[533] “Elementorum omnium spiritus, utpote perennium corporum motu semper, et ubique vigens, ex his quæ per disciplinas varias affectamus, participat nobiscum munera divinandi, et substantiales potestates ritu diversa placatæ, velut ex perpetuis fontium venis vaticina mortalitati suppeditant verba” (Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. 21).
“They then took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees” (Book of Enoch).
“I have collected fifty words in the Irish language relating to augury and divination: every one of them are oriental, expressing the mode of producing these abominable arts; they are, in fact, the very identical oriental words written in Irish characters” (Vallancey).
[534] Danaus, the sire of fifty daughters, leaving those fruitful regions watered by the Nile, came to Argos, and through Greece, ordained that those who erst were called Pelasgi, should by the name of Danai be distinguished (Euripides).
[535] You will find in Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller’s writings, that those boats are still called, in that country, arghs, as they were in ours, and the people who man them are styled Phut, corresponding to our Fo-morians.
[536] “I thank you,” says Symmachus to his brother Flavianus, “for the present you made me of some Irish dogs (canes Scotici), which were there exhibited at the Circensian Games, to the great astonishment of the people, who could not judge it possible to bring them to Rome otherwise than in iron cages.”
[537] This is the meaning of the name Glen-da-lough, and a faithful portraiture it is of the situation.
[538] Miniature of Budhism.
[539] “The secret, it was lost, but surely it was found” (Freemason’s Song).
[540] This account is found in Satdharmalankare, a very popular Budhist book, being a collection of histories, etc., from the writings of the Rahats, in which the original Paly (Pahlavi) texts are preserved with the Singhalese (Miniature of Budhism).