[170]. In Greek διαβολή. Cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric, II. iii. 30; Syrianus, In Hermogenem, ii. (134, 3). Of this διαβολή, a favorite form was ἐπηρεασμός, “mockery” (Arist. op. cit. II. ii. 3), and “Commonplaces,” κοινοὶ τόποι, on the subject are cited in Aristotle (op. cit. III. xv. 1).
[171]. Reinach, Textes, p. 49.
[172]. Eratosthenes was head of the Alexandrian Academy.
[173]. Apollo is the god named and ascribed to Dora, which, as Josephus remarks, is not in Idumaea at all. Nor does Apollo appear as the god of Dora on the coins of that city. According to Josephus (Ant. XV. vii. 9) the Idumean god was named Koze, who might of course have been identified with the Seleucid patron Apollo. It may be a title connected with קצין (Josh. x. 24, Micah iii. 1, 9).
[174]. An inscription forbidding the approach of gentiles has been found at Jerusalem, and is now in Constantinople: μηθένα ἀλλογενῆ εἰσπορεύεσθαι ἐντὸς τοῦ περὶ τὸ ιερὸν τρυφάκτου καί περιβόλου · ὅς δ’ ἂν ληφθῇ ἑαυτῷ αἴτιος ἔσται διὰ τὸ ἐξακολουθεῖν θάνατον.
[175]. Reinach, Textes, p. 56. For an estimate of the importance of Posidonius for his time, cf. Wendland, Hellenist. Kult. p. 60 seq. and 134 seq.
[176]. Molo in Reinach, Textes, p. 60 seq. Damocritus, ibid. p. 121.
[177]. Reinach, Textes, p. 131.
[178]. Plutarch, Moralia, ii. 813; Reinach, Textes, p. 139.
[179]. Pseud-Opp. Cyn. iv. 256. Lact. Inst. i. 21-27.