[93] Ibid.
[94] Homer. Odyss. l. 8. v. 92.
[95] [Greek: Ton Kuna ton chruseon apedeixen (ho Zeus) phulattein to hieron
en Kretei]. Antoninus Liberalis. c. 35. p. 180.
[96] Pausanias of Taenarus. l. 3. p. 275.
[97] ---- of Troezen. l. 2. p. 183.
[98] ---- of Hermione. l. 2. p. 196.
[99] Dionys. [Greek: Perieges]. v. 791. This temple stood, according to
Diodorus Siculus and Arrian, in the country of the Cimmerians, near the
Acherusian Chersonese. See Scholia to Dionysius above.
[100] Oppida tota canem venerantur. Juvenal. Sat. 15. v. 8. Diodorus. l. 1.
p. 16.
[101] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 66.
[102] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 368.
[103] [Greek: Exo kunes] was a proverbial expression among the Jews.
[104] Deuteronomy. c. 23. v. 18.
[105] In this golden cup Hercules was supposed to have passed over the
ocean. [Greek: Chruseon ---- depas, en hoi ton okeanon dieperasen
Herakles.] Apollodorus. l. 2. p. 100.
There was likewise in the same place a story about a golden belt.
Philostratus: Vita Apollon. l. 5. p. 212.
[106] Palaephatus. Edit. Elz. 1642. p. 76. the author would not say [Greek:
sphodra plousioi], but keeps to the antient term [Greek: chrusoi], though
it is scarce sense.
[107] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 2. [Greek: stroph. d.] p. 25.
[108] [Greek: Chrusophorousi d' ek tou Kaunasou pollai pegai psegma
aphanes.] Appian de Bello Mithridat. p. 242. Salauces, an antient king of
Colchis, was said to have abounded with gold. Pliny. l. 33. c. 15. p. 614.
Arrian supposes that they put fleeces into the river, to intercept ([Greek:
psegma aphanes]) this imperceptible mineral; and that hence arose the fable
of the Golden Fleece.
[109] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 7. p. 64.
[110] Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo. v. 34.
In like manner there was a shower of gold at Thebes, in Boeotia. Pindar
speaks of Jupiter [Greek: Chrusoi mesonuktion niphonta]. Isthm. Ode 7. p.
746.
[111] Callimachus. Hymn to Delos. v. 260.
[112] Homer. Hymn to Apollo. v. 135.
[113] [Greek: Peukes eidos heteron; leibesthai d' haimati, kathaper toi
chrusoi ten Heliada aigeiron.] Philostratus. l. 5. p. 211. AEschylus
mentions the Arimaspians as living upon a golden stream:
[Greek: Hoi Chrusorrhuton ]
[Greek: Oikousin amphi nama Platonos porou.] Prometheus. p. 49.
[114] Hence the celebrated city in Egypt had the name of Cherchusora. Some
traces of Orcus may be found in Zeus Hircius, and Orcius, mentioned by
Pausanias. l. 5. p. 442. He supposes the name to be from [Greek: horkos],
an oath, and mentions a legend to that purpose.
[115] Hesiod. Theog. v. 281.
[116] [Greek: Chrusaoris, polis Karias----Epaphroditos de ten Karian pasan
Chrusaorida legesthai (phesi).] Steph. Byzant.
[117] Strabo. l. 14. p. 975. Zeus was a title conferred upon more than one
of the family.
[118] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 15. Also c. 17. and 97. called by Strabo [Greek:
Kerkesoura]. l. 17. p. 1160.
[119] Sanchoniathon apud Euseb. Praep. Evan. l. 1. p. 35.
[120] Diodorus Sic. l. 4. p. 224.
[121] Hesiod. Theog. v. 287.
[Greek: Trisomaton boter' Erutheias.] Euripides. Hercules Furens. v. 423.
[122] Homer. Iliad. [Omicron]. v. 256.
[123] Homer. Hymn to Apollo. v. 123.
[124] Second Hymn to Diana. v. 3.
Perseus is styled [Greek: Chrusaoros] in Orpheus de Lapid. c. 15. v. 41.
[125] Homer. Hymn to Apollo. v. 131.
[126] Ibid. v. 126.
[127] Apollo was represented as the author of the lyre, called among the
oriental nations Kinor, and Cuthar: from the latter of which came [Greek:
kitharis], and cithara in the west.
