History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ii. 2). But this Egyptian divinity soon had imperial worshippers, — Otho (Suet., Otho,1 2), Domitian, who built an Iseum and a Serapeum (Eutropius, vii. 23), Commodus, and others(Lainprid., Comm. 9). In the third century she had sanctuaries even in Germany (Orelli,No. 1,892). 2 Hymn, x. vv. 1,021 el seq. 3 Procedit hide . . visu horridus (Prudentius, Hymn, x. 1,045). 4 Renatus in aeternum tanrobolio (Orelli, No. 2,352). Some devotees repeated this baptismmonthly, or that of the criobolium, or sacrific
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ii. 2). But this Egyptian divinity soon had imperial worshippers, — Otho (Suet., Otho,1 2), Domitian, who built an Iseum and a Serapeum (Eutropius, vii. 23), Commodus, and others(Lainprid., Comm. 9). In the third century she had sanctuaries even in Germany (Orelli,No. 1,892). 2 Hymn, x. vv. 1,021 el seq. 3 Procedit hide . . visu horridus (Prudentius, Hymn, x. 1,045). 4 Renatus in aeternum tanrobolio (Orelli, No. 2,352). Some devotees repeated this baptismmonthly, or that of the criobolium, or sacrifice of a ram, which was less costly. See, in FirmicusMaternus (Dc Errore prof, relirj. 28), a curious passage in which he contrasts the remission ofsins obtained by the blood of Christ to the bloody baptism of the taurobolium. . Polluitfiuiiuis iste, non redimit. IDEAS. 391 able to buy, by means of a hideous sacrifice, the repose of a guiltyconscience and the favor of the gods, which could no longer beacquired by the offering of a pigeon, a few grains of incense, andan honest THE The priests of these religions were not like those of Rome,men employed to offer prayers in the temple for the republic. 1 The tamrobolium and the criobolium became frequent from the time of the Antonines: seeOrelli, Nos. 2,322-2,355. The taurobolium was sometimes offered for the health or recoveryfrom illness of an Emperor: thus, at Lyons for Marcus Aurelius (Orelli, No. 2,322), andat Narbonne, where the first personage of the province, the augustal flamen, performing thesacrifice for the sake of Septimius Severns, who was suffering much from gout, received inhis stead the regenerative blood (Gruter, xxix. 12). The same was done also for the pres-ervation of the city (Robert, in the Comptes rendus de IAcad. des inscr., 1872, p. 474).Purification by water was obligatory for all material impurities, such as touching a corpse, etc. 2 Restoration taken from the memoir of M. de Boze o
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