[56]. Smith’s Dictionary, article “Mysteria.”
[57]. Smith, article “Eleusinia.” Compare above, p. [144].
[58]. “Ὑδρανος (hydranos), a waterer, a sprinkler with water; from ὑδραινο to water, to sprinkle any one with water, to pour out libations.”—Liddell & Scott’s Greek Lexicon.
[59]. Mosheim, Eccl. Hist., Book II., Part i, § 18.
[60]. As this work goes into the hands of the printers, the newspapers announce that “the Rev. Professor Campbell of Montreal has discovered that the Hittite and Aztec alphabets are identical, and by applying the latter to the former, he has been enabled to read inscriptions belonging to the ninth century before Christ.” Should this announcement prove true, it brings the Aztecs into a relation to Israel which the reader will at once recognize.
[61]. Sahagun. Hist. de Nueva Espana, vi, 37. In Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico.” Vol. III, p. 385.
[62]. Tertull. de Baptisma, chapter v.
[63]. Ambrosii Opera, in Psa. li.
[64]. Ibid., in Apocal. cap. 6.
[65]. Ibid. Lit. ad initiandos. c, 7.