37. On the [Greek: Ichthus] symbolism I will merely refer to Usener, _Sintflutsagen_, 1899, pp. 223 ff. Cf. S. Reinach, _Cultes, mythes_, III, 1908, pp. 43 ff. An exhaustive book on this subject has recently appeared: Dölger, [Greek: ICHTHYS], _das Fischsymbol in frühchristlicher Zeit_, I, Rome, 1910.
On sacred repasts where fish was eaten see Mnaseas, fragment 32 (_Fragm. histor. graec._, III, 115); cf. Dittenberger, _Sylloge_, 584: [Greek: Ean de tis tôn ichthuôn apothanêi, karpousthô authêmeron epi tou bômou], and Diog. Laert., VIII, 34. There were also sacred repasts in the Occident in the various Syrian cults: _Cenatorium et triclinium_ in the temples of Jupiter Dolichenus (_CIL_, III, 4789; VI, 30931; XI, 696, cf. _Mon. myst. Mithra_, II, p. 501); _promulsidaria et mantelium_ offered to the Venus Caelestis (_CIL_, X, 1590); construction of a temple to Malachbel with a _culina_ (_CIL_, III, 7954). Mention is made of a [Greek: deipnokritês, deipnois kreinas polla met' euphrosunês], in the temple of the Janiculum (Gauckler, _C.R. Acad. Inscr._, 1907, p. 142; _Bolletino communale_, 1907, pp. 15 ff.). Cf. Lagrange, _Religions sémitiques_, II, p. 609, and Pauly-Wissowa, _Realenc._, s. v. "Gad."
39. An inscription discovered at Kefr-Hauar (Fossey, _Bull. corr. hell._, 1897, p. 60) is very characteristic in this respect. A "slave" of the Syrian goddess in that inscription offers his homage to his "mistress" ([Greek: kuria]).
40. Notably at Aphaca where they were not suppressed until the time of Constantine (Eusebius, _Vit. Const._, III, 55; cf. Sozom., II, 5).