I p F ( I- J h I "l H L I 1 I I 1 I I I b J T ft i i- r ( r j Vll h I V H * ai"- b h 1 i. S > 1 |h b ? 1 1 h k 1 I i F I I L I 1 I l b "i f i* 4 t h hi i i :■ ERRATA * r . i I > i "i H, H * I > «■ I t h J I s I ■l J J E R R A T A Page Line S for ruffgpnjTH?, read Ko£spF»Tif£ 30 20 for wVxI read conXinr&ro 19 J 3 oiJfcdt/is 2i 5 for fitTrsSgp/iyfljf, rwi aTsflup/afli/ 30 17 /cr Phylera, mrdfPhilyra 5 for Appulia, read Apulia 34 11 for Schymnus* read Seymnus. 34 11 for Abderas, read Abderus. \g for repofitary, read repofitory 1 for immediaily, read immediately. 45 22 for hsxiyj'rwiSi read sAHS^/TWFSf 51 14 for dxo%oi<rt, read tiKoyoxvi* 51 15 for Cercynians, read Cercyonians 54 14 for him* read her 5; 18 for fynonimous, read fynonymous. 61 20 for Hecat'opolos, read Hecatompulos 65 14 after and, infert in. 67 11 for Sogdiania, read Sogdiana. 97 note 30, for headfman, read headman. 101 21 for Strabrobrates, read Strabrobates, 13 13 for Hermadorns, read Hermodorus. 158 18 for ay 0 [jl cto-fl$ v > read oFojxewflgV 6 after and, infert it. 166 23 after cities, infert were. 2 for [jLa.!}}i[Aci,TntQ 4 , read (jLetQtfJtctTi&ot 184 19 for \j,vt av0[Aster > read [M^royoyLc ttfets 188 15 for Eiblus, read Byblus, pajjtm 253 13 for p’, read p 260 11 for infimulate, read infinuate. 298 II for JV 5 p £OIF t U £ Teti, read cT/Sf/WSUS 7 ctt 301 14 for rea d fxfiw 3 f Br lynonimous, read fynonymous 336 note 71, for cf'sJtcc^uiWOf, read /sxet //w? 370 note 28, for jtAUTpHF, read KtihVTr p«F. 400 2 for Nymphtenm, read Nymphrca, line 13, the fame 404 3 for iMTiacty read /zur/jut* 433 19 for %wox,r$v%ffiv 9 read ^woKTOVistriv 2 for Tolchus, read Jolcus 6 . j 34 40 43 y 159 18 j r 1 L . ■ 333 k_i I i \ 477 b . Yol. II LK \ 1 1 I \ I A h h * I p r I. f j i r j The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 3 Torone likewife was a if-t 1 <PAsypot, Phlegra, both about it was in like manner called I in l There feems to have been a nre tower in this for accord in cr to the ancient ac troduced region named Proteus O o counts, Proteus is mentioned as having reuded in. thefe parts, He is accord and is faid to have been married to Torone J "A ID i, srat K oil v i implies a bad cha rafter, which arofe from the cruel rites praftifed in thefe r 1 places whom fortune brought in their way. Torone flood b Pallene, which was ftiled 5 Vriyspwv TPQtpog, the nurfe 4 r i neai or grant brood\ Under this charafter both L 0 4 the fons of Ghus, and the Anakim of Canaan are included 'cophron takes off fro in, Proteus the imputation of being I P ■i Herod* L. 7; c, 123 H 'Kepgot’WG'QS) ^ bp t cp I Ktncti Koccrcr avS'pBta 3 3>A By pence St ttpip BkxAblto ■£ 0 voq cc<re£t$ r r n ■1 ?i Ttgiv fj.sp rjor:^cacty pup JV go x .guv cturnv ot uwuQfj&pot VtyccPTes cwofJLov, StxabOv Epitome. L, 7>p.5ia> T XQLi r Lycophron, V. 1S5 1 Stephan us places Toroh in Thrace, and fuppofes it to have been named from Torone, who was not the wife, but daughter of Proteus. Atto 1 tjjs npGorecos. Some made her the daughter of* Pofeidon and Phosnice. See Steph. <&A tyocuct. There were more towers than one of this name ri«AAj?r;cu/£7T/jA()£ Tr f yBycop rpo<pov. Lycoph* V. 127 ■4 r GLGOVm r r * B 2 acce P * ^ h T * t h .