of the Assyrian Monarchy. 333 
la lune, de maniére que la source primitive de cette énergie 
soit dans lesoleil, comme pére & comme chefdes dieux males 
qui forment son cortége.” Proclus in Time. 1. 15, as 
quoted by Dupuis, origine de tous les Cultes, 1.—131, 
{*7) “vides sublime fusum, immoderatum zethera, 
qui tenero terram circumjecta amplectitur ? 
hune summum habetg divum : hunc perhibeto 
Jovem.” 
“ Aer autem, ut Stoici disputant, interjectus inter mare 
& celum, Junonis nomine consecratur, que est soror & con- 
jux Jovis, quod ei similitudo est ztheris & cum eo summa 
copjunctio.”” Cic N.D. 11.—25, 26. 
(43) “ Quippe ubi temperiem sumsere humorque ca- 
lorque 
Concipiunt & ab his oriuntur cuncta duobus 
Cumque sit ignis aque pugnax vapor humidus 
omnes 
Res creat & discors concordia fcetibus apta est.”” 
« Alterum enim quasi masculinum elementum est, alte- 
rum quasi femininum : alterum activum, alterum patibile.” 
Lactantius de or. Err. 11.—10. 
(#4) Senec. Q. Nat. 111.14. Aerem marem judicant 
(gyptii) qua ventus est ; feminam qua nebulosus & iners. 
Aquam virilem vocant mare: muliebrem omnem aliam. 
Ignem vocant masculum qua ardet flamma; feminam qua 
Iucet innoxius tacta. 
(85) Oxecivov re Dewy Yeveosy ove panTepr Tnduy. 
Hom. Il. =. 201. Euseb. Prep. Evang: 1: c. 10. 
(6) Gen. 1.—2. 
(*7) thid. Auctor de dea Syria ap. Lucian, ¢. 14. p. 460, 
Vol. 3, ed. Hemst. The author himself seems disposed to 
deny the identity of the goddess worshipped at Hierapolis 
