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,Yo\. I., p. 410, who cites 

 the words of scriptor Syrus (apud Assemannum bibl. Oriente, Y. IT. , 

 p. 164): " Causa oh quam, mutarunt patres solemnitatem die 6 Jan. 

 [i. e., Epiphanise die] et ad diem 25 Decembris transtuleruni, hcecfuit: 

 solemne erat Ethnicis hoe ipso 25 Deeemhris die natalicia solis celehrare, 

 in quihus accenderunt lumina festivitatis causa. Horum, sollemnium 

 et festivitatum etiam, Christiani participes erant. Cum ergo animad- 

 verterent doctores ad hoc festum propendere Ch/ristianos, consilio inito 

 statuerunt hoc die vera natalicia esse celehranda, die vero 6 Jam., 

 festum Epiphanicyrum,. Hie itaque una cum hoc instituto ad diem, 

 usque sextum, invaluit mos ignium accendendorum." 



In the Fasti Philocali, the day YIII • K • IAN • (i.e. Dec. 25) is 

 marked N"- INVICTI • CT^- XXX i.e., N(atalis) invicti; c(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 327 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, Philehus, 30 B. izaaav xdl T^avroiav (TO(piav iizixaXelcrdai. 



The passage in which these words occur presents many difiiculties, 

 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 purei', this should not also in that higher 