■-H I 1 h i h > I I J. I. p h 4 I n p i * i" I 4 L» I I I 1 J I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 40 0 UX 2 T S MlWy 01 sTCLim \ \ Mi i a? aura- * Some fuppofe Scylla to have been a dangerous rock; and J. H that it was abominated on account of the frequent {hip wrecks. There was a rock of that name, but attended faxum efie, et quidem non was l which prevailed within, that made it fo detected. This toms temple was a Petra hence Scylla by Homer ftiled is was ■ I pofed to have been {unrounded, were Cahen, or priefts As there was a Men-tor in Crete, fo there was a place of 1 the fame name only revened, Sicily, called Tor in men 1 - 1 I and Tauromenium. There isreafon to think, that the fame flood the river From hence 1 which the Greeks rendered Onoballus of the Cyclopian build was with fomething of truth i.J ings us L.j E i i_ d we receive it la him, that when Ulyffes entered the dangerous pais of had fix of his comrades feized by Scylla lum 1 V 1 J Homer. -Odyu. M. V. 222 Epift.79 J Ajiaff/Aa-is <f>oox.m>ci ‘h.o.i 'Ekztw rnv Xr-oAAxv Asysi. Xthuikopos S g, ev r? SkuAAj), Axu.icti t m Xx'-iAAotv f /I0 i QuyaTSPa V. 828. t Apollonius. Schol. L» 4 tivai i VOL. If and r 1 * ■=1 I I I b I < L \ i I d r J d J I i i i j ■i h J S I 4 I I H I I L I b 1 H I P 4 I I I \ i" I 4 I I p I I f > p * I I t i i h 1 I I I a". L a H h a h i" i h i «■ T K- I I I "i "i i L I H 1 h 1 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 2 name 4 j* • to wn I i_, I [ on ac 11 more Iwl ulv > 4 r are * n covered with the bones of men i ■ * L - ait i as nee r r n 53 t . ue accom mns in 1 c en Nl # 4 as we f have mentioned, that the s of the and rj Canaanites and Cretans were c i * 54 m Ci lTj > as were $ r s But nothing can mew more r cru P i r re s as win** ning, that nobody could withftand their fweetnefs All foothed with it; though their life were was * co mane Virgil. iEneid. L. 5. v. 873 M . See Nonnus. L. 19. p. a20v 5* J I T , 'J* I h * HV. + The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 20 lJ h t * i 4 * C 1 ■I VI h l c H erous coaft P h + i h i S I entice 1 rcrs into ft r> 4 Nor were maintained for a twofold purpofe* both on account of their voices and their They were accordingly very liberal of their fa k « i vours, and by- thefc means enticed fc s Lilt. £ entertainment f a was a L I % t r s* we have a fhort, but a mo ft perfect, a v p. J rader i- 4 to 5J/cyAA«, yyj/jj jutrcwatfQ t, oy maienca 'n KaxcLwm cui Latine vertatur malefica non video. Si Grammaticis obtem erat enim revera c _ J n e r I c L im der which charader we are here to underftand the chief ace, was no } a i i L I 0 , I I I T * p I h I \ I I L I t I P F p J f 1 \ L I t L P I I I 1 E- \ \ I I I i" i" I I J I i p" j i i H % L i I 1 i 4 I I i .J r "i Fj The Analysis of Ancient Mythology % ■ r ' J K as a 71 the river eminence of this name, and calls it ! 7 . I • j J 1 7 * / h I r s Theoc. Idyll. 17. V. 47 Ariftoph. Bargct.