[143] Cp. Sharpe, ii, 287–95; Budge, Egyptian Magic, p. 64. [↑]

[144] Compare the orthodox view of Bishop Westcott, Essays in the History of Religious Thought in the West, 1891, pp. 197–200. [↑]

[145] These fights had not ceased even in the time of Julian (Sharpe, ii, 280). Cp. Juvenal, Sat. xv, 33 sq. [↑]

[146] Metamorphoses, B., xi. [↑]

[147] Cp. Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, passim. [↑]

[148] Cp. Meyer, Gesch. des Alt. i, 232–33. [↑]

[149] Meyer, i, 237. [↑]

[150] Put by Canon Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia, 1889, p. 321. [↑]

[151] As to the universality of this tendency, see Meyer, ii, 97. [↑]

[152] Meyer, Geschichte des Alterthums, i, 251, § 209; Tiele, Outlines, p. 84; Histoire comparée des anciennes religions, Fr. tr. pp. 320–21. [↑]