[223]. Africanus, ap. Eus. Praep. Ev. x. 10, 490 B, Clemens Alex Strom. i. 22.
[224]. Reinach, Textes, p. 122.
[225]. Cf. ch. VIII., n. 14.
[226]. Cf. ch. XII., n. 12.
[227]. Strabo, i. 66; Cic. De Rep. i. 58.
[228]. Cicero, Paradoxon, iii.: ὁτι ἴσα τὰ ἁμαρτήματα. Parva, inquit, est res. At magna culpa; nec enim peccata rerum eventis, sed vitiis hominum metienda sunt.
[229]. Cumont, Les rel. orient. pp. 157 seq.
Chapter XV
THE ROMANS
[230]. The first Greek historians to deal with Roman history are Hieronymus of Cardia and Timaeus, both of the fourth century B.C.E.
[231]. Pliny, Nat. Hist. III. lvii.