[519] “De Part.,” an. lib. i., c. 1.
[520] A Pythagorean oath. The Pythagoreans swore by their master.
[521] See Lemprière: “Classical Dictionary.”
[522] Psel. in Alieb: “Chaldean Oracles.”
[523] Proc. in 1 “Alieb.”
[524] From the Latin word mensa—table. This curious letter is copied in full in “La Science des Esprits,” by Eliphas Levi.
[525] The Sulanuth is described in chap. lxxx., vers. 19, 20, of “Jasher.”
[526] “And when the Egyptians hid themselves on account of the swarm” (one of the plagues alleged to have been brought on by Moses) “ ... they locked their doors after them, and God ordered the Sulanuth ...” (a sea-monster, naively explains the translator, in a foot-note) “which was then in the sea, to come up and go into Egypt ... and she had long arms, ten cubits in length ... and she went upon the roofs and uncovered the rafting and cut them ... and stretched forth her arm into the house and removed the lock and the bolt and opened the houses of Egypt ... and the swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians, and it grieved them exceedingly.”
[527] “Strom,” vi., 17, § 159.
[528] Ibid., vi., 3, § 30.