[Greek: Emoi de dokousi pleionas lusai aporias hoi to tôn daimonôn genos en
mesôi thentes theôn kai anthrôpôn kai tropon tina tên koinônian hêmôn
sunagon eis tauto kai sunapton exeurontes; eite magôn tôn peri Zôroastrên
ho logos outos esti, eite Thraikios]....
41. Cf. Minucius Felix, 26, § 11: "Hostanes daemonas prodidit terrenos
vagos humanitatis inimicos." The pagan idea, that the air was peopled with
evil spirits against whom man had to struggle perpetually, persisted among
the Christians; cf. Ephes., ii. 2, vi. 12, see also Prudentius,
_Hamartigenia_, 514 ff.
42. Cf. Minucius Felix, _loc. cit._: "Magi non solum sciunt daemonas, sed
quidquid miraculi ludunt, per daemonas faciunt," etc. Cf. Aug., _Civ. Dei_,
X, 9 and _infra_, ch. VII, n. 76.