Note 940 — Chapter XII · THE WORSHIP OF MITHRAS
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Augustine, In Johann. evang. tractatus, VII. or Cumont, T. et M. II. p. 59. This last thinks it more probable that the passage refers to Attis, as there is an allusion in it to redemption by blood. But this would hardly apply to the self-mutilation of the Galli, while it would to the blood-bath of the Taurobolium and Criobolium which so many high initiates of Mithras boast of undergoing.