%'. Y; 474, So Cocytus is by Claudian defcribed as the river of tea rs, 71 VZ K prefib lacrymarum forte refedit Rapt. Proferp, L. 1. v. 87* I- ■ %■ ■ / W • * J Cocytos. t a ,1 I I I 1 i" t J j I I I h h h h * I n \ £ / I I- I 4 S 5 t 4 + I \ I h f I f •l r ft" I h I t I H L i k L 4 * I I man. 1 y "I H \ 1 J The Analysis o? Ancient Mythology -71 obfolet nd mifapplied. Homer makes mention of the CL of Apollo, which the God was fuppofed to have bred mares in Piena IQ cipyvpOTQ%o$ AttoXX'jjv Txc sv J And he has accordingly put them in harnefs, and given them to the hero Eumelus. Callimachus takes notice of the fame mares in r i j ■*7 E £ST sum ivieoic H e a V7T TO 10 A * * J Thefe Hippai, mifconftrued mares, were Thrace,' and in many different regions They chanted mns in the worfhip growing obfolete, the very terms were at laft miftaken How far this worfhip once a the Sun, and often compounded or Hippa On, and contracted Hippon: of which name places occur in Africa near Carthage |8 mi ot from the animal ‘l7rre£, but eion • not cc7ro Inwjff rs Acuio&j from ' 16 Iliad. B. V. 7 66 Boreas was fupp ofed to have been enamoured Tecav v.mi B opens wetaemo €oerxofxlm&n’j htt-ttw £ utretjj.evos Trapth-i^ttro 5t net t h ru S uvroy.ucnrctuiicti eriKov S'VQxetiSgxtt TrwAaj, Odyfi, T, V. 224I sy H. to Apollo. V, 47 * Strabo. L. 17. p. u8S. >9 Hefych. 'l7T7r£iw He alfo mentions the mares of Erefidthon, with which r T .1 J p i i_ j VoL* II I i i a. he Analysis of Ancient Mythology That is from a m lU A k. . JL 5 Hippa the daughter of Dc s mans who founded there a title of the Sun. it the mafculine sender I moffc curious, and remarkable ruins o- it to an horfe. It flood near mount T Goddefs, whom {he ferved. As it was a was foroetimes ex in a c it t ( t o o The in Laconia, and was called the monument of author tells us * i r i to fome ancient rule ami m fays he, as I imagine , according s were fuppofe If then thefe exterior hones related to the f* thod * < ' i to t mu / <- X 1 . {even nets erratic bodies in oui fphere, the N *0 £*4 1 Ml it is the ave tW'l C r mon ancient reprefentation upon record, and eonlequently M L It is from hence, I think, manifeft 1 5 and Hippos, related to the luminary Gfii is 1 ■r r! * who was the lame ✓ L I ) as Dionufus 1 under thi id of w or i n hence we i ft a ion in various regions V, L Montes in in Li SO If d'e qiqwi n e<riv fWTtty 01 Jit jJrvu.KJ A ojv 1 iXay» i ojp THTt? OU 7T0?IV+ 4 xccra T2p7rov QtfAoct rov a^cctov^ cm cccrBpm 4 ■■ . qctmv etythtw*. Paufan. L. 3. p. 262 They included the moon r «. 1 among trie primary planets j not being acquainted a 1 b I * "l I ■: k i i L i 1 n d i ► I r p n I i i i ;■ i" j > i N "ii i i n i ► "i / H ■l L I "i X 1 I TE S I i t i / H h 4 4 I 4 I I "I j" I i r r 4 * h 1 h 1 Ancient Mythology The Analysis -of t AO 4 L C f the Prutaneion in Elis 13 : Eft 02 rsfpa.g mi aur% H •at t'j t veirmiMW,. mi ■ ev owrr\g 7rvg am km rav re nfAsgav, mi N Attica at nrft was divided ev Karri vuzn werwreos mterca .1 LJ hamlets: each of which had Prutaneion, and Archon. Tliefc Archons were 14 Prutaneia ; and were denominated from then as Orchon, and like Chon-Or and fire : from which title the into "I * n 11 t its own office. Archon is the fame 1 E name a were called Urchani l 1 a > 1 I If I f etymology, and have derived the Pur. Suidas name 1 f* V» 101/ u* M The Scho AAA 01 fc "\ to *7 <pounv, on to f I Others tell us, that melon, from 1 / <w 7^ 0 i r 'u e revot fi 0 J f i W-l r ZM * ^4* < had the fame name 13 r Tw Zv r 1 h j »» .0. 5. p. 415 vravsix re e%8crct xat To S'e ?