heurein thalassion EKPEPTOKOTA es ten gen; touton plethra men pente malista
epechein, keraunothenta de hupo tou theou kaiesthai.] Pausan. l. 10. p.
806.
[321] Diogenes Laertius. Prooem. p. 5.
[322] [Greek: Temenos; hieron chorion aphorismenon Theoi.] Scholia in
Homer. Il. l. [Gamma]. v. 696.
[Greek: Kai temenos peripuston Amuklaioio Kanobou]. Dionysius. [Greek:
Perieges.] v. 13.
[Greek: Asulon temenos] at Daphne upon the Orontes. See above. p. 428.
[323] Lycophron. v. 6l3.
[324] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 11. v. 56.
[325] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 3. v. 1176.
[326] [Greek: Be d' ep' eran Dias pheugon ophiodea Kupron.] Parthenius, as
corrected by Vossius. See Notes to Pompon. Mela. p. 391.
[327] Lycophron. v. 110.
[328] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 2. v. 707.
[329] Hyginus. Fab. 140.
[330] Plutarch de Oraculoram defectu. v. 1. p. 417.
[331] Clemens Alexand. Cohort. p. 29.
[332] Prolegomena to the Pyth. Odes of Pindar.
[333] P. 39.
[334] Silius Ital. l. 3. v. 29.
[335] [Greek: Luchnon asbeston.] Plutarch de Defect. Orac. vol. 1. p. 410.
[336] Porphyr. de Abstinentia. l. 2.
[337] L. 1. p. 63.
[338] [Greek: To de luchnion en Prutaneioi.] Theoc. Idyll. 21. v. 36.
[Greek: Puros te phengos aphthiton keklemenon.] AEsch. [Greek: Choephoroi.]
v. 268.
[339] See Hyde Relig. Vet. Persarum: and Stanley upon the Chaldaic
religion.
[340] [Greek: Aei de toi aenaon pur.] Callimach. Hymn to Apollo. v. 84.
[341] Vol. 2. p. 84.
[342] Clima. 4. p. 213.
[343] Leviticus. c. 6. v. 13. Hence the [Greek: xulophoria]; a custom, by
which the people were obliged to carry wood, to replenish the fire when
decaying.
[344] It is said in the Scriptures, that _there were giants in the earth in
those days; and also after that_. Genesis. c. 6. v. 4. The word in the
original for giants is Nephelim.
[345] C. 2. p. 6.
[346] V. 22.
[347] Orphic. Argonaut. v. 395.
[348] De Venatione. p. 972.
[349] Pyth. Ode 4. p. 244.
[350] Ibid. p. 246.
[351] Justin. Martyr de Monarchia. p. 42.
[352] De Venat. p. 972.
[353] AEsculapius was of Egypt. Cephalus is said to have lived in the time
of Cecrops [Greek: autochthon]: or, as some say, in the time of Erectheus;
many centuries before Antilochus and Achilles, who were at the siege of
Troy.
[354] AEsculapius was the Sun. Euseb. Praep. Evang. l. 3. p. 112.
[355] Oratio in Herculem. vol. 1. p. 64. Oratio in AEsculapium. p. 67.
[356] Homer. Iliad. [Lambda]. v. 831.
[357] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 361.
[358] [Greek: Monimos de historei, en tei ton thaumasion sunagogei, en
Pellei tes Thettalias Achaion anthropon Pelei kai Cheironi katathuesthai.]
Clementis Cohort. p. 36.
[359] Pocock's Travels. v. 1. p. 65.
[360] Ibid.
[361] [Greek: Para ten limnen ten kaloumenen Acherousian]. Diodorus Sic. l.
1. p. 86.
[362] In Phrygia--juxta specus est Acherusia, ad manes, ut aiunt, pervius.
Mela. l. 1. c. 19. p. 100.
[363] River Acheron, and lake Acherusia in Epirus. Pausan. l. 1. p. 40.
Strabo. l. 7. p. 499. Thucydides. l. 1. p. 34.
[364] Near Corinth Acherusia. Pausan. l. 2. p. 196.
