Chapter VI: The Religion of Mithra (8)

3110 Cf. Denis, _Idées Morales_, etc. ii. p. 248 sq.; cf. Burgmann,
_Seneca’s Theologie_, p. 37; Sen. _Ep._ 95, 50; 31, § 11; Philostr.
_Apoll. Tyan._ v. 25; Max. Tyr. _Diss._ viii.; xiv. § 7, 8; xvi. §
9.

_ 3111 v._ supra, p. 426.

3112 Cumont, Intr. p. 303.

_ 3113 Ib._ pp. 207, 208.

3114 Plut. _De Is. et Osir._ c. 46.

3115 Firm. Matern. c. 20, alterius profani sacramenti signum est _θεός ἐκ
πέτρας_, etc. Cf. S. Hieron. _Adv. Jov._ i. § 7; Just. Mart. _Dial.
c. Tryph._ c. 70; Prud. _Cathem._ v. 9; Cumont, _Mon._ 199, 207.

3116 Id. Intr. p. 160.

_ 3117 Ib._ p. 162; _Mon._ 204.

3118 Id. Intr. p. 164.

_ 3119 Ib._ p. 165; _Mon._ 204 (p. 318), 235 (p. 338).

3120 Cumont, Intr. p. 167 sq.; _Mon._ 253, 192, 204, 221.

3121 See the finest extant specimen from Osterburken; Cumont, _Mon._ 246;
cf. the one at Heddernheim, _Mon._ 251.

3122 Cumont, Intr. p. 186 sq.; _Mon._ 104, 246.

3123 Gasquet, p. 70.

3124 Cumont, _Mon._ 191 (p. 312); 203 (p. 317); 242 (p. 342); 246 (p.
350); Intr. p. 172.

3125 Cumont, Intr. p. 175.

3126 Réville, p. 83.

_ 3127 Ib._ p. 89.

3128 Gasquet, p. 77.

3129 Gasquet, p. 108.

3130 Cumont, _Mon._ 31, 35, 43.

_ 3131 Ib._ 251 (p. 364).

3132 Id. Intr. pp. 308, 309.

3133 Cumont, Intr. p. 297.

3134 Dieterich, _Mithrasliturgie_, p. 197; Cumont, Intr. p. 309.

_ 3135 Ib._ p. 308 sqq.

_ 3136 Ib._ p. 310.

3137 Réville, p. 150; cf. _C.I.L._ vi. 510; _Or. Henz._ 2352.

_ 3138 Or. Henz._ 6042; Gasquet, p. 112, on the inscription of Vincentius,
priest of Sabazius, who was buried by the side of Aurelius, a priest
of Mithra; cf. Réville, p. 92; Renan, _M. Aurèle_, pp. 578-9, n. 1.

3139 Cumont, Intr. pp. 299, 323.

_ 3140 Ib._ p. 313; cf. Dieterich, _Mithrasliturgie_, pp. 25, 26.

3141 Tert. _De Praescrip. Haeret._ c. 40; cf. _C.I.L._ vi. 2151, Ordo
sacerdotum Mag. suo; xiv. 403; xiv. 65.

3142 Cumont, Intr. p. 325.

_ 3143 Ib._ p. 325; cf. Lafaye, _Div. d’Alexandrie_, p. 138; flutes and
bells have been found among débris of chapels, Cum. _Mon._ 253 (p.
380); Intr. p. 68.

3144 Gasquet, p. 125.

3145 S. Hieron. _Ep._ 107, § 2; Gasquet, pp. 91, 2; 96; Cumont, Intr. p.
315; Réville, p. 97.

_ 3146 De Abstin._ iv. 16. Porphyry connects the degrees with ideas of
metempsychosis, _τὴν κοινότητα ἡμῶν τὴν πρὸς τὰ ζῷα αἰνιττόμενοι,
κτλ._

3147 Gasquet, p. 101; Réville, p. 97.

3148 Tert. _De Corona_, xv.

3149 Cumont, Intr. p. 322.

3150 Lamprid. _Commodus Ant._ c. 9, sacra Mithriaca homicidio vero
polluit, cum illic aliquid ad speciem timoris, vel dici vel fingi
soleat; Gasquet, p. 90.

3151 Cumont, Intr. p. 326. For the organisation of the societies of Magna
Mater _v._ Foucart, _Associations Religieuses_, p. 20 sqq. Cf
_C.I.L._ vi. 717; vi. 734; vi. 3728; xiv. 286; _Or. Henz._ 6042
(Sentinum).

_ 3152 Or. Henz._ 6042; on the doubt, however, as to the meaning of
_patroni_ in this inscription _v._ _Henz._ note; and Cumont, Intr.
p. 327, n. 4.

3153 Cumont, _l.c._

_ 3154 Ib._ p. 264. Cf. dedications by slaves or liberti, _Inscr._ 67,
245, 175, 53, 410, 47, 178, 292.

