[5] τελέσματα. Telesma was “a consecrated object, turned by the Arabs into telsam (talisman)”; see Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon, sub voc.

[6] Justin Martyr, Opera, ed. Otto (2nd ed.; Jena, 1849), iii. 32.

[7] Lib. lxxvii. 18.

[8] Life of Alexander Severus, xxix.

[9] Life of Aurelian, xxiv.

[10]Quæ qui velit nosse, græcos legat libros qui de ejus vita conscripti sunt.” These accounts were probably the books of Maximus, Mœragenes, and Philostratus.

[11] An Egyptian epic poet, who wrote several poetical histories in Greek; he flourished in the last decade of the third century.

[12] Sidonius Apollinaris, Epp., viii. 3. See also Legrand d’Aussy, Vie d’Apollonius de Tyane (Paris; 1807), p. xlvii.

[13] Porphyry, De Vita Pythagoræ, section ii., ed. Kiessling (Leipzig; 1816). Iamblichus De Vita Pythagorica, chap. xxv., ed. Kiessling (Leipzig; 1813); see especially K.’s note, pp. 11 sqq. See also Porphyry, Frag., De Styge, p. 285, ed. Holst.

[14] See Duchesne on the recently discovered works of Macarius Magnes (Paris; 1877).