In Elis Acheron. Strabo. l. 8. p. 530.
[365] Celsae nidum Acherontiae. Horat. l. 3. Ode. 4. v. 14.
[366] Near Avernus. In like manner there were [Greek: pedia Elusia] in
Egypt, Messenia, and in the remoter parts of Iberia. See Plutarch in
Sertorio, and Strabo. l. 3. p. 223.
[367] Also Libri Tarquitiani Aruspicum Hetruscorum, so denominated from
Tar-Cushan. Marcellinus. l. 25. c. 2. p. 322.
[368] Herodot. Vit. Hom. c. 3.
[369] Hesychius.
[370] L. 1. p. 77.
[371] Fleetwood's Inscript. p. 42.
[372] P. 319. n. 2.
[373] Sat. 14. v. 259.
[374] Pausanias. l. 2. p. l6l, 162.
There was a hill called Anakeion: [Greek: Anakeion; oros, e ton Dioskouron
Hieron.] Suidas.
It is said of the celebrated Polygnotus, that he painted [Greek: tas en toi
thesauroi kai en toi Anakeioi graphas.] Harpocration. The treasury we may
suppose to have been a part of the temple.
[375] Homer. Iliad. [Gamma]. v. 237.
[376] Homer. Odyss. [Mu]. v. 323.
[377] Cicero in Verrem. Orat. 7. sect. ult.
[378] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 741.
[379] Apollodorus. l. 3. p. 154.
[380] Hyginus. fab. 68, and 75.
[381] Antonin. Liberalis Metamorph. c. 22.
[382] Hymn. in Dian. v. 204.
[383] Cicero de Nat. Deorum. l. 3. 23.
She is supposed to be the same as Diana. [Greek: Kalousi de ten Artemin
Thrakes Bendeian, Kretes de Diktunan, Lakedaimonioi de Oupin.] Palaephatus.
c. 32. p. 78.
[384] Scholia in Callimach. Hymn. in Dianam. v. 204.
[Greek: Opin, kai Hekaergen--ek ton Huperboreon.] Pausan. l. 5. p. 392.
Metuenda feris Hecaerge,
Et Soror, optatum numen venantibus, Opis.
Claudian in Laudes Stilic. l. 3. v. 253.
[385] 2 Kings. c. 23. v. 10. 2 Chron. c. 28. v. 3.
[386] C. 7. v. 31. and c. 19. v. 5. There was a place named Tophel
(Toph-El) near Paran upon the Red Sea. Deuteron. c. 1. v. 1.
[387] Zonar. vol. 2. p. 227. [Greek: Touphan kalei ho demodes kai polus
anthropos.]
[388] Bedae. Hist. Angliae. l. 2. c. 16.
[389] De legibus specialibus. p. 320.
The Greek term [Greek: tuphos], fumus, vel fastus, will hardly make sense,
as introduced here.
[390] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. v. 1. p. 359.
[391] Virgil. AEn. l. 2. v. 713.
[392] [Greek: Ten taphen (Dionusou) einai phasin en Delphois para ton
Chrusoun Apollona.] Cyril. cont. Julian. l. 1. p. 11.
[393] Callimach. Hymn. in Jovem. v. 8.
[Greek: Hode megas keitai Zan, hon Dia kikleskousi.]
Porphyr. Vita Pythagorae. p. 20.
[394] Hence Hercules was styled [Greek: Triesperos]. Lycoph. v. 33.
[Greek: Zeus treis hesperas eis mian metabalon sunekatheude tei Alkmenei.]
Schol. ibid.
[395] Abbe Banier. Mythology of the Antients explained. vol. 4. b. 3. c. 6.
p. 77, 78. Translation.
[396] Plaut. Amphitryo. Act. 1. s. 3.
[397] Cicero de Nat. Deor. l. 1. c. 42.
[Greek: Alla kai taphon autou (Zenos) deiknuousi]. Lucian. de Sacrificiis.
v. 1. p. 355.
[398] Maximus Tyrius. Dissert. 38. p. 85.
[399] Clementis Cohort. p. 40.
