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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^&amp;gt;2 noch bloss <strong>in</strong> se<strong>in</strong>er Zeit.<br />

&quot;<br />

81. Cf. CIL, III, 1090 Dessau, Inscr., 2998: &quot;Div<strong>in</strong>arum<br />

humanarumque rerum rectori.&quot; Compare ibid., 2999 and Cagnet,<br />

Annee epigr., 1905, No. 235 : &quot;I. O. M., id est universitatis<br />

pr<strong>in</strong>cipi.&quot; 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: &quot;Caelestes dii<br />

catholicorum dom<strong>in</strong>antur, terreni <strong>in</strong>colunt s<strong>in</strong>gula.&quot;<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 &quot;dear<br />

brethren&quot; 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: &quot;Nom<strong>in</strong>is (Adad) <strong>in</strong>terpre-<br />

tatio significat unus unus.&quot;<br />

87. Cicero, Somnium Scip., c. 4: &quot;Sol dux et pr<strong>in</strong>ceps et<br />

moderator lum<strong>in</strong>um reliquorum, mens mundi et temperatio.&quot;<br />

Pl<strong>in</strong>y, H. N., II, 6, 12: &quot;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,&quot; etc.<br />

Julian of Laodicea, Cat. codd. astr., I, p. 136,<br />

i&amp;gt; nal<br />

1. I :<br />

rjyefjiuv rov avuiravro^ ufaiiov nadear^^ iravruv<br />

rcavruv &amp;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.

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