[689] Thevenot. part 2d. p. 141, 146.
Some say that Thevenot was never out of Europe: consequently the travels
which go under his name were the work of another person: for they have many
curious circumstances, which could not be mere fiction.
[690] Clemens Alexandrinus. l. 6. p. 756.
[691] Hyde de Religione Vet. Persar. p. 306.
[692] See Radicals. p. 77.
[693] Petavius in Epiphanium. p. 42.
[694] Herbert's Travels. p. 138.
[695] Procopius. Persica. l. 1. c. 24.
[696] Ovid. Fast. l. 6. v. 291.
[697] Similis est natura Naphthæ, et ita adpellatur circa Babylonem, et in
Astacenis Parthiæ, pro bituminis liquidi modo. Pliny. l. 2. c. 106. p. 123.
[698] Callim. H. to Delos. v. 201.
[699] Pliny. l. 2. c. 22. p. 112. He supposes the name to have been given,
igne ibi primum reperto.
[700] Callimachus. H. to Delos. v. 325.
[701] Herodotus. l. iv. c. 69.
[702] Και θυουσι Περσαι πυρι, επιφορουντες αυτῳ την πυρος τροφην,
επιλεγοντες, Πυρ, Δεσποτα, εσθιε. Maximus Tyrius. Dissert. 8. p. 83.
[703] See Lycophron. v. 447. and Stephanus. Κυπρος.
Κεραστιδος εις χθονα Κυπρου. Nonni Dionys. l. iv.
[704] Hospes erat cæsus. Ovid. Metamorph. l. x. v. 228.
[705] Ovid. Metamorph. l. x. v. 228.
[706] Strabo. l. 10. p. 684.
[707] Solinus. cap. 17. Pliny takes notice of the city Carystus.
Eubœa--Urbibus clara quondam Pyrrhâ, Orco, Geræsto, Carysto, Oritano, &c.
aquisque callidis, quæ Ellopiæ vocantur, nobilis. l. 4, c. 12.
[708] Εν τοις Κασταβαλοις εστι το της Περασιας Αρτεμιδος ἱερον, ὁπου φασι
τας ἱερειας γυμνοις τοις ποσι δι' ανθρακιαν βαδιζειν απαθεις. Strabo. l. 12
p. 811.
[709] Μιθρας ὁ ἡλιος παρα Περσαις. Hesych.
Μιθρης ὁ πρωτος εν Περσαις Θεος. Ibidem.
Mithra was the same. Elias Cretensis in Gregorij Theologi Opera.
[710] Elias Cretensis. Ibidem. In like manner Nonnus says, that there could
be no initiation--Αχρις ὁυ τας ογδοηκοντα κολασεις παρελθοι. In Nazianzeni
Steliteutic. 2.
[711] Και τοτε λοιπον εμυουσι αυτον τα τελεωτερα, εαν ζησῃ. Nonnus supra.
[712] Account of Persia, by Jonas Hanway, Esq. vol. 3. c. 31, 32. p. 206.
[713] Εικονα φεροντος σπηλαιου του Κοσμου. Por. de Ant. Nymph. p. 254.
[714] Μετα δε τουτον τον Ζωροαστρην κρατησαντος και παρ' αλλοις δι' αντρων
και σπηλαιων, ειτ' ουν αυτοφυων, ειτε χειροποιητων, τας τελετας αποδιδοναι.
Porph. de Antro Nymph. p. 108. The purport of the history of Mithras, and
of the cave from whence he proceeded, I shall hereafter shew. Jupiter was
nursed in a cave; and Proserpine, Κορη Κοσμου, nursed in a cave: ὡσαυτως
και ἡ Δημητηρ εν αντρῳ τρεφει την Κορην μετα Νυμφων· και αλλα τοιαυτα πολλα
ἑυρησει τις επιων τα των θεολογων. Porph. ibid. p. 254.
[715] Numbers. c. 22. v. 41. Leviticus. c. 26. v. 30.
[716] 2 Kings. c. 16. v. 3, 4.
[717] 1 Kings. c. 22. v. 43. 2 Kings. c. 12. v. 3. c. 15. v. 4-35.
[718] There were two sorts of high places. The one was a natural eminence;
a hill or mountain of the earth. The other was a factitious mound, of which
I shall hereafter treat at large.
[719] Numbers. c. 22. v. 41. and c. 23. v. 14-28.