[400] Arnobius contra Gentes. l. 4. p. 135. Clem. Alexand. Cohort. p. 24.
[401] Tertullian. Apolog. c. 14.
[Greek: Peusomai de sou kai 'go, o anthrope, posoi Zenes heuriskontai.]
Theoph. ad Autolyc. l. 1. p. 344.
[402] Newton's Chronology. p. 151.
[403] Pezron. Antiquities of nations. c. 10, 11, 12.
[404] Virgil. AEn. l. 7. v. 48.
[405] Sir Isaac Newton supposes Jupiter to have lived after the division of
the kingdoms in Israel; Pezron makes him antecedent to the birth of
Abraham, and even before the Assyrian monarchy.
[406] Arnobius has a very just observation to this purpose. Omnes Dii non
sunt: quoniam plures sub eodem nomine, quemadmodum accepimus, esse non
possunt, &c. l. 4. p. 136.
[407] Antiquus Auctor Euhemerus, qui fuit ex civitate Messene, res gestas
Jovis, et caeterorum, qui Dii putantur, collegit; historiamque contexuit ex
titulis, et inscriptionibus sacris, quae in antiquissimis templis
habebantur; maximeque in fano Jovis Triphylii, ubi auream columnam positam
esse ab ipso Jove titulus indicabat. In qua columna gesta sua perscripsit,
ut monumentum esset posteris rerum suarum. Lactant. de Falsa Relig. l. 1.
c. 11. p. 50.
(Euhemerus), quem noster et interpretatus, et secutus est praeter caeteros,
Ennius. Cicero de Nat. Deor. l. 1. c. 42.
[408] Lactantius de Falsa Relig. l. 1. c. 11. p. 52.
[409] Varro apud Solinum. c. 16.
[410] Epiphanius in Ancorato. p. 108.
Cyril. contra Julianum. l. 10. p. 342. See Scholia upon Lycophron. v. 1194.
[411] Callimach. Hymn. in Jovem. v. 6.
[412] [Greek: Taphon theas axion]. Pausan. l. 2. p. 161.
[413] Diodor. Sicul. l. 1. p. 23. [Greek: Taphenai legousi ten Isin en
Memphei.]
Osiris buried at Memphis, and at Nusa. Diodorus above. Also at Byblus in
Phenicia.
[Greek: Eisi de enioi Bublion, hoi legousi para sphisi tethaphthai ton
Osirin ton Aiguption.] Lucian. de Syria Dea. v. 2. p. 879.
[Greek: Ta men oun peri tes taphes ton Theon touton diaphoneitai para tois
pleistois.] Diodor. l. 1. p. 24.
[414] Procopius [Greek: peri ktismaton]. l. 6. c. 1. p. 109.
[Greek: Aiguptioi te gar Osiridos pollachou thekas, hosper eiretai,
deiknuousi.] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 358. He mentions [Greek: pollous
Osiridos taphous en Aiguptoi.] Ibid. p. 359.
[415] L. 1. p. 79. [Greek: Peri tes Bousiridos xenoktonias para tois
Hellesin enischusai ton muthon; ou tou Basileos onomazomenou Bousiridos,
alla tou Osiridos taphou tauten echontos ten prosegorian kata ten ton
enchorion dialekton.] Strabo likewise says, that there was no such king as
Busiris. l. 17. p. 1154.
[416] Bou-Sehor and Uch-Sehor are precisely of the same purport, and
signify the great Lord of day.
[417] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 144.
[418] Altis, Baaltis, Orontis, Opheltis, are all places compounded with
some title, or titles, of the Deity.
[419] 2 Chron. c. 33. v. 14.
[420] 2 Chron. c. 27. v. 3. _On the wall_ ([Hebrew: CHWMT]) _of Ophel he
built much:_ or rather on the Comah, or sacred hill of the Sun, called
Oph-El, he built much.
[421] Apollon. Rhodii Argonaut. l. 2. v. 709. Apollo is said to have killed
Tityus, [Greek: Boupais eon]. Apollon. l. 1. v. 760.
