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NOTES SYRIA. 259<br />
Bedeutung Welt diesem Worte erst durch E<strong>in</strong>fluss griechischer<br />
Speculation zu Teil geworden se<strong>in</strong>? In der Z<strong>in</strong>girli-Inschrift<br />
bedeuted D^&gt;2 noch bloss <strong>in</strong> se<strong>in</strong>er Zeit.<br />
"<br />
81. Cf. CIL, III, 1090 Dessau, Inscr., 2998: "Div<strong>in</strong>arum<br />
humanarumque rerum rectori." Compare ibid., 2999 and Cagnet,<br />
Annee epigr., 1905, No. 235 : "I. O. M., id est universitatis<br />
pr<strong>in</strong>cipi." Cf. the article of the Archiv cited, n. 73. <strong>The</strong> As-<br />
clepius says (c. 39), us<strong>in</strong>g an astrological term: "Caelestes dii<br />
catholicorum dom<strong>in</strong>antur, terreni <strong>in</strong>colunt s<strong>in</strong>gula."<br />
82. Cf. W. Robertson Smith, 75 ff., passim. In the Syrian<br />
religions as <strong>in</strong> that of Mithra, the <strong>in</strong>itiates regarded each<br />
other as members of the same family, and the phrase "dear<br />
brethren" as used by our preachers, was already <strong>in</strong> use among<br />
the votaries of Jupiter Dolichenus (fratres carissimos, CIL,<br />
VI, 406 = 30758).<br />
83. Renan mentioned this fact <strong>in</strong> his Apotrcs, p. 297 = Jour<br />
nal Asiatiquc, 1859, p. 259. Cf. Jalabert, Mel. faculte orient.<br />
Beyrout, I, 1906, p. 146.<br />
84. This is the term (virtutes) used by the pagans. See the<br />
<strong>in</strong>scription Num<strong>in</strong>i et virtutibus del aeterni as reconstructed<br />
<strong>in</strong> Revue de Philologie, 1902, p. 9; Archiv fiir <strong>Religions</strong>w., loc.<br />
cit t P- 335 i and <strong>in</strong>fra, ch. VIII, n. 20.<br />
85. CIL, VII, 759 Biicheler, Carm. epig., 24. Cf. Lucian,<br />
De dea Syria, 32.<br />
86. Macrobius, Sat., I, 23, 17: "Nom<strong>in</strong>is (Adad) <strong>in</strong>terpre-<br />
tatio significat unus unus."<br />
87. Cicero, Somnium Scip., c. 4: "Sol dux et pr<strong>in</strong>ceps et<br />
moderator lum<strong>in</strong>um reliquorum, mens mundi et temperatio."<br />
Pl<strong>in</strong>y, H. N., II, 6, 12: "Sol. . . .siderum ipsorum caelique<br />
rector. Hunc esse mundi totius animam ac planius mentem,<br />
hunc pr<strong>in</strong>cipale naturae regimen ac numen credere decet," etc.<br />
Julian of Laodicea, Cat. codd. astr., I, p. 136,<br />
i&gt; nal<br />
1. I :<br />
rjyefjiuv rov avuiravro^ ufaiiov nadear^^ iravruv<br />
rcavruv &lt;bv<br />
yevFaiapxW-<br />
88. We are here recapitulat<strong>in</strong>g some conclusions of a study<br />
on La theologie solaire du paganismc rema<strong>in</strong> published <strong>in</strong> Me<br />
moircs des savants et rangers prcscntcs a 1 Acad. des Inscr.,<br />
XII, 2d part, pp. 447 ff., Paris, 1910.