[720] Preface of Demetrius Moschus to Orpheus de Lapidibus--Θειοδαμαντι του
Πριαμου συνηντησεν Ορφευς--κτλ.
[721] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1064.
Περσας επι τα ὑψηλοτατα των ορεων θυσιας ερδειν. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 131.
Some nations, instead of an image, worshipped the hill as the
Deity--Επεφημισαν δε και Διι αγαλματα ὁι πρωτοι ανθρωποι κορυφας ορον,
Ολυμπον, και Ιδην, και ει τι αλλο ορος πλησιαζει τῳ Ουρανῳ. Maximus Tyrius
Dissert. 8. p. 79.
[722] Appian de Bello Mithridatico. p. 215. Edit. Steph. He, by an
hyperbole, makes the pile larger than the apex on which it stood.
[723] Virgil. l. 5. v. 760.
[724] Hist. Japan. vol. 2d. book 5. c. 3. p. 417.
[725] Παν δε ορος του Διος ορος ονομαζεται, επει εθος ην τοις παλαιοις
ὑψιστω οντι τῳ Θεῳ ην υψει θυσιας ποιεισθαι. Melanthes de Sacrificijs. See
Natalis Comes. l. 1. 10.
[726] Ομφη, θεια κληδων. Hesych. It was sometimes expressed without the
aspirate, αμβη: hence the place of the oracle was styled Ambon, αμβων.
Αμβων, ἁι προσαναβασεις των ορων. Hesych.
[727] Τον Ομφιν ευεργετην ὁ Ἑρμαιος φησι δηλουν ἑρμηνευομενον. Plutarch:
Isis et Osiris. vol. 1. p. 368.
[728] Ολυμποι εισιν ἑξ--κλ. Scholia upon Apollonius Rhodius. l. 1. v. 598.
[729] Many places styled Olympus and Olympian.
In Lycia: Ολυμπος μεγαλη πολις, και ὁρος ὁμωνυμον. Strabo. l. 14. p. 982.
Ολυμπη πολις Ιλλυριας. Stephanus Byzantinus.
In Cyprus: Αμαθος πολις, και ορος μαστοειδες Ολυμπος. Strabo. l. 14. p.
1001.
Ἡδε ακρορεια καλειται Ολυμπος. Strabo. Ibidem.
Josephus mentions the temple of Olympian Zeus at Tyre. Antiq. Jud. l. 8. c.
1.
At Megara in Greece: Τεμενος Ολυμπειον. Pausanias. l. 1. p. 97.
In Elis: Ἡ Ολυμπια πρωτον Κρονιος λοφος ελεγετο. Scholia upon Lycophron. v.
42.
In Attica: Ναος Κρονου, και Ῥεας, και τεμενος την επικλησιν Ολυμπιας.
Pausan. l. 1. p. 43.
In Achaia: Διος Ολυμπιου ναος. Pausan. l. 2. p. 123.
At Delos: Ολυμπειον, τοπος εν Δηλωι. Stephanus Byzantinus. Εστι και πολις
Παμφυλιας.
Libya was called Olympia. Stephanus Byzant.
The moon called Olympias: Ἡ γαρ Σεληνη παρ' Αιγυπτιοις κυριως Ολυμπιας
καλειται. Eusebii Chron. p. 45. l. 10.
The earth itself called Olympia by Plutarch, who mentions της Γης Ολυμπιας
ἱερον in Theseus, by which is meant the temple of the Prophetic Earth.
Many other instances might be produced.
[730] Sophocles: Œdipus Tyrannus. v. 487.
Ομφαλον εριβρομου Χθονος. Pind. Pyth. Ode 6. v. 3.
Ορθοδικαν Γας ομφαλον κελαδητε. Pind. Pyth. Ode 11. antist.
[731] Euripides in Ione. v. 233.
Μεσομφαλος Εστια. v. 461.
[732] Titus Livius. l. 38. c. 47.
[733] Strabo. l. 9. p. 642.
[734] Varro de Ling. Lat. l. 6. p. 68.
Pausanias gives this account of the omphalus at Delphi. Τον δε ὑπο Δελφων
καλουμενον ομφαλον λιθου πεποιημενον λευκου, τουτο ειναι το εν μεσῳ γης
πασης αυτοι λεγουσιν ὁι Δελφοι· δεικνυται τε και ομφαλος ΤΙΣ εν τῳ ναῳ
τιταινωμενος. Pausan. l. 10. p. 835.