[422] [Greek: Ton de tou Aiputou taphon spoudei malista etheasamen--esti
men oun ges choma ou mega, lithou krepidi en kukloi periechomenon.] Pausan.
l. 8. p. 632.
[Greek: Aipution tumbon], celebrated by Homer. Iliad. [beta]. v. 605.
[Greek: Aiputos], supposed to be the same as Hermes. [Greek: Naos Hermou
Aiputou] near Tegea in Arcadia. Pausan. l. 8. p. 696. Part of Arcadia was
called [Greek: Aiputis].
[423] Clemens Alexand. Cohort. p. 11. [Greek: Anestemmenoi tois ophesin
epololuzontes Euan, Euan ktl.]
[424] Porphyrii Vita Pythagorae.
[425] Clement. Alexand. Cohort. p. 29.
[426] The Scholiast upon Pindar seems to attribute the whole to Dionusus,
who first gave out oracles at this place, and appointed the seventh day a
festival. [Greek: En hoi protos Dionusos ethemisteuse, kai apokteinas ton
Ophin ton Puthona, agonizetai ton Puthikon agona kata Hebdomen hemeran.]
Prolegomena in Pind. Pyth. p. 185.
[427] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 749.
[428] Ibid. l. 2. p. 155.
[429] Strabo. l. 9. p. 651.
[430] Ibid.
[431] Pausanias. l. 5. p. 376.
[432] Ibid. l. 10. p. 806.
[433] Ibid. l. 1. p. 87.
[434] At Patrae, [Greek: mnema Aiguptiou tou Belou.] Pausan. l. 7. p. 578.
[435] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 179.
[436] Herodotus. l. 7. c. 150. and l. 6. c. 54.
Plato in Alcibiad. 1^{mo}. vol. 2. p. 120.
Upon Mount Maenalus was said to have been the tomb of Arcas, who was the
father of the Arcadians.
[Greek: Esti de Mainalie duscheimeros, entha te keitai]
[Greek: Archas, aph' hou de pantes epiklesin kaleontai.]
Oraculum apud Pausan. l. 8. p. 616.
But what this supposed tomb really was, may be known from the same author:
[Greek: To de chorion touto, entha ho taphos esti tou Arkados, kalousin
Heliou Bomous.] Ibid.
[Greek: Taphos, e tumbos, e semeion.]. Hesych.
[437] Strabo. l. 11. p. 779. [Greek: En de toi pedioi PETRAN TINA
proschomati sumplerosantes eis bounoeides schema ktl.]
[438] Typhon was originally called [Greek: Gegenes], and by Hyginus Terrae
Filius. Fab. 152. p. 263. Diodorus. l. 1. p. 79. he is styled [Greek: Ges
huios exaisios.] Antoninus Liberal. c. 25.
[439] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 380.
[440] Josephus contra Apion. l. 1. p. 460.
[441] Porphyry de Abstinen. l. 2. p. 223.
There was [Greek: Petra Tuphaonia] in Caucasus. Etymolog. Magnum. [Greek:
Tiphos; Tuphaonia Petra estin hupsele en Kaukasoi.]
[Greek: Kaukasou en knemoisi, Tuphaonie hoti Petre.] Apollon. l. 2. v.
1214.
[442] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 79.
[443] [Greek: Paregorousi thusiais kai prauenousi (ton Tuphona)], Plutarch.
Isis et Osiris. p. 362.
[444] Diodorus Sicul. l. 5. p. 338.
[445] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 362. [Greek: Isaiakou tou Herakleous ho
Tuphon].
[446] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 11. v. 762.
[447] [Greek: Enioi de hupo tou Tuphonos, hupo de Atlantos Xenagoras
eireken.] Schol. Apollon. l. 4. v. 264.
[448] Hesiod. Theogon. v. 824.
[449] Ibid. v. 826. Typhis, Typhon, Typhaon, Typhoeus, are all of the same
purport.
[450] Nonni Dionys. l. 1. p. 24.
[451] [Greek: Opheis--timaisthai ischuros]. Philarchus apud AElian: de
Animal. l. 17. c. 5.
