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The decline of the West, Volume 1

Note 506 — Chapter XI · FAUSTIAN AND APOLLINIAN NATURE-KNOWLEDGE

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

Juppiter Dolichenus was a local deity of Doliche in Commagene, whose worship was spread over all parts of the Empire by soldiers recruited from that region; the tablet dedicated to him which is in the British Museum was found, for example, near Frankfurt-on-Main.

Sol Invictus is the Roman official form of Mithras. Troop-movements and trade spread his worship, like that of Juppiter Dolichenus, over the Empire.—Tr.

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