It is described by Tatianus, but in a different manner. Εν τῳ τεμενει του
Λητοϊδου καλειται τις ομφαλος. Ὁδε ομφαλος ταφος εστιν Διονυσου. p. 251.
Oratio contra Græcos.
[735] Plutarch περι λελοιπ. Χρηστηρ.
[736] Horus Apollo. § 21. p. 30. edit. 1729.
[737] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 141. It is spoken of Phliuns, far removed from
the centre of the Peloponnesus.
[738] This omphalus was near the Plutonian cavern. Diodorus. l. 5.
Τρις δ' επι καλλιστης νησου δραμες ομφαλον Εννης.
Callimachus: Hymn to Ceres. Cicero in Verrem, 4. c. 48.
[739] Homer. Odyss. l. α. v. 50.
[740] Stephanus Byzantinus. The natives were also styled Pyrrhidæ; and the
country Chaonia from the temple Cha-On, οικος ἡλιου.
[741] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 7.
[742] Strabo. l. 8. p. 542.
[743] By Livy called Aliphira. l. 32. c. 5.
In Messenia was a city Amphia--Πολισμα επι λοφου ὑψηλου κειμενον. Pausan.
l. 4. p. 292. The country was called Amphia.
[744] Αλφειονιας Αρτεμιδος, η Αλφειουσης αλσος. Strabo. l. 8. p. 528.
[745] Plutarch de Fluminibus--Αλφειος.
Alpheus, said to be one of the twelve principal and most antient Deities,
called συμβωμοι; who are enumerated by the Scholiast upon Pindar. Βωμοι
διδυμοι, πρωτος Διος και Ποσειδωνος--κτλ. Olymp. Ode. 5.
[746] Stephanus Byzant. Ομφαλιον. It was properly in Epirus, where was the
oracle of Dodona, and whose people were styled Ομφαλιηεις above.
[747] Ομφαλιον, τοπος Κρητης·-- Steph. Byzant. Εστι δε εν Κρητικοις ορεσι
και κατ' εμε ετι Ελωρος πολις. Strabo. l. 10. p. 834. Eluros--אל אור.
[748] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 337.
[749] Callimachus. Hymn to Jupiter. v. 42.
[750] Quintus Curtius. l. 4. c. 7. p. 154. Varior.
[751] Hyde of the Umbilicus. Relig. vet. Persarum. Appendix 3. p. 527.
[752] That Olympus and Olympia were of Egyptian original, is manifest from
Eusebius; who tells us, that in Egypt the moon was called Olympias; and
that the Zodiac in the heavens had antiently the name of Olympus. Ἡ γαρ
Σεληνη παρ' Αιγυπτιοις κυριος Ολυμπιας καλειται, δια το κατα μηνα
περιπολειν τον Ζωδιακον κυκλον, ον ὁι παλαιοι αυτων ΟΛYΜΠΟΝ εκαλουν.
Chronicon. p. 45. l. 9. The reason given is idle: but the fact is worth
attending to.
Olympus was the supposed præceptor of Jupiter. Diodorus. l. 3. p. 206.
[753] Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 241.
[754] Επι νεως περιφερεται χρυσης ὑπο Ἱερων ογδοηκοντα (ὁ Θεος). Ὁυτοι δε
επι των ωμων φεροντες τον θεον προαγουσιν αυτοματως, ὁπου αγοι το του θεου
νευμα τον πορειαν. Diodorus. l. 17. p. 528.
It is observable, that this historian does not mention an omphalus: but
says, that it was a statue, ξοανον, which was carried about.
[755] Bochart. Canaan. l. 1. c. 40.
[756] Ομφη, θεια κληδων, ὁ εστιν οναρ. Schol. on Homer. Iliad. Β. v. 41.
[757] Eusebius. Præp. Evang. l. 5. p. 194.
One title of Jupiter was Πανομφαιος.
Ενθα Πανομφαιῳ Ζηνι ῥηζεσκον Αχαιοι. Homer. Iliad. Θ. v. 250.
Ara Panomphæo vetus est sacrata Tonanti. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 11. v. 198.
[758] Pocock's Egypt. p. 108. Plate xlii.
[759] Pocock. Plate xxxix. p. 105.
