364 Albert S. Cook, 



Prudentius, Cath. 1. 37-40: 



Feruiit vagantes dsemonas, 

 Lastos teiiebris noctium, 

 Gallo canente exterritos 

 Sparsim timere et cedere ; 



Invisa nam vicinitas 

 Lucis, salutis, numinis, 

 Rupto tenebrarum situ 

 Noctis fugat satellites. 



Augustine, Scnno 103 : ' Ista dtemonia seducere animas quaerunt, 

 sed, ubi sol ortus est, fugiunt.' 



^i£neas of Gaza (late 5 th century) contends (Theophrastus, pp. 65—6 

 Barth) that when soothsayers pretend to raise the dead, human 

 forms and actions are represented by demons. This is shown by the 

 fact that these phantoms vanish at the rising of the sun, which, if 

 they were true human souls, they would not do, but rather remain 

 and hold converse with their friends. 



On this Barth comments as follows : ' Spectra talia orto Sole diffug- 

 ere atque evanescere est traditio vulgaris experientiaque conlirmata. 

 Omnia enim vita functa Solis non jam jus usurpandi habere scitum 

 est antiquis. Nos, quod antiqui tradunt, usu comperimus, de quo 

 non paucis alibi. Neque enim spectra nos semel vidimus, neque 

 semel ad ortum Solem coram oculis nostris evanuisse testari possu- 

 mus.' 



On the night as the time for ghosts to appear, cf. Virgil, JEn. 

 4. 351-3: 



Me patris Anchisas, quotiens umentibus umbris 

 Nox operit terras, quotiens astra ignea surgunt, 

 Admonet in somnis et turbida terret imago. 



See also Statius, Sih. 1. 94-8; Bede, Eccl. Hist. 3. 19. 



229. Cf. Drummond, Hymn of the Passion {Muses' Library 2. 11) : 



If when far in the east 3'e do behold 

 Forth from his crystal bed the sun to rise, 

 With rosy robes and crown of flaming gold. 



230. Nciv Eng. Diet, quotes, s. v. curtain: L3^dgate (ca. 1430), 

 Boclias 8. 24 : ' Some skyes donne Myght ])ercase curtayne his 

 beames clere.' Gilles Durant, Zod. Am. 141 (1588), quoted by 

 Sidney Lee, Mod. Phil. 3. 156, has 



Qui du lit de Phoebus entr'-ouure le rideau, 



