[134:1] Eur., _Tro._ 886. Literally it means 'The Compulsion in the way Things grow'.
[135:2] Cleanthes, 527, Arnim. +Agou de m', ô Zeu, kai sy g' hê Peprômenê, ktl.+ Plotinus, _Enn._ III. i. 10.
[135:3] Epicurus, Third Letter. Usener, p. 65, 12 = Diog. La. x. 134.
[136:2] e. g. Chrysippus, fr. 1076, Arnim.
[138:2] Not to Plotinus: _Enn._ II. ix against the Valentinians. Cf. Porphyry, +Aphormai+, 28.
[138:3] Bousset, _Hauptprobleme der Gnosis_, 1907, pp. 13, 21, 26, 81, &c.; pp. 332 ff. She becomes Helen in the beautiful myth of the Simonian Gnostics--a Helen who has forgotten her name and race, and is a slave in a brothel in Tyre. Simon discovers her, gradually brings back her memory and redeems her. Irenaeus, i. 23, 2.
[139:1] _De Iside et Osiride_, 67. (He distinguishes them from the real God, however, just as Sallustius would.)
[139:2] Mithras was worshipped by the Cilician Pirates conquered by Pompey. Plut., _Vit. Pomp._ 24.
[139:3] +ekgonos tou prôtou theou.+ Plato (Diels, 305); Stoics, ib. 547, l. 8.
[140:1] Aristotle (Diels, 450). +hosas de einai tas sphairas, tosoutous hyparchein kai tous kinountas theous.+ Chrysippus (Diels 466); Posidonius, ib. (cf. Plato, _Laws_. 898 ff.). See Epicurus's Second Letter, especially Usener, pp. 36-47 = Diog. La. x. 86-104. On the food required by the heavenly bodies cf. Chrysippus, fr. 658-61, Arnim.
[140:2] +ho de Epikouros ouden toutôn enkrinei.+ Diels, 307{ a} 15. Cf. 432{ a} 10.
[141:1] Heath, _Aristarchos of Samos_, pp. 301-10.
[142:1] Pythagoras in Diels, p. 555, 20; the best criticism is in Aristotle, _De Caelo_, chap. 9 (p. 290 b), the fullest account in Macrobius, _Comm. in Somn. Scipionis_, ii.
[142:2] See Diels, _Elementium_, 1899, p. 17. These magic letters are still used in the Roman ritual for the consecration of churches.
[143:1] A seven-day week was known to Pseudo-Hippocrates +peri sarkôn+ _ad fin._, but the date of that treatise is very uncertain.
[143:2] Aesch., _Ag._ 6; Eur., _Hip._ 530. Also _Ag._ 365, where +astrôn belos+ goes together and +mête pro kairou mêth' hyper+.
[143:3] Proclus, _In Timaeum_, 289 F; Seneca, _Nat. Quaest._ iii. 29, 1.
[145:1] Chrysippus, 1187-95. Esse divinationem si di sint et providentia.
[145:2] Cicero, _De Nat. De._ iii. 11, 28; especially _De Divinatione_, ii. 14, 34; 60, 124; 69, 142. 'Qua ex coniunctione naturae et quasi concentu atque consensu, quam +sympatheian+ Graeci appellant, convenire potest aut fissum iecoris cum lucello meo aut meus quaesticulus cum caelo, terra rerumque natura?' asks the sceptic in the second of these passages.