[128] Pindar. Pyth. Ode 1.
[129] [Greek: Chruse, he polis tou Apollonos engus Lemnou--kai tes Lesbias
topos; kai Panephaistia tes Lemnou akroterion--kai en Bithuniai, kai peri
Chalkedona, kai tes Karias; kai en tei Halikarnasidi Dorion pedion; kai en
Hellespontoi; esti kai alle Cherrhonesos tes Indikes; en de tei ektos
Gangou Indikei.] Stephanus Byzant.
See also [Greek: Chrusopolis] ibidem.
[130] Cedrenus. p. 12.
[131] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1095.
[132] Hoffman Lexic.
[133] Plutarch de fluminibus. p. 1151. The original name was Chrusaor,
which had no relation to a golden stream: at least that part of it was so
named which ran through the city Mastaura. See Stephanus Byzant. [Greek:
Mastaura.]
[134] [Hebrew: KTM] of of the Hebrews.
[135] Dionysius [Greek: perieges]. v. 589. Scholia ibidem.
[136] The antients, as I have before observed, were not consistent in their
theology. The Sun was properly Cham, styled also Orus, but, as a title, was
bestowed upon more persons than one.
[137] Josephus of Salatis, the first Shepherd King; [Greek: Houtos en tei
Memphidi kategineto.] Contra Apion. l. 1. Sec.. 14.
[138] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 88.
[139] Josephus contra Apion. l. 1. c. 14.
[140] Justin Martyr mentions this: [Greek: Egno gar kai temenos Chruses
Aphrodites en Aiguptoi legomenon, kai pedion Chruses Aphrodites
onomazomenon.] Cohort, p. 28. Chruse Aphrodite is plainly the Cuthite
Venus; the Deity of the Cuthim.
[141] Pocock's and Norden's Travels, and maps of the country about Cairo.
[142] Colchis, near Comar. Arrian Periplus maris Erythraei. Geog. Vet. vol.
1. p. 33.
[143] [Greek: Kataschein de phasi kai es Pegadas tes ton Oreiton choras.
Hoide Oreitai, chalkai men autois hai petrai, chalke de he psammos,
chalkoun de psegma hoi potamoi agousi. Chrusitin hegountai ten gen dia ten
eugeneian tou Chalkou.] Philostratus. Vita Apollon. l. 3. p. 155.
[144] The Petra and Pagoda were the same: both names for temples.
[145] This mistake arose from Cal-Chus being styled the region of the
Cuthim.
[146] Scholia upon Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 259.
[147] Ibid. Isth. Ode 5. p. 462.
[148] Sanchoniathon apud Euseb: Praep. Evan. l. 1. c. 10. p. 35.
[149] Ibid.
[150] Lucian de Electro. vol. 2. p. 523. Edit. Salmurii.
[151] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. v. 751.
[152] Homer. Odyss. l. [lambda]. v. 15. Phaethon was universally allowed to
be the Sun by the antient mythologists of Greece; to whom we must appeal,
and not to the Roman poets. Orpheus says,
[Greek: Eelion Phaethonta eph' harmasi poloi agousi.] de Lapid. v. 90.
And in another place;
[Greek: Euthus hot' ek peraton gaies Phaethon anorouson, kl.]
Phaethon was the same as Phanes: and there is something very mysterious in
his character. He is represented as the first born of heaven: [Greek:
Protogonos Phaethon perimekeos Eeros huios]--Hunc ait (Orpheus) esse omnium
Deorum parentem; quorum causa coelum condiderit, liberisque prospexerit, ut
haberent habitaculum, sedemque communem: [Greek: Ektisen Athanatois domon
aphthiton.] Lactantus de falsa religione. l. 1. c. 5. p. 15. His history
will be explained hereafter.
[153] Phoenices post multos deinde annos, a Rege Ascaloniorum expugnati,
navibus appulsi, Tyron urbem ante annum Trojanae cladis condiderunt. Justin.
l. 18. c. 3. See Isaiah. c. 23. v. 11. They enlarged Tyre: but it was a
city before: for it is mentioned Joshua. c. 19. v. 29. as the strong city
Tyre.
[154] Porphyry de Abstinentia. l. 2. p. 158.
[155] Apuleius de genio Socratis.
[156] Argonautica. v. 32. See Clementis Cohortatio. p. 12.
[157] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 19. p. 520.
