88 SYLVA CRITICA CANADENSIUM. 
three hundred years it was celebrated on the day of the Epiphany 
From the authorities cited by Gieseler, i., p. 292, it appears that it 
was first appointed by Julius, Bishop of Rome, A.D. 337-352. See 
Mommsen, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Vol. 1., p. 410, who cites 
the words of scriptor Syrus (apud Assemannum bibl. Oriente, V. IL., 
p. 164): “Causa 0b quam mutarunt patres solemnitatem die 6 Jan. 
[2. e., Epiphanie die] et ad diem 25 Decembris transtulerunt, hoec fuit : 
solemne erat Ethnicis hoc ipso 25 Decembris die natalicia solis celebrare, 
in quibus accenderunt lumina festivitatis causa. Horum sollemniwm 
et festivitatum etiam Christiant participes erant. Cum ergo animad- 
verterent doctores ad hoc festum propendere Christianos, consilio inito 
statuerunt hoc die vera natalicia esse celebranda, die vero 6 Jan. 
Festum Epiphaniorum. Hic itaque una cum hoc instituto ad diem 
usque seatum invaluit mos ignium accendendorum.” 
In the Fasti Philocali, the day VIII - K - TAN - (i.e. Dee. 25) is 
marked N -INVICTI -CM - XXX i.e., N(atalis) invicti; e(ircenses) 
m(issus) xxx. Invictus is a common epithet of Mithras, or Sol, of 
whom, it is well known, Constantine the Great (Emperor from 306 
to 827 A.D.) was a worshipper. 
7—15, 
BY W. D. PEARMAN, M.A., 
Classical Tutor and Dean of Residence in University College, Toronto. 
7. Plato, Philebus, 30 B. xdoayv xa maytotay cogiay éxixahetcOar. 
The passage in which these words occur presents many difficulties, 
owing partly to the want of sequence in the grammatical structure 
of the sentences, partly to the obscurity of meaning. Professor 
Jowett somewhat freely renders, or rather paraphrases, this passage 
as follows: ‘‘ For surely we cannot imagine that of the four classes, 
the finite, the infinite, the composition of the two, and the cause or 
fourth class, which enters into all things, giving to our bodies souls 
and the art of self-management, and of healing disease, and operating 
in other ways to heal and organize; we cannot, I say, imagine that 
this last should have all the attributes of wisdom, and that whereas 
the elements exist, both in the entire heaven and in great provinces 
of the heaven, only fairer and purer, this should not also in that higher 
