Note 117 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
Philo, De special. legg., Works ed. Mangeyn, Vol. II. p. 301. Clement of Alexandria, Stromat. III. quotes from Xanthus: μίγνυντο δὲ, φήσιν, οἱ Μάγοι μητράσι, καὶ θυγατράσι, καὶ ἀδελφαῖς μίγνυσθαι θεμιτὸν εἶναι, (Now the Magi, he says, used to have intercourse with mothers, and held it lawful to do so with daughters and with sisters). Comp. the same author’s Recognit., bk. IX. ch. 20.—Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrh. hypot. bk. III. 24.—Origen, Contra Celsum, bk. V. p. 248.—Jerome, Contra Jovian. bk. II.—Cyril, Adv. Julian. bk. IV.—Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1375 and 452.