[158] Joseph. Antiq. l. 11. c. 5. p. 563.
[159] Nehemiah. c. 8. v. 9.
[160] 1 Esdras. c. 9. v. 52, 53.
[161] Nehemiah. c. 8. v. 11.
[162] Sanchoniathon alludes to the songs of Canaan, and their great
sweetness, when he is in an allegorical manner speaking of Sidon; whom he
makes a person, and the inventress of harmony. [Greek: Apo de Pontou
ginetai Sidon, he kath' huperbolen euphonias prote humnon oides heuren.]
Apud Euseb. P. E. lib. 1. c. 10. p. 38.
[163] Stephanus Byzant.
[164] Sanchoniathon apud Euseb. l. 1. c. 10. p. 39.
[165] [Greek: Uk kath' hieran glossai basilea semainei]. Josephus contra
Ap. l. 1. c. 13. p. 445.
[166] Osiris, [Greek: Usiris], according to Hellanicus. Plutarch de Iside
et Osiride.
[167] Verse 129.
[168] Homer's Hymn to Apollo. v. 92.
[169] Ichnaia was a city in Sicily, and elsewhere.
[Greek: Achnai polis Thessalias--esti kai polis Boiotias]. Steph. Byzant.
[Greek: Arachnaion oros Argous]. Ibid. Ar-Achnaion is the hill of Canaan,
or the Canaanitish mount.
[170] See Radicals. p. 106.
[171] Pliny. l. 3. p. 173.
[172] Milton. Paradise Lost. l. 1. v. 416. See also Ezekiel. c. 8. v. 14.
[173] Hyginus. Fab. 154. p. 266. not. 7. [Greek: Heteroi de phasi,
dikaiotaton auton einai Neilon.] Eratosthenes. Catasterism. 37.
[174] [Greek: Kaleitai de hupo ton enchorion Buchernos. Aiguptioi de phasi
Neilon einai ton katesterismenon.] Scholia in Aratum. p. 48.
[175] Plutarch de Fluminibus. vol. 2. p. 1154.
[176] Eustathius in Dionysium. v. 239. See Steph. Byzant. [Greek:
Aiguptos.]
[177] Plutarch [Greek: peri ton ekleloipoton chresterion.] vol. 1. p. 409.
[178] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1101. There was supposed to have been a person in
Thessaly named Cycnus, the son of Apollo. He lived upon a lake Uria; which
was so called from his mother.
Inde lacus Hyries videt, et Cycneia Tempe,
Quae subitus celebravit olor. Ovid. Metam. l. 7. v. 371.
Uria was also a river in Boeotia: and here was a Cycnus, said to have been
the son of Poseidon. Pausan. l. 10. p. 831.
[179] [Greek: Erasthenta de Pasiphaes Dia genesthai men Tauron; nun de
aeton kai kuknon.] Porphyry de Abstin. l. 3. p. 285.
[Greek: Pou nun ekeinos ho aetos? pou dai ho kuknos? pou dai autos ho
Zeus.] Clemens. Alex. Cohort. p. 31.
[180] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 24. p. 626.
[181]
[Greek: Pros Gorgoneia pedia Kisthenes, hina]
[Greek: Hai phorkides naiousi, denaioi korai,]
[Greek: Treis kuknomorphoi, koinon omm' ektemenai.] AEschyli Prometheus.
p. 48.
[Greek: Hai men phorkides treis--eichon eidos Kuknon]. Scholia ibidem.
[Greek: Phorkun en aner Kurenaios; hoide Kurenaioi kata genos men eisin
Aithiopes.] Palaephatus. Edit. Elz. p. 76.
[182] [Greek: Tate ota, kai tous ophthalmous hoi demiourgountes ex hules
timias kathierousi, tois Theois anatithentes eis tous neos; touto depou
ainissomenoi, hos panta theos horai, kai akouei.] Clemens Alexand. l. 5. p.
671.
See Diodorus. l. 3. p. 145. This may have been one reason, among others,
why the Cyclopians and Arimaspians are represented with one eye: [Greek:
ton mounopa straton Arimaspon]. AEschylus Prometh. p. 49. The Arimaspian
history was written by Aristeus Proconnesius, and styled [Greek: Arimaspeia
epe.]
[183] Plutarch. [Greek: Ei.] vol. 2. p. 387.
[184] Porph. de Abst. l. 3. p. 286.
