[339] Martha, as cited, p. 78. [↑]

[340] Diog. Laërt. bk. iv, ch. ix, 8 (§ 65). [↑]

[341] Diog. Laërt. bk. iv, ch. ix, 4, 5 (§ 63); Noumenios in Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv, 8; Cicero, De Oratore, ii, 38; Lucilius, cited by Lactantius, Div. Inst. [↑]

[342] Cicero, Academics, ii, 34. [↑]

[343] Berry, Short Hist. of Astron. pp. 34–62; Narrien, Histor. Account, as cited, ch. xi; L. U. K. Hist. of Astron. ch. vi. It is noteworthy that Hipparchos, like so many of his predecessors, had some of his ideas from Babylonia. Strabo, proœm., § 9. [↑]

[344] Ptolemy normally lumps unbelief in religion with all the vices of character. Cp. the Tetrabiblos, iii, 18 (paraphrase of Proclus). [↑]

[345] Hist. Nat. ii, 26. [↑]

[346] Lucian’s dialogue Philopseudes gives a view of the superstitions of average Greeks in the second century of our era. Cp. Mr. Williams’s note to the first Dialogue of the Dead, in his tr. p. 87. [↑]

[347] See M. Foucart’s treatise, Des assoc. relig. chez les Grecs, 1873, 2e ptie. [↑]

[348] On the early tendency to orthodox conformity among the unbelieving Alexandrian scholars, see Mahaffy, Greek Life and Thought, pp. 260–61. [↑]