G. B. ii. 30.
160
G. B. ii. 24.
161
Macrobius himself is an author of the fourth or fifth century of our era. Macrobius, i. x. 2; Livy, ii. xxi. 2.
162
Cumont, Revue de Philologie, July 1897, vol. xxi. p. 149, citing Mommsen, C.I.L. I
p. 337, and Marquhardt, Staatsverw. iii.
587.
163
Lucian, Saturnalia, 2.
164
Macrobius, i. vii. 31-33.
165
The reason was probably a mere 'blind' for wife-murder.
166
G. B. iii. p. 140.
167
Analecta Bollandiana, xvi. pp. 5-16.
168
G. B. iii. p. 143.
169
G. B. iii. p. 144.
170
G. B. iii. p. 142.
171
G. B. ii. p. 144.
172
Later (Rev. de Philol., xxi. 3, pp. 152, 153), M. Cumont dates the Greek at about 500-600 A.D., because there were then apprehensions, as in the MS., of the end of the world. But so there were in 1000 A.D.
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December 16-23. So also thinks M. Parmentier, Rev. Phil. xxi. p. 143, note 1. M. Parmentier says that we must either suppose the victim to have been selected by lot a whole month in advance (of which practice I think we have no evidence), or else cast doubt on the whole story, except the mere martyrdom of Dasius. But the latter measure M. Parmentier thinks too sceptical.
174
Porphyry, De Abstinentia, ii. 56; Lactantius, i. 21.
175
G. B. iii. 147.
176
G. B. iii. 148.
177
G. B. iii. 147, note 2; 148, note 2.
178
G. B. ii. 253, 254.
179
G. B. ii. 254.
180
G. B. ii. 147.
181
Hyde, De Bel. Pers. p. 267.
182
G. B. iii. 163, 164.
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