[185] Aristophanes. Aves. [Greek: Kuknoi Puthioi kai Delioi.] v. 870.
[186] Plato de Republica. l. 10. p. 620. vol.2.
[187] Porph. de Abstin. l. 4. p. 364.
[188] Lycophron. v. 426. Scholia Ibidem.
[189] Callimachus. Hymn to Delos. v. 249.
[190] Fragmenta Lini. Ex Aristobulo. See Poesis Philosoph. H. Steph. p.
112.
[191] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 14. v. 509.
[192] Plato in Phaedone. vol. 1. p. 84. Plutarch. in [Greek: Ei.] v. 2. p.
387.
Cicero Tusc. Quaest. l. 1. Pliny. l. x. c. 23.
AElian de Animal. l. 2. c. 32. l. x. c. 36.
Philostratus. Vita Apollon. l. 3. c. 23.
[193] De Animalibus. l. 9. [Greek: Kai tines ede pleontes para ten Libuen
perietuchon en tei thalattei pollois adousi phonei goodei; kai touton
heoron apothneskontas enious.] vol. 2. p. 423.
[194] See Brown's Vulgar Errors. l. 3. c. 27.
[195] [Greek: Ho de Mundios phesin Alexandros pollois teleutosi
parakolouthesas ouk akousai adonton.] Athenaeus. l. 9. c. 11.
[196] Epigram. in Erinnam. l. 3. p. 280. H. Steph.
[197] Lucretius. l. 4. v. 182.
[198] See Vossius de Idol. vol. 2. l. 3. c. 88. p. 1212. and Pierius de
Cygnis. p. 254.
[199] Herod. l. 2. c. 109.
[Greek: Geometrias te au heuretai gegonasin (hoi Aiguptioi.)] Clemens.
Strom. l. 1. p. 361.
[200] L. 4. v. 279.
[201] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 4. v. 279.
[202] Dionys. [Greek: Periegesis]. v. 688.
[203] Clem. Alexand. speaks [Greek: Peri te tes Kosmographias kai
Geographias ktl.--Chorographias te tes Aiguptou, kai tes tou Neilou
diagraphes.] Strom. 6. p. 757.
[204] [Greek: Sesostris de, phasin, ho Aiguptios, pollen perieleluthos gen
pinaxi te dedoke ten periodon, kai tes ton pinakon anagraphas ouk
Aiguptiois monon, alla kai Skuthais eis thauma metadounai exiosen.]
Eustath. Praef. Epist. to Dionys. p. 12.
[205] AEgyptios primos omnium tam coelum quam terram esse dimensos: ejusque
rei scientiam columnis incisam ad posteros propagasse. Petavii Uranalogia.
p. 121. taken from Achilles Tatius.
[206] Homer. Odyss. l. [alpha]. v. 52.
[207] The Atlantians were styled [Greek Ouraniones], or sons of heaven. The
head of the family was supposed to be the brother of Saturn. Diodorus. l.
3. p. 193.
[208] Euseb. [Greek: Historion sunagoge]. p. 374. c. 2.
[209] L. 3. 194.
[210] Strabo. l. 1. p. 13.
[211] Diog. Laert. Anaximander.
[212] Laertius. l. 1. p. 74.
[213] In Pherecyde.
[214] Josephus cont. Apion. l. 1. c. 2.
[215] Clemens. Strom. l. 6. p. 741.
[216] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 12.
[217] Ibid. l. 1. p. 17.
[218] P. 30.
[219] Chron. Paschale. p. 34. Zonaras. p. 16.
See Salmasius upon Solinus. c. 35. concerning Ogen. Also, Windelini
Admiranda Nili. p. 12. and 16.
[220] Metamorph. l. 2. v. 9.
[221] V. 119.
[222] Iliad. l. 18. v. 483. and v. 606.
[223] Nonni Dionus. l. 40. p. 1040.
[224] Catull. Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis. v. 47.
[225] Plutarch. Life of Theseus.
[226] Add to this, what I have before taken notice of, the great absurdity
of making the Grecian Argo the first ship which sailed upon the seas: Illa
rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten: when the poet, at the same instant,
is describing Theseus, previous to the Argo, _in a ship_, and attended with
_fleet of ships_.
Namque fluentisono prospectans littore Diae
Thesea _cedentem celeri cum classe_ tuetur,
Indomitos in corde gerens Ariadna furores.