[452] See Justin Martyr above.
[Greek: Semeion Orgion Bakchikon Ophis esti tetelesmenos.] Clemens Alexand.
Cohort. p. 11. See Augustinus de Civitate Dei. l. 3. c. 12. and l. 18. c.
15.
[453] [Greek: Anestemmenoi tois ophesin.] Clemens above.
[454] In mysteriis, quibus Sabadiis nomen est, aureus coluber in sinum
dimittitur consecratis, et eximitur rursus ab inferioribus partibus.
Arnobius. l. 5. p. 171. See also Clemens, Cohort. p. 14. [Greek: Drakon
dielkomenos tou kolpou. k. l.]
Sebazium colentes Jovem anguem, cum initiantur, per sinum ducunt. Julius
Firmicus. p. 23. [Greek: Sabazios, eponumon Dionusou.] Hesych.
[455] [Greek: Tous Opheis anestemmenoi, euazontes to Oua, Oua, ekeinen ten
Euan eti, ten dia tou Opheos apatetheisan, epikaloumenoi.] Epiphanius. tom.
2. l. 3. p. 1092.
[456] Cohortatio. p. 11.
[457] Ibid.
[458] Plutarch. Alexander. p. 665.
[459] [Greek: Opheis megalous cheiroetheis epheilketo tois thiasois (he
Olumpias), hoi pollakis ek tou kittou kai ton mustikon liknon
paranaduomenoi, kai perielittomenoi thursois ton gunaikon, kai tois
stephanois, exepletton tous andras.] Plutarch. ibid.
[460] [Greek: Tous opheis tous Pareias thlibon, kai huper tes kephales
aioron, kai boon, Euoi, Saboi, kai eporchoumenos Yes Attes, Attes Yes.]
Demosth. [Greek: Peri stephanou.] p. 516.
[461] Hesych.
[462] [Greek: Tes Isidos agalmata anedousi tautei, hos tini diademati
basileioi.] AElian. Hist. Animal. l. 10. c. 31.
[463] [Greek: Tous Basileis--chresthai pilois makrois epi tou peratos
omphalon echousi, kai periespeiramenois ophesi, hous kalousin aspidas.] l.
3. p. 145.
[464] Priscian. l. 5. and l. 6.
[465] Pausan. l. 10. p. 859.
[466] Bochart supposes this term to signify a father, and the purport of
the name to be Pater magnificus. He has afterwards a secondary derivation.
Sed fallor, aut Abdir, vel Abadir, cum pro lapide sumitur, corruptum ex
Phoenicio Eben-Dir, lapis sphaericus. Geog. Sac. l. 2. c. 2. p. 708.
[467] See Radicals. p. 59. and Deuteronomy. c. 18. v. 11.
[468] [Greek: Echousai basilea eph' hanton ton Angelon tes Abussou; onoma
autoi Hebraisti Abaddon, en de te Hellenikei onoma echei Apolluon.]
Revelations. c. 20. v. 11.
[469] Revelations. c. 20. v. 2. Abadon signifies serpens Dominus, vel
Serpens Dominus Sol.
[470] Daniel Heinsius. Aristarchus. p. 11.
[471] Euseb. P. E. l. 1. p. 41, 42.
[472] Euseb. ibidem. [Greek: Tade auta kai Ostanes ktl.]
[473] Herod. l. 2. c. 189. also Ptolemy.
[474] M. Maimonides in more Nevochim. See Selden de Diis Syris. Synt. 1. c.
3. p. 49.
[475] [Greek: Oubaion, ho estin Hellenisti Basiliskon; honper chrusoun
poiountes Theois perititheasin.] Horapollo. l. 1. p. 2.
[Greek: Oubaion] is so corrected for [Greek: Ouraion], from MSS. by J.
Corn. De Pauw.
[476] Cicero de Nat. Deor. l. 3.
[477] Praep. Evan. l. 1. p. 41.
[478] Euseb. supra.
[479] L. 6. p. 345.
[480] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683. It was supposed to have had its name from
Ellops, the Son of Ion, who was the brother of Cothus.
