360 Albert S. Cook, 



idols. And when they had entered, 'all the idols were prostrate 

 on the earth, so that they all lay upon their faces wholly shattered 

 and broken ' (cf. the Vilce Patnini). Modern writers who touch 

 upon the subject are Baronius, Awial. EccL 1. 43 ff. ; Stuhlfauth, 

 Die Engel in der Altchristlichcn Kunst, \-). 209 ; Male, LArt Reli- 

 gteux (ill XIII^ Sieclc, pp. 283-4. There is a window illustrating 

 the story in the Lady Chapel of the Cathedral of Le Mans, and a 

 mosaic in S. Maria Maggiore at Rome. 



224—5. Mantuan {Opera 1. 197 a) represents Jupiter as thus 

 speaking in a council of the heathen deities : 



At neque nos tempus soli pra^vidimus illud : 

 Prsevidere alii lemures quoque. Barbara Memphis 

 Novit, et ^Egyptus, sua quae simulacra per illos 

 Est mirata dies; aliquo quasi territa casu 

 Et tremere et moesto pallorem ducere vultu. 

 Nee velut ante loqui, mutisque silentia templis 

 Observasse, novos testantia signa tumultus. 

 Ipsa quoque armatas acies concurrere coslo 

 Audiit Alpinos trepidans Germania motus. 

 Scimus et ex gelidis tepidum manasse cruorem 

 Fontibus, et noctu medias ululasse per urbes 

 Pane truces agitante lupos rabiemque ferente. 

 Sic fuit omnibus hoc tam formidabile tempus 

 Spiritibus, tam horrenda lues nostratibus umbris ; 

 Ut Stygio quae in co?no habitant coeli astra perosae 

 hidociles larvae, postquam didicere voluta 

 Saecula dena quater, vicinaque tempora gentis 

 Christidos, ad Plutonem ierint sibi tuta rogantes 

 Septa, ratae ad Stygias bella ingressura lacunas. 

 Indoluere igitur merito regna omnia quando 

 Communi commune malum moerore dolendum est. 



The resemblance is much more marked in the case of the follow- 

 ing lines (1. 79 a, b) : 



Parthenices primo ingressu simulachra per omnem 

 Legimus ^Egyptum subita cecidisse ruina, 

 Et collisa solo. Jacuit resupinus Anubis, 

 Cornibus auratis solio ruit Isis ab alto, 

 Occidit extemplo luctu quaesitus Osiris ; 

 Sicut cum trepidi per caeca silentia fures 

 Noctis eunt taciti, vigilantque ad furta repente, 

 Si densas abigat lux improvisa tenebras, 



