0' without qualification. The `Theodosian cathedral
0' was situated in the seventh ward.
0' as the badge of office.
0' &c.
0' Socrates must have used this term in a more general sense therefore, and meant some collection of obscure and mystical writings. He also calls Epimenides an `Initiator,
0' because, according to the testimony of Theophrastus, he was versed particularly in lustration and coruscation.
0' `small merchant.
0'
0'
60 Cf. John i. 46, and Acts ii. 7. Later the word was used by the heathen also, contemptuously, as a term of reproach.
61 Chap. 16.
62 Based, probably, on Matt. xxvi. 52, and John xviii. 11.
63 zwnhn apetiqento; literally, `put off their girdle,
64 The term was used first by traveling teachers of rhetoric at the time of the philosopher Socrates as descriptive of their profession; and although it later acquired an unfavorable significance, it continued to be used also as a professional name given to teachers of rhetoric, as here.
65 Cf. Tertull. Apol. IX. `In the bosom of Africa infants were publicly sacrificed to Saturn, even to the days of a proconsul under Tiberius,
66 Cf. Sozom. V. 18; also above, II. 46.
67 Chap. 21.
68 Col. i. 26.
69 Rom. i. 18-21.
70 On this extra-Scriptural saying attributed to Jesus Christ, see n. 54, Introd, p. xi.
71 1 Thess. v. 21.
72 Col. ii. 8.
73 Tit. i. 12.
74 Cf. Theophrastus, VII. x. and Diogenes Laertius, I. x. The latter gives a list of Epimenides' works,but makes no mention of any `Oracles.
75 Acts xvii. 28.
76 Fabricius, Bibl. Groec. II. p. 451 seq.
77 1 Cor. xv. 33.
78 Menander, and not Euripides, is the only author to whom this line can be traced (see Tertull. ad Uxor. 1. 8, and Meineke, Fragm. Comic. Groee. Vol. IV. p. 132), but it may have been a popular proverb, or even originally a Composition of Euripides, which Menander simply used.
79 metaboleij. Cf. metabolh, used to designate all merchandising, Julius Pollux, III. 25; hence metaboleuj, a `retailer,
80 Hence Gregory of Nazianus calls him kausitauroj, `a burner of bulls.
81 See Euseb. H. E. VI. 20 and 39; also Chrysostom, de S. Babyl. According to these authorities Babylas was bishop of Antioch, succeeding Sabrinus, and was beheaded in prison during the reign of Decius. His remains were transferred to a church built over against the temple of Apollo of Daphne (Sozom. V. 19) by Gallus, Julian's brother.
82 Ps. xcvi. 7 (LXX).