[147]. Plotinus, Enn., IV, 7, 20.

[148]. Dessau, Inscr. sel., 8006. “Manus mala” means probably a murder produced by witchcraft; cf. ibid., 8522; Lecture V, p. 135.

[149]. CIL, II, 4427: “Lacrimae si prosunt, visis te ostende videri.”

[150]. Lucian, Philopseudes, 29.

[151]. Dio Cassius, LXXIX, 18.

[152]. Dessau, Inscr. sel., 8201a: “Tu qui legis et dubitas Manes esse, sponsione facta invoca nos et intelleges.”

[153]. Ovid, Fast., II, 546.

[154]. CIL, I, 818 = VI, 10407e = Dessau, 8749: “Mortuus nec ad deos nec ad homines acceptus est.” Cf. CIL, X, 8249.

[155]. CIL, VI, 12072: “Parce matrem tuam et patrem et sororem tuam Marinam, ut possint tibi facere post me sollemnia.”

[156]. Audollent, Defixionum tabellae, 1904.