[481] Callimachus. H. in Delon. v. 292. [Greek: Euaion], Eva-On, Serpens
Sol.
[482] Athenagoras. Legatio. p. 294. [Greek: Erakles Chronos.]
[483] Athenag. p. 295. [Greek: Herakles Theos--drakon heliktos.]
[484] It is said to have been named Rhodus from Rhod, a Syriac for a
serpent. Bochart. G. S. p. 369.
[485] [Greek: Entautha muthuousi tous Ophiogeneis sungeneian tina echein
pros tous opheis]. Strabo. l. 13. p. 850. Ophiogenae in Hellesponto circa
Parium. Pliny. l. 7. p. 371.
[486] Pausan. l. 8. p. 614.
[487] Aristoph. Plutus. Schol. v. 718.
[488] L. 3. c. 96. Strabo. l. 10. p. 692.
[489] Steph. Byzant. [Greek: Patara.]
[490] [Greek: Be d' ep' eran Dias pheugon ophiodea Kupron.] Parthenius. See
Vossius upon Pomp. Mela. l. 1. c. 6. p. 391.
Ovid Metamorph. l. 10. v. 229. Cypri arva Ophiusia.
[491] They were particularly to be found at Paphos. Apollon. Discolus.
Mirabil. c. 39. [Greek: Ophis podas echon duo.]
[492] Herodotus. l. 7. c. 90. [Greek: Hoi de apo Aithiopies, hos autoi
Kuprioi legousi.]
[493] [Greek: Ho gar Minos opheis, kai skorpious, kai skolopendras ouresken
kl.] Antonin. Liberalis. c. 41. p. 202. See notes, p. 276.
[494] Tacitus. Annal. l. 4. c. 21.
[495] In Ceiri.
[496] Strabo. l. 10. p. 746.
[497] What the Greeks rendered [Greek: Seriphos] was properly Sar-Iph; and
Sar-Iphis, the same as Ophis: which signified Petra Serpentis, sive
Pythonis.
[498] Herodotus. l. 8. c. 41.
[499] Strabo. l. 9. p. 603.
[500] Lycophron Scholia. v. 496. [Greek: apo ton odonton tou drakontos.]
[501] Meursius de reg. Athen. l. 1. c. 6.
[502] Apollodorus. l. 3. p. 191.
[503] Diodorus. l. I. p. 25. Cecrops is not by name mentioned in this
passage according to the present copies: yet what is said, certainly
relates to him, as appears by the context, and it is so understood by the
learned Marsham. See Chron. Canon. p. 108.
[504] Eustat. on Dionys. p. 56. Edit. Steph.
[505] [Greek: Ton barbaron Aiguptiasmon apheis. ktl.] ibid.
See also Tzetzes upon Lycophron. v. 111.
[506] Chron. Canon, p. 109.
[507] It may not perhaps be easy to decypher the name of Cecrops: but thus
much is apparent, that it is compounded of Ops, and Opis, and related to
his symbolical character.
[508] [Greek: Drakontas duo peri ton Erikthonion.] Antigonus Carystius. c.
12.
[509] Aristot. de Mirabilibus. vol. 2. p. 717.
[510] Pliny. l. 3. p. 153. l. 8. p. 455.
[511] AEschyli Supplices. p. 516.
[512] L. 3. p. 184.
[513] Apollonius Discolus. c. 12. and Aristot. de Mirabilibus, vol. 2. p.
737.
[514] Aves Diomedis--judicant inter suos et advenas, &c. Isidorus Orig. l.
12. c. 7. Pliny. l. 10. c. 44.
[515] Apollodorus. l. 1. p. 37.
[516] Stephanas Byzant. [Greek: Opikoi.]
[517] The same is said by Epiphanius. [Greek: Heuia ton ophin paides
Hebraion onomazousi.] Epiphanius advers. Haeres. l. 3. tom. 2. p. 1092.
[518] Steph. Byzant.
[519] Ptolemy. p. 93. [Greek: Euia.]
[520] Pausanias. l. 4. p. 356.
[521] L. 2. p. 202.