Catulli. Epithal. Pel. et Thet. v. 52. See Famiani Stradae Prolus. l. 3. p.
285.
[227] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 41. p. 1070.
[228] Orphica ex Macrobio Saturn. l. 1. c. 18. p. 202.
[229] Maps, and books too, when writing was introduced, were made of skins,
called [Greek: diphtherai]. [Greek: Tas biblous diphtheras kaleousi apo tou
palaiou hoi Iones.] Herodot. l. 5. c. 58.
A Zone, of curious imagery, is given by Homer to Hercules. Odyss. l.
[Lambda]. v. 609.
[Greek: Chruseos en telamon, hina theskela erga tetukto.]
A remarkable passage, from Isidorus Basilidis, quoted by Clemens
Alexandrin. [Greek: Kai gar moi dokei tous prospoioumenous philosophein,
hina mathosi, ti estin he hupopteros drus, kai to ep' autei pepoikilmenon
PHAROS. Panta hosa Pherekudes allegoresas etheologesen, labon apo tes tou
Cham propheteias.] Strom. l. 6. p. 767.
In the former verses from Nonnus we may see the method of deviation.
Pharos, a tower, is taken for Pharos a garment; and this altered to [Greek:
Chiton]: and, after all, the genuine history is discernible,
notwithstanding the veil which is spread over it. The author says, that, at
the bottom, [Greek: eueklostoio Chitonos], of the well-woven garment, flowed
the Ocean, which surrounded the world. This is certainly a
misinterpretation of the term [Greek: pharos]: and, in the original
writings, whence these verses were copied, the history related to a tower:
and it was at the foot [Greek: PHAROU EUKLUSTOIO] that the ocean beat, by
which the earth was encircled.
[230] Bochart Geog. Sacra. l. 1. c. 228. p. 524. of [Hebrew: TWR].
[231] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1110.
[232] Diodorus Siculus. l. 4. p. 231.
[233] Strabo. l. 11. p. 762.
[234] [Greek: Tundarioi skopeloi]. Ptolemaeus. p. 122. See Strabo. l. 17. p.
1150.
[235] Dionysius. v. 688. Pliny styles them oppida.
Oppida--in ripa celeberrima, Tyndarida, Circaeum, &c. l. 6. c. 4.
[236] The Minotaur was an emblematical representation of Menes, the same as
Osiris; who was also called Dionusus, the chief Deity of Egypt. He was also
the same as Atis of Lydia, whose rites were celebrated in conjunction with
those of Rhea, and Cybele, the mother of the Gods. Gruter has an
inscription, M. D. M. IDAE, et ATTIDI MINOTAURO. He also mentions an altar
of Attis Minoturannus. vol. 1. p. xxviii. n. 6.
[237] Diodor. Sicul. l. 16. p. 411.
[238] Meen was the moon: and Meno-Taurus signified Taurus Lunaris. It was a
sacred emblem, of which a great deal will be said hereafter.
[239] See Paruta's Sicilia nummata.
[240] [Greek: Turis, ho peribolos tou teichous]. Hesych. From whence we may
infer, that any place surrounded with a wall or fortification might be
termed a Tor or Turris.
[Greek: Tarchonion polis Turrhenias.] Stephan. Byzant.
[241] Scholia upon Lycophron. v. 717.
[242] Scholia upon Lycophron. v. 1242.
The Poet says of AEneas, [Greek: Palin planeten dexetai Tursenia.] v. 1239.
[243] Lycophron. v. 1248.
[244] [Greek: Tarkunia polis Turrhenidos apo Tarchonos; to ethnikon
Tarkunios.] Steph. Byzant.
[245] Strabo. l. 5. p. 336. [Greek: Tarkona, aph' hou Tarkunia he polis.]
[246] Lycophron. v. 116.
[Greek: He Torone, gune Proteos.] Scholia ibidem.
[247] [Greek: Turrhenoi salpinga]. Tatianus Assyrius. p. 243.
[248] L. 17. p. 468.
[249] Scholia upon Lycophron. v. 754.
[250] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 749.
[251] Pausanias. l. 7. p. 524.
[Greek: Deime de toi mala kalon Anaktoron.] Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo. v.
77.