[760] He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor. Numbers. c.
22. v. 5.
[761] We learn from Numbers. c. 22. v. 36. and c. 31. v. 8. that the
residence of Balaam was in Midian, on the other side of the river to the
south, beyond the borders of Moab. This seems to have been the situation of
Petra; which was either in Midian or upon the borders of it: so that
Pethor, and Petra, were probably the same place. Petra is by the English
traveller, Sandys, said to be called now Rath Alilat.
Petra by some is called a city of Palestine: Πετρα πολις Παλαιστινης.
Suidas. But it was properly in Arabia, not far from Idume, or Edom. See
Relandi Palæstina. p. 930. and Strabo. l. 16.
[762] The Ammonites were a mixed race; being both of Egyptian and Ethiopic
original: Αιγυπτιων και Αιθιοπων αποικοι. Herod. l. 2. c. 42.
[763] Pocock's Egypt. vol. 1. plate xlii.
[764] Luxorein by Norden, called Lucorein. It was probably erected to the
Sun and Ouranus, and one of the first temples upon earth.
[765] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 4. v. 1052.
Mopsus was the son of Ampycus. Hygin. Fab. c. cxxviii. By some he is said
to have been the son of Apollo. Apollo and Ampycus were the same.
[766] Orphic. Argonaut. v. 720.
[767] Ibidem. v. 185.
[768] Justin. Martyr. Apolog. p. 54.
Amphilochus was the God of light and prophecy. Plutarch mentions εξ
Αμφιλοχου μαντεια, in the treatise περι βραδεως τιμωρουμενων. p. 563.
[769] Cohortatio. p. 10.
[770] Lycophron. v. 1163.
[771] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 896.
[772] Hence the prophetic Sibyl in Virgil is styled Amphrysia vates.
Virgil. Æn. l. 6. v. 368.
[773] Plin. l. 4. c. 12. Strabo. l. 10. Called Mallus, by Pausanias, Εν
Μαλλῳ μαντειον αψευδεστατον. l. 1. p. 84.
[774] Λεγεται δε ὑπο των Αμφικλειεων μαντιν τε σφισι τον Θεον τουτοι, και
βοηθον νοσοις καθισταναι--προμαντευς δε ὁ ἱερευς εστι. Pausanias. l. 10. p.
884. The city was also called Ophitea.
[775] Aristophanes. Νεφελαι. v. 595.
[776] See Scholia to Aristoph. v. 595.
[777] Ibidem.
[778] We meet with the like in the Orphica.
Αμφι δε μαντειας εδαην πολυπειρονας ὁρμους
Θηρων, Οιωνων τε. Argonautica. v. 33.
So in Pindar. Κελαδοντι μοι αμφι Κινυραν. Pyth. Ode 2. p. 203.
We have the same from the Tripod itself.
Αμφι δε Πυθω, και Κλαριου μαντευματα Φοιβου. Apollo de defectu Oraculor.
apud Eusebium. Præp. Evang. l. 5. c. 16. p. 204.
[779] Hymn to Venus of Salamis. See Homer Didymi. vol. 2. p. 528.
The names of the sacred hymns, as mentioned by Proclus in his Χρηστομαθεια,
were Παιανες, Διθυραμβος, Αδωνις, Ιο Βακχον, Ὑπορχηματα, Εγκωμια, Ευκτικα.
Photius. c. 236. p. 983.
[780] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 213.
[781] Idque a Θριαμβῳ Græco, Liberi Patris cognomento. Varro de linguâ Lat.
l. 5. p. 58.
[782] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 213.
[783] Epiphanius--adversus Hæres. l. 3. p. 1093.
[784] Pindar. Olympic Ode vi. p. 53.
Iamus, supposed by Pindar to have been the son of Apollo; but he was the
same as Apollo and Osiris. He makes Apollo afford him the gift of prophecy:
Ενθα ὁι ωπασε
Θησαυρον διδυμον μαντοσυνας (Απολλων). Ibid. p. 53.
[785] Of the Iamidæ, see Herodotus. l. v. c. 44. l. ix. c. 33.
Καλλιον των Ιαμιδεων μαντιν.
[786] Pindar. Ibidem. p. 51.
[787] Pi is the antient Egyptian prefix.
[788] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 62. p. 30.
[789] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 3. v. 1180.