[522] Pausan. l. 3. p. 249.
[523] There was a city of this name in Macedonia, and in Troas. Also a
river.
[524] Ovid Metamorph. l. 7. v. 357.
[525] Strabo. l. 13. p. 913. It is compounded of Eva-Ain, the fountain, or
river of Eva, the serpent.
[526] Strabo. l. 5. p. 383.
[527] [Greek: Menelaon, hos en Pitanates.] Hesych.
[Greek: Drakon epi tei aspidi (Menelaou) estin eirgasmenos.] Pausan. l. 10.
p. 863.
[528] [Greek: Pitanates, lochos]. Hesych.
[529] It was the insigne of many countries. Textilis _Anguis_
Discurrit per utramque aciem. Sidon. Apollinaris. Carm. 5. v. 409.
[530]
Stent bellatrices Aquilae, saevique _Dracones_.
Claudian de Nuptiis Honor. et Mariae. v. 193.
Ut primum vestras Aquilas Provincia vidit,
Desiit hostiles confestim horrere _Dracones_.
Sidon. Apollinaris. Carm. 2. v. 235.
[531] Epiphanius Haeres. 37. p. 267.
[532] Clemens. l. 7. p. 900.
[533] Tertullian de Praescript. Haeret. c. 47. p. 221.
[534] Vossius, Selden, and many learned men have touched upon this subject.
There is a treatise of Philip Olearius de Ophiolatria. Also Dissertatio
Theologico-Historico, &c. &c. de cultu serpentum. Auctore M. Johan.
Christian. Kock. Lipsiae. 1717.
[535] Homer. Odyss. l. 10. v. 106.
[536] Haec a principio patria Cyclopum fuit. Justin. of the island Sicily.
l. 4. c. 2.
[537]
[Greek: Os opsetai men tou monoglenou stegas]
[Greek: Charonos.] Lycophron. v. 659.
Charon was not a person, but Char-On, the temple of the Sun.
[538] [Greek: Ton peri ten Aitnen kai Leontinen Kuklopas (dunasteusai)].
Strabo. l. 1. p. 38.
[539] The province of Leontina called Xuthia. Diodorus. l. 5. p. 291.
[540] Cyclops. v. 297.
[541] Lycophron. v. 659.
[542]
[Greek: Glukutata phasi ta krea tous xenous pherein.]
[Greek: Oudeis molon deur', hostis ou katesphage.] Euripid. Cyclops. v.
126.
[543] The river Nilus was called Triton, and afterwards Nilus. [Greek:
Metonomasthei de apo Neilou tou Kuklopos.] Scholia in Apollon. l. 4. v.
268.
Nilus Deorum maximus. Huetii Demons. Evang. Prop. 4. p. 111.
[544] [Greek: Aiguptie Zeu, Neile]. Athenaeus. l. 5. p. 203.
Vulcanus--Nilo natus, Opas, ut AEgyptii appellant. Cicero de Natura Deor. l.
3. c. 22. Hence [Greek: Neilos Kuklops] must have been the chief Deity; and
the Cyclopians his votaries and priests.
[Greek: Neiloio temenos Kronida]. Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 239. He was no
other than Ouranus, and Coelus.
[545] [Greek: Asterion, huios Anaktos], who was buried in the island Lade,
near Miletus, is mentioned as a gigantic personage by Pausanias. l. 1. p.
87. Large bones have been found in Sicily; which were probably the bones of
elephants, but have been esteemed the bones of the Cyclopians by Kircher
and Fazellus. Fazellus. Dec. 1. l. 1. c. 6.
[546] Herodotus. l. 5. c. 61. He alludes to them under the name of
Cadmians.
[547] Odyss. 10. v. 190.
[548] AEneid. l. 3. v. 619.
[549] Hymn in Dian. v. 51.
[Greek: Mounos d' ophthalmos messoi epekeito metopoi.] Hesiod. Theogon. v.
143.
Clemens Alexandrinus tells us, that Homer's account of Polyphemus is
borrowed from the character of Saturnus in the Orphic poetry. Strom. l. 6.
p. 751.
