[641] “Judæi mente solâ, unumque numen intelligunt, summum illud et eternum, neque mutabile, neque interiturum.” Tacitus, Hist. v. c. 5.
[642] Strabo here attributes to Moses the opinions of the Stoics.
[643] Strabo appears to have had little acquaintance with the Jewish history previous to the return from captivity, nor any exact knowledge until the arrival of the Romans in Judæa. Of the Bible he does not seem to have had any knowledge.
[644] Probably Strabo copies from accounts when the country was not well cultivated.
[645] αἱ γυναῖκες Ἰουδαïκῶς ἐκτετμημέναι, below, c. iv. Section 9.
[646] Od. xix. 494.
[647] Diviners by the dead.
[648] Diviners by a dish into which water was poured and little waxen images made to float.
[649] Diviners by water.
[650] ὡροσκόποι is the reading of the text, which Groskurd supposes to be a corruption of the Latin word Haruspex. I adopt the reading οἰωνοσκόποι, approved by Kramer, although he has not introduced it into the text.