[Footnote 537:  See, e.g., pro Sestio, 15. 32; in Vatinium, 7. 18.]

[Footnote 538:  Augustine, Civ.  Dei, iv. 27.]

[Footnote 539:  Cp. i. 63 foll.; iii. 87 and 894; v. 72 and 1218; and many other passages.]

[Footnote 540:  iii. 995 foll.; v. 1120 foll.]

[Footnote 541:  iii. 70; v. 1126.]

[Footnote 542:  ii. 22 foll.; iii. 1003; v. 1116.]

[Footnote 543:  Roman Poets of the Republic, p. 306.]

[Footnote 544:  The secret may be found in the last 250 lines of Bk. iii., and at the beginning and end of Bk. v.]

[Footnote 545:  v. 1203; ii. 48-54.]

[Footnote 546:  v. 1129.]

[Footnote 547:  “Philosophy has never touched the mass of mankind except through religion” (Decadence, by Rt.  Hon. A.J.  Balfour, p. 53).  This is a truth of which Lucretius was profoundly, though not surprisingly, ignorant.]

[Footnote 548:  See above, p. 115.]

[Footnote 549:  e.g. xxi. 62.]

[Footnote 550:  Ribbeck, Fragm.  Trag.  Rom. p. 54:  Ego deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam coelitum, Sed eos non curare opinor quid agat humanum genus.]

[Footnote 551:  See above, p. 114.]

[Footnote 552:  See H.N.  Fowler, Panaetii et Hecatonis librorum fragmenta, p. 10; Hirzel, Untersuchungen zu Cicero’s philosophischen Schriften, i. p. 194 foll.]

[Footnote 553:  See above, p. 115.]

[Footnote 554:  Schmekel, Die Mittlere Stoa, p. 85 foll.; Hirzel, Untersuchungen, etc., i. p. 194 foll.]

[Footnote 555:  The fragments are collected by E. Agahd, Leipzig, 1898.  The great majority are found in St. Augustine, de Civitate Dei.]

[Footnote 556:  As Wissowa says (Religion und Kultus der Roemer, p. 100), Jupiter does not appear in Roman language and literature as a personality who thunders or rains, but rather as the heaven itself combining these various manifestations of activity.  The most familiar illustration of the usage alluded to in the text is the line of Horace in Odes i. 1. 25:  “manet sub Iove frigido venator.”]

[Footnote 557:  ap.  Aug. Civ.  Dei, iv. 11.]

[Footnote 558:  Ib. vii. 9.]

[Footnote 559:  ap.  Aug. Civ.  Dei, vii. 13:  animus mundi is here so called, but evidently identified with Jupiter.]

[Footnote 560:  Ib. vii. 9.]

[Footnote 561:  Ib. iv. 11, 13.]

[Footnote 562:  Aug. de consensu evangel. i. 23, 24.  Cp. Civ.  Dei, iv. 9.]

[Footnote 563:  Ib. i. 22. 30; Civ.  Dei, xix. 22.]

[Footnote 564:  See Wissowa, Religion und Kultus, p. 103.]

[Footnote 565:  de Rep. iii. 22.  See above, p. 117.]

[Footnote 566:  de Legilus, ii. 10.]

[Footnote 567:  de Nat.  Deor.. i. 15. 40:  “idem etiam legis perpetuae et eternae vim, quae quasi dux vitae et magistra officiorum sit, Iovem dicit esse, eandemque fatalem necessitatem appellat, sempiternam rerum futurarum veritatem.”  Chrysippus of course was speaking of the Greek Zeus.]