An ox or cow from being oracular was styled Alphi as well as Omphi. Hence
Plutarch speaks of Cadmus: Ὁν φασι το αλφα παντων προταξαι. δια το Φοινικας
ὁυτω καλειν τον βουν. Sympos. Quæst. 9. 3.
[790] In insulâ Pharo. Pliny. l. 36. c. 12.
[791] Wheeler's Travels, p. 207.
[792] Wheeler. p. 204. Sandys's travels. p. 32.
[793] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1141.
[794] Strabo. l. 3. p. 259.
[795] Strabo. l. 2. p. 258.
[796] Strabo. Ibidem. Ou-Ob. Sol. Pytho. Onoba, regio Solis Pythonis.
[797] Strabo calls the African pillar Abyluca; which is commonly rendered
Abila.--Ενιοι δε στηλας ὑπελαβον την Καλπην, και την Αβυλυκα--κτλ. Ibidem.
Ab-El-Uc, and Ca-Alpe.
Calpe is now called Gibel-Tar, or Gibralter: which name relates to the hill
where of old the pillar stood.
[798] --Αλλ' απο λιμενος μεν ουδεις αναγηται, μη θυσας τοις Θεσις, και
παρακαλεσας αυτους βοηθους. Arrian upon Epictetus. l. 3. c. 22.
[799] Virgil. l. 3. Æneis.
[800] Callimachus. Hymn to Delos. v. 3l6.
[801] Homer. Hymn to Apollo, v. 156.
Helen is said to have been a mimic of this sort.
[802] Το ἱερον του Ουριου απεχει απο του Βυζαντιου σταδια ρκ· γινονται δε
μιλια ιϛ. και εστι στενοτατον το στομα του Ποντου καλουμενον. Anon.
Descript. Ponti Euxini.
[803] See Spon. and Wheeler's travels. p. 209.
[804] Dionysius περιηγης. v. 380.
[805] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 1. v. 601.
[806] Ibid. l. 1. v. 1114.
In another place,
Φυλα τε Βιθυνων αυτῃ κτεατισσατο γαιῃ,
Μεσφ' επι Ρηβαιου προχοας, σκοπελον τε Κολωνης.
Apollon. Rhod. l. 2. v. 790.
[807] Orphic Argonaut. v. 375.
[808] Homer's Hymn to Apollo.
[809] Orphic Argonaut. v. 1295.
Sophocles calls the sea coast παραβωμιος ακτη, from the numbers of altars.
Œdipus Tyrannus. v. 193.
The like province was attributed to the supposed sister of Apollo, Diana:
Jupiter tells her--
και μεν αγυιαις
Εσσῃ και λιμενεσσιν επισκοπος.
And, in another place:
Τρις δεκα τοι πτολιεθρα και ουκ ἑνα Πυργον οπασσω.
Callimachus. Hymn to Diana.
Ποτνια, Μουνυχιη, Λιμενοσκοπε, χαιρε, Φεραια. Ibid. v. 259.
[810] Πριν γε ουν ακριβωθηναι τας των αγαλματων σχεσεις, κιονας ἱσταντες ὁι
παλαιοι εσεβον τουτους, ὡς αφιδρυματα του Θεου. Clemens Alexand. l. 1. p.
418.
[811] --Οντος ουχι αγαλματος συν τεχνῃ, λιθου δε αργου κατα το αρχαιον.
Pausan. l. 9. p. 757.
Also of the Thespians: Και σφισιν αγαλμα παλαιοτατον εστιν αργος λιθος. p.
761.
[812] Tertullian adversus Gentes. l. 1. c. 12.
[813] Και το μεν Σαμιας Ἡρας προτερον ην σανις. Clementis Cohort. p. 40.
[814] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 1. v. 1117. p. 115.
[815] Orphic Argonaut. v. 605.
Pliny, l. 16, mentions simulacrum vitigineum.
[816] Callimachus. Hymn to Diana. v. 237.
[817] Πρεμνον--στελεχος, βλαστος, παν ριζωμα δενδρου το γηρασκον· η το
αμπελου προς τῃ γη πρεμνον. Hesychius.
Πρεμνιασαι, εκριζωσαι. Ibidem.
[818] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. xi. p. 306.
[819] Nonni Dion. l. x. p. 278.
[820] Nonni Dion. l. xi. p. 296.