\u%vtov ev Hpur a. ve im . Theocrit. Idyl Suidas. >4 Thucyd. L. 2. p. 107 QVTCtS 1$ 21 its L. 2. p. 107. Others gave another reafon. Vl^rmm . $KSl SXCcQtfPTO 01 n gUTCCVBify 01 T Ct)V 0 AoJV TgCtyfiCCTOOV $lOiXr\T(%L Ibid i 8 Julius Pollux. L. i* c. i- p. 7. 17 (Ka?,eno. ereifn I < 4 H I J H I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology lie jbatmes I'unte ; and were oriirina I - - but were at lad ranked among fs, and lawgiver, was forne the lift of tlicie daemons. This is mam were 1 O hellifli W 1 L tormentors times enrolled in r * i left from a pan age X -v I w n n Jr c in t as i c ^'1 c 9 the fhrinc oi a Fury p ' 1 U.-J 17. - eim the Scholiaft > C The like is mentioned by W $ W name H mv oi H 'mi mm 1 F 1 " "1 of a Pru tan cion a feat eis a . /f ji in 1 V f fill account s, ew on i j i v w/r, w/r L. S. p. 649. Mount Caucafus was denominated Ihepherd Caucafus. The women, who officiated daughters of Caucafus, and represented as «ITes of fi e , * ' Cancafi filiae Fimas. SecEpiphanius Anchorat. P Lycophron. Scholia. V. 1225. Kat ICaAAijwer Ibid ^ . l Neptune is Paid to have lain with Ceres, when lodorasi. L. 3. p. 15 Areion 2.2 as 1$ fuppoletl, from in the temple, were itiled the Furies: by which was meant prictl *1 90 L _ 43 ll Y?i lioirvuv 54^ J A a T 5 )r I ■> in die form of a Fury She is faid from thence to have conceived the hoifc Apol > n / Ly cophron Belops llndes to her cruel rites, when he is fpcaking of Tantalu and F L" Ou rarTov, ev ya.[j,(pcuc-tv’l I rm /a 7T0T6 \ trctox.ct [x 1 cfuhAovi 6T0 4 uCfcW5r T«lpM. y. 152 tj e j r n b (■ L F 4 r I i r i Y i f i 1 i 1 "i I h I I I L I ■ I J t I I "i I I I h 1 ■i •i I I T ■" I n i i 4 > I The Analysis op Ancient Mythology 1 #. 6 1 i A 4 li I i J n r A I : jeres I o i ora i i which were defignetf O h I areas for Gum n ah a I d were I > c I I I I UC 1 US one i 4 I ,1 J I I art. It flood before T cyon was *. I I J the tomb of Alope, I J, I the time of this writer, who takes notice of J I cyan even m many others tomb I if it were P J a J J 4 l L J I rrK • I But it was a l. or j t 4 J I ace called Cer-Cuon ,o y who was * Before this altar was I L S * r h- s where the Ccrcyonkm P 4 H J i i e to' contend with them, I have taken 4 i i i r J I j 1 notice of a Pharos at 34) Torone, which Proteus is faid to have I E that he mi I J h. > K to 4 f I «i r 4 1 I !■ ions. He fled, it feems, to Egypt, Tskvm aAvfiag rag £> voKTOvag* TctAecg fo fkilled a "| w J I we re that they' flew all ftrangci % I k -I I I I in the Palasfmc art K I- / i p l p i Ovid. Ibis. V. 411 Anacbarfis. Vel AtoAAuvos Auxi 3 I 33 K at 0 a I •I 1 l "? 1 i 3 C ex p. 380, Tl/firavijV v(p tifteov cnua.( £Tat } xcu I, h V V v Ln J H ■1 I T 07 T 05 out on TuAcitq-ga. x.a.i ss g/^s gjcaAeiro, oKiyov tou 7 tiis jns.ctTe%cot>. Paufan. L. j. p. 94 I That very ancient temple of Pan on Mount Lycteum naftiim in a grove- I * ^ •1 1 i Arcadia had a Gym * n L ev tm A ukcu'jj Tlai'cs l I sea/ OTr/ #trrrj a act s, xai too avTij raftop. Paufan. L, 8, p. 678 78 I * j H S'ptO I %a.t I T to S' 0 ojj. 0 s H I have mentioned, that Torone was a temple of the Sun, and nlfo by which was meant y I < tlj* ^ f <** § & v * S This is not rnereiv -f, I i 1 a place of fire, and a lighthoufe