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Text   1: . Telesphorus was a child-deity associated with Asclepius the healer-god.   2: . His 'father' could be either the god Apollo, or his mentor Syrianus who preceded him in the Plat[...]   3: . I.e. the succession of Platonist philosophers would have ceased.   4: . The 'Chaldaean oracles' survive only in fragments. They were compiled during the reign of Marcu[...]   5: . The reference is to Plato, Phaedo 69c-d, "The narthex-carriers are many but the bacchantes (true[...]   6: . See note 4.   7: . Theurgy is the introduction of magic into philosophy as a means to advance the soul. Iambilichu[...]   8: . A reference to the Chaldaean practice of Strophalomancy or the use of rotating tops for divinati[...]   9: . A symbol of Asclepius.   10: . Belonging to Apollo.   11: . Epidaurus was the center of the Asclepius cult.   12: . Castor and Pollux.

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