[821] Ovid. Fast. l. 3. v. 409.
[822] Αμπελος, πολις της Λιγυστικης· Ἑκεταιος εν Ευρωπῃ· εστι δε ακρα
Τορωναιων Αμπελος λεγομενη· εστι και ἑτερα ακρα της Σαμου· και αλλη εν
Κυρηνη. Αγροιτας δε δυο πολεις φησι, την μεν ανω, την δε κατῳ· εστι δε και
Ιταλιας ακρα, και λιμην. Steph. Byzant.
Καλειται μεν ουν και ακρα τις Αμπελος. Strabo of Samos. l. 14. p. 944.
[823] Ampelusia, called Κωττης ακρον. Ptolemy. l. 4. so named according to
Strabo απο Κωτεων, or Κωταιων, not far from a city Zilis, and Cota. See
Pliny. l. 5. c. 1.
Promontorium Oceani extimum Ampelusia. Pliny. l. 5. c. 1.
Ampelona. Pliny. l. 6. c. 28.
[824] Απο Αμπελου ακρης επι Καναστραιην ακρην. Herodotus. l. 7. c. 123.
Αμπελος ακρα, in Crete. Ptolemy. See Pliny. l. 4. c. 12.
[825] In Samos was Αμπελος ακρα· εστι δε ουκ ευοινος. Strabo. l. 14. p.
944.
Some places were called more simply Ampe.
See Herodotus of Ampi in the Persian Gulf. l. 6. c. 20.
Αμπη of Tzetzes. See Cellarius.
[826] Μυκαλης χωριον ἱερον. Herodotus. l. 1. c. 148.
[827] Præp. Evan. l. 5. c. 16.
[828] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 12.
Νυμφαι εισι εν τῳ φρεατι. Artemidorus Oneirocrit. l. 2. c. 23.
[829] Νυμφων εστιν ἱερον επι τῃ πηγῃ.---λουομενοις δε εν τῃ πηγῃ καματων τε
εστι και αλγηματων παντων ἱαματα. Pausanias. l. 6. p. 510.
[830] Νυμφικα, and Λουτρα, are put by Hesychius as synonymous.
Omnibus aquis Nymphæ sunt præsidentes. Servius upon Virgil. Eclog. 1.
Thetis was styled Nympha, merely because she was supposed to be water.
Thetidem dici voluerunt aquam, unde et _Nympha_ dicta est. Fulgentij
Mytholog. c. viii. p. 720.
[831] Pausanias. l. 8. p. 670.
Young women were, by the later Greeks, and by the Romans, styled Nymphæ;
but improperly. Nympha vox, Græcorum Νυμφα, non fuit ab origine Virgini
sive Puellæ propria: sed solummodo partem corporis denotabat. Ægyptijs,
sicut omnia animalia, lapides, frutices, atque herbas, ita omne membrum
atque omnia corporis humani loca, aliquo dei titulo mos fuit denotare. Hinc
cor nuncupabant Ath, uterum Mathyr, vel Mether: et fontem fœmineum, sicut
et alios fontes, nomine Ain Omphe, Græce νυμφη, insignibant: quod ab
Ægyptijs ad Græcos derivatum est.--Hinc legimus, Νυμφη πηγη, και νεογαμος
γυνη, νυμφην δε καλουσι κτλ. Suidas.
Παρ' Αθηναιοις ἡ του Διος μητηρ, Νυμφη. Ibidem.
[832] Naptha is called Apthas by Simplicius in Categoric. Aristotelis. Και
ὁ Αφθας δεχεται ποῤῥωθεν του πυρος ειδος. The same by Gregory Nyssen is
contracted, and called, after the Ionic manner, Φθης: ὡσπερ ὁ καλουμενος
Φθης εξαπτεται. Liber de animâ. On which account these writers are blamed
by the learned Valesius. They are, however, guilty of no mistake; only use
the word out of composition. Ain-Aptha, contracted Naptha, was properly the
fountain itself: the matter which proceeded from it was styled Apthas,
Pthas, and Ptha. It was one of the titles of the God of fire, called
Apha-Astus, the Hephastus of the Greeks; to whom this inflammable substance
was sacred.
See Valesij notæ in Amm. Marcellinum. l. 23. p. 285.
Epirus was denominated from the worship of fire, and one of its rivers was
called the Aphas.
[833] Pliny. l. 31. p. 333.
