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ἐπίσκοπα: i.e. ὥστε τυχεῖν τοῦ σκοποῦ.

‘The god himself,’ i.e. Mithras; ‘the arrows of the sun’ are a familiar figure.


ἐπὶ κεφαλήν, ‘on their head’; i.e. head downwards (cf. ἐπὶ κ. φέρεσθαι, c. 75. 3). Stein and Rawlinson, however, translate ‘to the neck’, and this is a more usual form of punishment in the East. For burying alive generally cf. vii. 114 n.

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