[252] Homer. Odyss. [lambda]. v. 105. Strabo supposes Trinakis to have been
the modern name of the island; forgetting that it was prior to the time of
Homer. l. 6. p. 407: he also thinks that it was called Trinacria from its
figure: which is a mistake.
[253] Hymn to Diana. v. 56. I make no doubt but Callimachus wrote [Greek:
Trinakia].
[254] Pliny. l. 5. c. 31.
[255] Etymolog. Magn.
[256] Stephanas Byzant.
[257] [Greek: Trachin, he nun Herakleia kaloumene.] Hesych. or, as Athenaeus
represents it, more truly, [Greek: Herakleian, ten Trachinian kaleomenen.]
l. 11. p. 462.
[258] [Greek: Triaina topos Argous; entha ten triainan orthen estesen ho
Poseidon, sunginomenos te Amumone, kai euthus kat' ekeino hudor aneblusen,
ho kai ten epiklesin eschen ex Amumones.] Scholia in Euripidis Phoeniss. v.
195.
[259] Eusebius. Praep. Evan. l. 3. c. 11. p. 113.
[260] Palaephatus. p. 56.
[261] Ibid. p. 96.
[262] Palaephatus. p. 20.
[263] Iliad. [Sigma]. v. 486.
[264] Diodorus Siculus. l. 3. p. 324.
[265] Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 243.
[266] Homer. Odyss. [Lambda]. v. 306.
[267] Chron. Paschale. p. 36.
[Greek: Nebrod----kalousin Oriona]. Cedrenus. p. 14.
[268] Homer. Odyss. [Lambda]. v. 571.
[269] Strabo. l. 3. p. 259.
[270] Alorus was the first king of Babylon; and the same person as Orion,
and Nimrod. See Radicals. p. 10. notes.
[271] [Greek: Heloros, entha psuchron ekballei poton.] Lycophron. v. 1033.
[Greek: Rheithron Helorou prosthen.] Idem. v. 1184. [Greek: Ho potamos ho
Heloros esche to onoma apo tinos basileos Helorou.] Schol. ibid. There were
in Sicily many places of this name; [Greek: Pedion Helorion]. Diodorus. l.
13. p. 148. Elorus Castellum. Fazellus. Dec. 1. l. 4. c. 2.
Via Helorina. [Greek: Heloros polis.] Cluver. Sicilia Antiqua. l. 1. c. 13.
p. 186.
[272] Diodorus Siculus. l. 4. p. 284.
[273] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 13. p. 356.
[274] [Greek: Kata mesen de ten polin he akropolis, hen ekaloun bursan,
ophrus hikanos orthia.] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1189.
See also Justin. l. 18. c. 5. and Livy. l. 34. c. 62.
[275] [Greek: Zankle polis Sikelias--apo Zanklou tou gegenous.] Stephanus
Byzant.
[276] Scholia in Lycophron. v. 328.
[Greek: Orion--kata tropen tou ou eis o apo tou ourion estin apo historias
tou ouresai tous theous en tei bursei, kai genesthai auton.] Etymolog. Mag.
[Greek: Orion.]
[277] [Greek: Titthe, titthos, titthion, mastos.] Hesychius.
[278] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 878.
[279] [Greek: Oros--ho de Tittheion onomazousin eph' hemon, tenikauta de
ekaleito Murtion.] Pausan. l. 2. p. 170.
[280] Callimach. Hymn in Delon. v. 48. [Greek: Mastoi], often taken notice
of by Xenophon. [Greek: Anabas]. l. 4. p. 320. A hill at Lesbos. [Greek: En
Lesboi kleines Eresou perikumoni MASTO.] Athenaeus. l. 3. p. 111. [Greek:
Echei d' en autoi kai maston.] Polyb. l. 1. p. 57.
[281] Strabo mentions in Cyprus, [Greek: Amathous polis--kai oros
mastoeides Olumpos]. l. 14. p. 1001.
[282] The Circean promontory in Italy seems to have been named Tit-On; for,
the bay below is by Lycophron styled Titonian. [Greek: Titonion te cheuma].
v. 1275. Rivers and seas were often denominated from places near which they
flowed.
[283] Of the Cyclopes I shall hereafter treat at large.
[284] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1080. Azara signified a treasure.
[285] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1106.
[286] Bell. Jud. l. 7. p. 417.
[287] Canticles. c. 8. v. 10.
[288] Jeremiah. c. 49. v. 27.
[289] Amos. c. 1. v. 7.
