear in the inscriptions given by Cumont, except that of Miles or Soldier. An inscription by two “soldiers” of Mithras has, however, lately been found at Patras and published by its discoverers, M. Charles Avezou and M. Charles Picard. See R.H.R. t. LXIV. (1911), pp. 179-183.
[952]. Cumont, T. et M. I. pp. 315 sqq.
[953]. Tertullian, de Corona, c. 15.
[954]. Porphyry, de antro nymph. c. 15.
[955]. Cumont, T. et M. I. p. 322. Gregory of Nazianza (A.D. 320-390) is the first authority for these tortures (κολάσεις) in point of time. Nonnus the Mythographer gives more details, but is three centuries later.