[6429]. Sigonius 9. hist. Ital.

[6430]. Curio lib. 4. Fox Martyrol.

[6431]. Hierocles contends Apollonius to have been as great a prophet as Christ, whom Eusebius confutes.

[6432]. Munster Cosmog. l. 3. c. 37. Artifices ex officinis, arator e stiva, foeminae e colo, &c. quasi numine quodam rapti, nesciis parentibus et dominis recta adeunt, &c. Combustus demum ab Herbipolensi Episcopo; haeresis evanuit.

[6433]. Nulla non provincia haeresibus, Atheismis, &c, plena. Nullus orbis angulus ab hisce belluis immunis.

[6434]. Lib. 1. de nat. Deorum. “He gave to man an upward gaze, commanding him to fix his eyes on heaven.”

[6435]. Zanchius.

[6436]. Virg. 6. Aen.

[6437]. Superstitio ex ignorantia divinitatis emersit, ex vitiosa aemulatione et daemonis illecebris, inconstans, timens, fluctuans, et cui se addicat nesciens, quem imploret, cui se committat, a daemone facile decepta. Lemnius, lib. 3. c. 8.

[6438]. Seneca.