[834] Marcellinus. l. 23. p. 285.
[835] Pliny. l. 6. p. 326.
[836] Strabo. l. 7. p. 487. See Antigoni Carystii Mirabilia. p. 163.
[837] Εν τῃ χωρᾳ των Απολλωνιατων καλειται τι Νυμφαιον· πετρα δε εστι πυρ
αναδιδουσα· ὑπ' αυτῃ δε κρηναι ῥεουσι χλιαρου Ασφαλτου. Strabo. l. 7. p.
487.
[838] Strabo. Ibidem. l. 7. p. 487. He supposes that it was called
Ampelitis from αμπελος, the vine: because its waters were good to kill
vermin, Ακος της φθειριωσης αμπελου. A far fetched etymology. Neither
Strabo, nor Posidonius, whom he quotes, considers that the term is of
Syriac original.
[839] Philostrati vita Apollonii. l. 8. c. 4. p. 116.
[840] Dionis Historia Romana. Johannis Resin: Antiq. l. 3. c. 11.
[841] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 718.
[842] Evagrius. l. 3. c. 12.
[843] Marcellinus. l. 15. c. 7. p. 68.
[844] Celsus apud Originem. l. 7. p. 333.
See also Plutarch. de Oraculorum defectu.
[845] Callimachus. Hymn to Diana. v. 226.
[846] Callimachus. Ibid. v. 33.
Πολλας δε ξυνη πολεας.
[847] Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo. v. 56.
[848] Cicero de Divinatio. l. 1.
[849] Lucian. Astrolog. v. 1. p. 993.
[850] See in the former treatise, inscribed Ομφη.
[851] Are not all the names which relate to the different stages of
manhood, as well as to family cognation, taken from the titles of priests,
which were originally used in temples; such as Pater, Vir, Virgo, Puer,
Mater, Matrona, Patronus, Frater, Soror, Αδελφος, Κουρος?
[852] Verses from an antient Choriambic poem, which are quoted by
Terentianus Maurus de Metris.
[853] Lucilli Fragmenta.
[854] Ode of Ausonius to Attius Patera Rhetor in Professorum Burdigalensium
commemoratione. Ode 10.
[855] Ausonius. Ode 4.
[856] He is called Balen by Æschylus. Persæ. p. 156. Βαλην, αρχαιος Βαλην.
[857] Βελιν δε καλουσι τουτον· σεβουσι δε ὑπερφυως, Απολλωνα ειναι
εθελοντες. Herodian. l. 8. of the Aquileians.
Inscriptio vetus Aquileiæ reperta. APOLLINI. BELENO. C. AQUILEIENS. FELIX.
[858] Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautic. l. 2. v. 703.
[859] Ibidem. l. 1. v. 1135.
[860] Juvenal. Sat. 14. v. 265.
[861] Manilius. l. 5. v. 434.
[862] Phavorinus.
Ἡ Ολυμπια πρωτον Κρονιος λοφος ελεγετο. Scholia in Lycophron. v. 42.
Σωτηρ ὑψινεφες Ζευ, Κρονιον τε ναιων λοφον. Pindar. Olymp. Ode 5. p. 43.
[863] Pindar. Olympic Ode 6. p. 52.
Apollo was the same as Iamus; whose priests were the Iämidæ, the most
antient order in Greece.
[864] It is a word of Amonian original, analogous to Eliza-bet, Bet-Armus,
Bet-Tumus in India, Phainobeth in Egypt.
[865] Lycophron. v. 159. here they sacrificed Ζηνι Ομβριῳ.
[866] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 6. p. 51.
[867] Τας μεν δη πετρας σεβουσι τε μαλιστα, και τῳ Ετεοκλει φασιν αυτας
πεσειν εκ του ουρανου. Pausanias. l. 9. p. 786.
[868] Euripides in Ione. v. 935. See Radicals, p. 85. Macar.
[869] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 358.
[870] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 825.
[871] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 1. p. 8.
[872] Scholia in Pindar. Olymp. Ode 1. p. 8.
[873] Diogenes Laertius: Vita Anaxagoræ.
[874] Pliny. l. 2. c. 58. p. 102.
[875] Ηλιβατον πετραν they construed λιθον αφ' ἡλιου βαινομενον.
[876] Pindar. Olympic. Ode 1. p. 8.
