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NOTES ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC. 273
23. Firmicus Maternus, II, 30, VIII, prooem. and 5. Cf.
Theophilus of Edessa, Cat., V, i, p. 238, 25; Julian of Laod.,
Cat., IV, p. 104, 4.
24. CIL, V, 5893. Chaeremon, an Egyptian priest, was also
an astrologer.
25. Souter, Classical Review, 1897, P- J 36; Ramsay, Cities
and Bishoprics of Phrygia, II, p. 566, 790.
26. On the Stoic theory of sympathy see Bouche-Leclercq,
pp. 28 ff., passim. A brilliant account will be found in Proclus,
In remp. Plat., II, 258!, Kroll ed. Cf. also Clem. Alex.,
Strom., VI, 1 6, p. 143 (p. 504, 21, Stahelin ed.) Philo at
tributed it to the Chaldeans (De migrat. Abrahami, 32, II, p.
303, 5, Wendland) :
XaAdaZot TCJV dAAwv avdpuircjv EKTreirowjKevai /cat 6ia<pp6vT<4><; SOKOVOIV
aoTpovo/uiav /cat yeve#/lta/loyt/c#v, TO, kiriyeia roZf peTEupoif /cat rd ovpdvia
rotf 7rt yf/t; dpfio^ofievoi /cat hairzp 6ia fiovaiKf/s Myuv rr)v ifi/LiefaaTaTTjv
av/j.<f>cjviav rov Travrbq hei/StuafbfUVOl rri TCJV /uepuv irpb^ aWij^a Koivuvia
KOI (fb/uTradeia, ro;rotf /uev StK^ev^/jUfvur, avyyeveia 6e ov dt^Ktojuevcjv.
27. Riess in Pauly-Wissowa, Realenc., s. v. "Aberglaube,"
I, col. 38 f .
29. Cat., V, i, p. 210, where a number of other examples
will be found.
30. See Boll, Sphaera (passim}, and his note on the lists of
animals assigned to the planets, in Roscher, Lcxikon Myth.,
s. v. "Planeten," III, col. 2534; cf. Die Erforsch. der Astrologie,
p. 1 10, n. 3.
31. Cat., V, i, pp. 2ioff.
32.. Cf. supra, ch. V. pp. 128 ff.
33. Cf. supra, ch. V, n. 87.
34. On worship of the sky, of the signs of the zodiac, and
of the elements, cf. Mon. myst. Mithra, I, pp. 85 ff., 98 ff., 108 ff.
35. The magico-religious notion of sanctity, of mana, ap
peared in the idea and notation of time. This has been shown
by Hubert in his profound analysis of La representation dit
temps dans la religion et la magie (Progr. cc. des Hautcs-
Etudes), 1905 = Melanges hist, des rel, Paris, 1909, p. 190.
36. On the worship of Time see Mon. myst. Mithra, I, pp. 20,