The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire Part 3

[8] Quoted by Augustine, _C.D._ iv, 27; vi, 5; also referred to by Tertullian, _ad Natt._ ii, 1.

[9] Suetonius, _Augustus_, 31, 75, 93; Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 344.

[10] Suet. Aug. 90, 92.

[11] Horace, _Odes_, iii, 24, 9-20, Gladstone's version.

[12] Horace, _Odes_, iii, 6, Delicta maiorum.

[13] _De Haruspic.u.m Responsis_, 9, 19; _N.D._ ii, 3, 8.

[14] E.g. _Apol._ 25, with a serious criticism of the contrast between Roman character before and after the conquest of the world,--before and after the invasion of Rome by the images and idols of Etruscans and Greeks.

[15] _Augustine C.D._ vi, 2.

[16] On _aeneid_, xi, 785.

[17] Propertius, v, 1, 69.

[18] Ovid, _Fasti_, i, 7.

[19] Livy, i, 19.

[20] Livy, iv, 30.

[21] Plutarch, _Romulus_, 21; _Caesar_, 61, Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 310 f.

[22] Suetonius, _Aug._ 31, Warde Fowler, _op. cit._ p. 190.

[23] Mommsen, _History_, i, p. 231, who translates the hymn.

[24] Quintilian, i, 6, 40. See specimen in Varro, _L.L._ vii, 26.

[25] _Epp._ ii, 1, 20-27, 86.

[26] Cicero, _ad fam._ xiv, 4, 1.

[27] Hor. _Sat._ i, 9, 69: Porphyrion is the authority for the comedies.

[28] Prudentius, _contra Symmachum_, i, 197-218.

[29] Tibullus, i, 10, 15.

[30] _C.D._ iv, 8. "To an early Greek," says Mr Gilbert Murray, "the earth, water and air were full of living eyes: of _theoi_, of _daimones_, of _Keres_. One early poet says emphatically that the air is so crowded full of them that there is no room to put in the spike of an ear of corn without touching one."--_Rise of Greek Epic_, p. 82.

[31] _de Spect._ 5; cf. _de Idol._ 16; _de cor. mil._ 13, G.o.ds of the door; _de Anima_, 39, G.o.ddesses of child-birth.

[32] Lucr. iv, 580 f. Virg. _aen._ viii, 314.

[33] Cic. _N.D._ ii, 2, 6: cf. _De Div._ i, 45, 101. Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, pp. 256 ff. on the Fauni.

[34] Pliny, _N.H._ viii, 151; x.x.x, 84.

[35] Plutarch, _Numa_, 15; _de facie in orbe lunae_, 30; Ovid, _Fasti_, iii, 291.

[36] Horace's ode attests the power of the Fauns over crops and herds.

[37] Dionys. Hal. v, 16.

[38] Pliny, _N.H._ xii, 3.

[39] Ovid, _Fasti_, iii, 267. _Licia dependent longas velantia saepes, et posita est meritae multa tabella deae_.

[40] Virgil, aen. x, 423.

[41] Horace, _Odes_, iii, 13.

[42] W. Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 240.

[43] Cf. Tertullian, _de Baptismo_, 5. _Annon et alias sine ullo Sacramento immundi spiritus aquis incubant, adfectantes illam in primordio divini spiritus gestationem? Sciunt opaci quique fontes, et avii quique rivi, et in balneis piscinae et euripi in domibus, vel cisternae et putei, qui rapere dic.u.n.tur, scilicet per vim spiritus nocentis. Nympholeptos et lymphaticos et hydrophobos vocant quos aquae necaverunt aut amentia vel formidine exercuerunt. Quorsum ista retulimus? Ne quis durius credat angelum dei sanctum aquis in salutem hominis temperandis adesse._

[44] Ovid, _Fasti_, vi, 155 f.

[45] Cf. (Lucian) _Asinus_, 24. _poi badixeis aoria talaipore; oude ta daimonia dedoikas_.

[46] Pliny, _N.H._ x.x.xvi, 204.

[47] Lampridius, _Alex. Sev._ 29. 2.

[48] _Fasti_, v. 145. Cf. Prudentius, _adv. Symm_, ii, 445 f.

[49] _Odes_, iii, 23. _Farre pio_.

[50] On _Georgic_ i, 302, See Varro, _ap._ Aug. _C.D._ vii, 13. Also _Tert. de Anima_, 39, _Sic et omnibus genii deputantur, quod daemonum nomen est. Adeo nulla ferme nativitas munda, utique ethnicorum_.

[51] Hor. _Ep._ ii. 2, 187 f. Howes' translation. Cf. _Faerie Queene_, II, xii, 47.

[52] See J. H. Moulton in _Journal of Theological Studies_, III, 514.

[53] Burkitt, _Early Eastern Christianity_, p. 222.

[54] _Fasti_, iii, 57; Seneca, _Ep._ 18. 1, _December est mensis: c.u.m maxime civitas sudat, ius luxuries publicae datum est ... ut non videatur mihi erra.s.se qui dixit: olim mensem Decembrem fuisse nunc annum_.

[55] Cf. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, lect. xi.

[56] Warde Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, pp. 106 f.

[57] Ovid, _Fasti_, ii, 409 f. Warde Fowler, _op. cit._ pp. 306 f.