[329] See Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, chs. 22, 23, for the later Hellenistic tone on the subject of apotheosis apart from the official practice of the empire. [↑]
[330] Gibbon, ch. xl. Bohn ed. iv, 353, and note. [↑]
[331] Mahaffy, Greek Life, pp. 133–35; Diog. Laërt. bk. ii, ch. v, 5 (§ 38). [↑]
[332] Wallace, Epicureanism (pp. 245–46), citing Suidas, s.v. Epicurus. [↑]
[333] Diogenes Laërtius, bk. vii, ch. i, 28 (§ 33); cp. Origen, Against Celsus, bk. i, ch. 5; Clemens Alex, Stromata, bk. v, ch. ii. [↑]
[334] Mahaffy, as cited, p. 135, n.; Athenæus, ix, 63 (p. 400). [↑]
[335] (297 B.C.) Burckhardt, Griechische Culturgeschichte, i, 213; Pausanias, i, 29. [↑]
[336] Cp. G. Guizot, Ménandre, 1855, pp. 324–27, and App. [↑]
[337] Cp. Guizot, pp. 327–31, and the fragments cited by Justin Martyr, De Monarchia, ch. 5. [↑]