465. Tibullus, II, 6, 30: “Sic bene sub tenera parva quiescat humo.”

466. Tertull., De testimonio animae, 4.

467. Securitati aeternae; cf. Dessau, Inscr. sel., 8025 ss., 8149.

468. Cic., Catil., IV, 7; cf. Tusc., I, 11, 25; 49, 118.

469. Sen., Dial., VI, 19, 5.

470. Dessau, Inscr. sel., 8024 and note; cf. Cic., Tusc., I, 41, 97; and Introd., p. 10.

471. Bücheler, Carm. epigr., 1274:

“Morborum vitia et vitae mala maxima fugi.
Nunc careo poenis, pace fruor placida.”

472. Bücheler, ibid., 573:

“Qui post tantum onus, multos crebrosque labores
Nunc silet et tacito contentus sede quiescit.”

473. Bücheler, ibid., 507: “Poena fuit vita, requies mihi morte parata est.”

474. Transl. by J. C. Anderson (in my Astrology and Religion, p. 171).

475. Dessau, Inscr. sel., 8393, 79: “Te di Manes tui ut quietam patiantur atque ita tueantur opto.”

476. See above, Lecture I, p. 68; II, p. 86, n. 39; V, p. 134.

477. See above, Lecture VI, p. 143.

478. Virg., Aen., VI, 705: “Domos placidas.”

479. See Introd., p. 34 ss.

480. Comptes rendus Acad. Inscr., 1912, p. 151 ss.; cf. Bücheler, Carm. epigr., 513.

481. Lecture III, p. 95.

482. Lecture VI, p. 150.

483. Odyssey, VI, 42 ss.

484. Lucretius, III, 18 ss.

485. Zeno, fr. 147 (von Arnim, Fragm. Stoicorum, I, p. 40): “Zeno docuit sedes piorum ab impiis esse discretas et illos quidem quietas ac delectabiles habitare regiones.”

486. See Introd., p. 25; Lecture III, p. 96.

487. Macrob., Somn. Scip., I, 11, 6: “Vitae mortisque confinium.”

488. See above, Lecture II, p. 81 s.

489. See Lecture VII, p. 185 s.

490. Sen., Consol. Marc., 24, 5: “(Animus) nititur illo unde demissus est; ibi illum aeterna requies manet e confusis crassisque pura et liquida visentem.”

491. Plotin., IX, 8, 9, p. 768 A; IX, 8, 11, p. 770 C.

492. Cf. Aug., Serm., CCLX (P.L. XXXVIII, 1132, 38): “Dixerunt Platonici ... animas, ire ad superna caelorum et requiescere ibi in stellis et luminibus istis conspicuis.”

493. Lecture I, p. 45 ss.

494. Ibid., p. 69.

495. St. Ambrose, De bono mortis, 9; cf. Kaibel, Inscr. Sic. It., 2117.

496. Aug., De anima, II, 12.

497. Book of Enoch, 39.

498. IV Esdr., VII, 91: “Requiescent per septem ordines”; cf. VII, 95 (p. 131 ss., Violet).

499. IV Esdr., VII, 36, 38 (p. 146, Violet).

500. Ambrose, De bono mortis, 12, § 53 (P.L., XIV, 154); cf. IV Esdr., VII, 39.

501. See Lecture I, p. 50.

502. See Lecture I, p. 54.

503. Ibid., p. 57.

504. Calder, Journal of Roman Studies, 1912, p. 254.

505. See above, Lecture I, p. 55 ss.

506. See Introd., p. 35; Lecture IV, p. 126.

507. Lucian, Verae hist., II, 14.

508. Best reproduction, Wilpert, Pitture delle Catacombe Romane, II, 132–133.

509. See above, Introd., pp. 35, 37.

510. Aelius Arist., XLV (VIII), 27 (p. 360, Keil).

511. See my Oriental Religions, Chap. IV, end.

512. See Lecture IV, p. 122; Introd., p. 34.

513. CIL, III, 14165.

514. See Lecture I, p. 68; II, p. 86; V, p. 134.

515. Bücheler, Carm. epigr., 1317 = CIL, VI, 142; cf. Plato, Phaedo, p. 107D.

516. As it is elsewhere; cf. Introd., p. 11.

517. Lagrange, Religions sémitiques2, 1905, p. 493.

518. Horace, Od., III, 3, 12.

519. Lecture IV, p. 113 s., 116 ss.

520. See, for instance, Kaibel, Epigr. Graeca, 312, 13.

521. Julian, Caesares, p. 307 C; cf. Introd., p. 29; Lecture III, p. 98.

522. Patrologia Orientalis, I, p. 1014.

523. See above, Lecture I, p. 55 s.

524. Lecture IV, p. 121.

525. For instance, by the physician Thessalus (under Nero); cf. Cat. codd. astrol., VIII, 3, p. 137; VIII, 4, p. 257.

526. Cf. Lecture IV, pp. 121, 125 s.

527. See above, Lecture IV, p. 126.

528. P. 896 C; cf. p. 992 B.

529. See above, Lecture IV, p. 126.

530. The true interpretation has been given by Bevan, Stoics and Sceptics, 1913, p. 112 s.

531. Georg., II, 489 ss.:

“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,
Atque metus omnis et inexorabile Fatum
Subiecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.”

532. Νηφάλιος μέθη, Philo., probably after Posidonius.

533. Cf. Lecture IV, p. 126.

534. Anthol. Palatina, IX, 577:

Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων
μαστεύω πυκινὰς ἀμφιδρομους ἕλικας
οὐκετ’ ἐπιψαύω γαίης ποσὶν, ἀλλὰ παρ’ αὐτῷ
Ζανὶ θεοτρεφέος πίμπλαμαι ἀμβροσίης.

535. See Introd., p. 4.

536. See Lecture III, p. 108.

537. Μόνος πρὸς μόνῳ. The expression had been used by religion before being taken over by philosophy. Cf. Le culte égyptien et le mysticisme de Plotin, in Monuments Piot, XXV, 1922, p. 78 ss.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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  2. P. 137, changed ἄτρόφοι to ἄτροφοι.
  3. P. 225, changed Ἁγιάζο to Ἁγιάζω.
  4. P. 225, changed εἴς to εἰς.
  5. [391], changed ἀποσκοπεεις to ἀποσκοπέεις.
  6. [534], changed Οῖδ’ to Οἶδ’.
  7. [534], changed ἀμφιδρομους ἓλικας to ἀμφιδρόμους ἕλικας.
  8. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  9. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
  10. Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.