[287] _CIL._ III, 4413. III, 4796 from Tanzenberg in southern Austria,
is an important witness here, for it records the restoration in 311
by the governor of the province of a Mithraic shrine which had been
deserted for over fifty years.
[288] Apuleius, _Met._ XI, 5.
[289] Plutarch, _de Is. et Osir._, 67.
[290] Apuleius, _Met._ XI, 23.
[291] Apuleius, _Met._ XI, 19-30.
[292] Published by Cumont, _Mystères de Mithra_^2, p. 132, fig. 18.
[293] Lydus, _de mens._ IV, 59. Cf. Cumont, _The Oriental Religions_,
pp. 55 ff. Some scholars doubt the evidence and would place the
introduction of the festivals in the time of the Antonines; so Wissowa,
_Religion und Kultus der Römer_^2, p. 322.
[294] The same name was used in the festival of Isis. Cf. p. 273.
[295] _CIL._ X, 1596.
[296] _Ibid._ VI, 497-504; cf. _IGSI._ 1019, 1020.
[297] Prudentius, _Persiteph._ 10, 1011 ff.; Anon., _Carmen contra
Paganos_ 57 ff.
[298] _CIL._ VI, 512, iterato viginti annis expletis taurobolii sui.
Probably we should read taurobolio suo.
[299] _Ibid._ VI, 510.
[300] Apuleius, _Met._ XI, 25.