[550] Scholia in AEschyl. Prometh. p. 56.
[551] [Greek: Paides Ouranou, kai Ges.]
[552] [Greek: Ex hes autoi (Ouranoi) treis paidas ginoskousin
hekatontacheiras, kai treis heterous apotiktousi Kuklopas.] Proclus in
Photio. c. ccxxxix. p. 982.
Euripides makes them the sons of Oceanus.
[Greek: Hin' hoi monopes pontiou paides Theou]
[Greek: Kuklopes oikous' antr' erem' androktonoi.] Cyclops. v. 21.
[553] [Greek: Kai de Hieron estin archaion, Kuklopon kaloumenos bomos, kai
thuousin ep' autai Kuklopsi.] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 114.
[554] Odyss. [Zeta]. v. 5. [Greek: Hupereian, hoi men ten en Sikelia
Kamarinen.] Schol. ibid.
[555] [Greek: En polei tes Babulonias Kamarinei, hen tinas legein polin
Ourian.] Alexand. Polyhist. apud Euseb. Praep. Evan. l. 9. p. 418.
[556] Natalis Comes. l. 9. p. 510. By the Celtae are meant those of Iberia:
[Greek: opsigonoi Titenes] of Callimachus.
[557] Lycoph. v. 659. Appian mentions a nation of Cyclopians in Illyria,
who were near the Pheacians.
[558] The liba made in such temples were from it named Charisia. [Greek:
Charision, eidos plakounton.] Hesych.
[559] In Parthia, [Greek: Kalliope, Charis]. Appian. Syriac. p. 125.
[Greek: Phrugias polis Karis]. Steph. Byzant.
Charisiae in Arcadia. Ibid. The island Cos, called of old Caris. Ibid.
[560] Herodotus. l. 4. c. 13. [Greek: Arimaspous andras mounophthalmous.]
Strabo. l. 1. p. 40. [Greek: Tacha de kai tous monommatous Kuklopas ek tes
Skuthikes historias metenenochen (Homeros.)]
[561] [Greek: Oupis te, Loxo te, kai euaion Hekaerge.] Callimach. H. in
Delon. v. 292.
[562] Casaubon. not. in Strabon. l. 1. p. 40.
[Greek: Mounopa straton Arimaspon.] AEschyl. Prineth. p. 49.
[563] [Greek: Ton gar basilea kai kurion Osirin ophthalmoi kai skeptroi
graphousin.] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 354.
[564] Lycophron. v. 328. See Suidas.
[Greek: Philochoros Tritopatoras panton gegonenai protous.] Etymolog. Mag.
See Meursii not. in Lycophron. v. 328. [Greek: Rhaisei tripatrou phasganoi
Kandaonos.]
[565] Iliad. [Sigma]. v. 382. and [Xi]. v. 275. See Pausan. l. 9. p. 781.
[566] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 29. p. 760.
The Graces and the Furies (Charites et Furiae) were equally denominated from
the Sun, and fire; and in consequence of it had joint worship in Arcadia.
Pausan. l. 8. p. 669. Charis, [Greek: Charis], of the Greeks, was the same
personage as Ceres of the Romans. She was also called Damater, and esteemed
one of the Furies. Pausan. l. 8. p. 649.
[567] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 781. So Coronis is said to have been the daughter
of Phlegyas. Pausan. l. 2. p. 170: and Cronus the son of Apollo. l. 2. p.
123. Chiron the son of Saturn; Charon the son of Erebus and night. The hero
Charisius, the son of Lycaon, which Lycaon was no other than Apollo, the
God of light. These were all places, but described as personages; and made
the children of the Deity, to whom they were sacred.
[568] [Greek: Deinous Theois te hiera kataskeuasasthai, kai basileia
anthropois; kai gar toi Apolloni ton Naon oikodomesanto ton en Delphois,
kai Huriei ton Thesauron.] Pausan. l. 9. p. 785.
Turres, ut Aristoteles, Cyclopes (invenerunt). Pliny. l. 7. c. 56.
[569] Virgil. AEn. l. 6. v. 630.