[[84]] Clem. Alex. Pædag. iii, 28, to the same effect. Tertullian on the temples, de Pud. c. 5. Reference may be made to the hierodules of the temples in ancient Asia and in modern India.
[[85]] Corp. Inscr. Lai. ii, 3386. The enumeration of the jewels was a safeguard against theft.
[[86]] Flinders Petrie, Religion of Ancient Egypt, p. 44; Hamilton, Incubation, pp. 174, 182 f.
[[87]] Julian, Or. iv, 136 B.
[[88]] Lucr. v, 1194.
[[89]] Lucr. i, 62-79.
[[90]] See Patin, La Poésie Latine, i, 120.
[[91]] Lucr. iii, 60 f.
[[92]] Pliny, N.H. xxx, 12, 13. Warde Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. 111 f. on the Argei and the whole question of human sacrifice. For Plutarch's explanation of it as due not to gods but to evil demons who enforced it, see p. 107.
[[93]] Pliny, N.H. xxviii, 12; Plutarch, Marcellus, 3, where, however, the meaning may only be that the rites are done in symbol; he refers to the actual sacrifice of human beings in the past. See Tertullian, Apol. 9 on sacrifice of children in Africa in the reign of Tiberius.