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NOTES WHY THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS SPREAD. 219
Oxford, 1905. Cf. also Gruppe, Griech. Mythologie und Reli-
gionsgcschichte, 1906, pp. 1519 ff. Wendland, Die hellenistiscliromische
Kultur in ihren Beziehungen sum Judentum und zuin
Christentum, Tubingen, 1907, pp. 54 f. The monographs will
be cited in connection with the different cults which they treat.
1. Melanges Fredericq, Brussels, 1904. pp. 63 ff. (Pourquoi
Ic latin fut la seule langue liturgiquc dc I Occident} ; cf. the
observations of Lejay, Rev. d hist. ct lift, relig., XI, 1906, p.
370.
2. Holl, Volkssprache in Kleinasien (Hermes, 1908, pp.
250 ff.).
3. The volume of Hahn, Rom und Romanismus im griechisch-romischen
Osten bis auf die Zeit Hadrians (Leipsic.
1906) discusses a period for the most part prior to the one
that interests us. On the period following we have nothing
but a provisional sketch by the same author, Romanismus und
Hellenismus bis auf die Zeit Justinians (Philologus, Suppl. X),
1007.
4. Cf. Tacitus, Annales, XIV, 44 : "Nationes in familiis habe-
inus quibus diversi ritus, externa sacra out nulla sunt."
5. S. Reinach, Epona (Extr. Rev. archeol.). 1895.
6. The theory of the degeneration of races has been set
forth in particular by Stewart Chamberlain, Die Grundlagen
dcs XIX. Jahrhunderts, 3d. ed., Munich, 1901, pp. 296
idea of selection by retrogression, of the Ausrottung dcr Bes-
ff. The
tcn, has been defended, as is well known, by Seeck in his
Geschichte dcs Untergangs der antiken Welt, which outlines
the religious consequence (II, p. 344). His system is developed
in the third volume which appeared in 1909.
7. Apuleius, Mctam., XI, 14 ff. See Preface. Manilius said
of the divine stars (IV, 910; cf. II, 125) ,
"Ipse vocat nostros animos ad sidera mundus."
8. Hepding, Attis, pp. 178 ff., 187.
9. The intimate connection between the juridical and re
ligious ideas of the Romans has left numerous traces even in
their language. One of the most curious is the double mean
ing of the term supplicium, which stands at the same time for
a supplication addressed to the gods and a punishment de-