—— goddess at Hierapolis, hair offered to the, i. 29
—— mother, her vow, iii. 263
—— peasants believe that women can conceive without sexual intercourse, v. 91
—— witch, her procedure described by Lucian, iii. 270
—— women bathe in the Orontes to procure offspring, ii. 160;
resort to hot springs to obtain offspring, ii. 161, v. 213 sqq.;
apply to saints for offspring, ii. 346, v. 78, 79, 90, 109
—— writer on the reasons for assigning Christmas to the twenty-fifth of December, v. 304 sq.
Syrians, their religious attitude to pigs, viii. 23;
esteemed fish sacred, viii. 26