[153] Rawlinson, Phoenicia, p. 340; Sayce, Anc. Emp. p. 204; Menzies, Hist. of Relig. p. 168. [↑]
[154] Præparatio Evangelica, B. i, c. 9–10. [↑]
[156] Cp. Sayce, Hibbert Lectures, p. 159, as to Persian methods of the same kind. [↑]
[158] E. Meyer, Geschichte des Alterthums, ii, 104, 105. [↑]
[159] As to Greek instances, cp. Bury, Hist. of Greece, ed. 1906, pp. 53, 55, 65, 92, 104; and as to Roman, see Ettore Pais, Ancient Legends of Roman History, Eng. trans. 1906, ch. x, where it is shown that Virginia and Lucretia are primarily ancient Latin divinities; and (ch. vii) that both Numa and Servius Tullius are probably in the same case, Servius Rex being in all likelihood the servus rex Nemorensis of the Arician grove, round whom turns the research of Dr. J. G. Frazer’s Golden Bough; while tullius is an old Latin word for a spring. See also ch. iv as to Acca Larentia, another Goddess reduced by the historians to the status of a hetaira, as was Flora. Horatius Cocles (id. p. 157) is also a God reduced to a hero. [↑]
[160] So Sayce, Ancient Empires, p. 204. [↑]
[161] Sayce, Ancient Empires, p. 202. [↑]
[162] Legge, Religions of China, 1880, pp. 11, 16; Douglas, Confucianism and Taouism, 1879, pp. 12, 82. [↑]