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of the year ; and one of the follies of which Alex- 

 ander was guilty, according to Arrian, was his 

 wishing to be enrolled among these, and to become 

 the thirteenth of the first class of Deities. 



To the twelve great Gods, the Romans added 

 eight others, called Selecti, or chosen Deities, who 

 were Janus, Satnrn, Genius, the Sun, the Moon, 

 Pluto, Bacchus, and the ancient Vesta, or the Earth. 

 After these ranked the Dii Semones or Seminomi- 

 nes, the demigods ; and then the Indigetes, and 

 those who were attached to certain localities, the 

 household gods, the genii of woods, or rivers, 

 nymphs, and other inferior beings. 



"Cicero* arranges the Gods in three classes: first, 

 the Dii celestes, who are the same as the Dii ma- 

 jorum gentium ; then the Demigods and the Indi- 

 getes; and, thirdly, the Virtues, which raise man to 

 heaven, and have been themselv'es deified.*' " Varro 

 maintained," says the Abbe Banier, " that there 

 were known and unknown Gods ; and reduced all 

 the Gentile Deities to two classes. In the first were 

 those whose names and offices were defined, as the 

 Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Apollo, and others ; and in the 

 second were placed those of whom nothing positive 

 was known, and to whom it was not lawful to raise 

 altars, or offer sacrifices. The philosopher Albricus 

 considers the seven planets as the seven first Gods 

 of the heathen, whom he arranges in this order : 

 Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Apollo, Venus, Mercury, 

 and the Moon; Pausaniast, Cicero, Hesychius, 



* De Legib. lil). ii. VideBim. Myth. 1.5. c. 5. f In Eliacis, 



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