[Footnote 145: Several words missing here, perhaps by intention. It would be interesting to know if the “drug” was any preparation of phosphorus.]
[Footnote 146: Should be Baubo, a synonym of Hecate in the hymn to that goddess published by Miller, _Mélanges de Litt. Grecque_, Paris, 1868, pp. 442 ff.]
[Footnote 147: Most of the epithets and names here used are to be found in the hymn quoted in the last note. The goddess is there identified not only with Artemis and Persephone, but with the Sumerian Eris-ki-gal, lady of hell.]
[Footnote 148: A sort of magic lantern? κάτοπτρον, which I have translated mirror, _might_ be a lens. One is said to have been found in Assyria.]
[Footnote 149: πόρρωθεν. Better, perhaps, πόρροτεθεν.]
[Footnote 150: Full moon, or half, or quarter, as the case may be.]
[Footnote 151: Schneidewin seems to be right in suggesting a lacuna here.]
[Footnote 152: ἐν ὑαλώδεσι τύποις. Schneidewin suggests τόποις unreasonably. Many alabaster jars are nearly transparent.]
[Footnote 153: Cf. Aristotle, _De Hist. Animal._, V, 10, 2. Said to be _Coryphæna hippurus_.]
[Footnote 154: The hiatus leaves us in doubt how this operated. Perhaps it liberated free ammonia.]
[Footnote 155: Reading ἐπίπλοον βοείου instead of, with Cruice, ἐπίπλεον βώλου, “filled with clay.”]
[Footnote 157: ἀπηνέχθημεν. An admission that this chapter was an afterthought.]
[Footnote 158: ὡς εἰκάσαι, ἐστι, _ut patet_, Cr.]
[Footnote 159: θεολόγοι. It does not mean “theologians” in our sense, but narrator of stories about the gods. Orpheus is always considered a θεολόγος.]
[Footnote 160: ποδαπός. Not, as Cruice translates, _quale_, which would be better expressed by the ποίον of Aristotle.]
[Footnote 162: It is fairly certain that Hippolytus in this “Recapitulation” must here be summarizing the missing Books II and III. He has said nothing in any part of the work that has come down to us about the Persian theology, and in Book I he calls Zaratas or Zoroaster a Chaldæan and not a Persian.]
[Footnote 163: ψήφοις ὑπέβαλον καὶ are supplied by Schneidewin in the place of three words rubbed out.]
[Footnote 164: Reading with Schneidewin μοιρῶν for μυρῶν and ἐπιπνοίας for ἐπίνοιας.]
[Footnote 165: By indivisible comparison (σύγκρισις) he seems to imply that these numbers cannot be divided except by 1. Hence Cruice would omit 9 as being divisible by 3. Perhaps he means “like indivisibility.”]