23. We know of those beliefs of the Sabaziasts from the frescoes in the
catacombs of Praetextatus; the _Mercurius nuntius_, who leads the dead, is
found beside Attis under the Greek name of Hermes (see Hepding, p.
263).--Maybe the inscription _CIL_, VI, 509 = _Inscr. graec._, XIV, 1018,
should be completed: [Greek: Rheiêi [Hermêi] te genethlôi]; cf. _CIL_, VI,
499. Hermes appears beside the Mother of the gods on a bas-relief by Ouchak
published by Michon, _Rev. des études anciennes_, 1906, p. 185, pl. II. See
also Mendel, "Musée de Brousse," _Bull. corr. hell._, 1909, p. 255.--The
Thracian Hermes is mentioned in Herodotus, see Maury, _Rel. de la Grèce_,
III, p. 136.
24. Besides Bellona-Ma, subordinate to Cybele and Sabazius, who was as much
Jewish as Phrygian, there was only one god of Asia Minor, the Zeus Bronton
(the Thunderer) of Phrygia, prominently mentioned in Roman epigraphy. See
Pauly-Wissowa, _Realenc._, s. v. and Suppl. I, col. 258.
25. Cf. _CIL_, VI, 499: "Attidi menotyranno invicto." "Invictus" is the
characteristic epithet of the solar divinities.
26. P. Perdrizet, "Mèn" (_Bull. corr. hell._, XX), 1896; Drexler in
Roscher, _Lexikon_, s. v., II, col. 2687.