Fire, purification by, i. 115 n. 1, 179 sqq.;
Persian reverence for, 174 sq.;
death in the, as an apotheosis, 179 sq.;
supposed able to impregnate women, ii. [235]
Fire, perpetual, in Zoroastrian religion, i. 191;
worshipped, 191 sqq.;
in the temples of dead kings, ii. [174]
—— -god, the father of Romulus, Servius Tullius, and Caeculus, ii. [235]
—— -walk of the king of Tyre, i. 114 sq.;
of priestesses at Castabala, 168