[877] Τον ὑπερ κεφαλας Τανταλου λιθον. Pindar. Isthm. Ode 8. p. 482.
[878] Αλκαιος, και Αλκμαν λιθον φασιν επαιωρεισθαι Τανταλῳ. Scholia upon
Pindar. Olymp. Ode 1. p. 8.
[879] Πινε λεγει το τορευμα, και οργια μανθανε σιγης. Antholog.
[880] Scholia upon Lycophron. v. 152.
[881] Scholia upon Pindar. Olymp. Ode 1. p. 8.
[882] Pindar. Scholia. Ibidem.
[883] Justin. Martyr ad Tryphonem. p. 168. The rites of Mithras were styled
Patrica.
[884] Gruter. Inscript. p. xlix. n. 2.
[885] Indiculus Paganiarum in Consilio Leptinensi ad ann. Christi 743.
See du Fresne Gloss, and Hoffman. Petra.
Nullus Christianus ad fana, vel ad Petras vota reddere præsumat.
[886]
Ου μεν πως νυν εστιν ὑπο δρυος, ουδ' ὑπο πετρης
Τῳ οαριζεμεναι, ἁτε παρθενος, ηϊθεος τε,
Παρθενος, ηϊθεος τ' οαριζετον αλληλοισιν. Homer. Iliad. χ. v. 126.
Λιθομοται, δημηγοροι, επι του λιθου ομνυντες. Hesychius.
[887] Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 248.
Πετραιος τιμᾳται Ποσειδων παρα Θετταλοις. Scholia ibidem.
[888] Zeus was represented by a pyramid: Artemis by a pillar. Πυραμιδι δε ὁ
Μειλιχιος, ἡ δε κιονι εστιν εικασμενη. Pausan. l. 2. p. 132.
[889] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 104.
According to the acceptation, in which I understand the term, we may
account for so many places in the east being styled Petra. Persis and India
did not abound with rocks more than Europe; yet, in these parts, as well as
in the neighbouring regions, there is continually mention made of Petra:
such as Πετρα Σισιμιθρου in Sogdiana, Petra Aornon in India, και την του
Οξου (Πετραν), ὁι δε Αριαμαζου. Strabo. l. 11. p. 787. Petra Abatos in
Egypt, Πετρα Ναβαταια in Arabia. Many places called Petra occur in the
history of Alexander: Ἑλειν δε και Πετρας ερυμνας σφοδρα εκ προδοσεως.
Strabo. l. 11. p. 787. They were in reality sacred eminences, where of old
they worshipped; which in aftertimes were fortified. Every place styled Arx
and Ακροπολις was originally of the same nature. The same is to be observed
of those styled Purgoi.
[890] Gruter. Inscript. lxxxvi. n. 8.
[891] Xenophon. Κυρουπαιδεια.
[892] Nonnus. Dionysiac. l. ix. p. 266.
[893] Pausanias. l. 7. p. 577.
[894] ΑΛΦΙΤΟΝ, το απο νεας κριθης, η σιτου πεφυρμενον αλευρον. Hesychius.
Αλφιτα μελιτι και ελαιῳ δεδευμενα. Hesych.
[895] ΟΜΠΑΙ, θυματα, και πυροι μελιτι δεδευμενοι. Hesychius.
ΟΜΠΙΑ, παντοδαπα τρωγαλια. Ibidem.
It it was expressed Amphi, the cakes were Amphitora, Amphimantora,
Amphimasta: which seem to have been all nearly of the same composition.
ΑΜΦΑΣΜΑ, ψαιστα οινῳ και ελαιῳ βεβρεγμενα. Ibidem.
[896] Fine flour had the sacred name of _Ador_, from _Adorus_, the God of
day, an Amonian name.
[897] ὉΜΟΥΡΑ, σεμιδαλις ἑφθε, μελι εχουσα, και σησαμον. Hesych.
ΑΜΟΡΑ, σημιδαλις ἑφθη συν μελιτι. Ibidem.
ὉΜΟΡΙΤΑΣ, αρτος εκ πυρον διῃρημενον γεγονως. Ibid.
Also Αμορβιται, Amorbitæ. See Athenæus. l. 14. p. 646.
[898] ΠΙΟΝΕΣ, πλακουντες. Hesychius.
Pi-On was the Amonian name of the Sun: as was also Pi-Or, and Pe-Or.