Apex Omnium by R. L. Rike;

Author:R. L. Rike; [Rike, R. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520310940
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

1 254 Twice, as a man of manifold virtue in direct contact with his genius, 21.14.5 (see

p. 20 above), and as amplissimus ilk philosophus, 23.6.19.

2 255 See Du Labriolle, Reaction paienne, 180-89, 311-14.

3 256 "Apollonii Pythagorici vitam, non ut Nicomachus senior e Philostrati sed ut Tascius

Victorianus e Nicomachi schedio exscripsit, quia iusseras, misi," Epistulae, Sidonius

Apollinaris, ed. A. Loyen, 8.3.1. For additional evidence of Apollonius' popularity in the fourth century, see Jones, "Epigram on Apollonius," 190-94. Jones (194) suggests that we

might trace some faint path from Apollonius to Nicomachus in the Historia Augusta, Divus

Aurelianus, 24.2-9, 27.6. Libanius compares Julian to Apollonius, Or. 16.56.

4 14.1.7, 8.3; 22.8.14, 22. “Ex eo caespite punico tecti, manes eius [Mobsi] heroici, dolorum varietali medentur plerumque sospitales,” 14.8.3.

5 On Tages and the Etrusco disciplina, see P. de Jonge, Sprachlicher, 17:246-47; Wis- sowa, Religion, 543-49.

6 16.7.4; 17.10.2; 21.1.10,14.5; 22.16.20; 23.6.25. “Sed si intelligendi divini editionem multiplicem et praesensionum originem mente vegeta quisquam voluerit, replicata per mundum omnem inveniet mathemata huiusmodi ab Aegypto circumlata, ubi primum homines longe ante alios ad varia religionum incunabula, ut dicitur, pervenerunt et initia prima sacrorum caute tuentur condita scriptis arcanis,” 22.16.19-20.

7 23.3.3, 5.10; 25.2.7.

8 Note the ambiguous signification of oraculum as spoken or written prophecy; e.g., oracula et auctores docuere, 21.14.4. Religion as the secret conservation of an unchanging (that is, “written”) body of knowledge: initia prima sacrorum caute tuentur condita scriptis arcanis, 22.16.20; cf. secreta librorum mysticorum auctoritas, 22.14.7.

9 Pythagoras is their archetype, leaving Thales at Miletus to pursue religious studies in Phoenicia, Egypt (there, for twenty-two years), and Babylon: “Furthermore they say that he also made a compound of divine philosophy and worship, learning some ingredients from the Orphies, Egyptian priests, Chaldaeans, and Magi, and adapting other elements from the mysteries of Eleusis, Imbrus, Samothrace, and Lemnos, even taking a bit from the neighboring barbarian lands of the Celts and Iberians,” lamblichus, De vita Pythagorica, ed. U. Klein (Stuttgart, 1975), 28.151. In connection with these Celts, note Ammianus’ reference to Druidic sodalicia formed “as the authority of Pythagoras decreed,” 15.9.8.

10 E.g., Zoroaster, 23.6.33.

11 Licenter gratificantes publicorum vel litigantium commodi, 26.1.12.

12 E.g., Constantius’ diviners, interpretantes placentia, 21.14.1; Julian’s unregulated imperiti, 22.12.7; Heliodorus, the mathematicus and informer, tartareus Hie malorum omnium … fabricator, 29.2.6.

13 Of those diviners at Rome who were active in 371-72, Amantius is called prae ceteris notus.

14 Called a philosophia by Ammianus, although this is scarcely to be distinguished from a religious science or ritual: “his prope Chaldaeorum est regio, altrix philosophiae veteris, ut memorant ipsi, apud quos veridica vaticindandi fides eluxit,” 23.6.25.

15 "Scrutantes sublimia, leges naturae pandere [Euhages] conabantur. … quaestio- nibus occultarum rerum altarumque [Drysidae] erecti sunt,” 15.9.8.

16 Consider the apparent absence of any need to differentiate priestly from philosophical authority in the general phrase, velut scrutatis veteribus libris, 15.8.16. The accompanying theory that bodily signs reveal a man’s soul, and thus his destiny, could well be ascribed to books of either type or even poetry; cf. Homer’s sempiterna carmina and theories of the genius, 21.14.5.

17 22.16.21.

18 22.8.5, 16.

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