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NOTES ASIA MINOR. 225
7. The development of these mysteries has been well ex
pounded by Hepding, pp. 177 ff. (see Gruppe, Gr. Myth., p.
1544). Ramsay has recently commented upon inscriptions of
Phrygian mystics, united by the knowledge of certain secret
signs (re/tyiwp) ; cf. Studies in the Eastern Roman Provinces,
1906, pp. 346 ff.
8. Dig., XLVIII, 8, 4, 2: "Nemo liberum servumve invitum
sinentemve castrare debet." Cf. Mommsen, Strafrecht, p. 637.
9. Diodorus, XXXVI, 6; cf. Plutarch, Marius, 17.
10. Cf. Hepding, op. cit., p. 142.
11. Cf. chap. VI.
12. Wissowa, op. cit., p. 291.
13. Hepding, op. cit., pp. 145 ff. Cf. Pauly-Wissowa, Real-
enc., s. v. "Dendrophori," V, col. 216 and Suppl., col, 225,
s. v. "Attis."
14. Cf. Tacitus, Annalcs, XI, 15.
15. This opinion has recently been defended by Showerman,
Classical Journal, II, 1906, p. 29.
16. Frazer, The Golden Bough,
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II , pp. 130 ff.
17. Hepding, pp. 160 ff. Cf. the texts of Ambrosiaster cited
in Rev. hist, et lift, relig., VIII, 1903, p. 423, n. i,
18. Hepding, p. 193. Cf. Gruppe, p. 1541.
19. On this diffusion, cf. Drexler in Roscher, Lexikon,
"Meter," col. 918.
s. v.
20. Gregory of Tours, De glor. confess., c. 76. Cf. Passio
S. Symphoriani in Ruinart, Acta sine., ed. of 1859, p. 125. The
carpentum mentioned in these texts is found in Africa; cf.
CIL, VIII, 8457, and Graillot, Rev. archeol., 1904, I, p. 353;
Hepding, op. cit., p. 173, n. 7.
21. QappetTE fjivarat rot) 6tov aeooGftevov |
iarai yap vfilv kn Tr6vuv
cwrrjpia ; c f. Hepding, op. cit., p. 167. Attis has become a god
through his death (see Reitzenstein, Poimandres, p. 93), and
in the same way were his votaries to become the equals of the
divinity through death. The Phrygian epitaphs frequently
have the character of dedications, and it appears that the
graves were grouped about the temple, see Ramsay, Studies,
pp. 65 ff., 271 ff., passim.