58] Dobschuetz on "Early Christian Eschatology," in
_Transactions of the Third Congress for the History of
Religions_, vol. ii. (Oxford, 1908), p. 320.

[959] The words are those of Mr. Glover in the last page
of his _Studies in Virgil_.

[960] It should be understood that these legacies, with
the exception of the last (the vocabulary), were only
taken up by the Church after the first two centuries of
its existence. And even the vocabulary of the early
Roman Church was mainly Greek (Gwatkin, _Early Church
History_, ii. 213), and it was not till the rise of the
African school of writers (Tertullian, Arnobius,
Augustine) that the Latin vocabulary really established
itself. Any real assimilation of Christian and pagan
forms of worship was not possible until the latter were
growing meaningless; then "the assimilation of
Christianity to heathenism from the third century is
matter of history" (Gwatkin, i. 269).

[961] Caird, _Gifford Lectures_, vol. ii. p. 353, has
some interesting remarks on this point.

[962] See above, p. 211.

[963] _Growth of Christianity_, p. 144.

[964] See _Roman Festivals_, p. 308.

[965] _Confessions_, i. 14.

[966] Westcott, _Religious Thought in the West_, p. 246.
Gwatkin writes (vol. ii. 236) that all Augustine's
conceptions are shaped by law and Stoicism. Cp. p. 237.
So, too, of Tertullian.

[967] By W. Otto, in the _Archiv fuer
Religionswissenschaft_, vol. xii. (1909) p. 533 foll.

[968] _De Inventione_, ii. 161.

[969] _De Legibus_, ii. 10. 25.

[970] _Ib._ 10. 23.

[971] Lucretius i. 101.

[972] _E.g._ Octavius 38. 2; and again at the end of
that chapter.

[973] Lactantius, bk. v. (_de Iustitia_) ch. 19. I may
note here that the paragraph in the text where this is
quoted was first published in the _Transactions of the
Congress for the History of Religions_ (Oxford, 1908),
vol. ii. p. 174. I may also add that the restricted
sense of the word _religio_ as meaning the monastic
life is, of course, comparatively late. This restrictive
use of heathen words, from the third century onwards, is
the subject of some valuable remarks by Prof. Gwatkin in
his _Early Church History_, vol. i. p. 268 foll.

[974] See _Roman Festivals_, p. 299, and the references
there given.

[975] Livy i. 32,