3155 Cf. _Or. Henz._ 6042; Cumont, Intr. p. 327, n. 4.

3156 For the dimensions of one at Rome _v._ Cumont, _Mon._ 19 (p. 205).

3157 Tert. _De Pr. Haeret._ c. 40.

3158 Gasquet, p. 84; Cumont, Intr. p. 318.

3159 Gasquet, pp. 81, 82; Cumont, Intr. p. 320.

3160 Just. Mart, c. 78; Porphyr. _De Antro Nymph._ c. 5; Tertull. _De
Cor._ xv.; S. Hieron. _Ep._ 57, 107.

3161 Cumont, Intr. p. 57; _Mon._ 237.

3162 Cumont, Intr. p. 59. Cf. _C.I.L._ iii. 1096, cryptam cum porticibus
et apparatorio et exedra, etc.; iii. 3960.

3163 Cumont, Intr. p. 61; _v._ the sketch of the Mithraeum under the
Church of S. Clement, at Rome, Cumont, _Mon._ 19.

3164 Id. _Mon._ 19.

3165 Id. Intr. p. 64.

3166 Twenty-six lamps were found in one Mithraeum, Cumont, _Mon._ 250 (p.
362). For the classical gods, cf. _Mon._ 221 (p. 326), 235, 246 (p.
349).

3167 Apul. _Met._ xi. c. 22.

3168 Cumont, Intr. p. 279 sqq.

_ 3169 v._ supra, p. 254.

3170 Suet. _Vesp._ iv. v. vii.; _Tit._ v.; _Domit._ i. xiv.; cf. Renan,
_Les Évangiles_, p. 226 sq.; _L’Antéchrist_, p. 491.

3171 D. Cass. xliii. 14; Tac. _Ann._ iv. 15; vi. 18.

3172 Mart. ix. 4.

3173 Sen. _Lud. De Morte Claud._ c. 12; cf. Boissier, _Rel. Rom._ i. p.
193.

3174 Suet. _Aug._ c. lii.

3175 Id. _Calig._ c. xxii.; Meriv. vi. pp. 4-9.

3176 D. Cass. lxiii. 5, _ἦλθον πρός σε τὸν ἐμὸν θεὸν προσκυνήσων σε ὡς
καὶ τὸν Μίθραν_.

3177 Suet. _Aug._ lii.; D. Cass. li. 20; lxvii. 13; Boissier, _Rel. Rom._
i. p. 163.

3178 Id. _Vesp._ c. xxiii. vae, inquit, puto, deus fio.

3179 Id. _Domit._ c. xiii.

3180 Virg. _Georg._ i. 498; Warde Fowler, _Rom. Festivals_, p. 258.

3181 Plut. _Flamin._ c. 16; cf. Herod. v. 47; Thuc. v. 11.

3182 Plato, _Meno_, 99 D.

3183 Capitol. _M. Aurel._ c. 18.

3184 Boissier, _Rel. Rom._ i. 125; Cumont, Intr. p. 283 sqq.

3185 Amm. Marc. xv. 1, 3.

3186 Athen. vi. 252, _τράπεζαν παρετίθει χωρὶς ὀνομάζων τῷ δαίμωνι τῷ
βασιλέως_.

3187 Cumont, Intr. p. 286.

_ 3188 Ib._ p. 290, n. 2.

3189 D. Cass. lxiii. 5, _καὶ ἦλθον πρός σε τὸν ἐμὸν θεόν, προσκυνήσων σε
ὡς καὶ τὸν Μίθραν_.

3190 W. Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 169.

3191 Plut. _De Fort. Rom._ iv. _οὕτως ἡ τύχη καταλιποῦσα Πέρσας καὶ
Ἀσσυρίους ... τῷ δὲ Παλατίῳ προσερχομένη, κτλ._

3192 Capitol. _Ant. P._ c. 12.

3193 Cf. Vop. _Prob._ c. i. § 3.

3194 Cf. Amm. Marc. xv. 1, 3.

3195 Cf. Amm. Marc. xv. 1, 3.

3196 Amm. Marc. xxiii. 6, 5, unde reges ejusdem gentis praetumidi
appellari se patiuntur Solis fratres et Lunae.

3197 D. Cass. lxxii. 15, 5.

3198 Treb. Poll. _Gallien._ 16, 18, crinibus suis auri scobem aspersit,
etc.

3199 Cumont, Intr. p. 291, n. 5.

3200 Cumont, _Inscr._ No. 367.

3201 Macrob. _Sat._ i. 17; Cumont, Intr. p. 348. The Mithraeum of
Sarreburg seems to have been frequented till 395 A.D.

3202 Cumont, Intr. p. 332, n. 3.

_ 3203 C.I.L._ vi. 504, 846; C. Volusianus was perhaps Praef. Urb. in 365
or Consul in 314.

3204 Herod, ii. 48, 50; Caes. _B.G._ vi. 17; Tac. _Germ._ c. 9.

3205 Cumont, Intr. pp. 341, 2.

_ 3206 Ib._ p. 339.

_ 3207 Ib._ p. 341; cf. Gasquet, p. 118 sqq.

3208 Macrob. _Som. Scip._ i. 13.

3209 Cumont, Intr. p. 344.

3210 S. Hieron. _Ep._ 107 (Ad Laetam).

3211 Gasquet, p. 134.

3212 Cumont, Intr. p. 329; Porphyr. _De Abstin._ iv. 36; cf. Gasquet, p.
98.

3213 Hatch, _Hibbert Lectures_, pp. 49, 135, 292.

3214 Cumont, Intr. p. 334.

3215 Gasquet, p. 137.

_ 3216 C.I.L._ vi. 500, 504, 511, 1779.

3217 Maury, _La Magie_, p. 54.

_ 3218 Ib._ p. 146.

3219 Macrob. _Sat._ i. 17, § 4.

3220 S. Hieron. _Ep._ 107, § 2.

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