Besides the superficial Opuscule of Lucian on the dea Syria, we find scarcely any reliable information in the Greek or Latin writers.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont
These sacred practices and many others, on which Lucian complacently enlarges in his Opuscule on the goddess of Hierapolis, daily revived the habits of a barbarous past in the temples of Syria.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont
Say that I get to Sydney some time in April, and I shall have done well, and be in a position to write a very singular and interesting book, or rather two; for I shall begin, I think, with a separate Opuscule on the Samoan Trouble, about as long as Kidnapped, not very interesting, but valuable-and a thing proper to be done.
"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)"
Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang