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XIII. Further Observations on the Bas-relief, supposed to represent the Evil Eye. By the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. In a Letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. F.R.S. Pres
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The curious morsel of antiquity which Mr. Millingen has laid upon the table of the Antiquaries, and an explanation of which has been read by the Secretary, I beg still farther to comment on and illustrate, and to endeavour to show that the whole is an allusion to, and representation of the sacred rites of Mithra, and the ceremonies to be observed by all those who were candidates for initiation into the Mithraic mysteries; and in doing this, I shall not detain your Lordship long, or occupy much of the time of the Society, but content myself by laying before you the testimonies of antiquity, with the proofs and authorities on which I found my opinions.
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page 99 note a Μιθϱα, the Sun in Persia, as Osiris in Egypt, of which the hieroglyphic is an eye. See Plutarch de Iside et Osiride, fol. p. 354. F.
page 100 note a See Hesychius in Μιθϱας. Reland, Dissertation viii. p. 198. Selden, Additamenta, p. 52. de Diis Syris.
page 100 note b Homer Od. λ v. 108.
page 100 note c Selden, Addit. p. 272, 3, 4. Hyde, Religio Persarum, c. 4, p. 116, E. O. 4to.
page 100 note d Epist. ad Laetam. Milês in lapide, et Perses.
page 100 note e Casaubon ad Commodum, p. 498, 9. Histor. Aug. Script, torn. 1.
page 100 note f Salmasius de sacris Mithriacis eodem loco.
page 100 note g Nonnus on Nazianzen's second Steleteutic.
page 101 note a Nonnus ibidem.