[290] Ibid. c. 1. v. 10.
[291] Ibid. c. 1. v. 14.
[292] It is remarkable, that in many of the very antient temples there was
a tradition of their having suffered by lightning.
[293] Canticles. c. 8. v. 8.
[294] 2 Chron. c. 27. v. 3.
[295] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1096.
[296] Canticles. c. 7. v. 4.
[297]
Pervenit ad Draconis speluncam ultimam,
Custodiebat qui thesauros abditos. Phaedrus. l. 4. Fab. 18.
See Macrobius. Saturn. l. 1. c. 20. of dragons guarding treasures.
[298] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 2. v. 405.
[299] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 14. p. 408.
[300] Nonni Dionys. l. 33. p. 840.
[301] Ibid. l. 35. p. 876.
[302] Ibid. l. 6. p. 186.
[303] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1183.
[304] [Greek: En de tois edeixe kai zoon huperphues, Dionusou agalma, hoi
Indoi ethuon. Drakon en, mekos pentaplethron; etrepheto de en chorioi
koiloi, en kremnoi bathei, teichei hupseloi huper ton akron peribeblemenos;
kai aneliske tas Indon agelas. ktl.] Maximus Tyr. Dissert. 8. c. 6. p. 85.
[305] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1022.
[306] [Greek: Makra pedion. En toutoi de Poseidonios historei ton Drakonta
peptokota horathenai nekron, mekos schedon ti kai plethriaion, pachos de,
hosth' hippeas hekaterothen parastantas allelous me kathorain; chasma de,
host' ephippon dexasthai, tes de pholidos lepida hekasten huperairousan
thureou.] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1095. The epithet [Greek: peptokos] could not
properly be given to a serpent: but to a building decayed, and in ruins
nothing is more applicable. A serpent creeps upon its belly, and is even
with the ground, which he goes over, and cannot fall lower. The moderns
indeed delineate dragons with legs: but I do not know that this was
customary among the antients.
[307] Virgil. AEneis. l. 6. v. 595.
[308] Homer. Odyss. l. [Lambda]. v. 575.
Quintus Calaber styles him [Greek: poulupelethros].
[Greek: Poulupelethros ekeito kata chthonos eurupedoio.] l. 3. v. 395.
[Greek: Tituon megan, hon rh' eteken ge]
[Greek: Di' Helare, threpsen de kai aps elocheusato Gaia.]
Apollon. Rhodius. l. 1. v. 761.
[309] [Greek: Aiguptos--eklethe Musara--kai Aeria, kai Potamitis, kai
AETIA, apo tinos Indou Aetou.] Stephanus Byzant.
Eustathius mentions, [Greek: Kai Aetia, apo tinos Indou Aetou. ktl.] In
Dionysium. v. 239. p. 42.
[310] Orus Apollo styles it in the Ionian manner [Greek: Eth]. l. 1. c. 7.
p. 10. [Greek: Tode Eth kardia].
[311] [Greek: Aigupton de graphontes, thumiaterion kaiomenon zographousi,
kai epano kardian.] l. 1. c. 22. p. 38. It also signified an eagle.
[312] See the whole in Nonnus. l. 5. p. 148. It seems to have been a winged
machine, which is called [Greek: Kemos], from Cham the Sun. Hence the
notion of the chariot of the Sun, and horses of the same.
[313] [Greek: Kaukasou en knemoisi, Tuphaonie hote petre.] Apollonius
Rhodius. l. 2. v. 1214.
[314] Typhon was a high place; but represented as a Giant, and supposed to
be thunderstruck here, near the city Antioch. Strabo. l. 16. p. 1090. Here
was [Greek: Numphaion, spelaion ti hieron.] p. 1091.
[315] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1089. He mentions a place near the fountains of the
river Orontes called Paradisos: [Greek: Mechri kai ton tou Orontou pegon,
hai plesion tou te Libanou kai tou Paradeisou.] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1096.
[316] Diodorus Siculus. l. 4. p. 283.
[317] Servii Comment. in Virgil. AEneid. l. 2. v. 204.
[318] Nonni Dionys. l. 25. p. 668.
[319] Tot jugera ventre prementem. Ovid of the Pytho of Parnassus. Met. l.
1. v. 459.
See Pausanias. l. 10. p. 695. He says, the extent related to the place,
[Greek: entha ho Tituos etethe].