[143:1] A seven-day week was known to Pseudo-Hippocrates περὶ σαρκῶν ad fin., but the date of that treatise is very uncertain.
[143:2] Aesch., Ag. 6; Eur., Hip. 530. Also Ag. 365, where ἀστρῶν βέλος goes together and μήτε πρὸ καιροῦ μήθ' ὕπερ.
[143:3] Proclus, In Timaeum, 289 f; Seneca, Nat. Quaest. iii. 29, 1.
[145:1] Chrysippus, 1187-95. Esse divinationem si di sint et providentia.
[145:2] Cicero, De Nat. De. iii. 11, 28; especially De Divinatione, ii. 14, 34; 60, 124; 69, 142. 'Qua ex coniunctione naturae et quasi concentu atque consensu, quam συμπάθειαν Graeci appellant, convenire potest aut fissum iecoris cum lucello meo aut meus quaesticulus cum caelo, terra rerumque natura?' asks the sceptic in the second of these passages.
[145:3] Chrysippus, 939-44. Vaticinatio probat fati necessitatem.
[145:4] Chrysippus, 1214, 1200-6.
[146:1] Eine Mithrasliturgie, 1903. The MS. is 574 Supplément grec de la Bibl. Nationale. The formulae of various religions were used as instruments of magic, as our own witches used the Lord's Prayer backwards.
[146:2] Refutatio Omnium Haeresium, v. 7. They worshipped the Serpent, Nāhāsh (נָחָשׁ).
[147:1] Bousset, p. 351. The hostility of Zoroastrianism to the old Babylonian planet gods was doubtless at work also. Ib. pp. 37-46.