theory ; for the very tower may be feen upon Pharos with a blaze of fire at the top. See Vol 1 coins, where it is represented as a PLATE VI. Page 408 h h I 1 w ho m i V I ■■ I I J I I I 1 "I t I I J. ■s I r k «■ 1 "i 1 P h The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 47 the Grecians is notaurus, was a tempie in Crete: but bj fpoken of as 'a per ion. Under this character Taurus is repr pi fa id ented as a 35 renowned wrenler, and many perfons are to have been fent from Athens to be vidtims to his prowefs tidU,og ctv[ jl.£ gog } a man of a cruel 4 1 ■J 3 6 ■ and four difpofition. After he had done much mifchief, Thefeus at length Tavgov MTS7raKai<re, foiled him in his He is fuppofed to have done the own art. and new him risPKvm rovg a 0 3* eoog. For it is Jaid of vavrcts eg KCLAYlV M / ew on In all theie inftances the in it: of which mif- him in wre oeieus is 1 .1 unge in. nerous need of courtefy, was treated as a I rites a facrifice to the Gods were evaded under the undue fandtion of In the hi dory of Bufiris we have an account of this cuftom prevailing in Egypt 39 35 Plutarch. Thefeus. P. 6 6 Chron. Logos. P.33. He.was alfo named Afterus, Afbcrion, and Afte Lycoph. V. 1299. Schol. and Etymolog. Mag. Minoi's. Afterius was re rd Arcana. Paufan. L. 7. p. 524. Ar Asv 0 A^eorjiv (o Mlrco.) Paufan rms prcfented as the fon of Anac. A : -egty o' peiu t Qtl<rS(Oi U 7 r£f 6 t TCUS 0L7T jUCt VOVT(Li VI TO 2. p. 183 37 Paufan p. 94 s Diodorus explains farther the character of this perfonage, tw 7 raAcuovTcc J TOG 7T OLot0V(Tl * *tOLl TOU b 39 Diodorus Sic VOL 4. p. 225, and 23 5 G 4. p I ► h r" 4 I L I h "i H I s I I 1 I .1 •s I J "H P.-I H Y ■, "i K H W t < S 0 i j- I I r i i i / I k ■! I r* + -. u p^i "i 1 j h r i V 4 i L 4 "i I H I J I h \ H I I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 59 He vifited many places upon th reorefented as at the head of an army his travels were attended with inilitar. m i at the fame time deferibed with the Mufe* n his retinue Campania though ocean a n a and C3 So i- I 1 Li 1 fl AS O l yet ne l and Sciences His march likewife was conduced with o Derations v y i 15 fongs, and dances, and the found of every inftrument c Oi mufic He built cities in various parts; particularly He a catompulos, which he denominated Theba, after the name of his mother. In every region, whither he came, he is faid 6 to have initruded the people L —I m and other ufeful arts vine ♦ * and where that was not adapted to the foil, he taught the natives the ufe of ferment, and {hewed them the way to make 7 wine of barley,, little inferior to the juice of the He was effeemed a great blemng to the Egyptians grape both as a He hrft built temples Lawgiver, and a Kin cr & man as return reat triumph, where after his death in {? or high altar*. he was enmrined as a Deity to in all which he in aftertimes The was £hewn in many places fuppofed to have been buried people of Mem was- 5 Diodorus. L. i.,p. 14. This city is alio faid to have been built by Her¬ cules.. Diodorus. L. 4. p. 225 Primus aratra manu folerti fecit Ofiris El. ; 8. v. 29 Et teneram ferro bllicitavit humum. Tibull. L 1 Zt»0O . J Diodorus r r - p- 37 'XiytnvTim SuSus a-^rop 3 €13 xsti onpiwf'us cnra.A/\~i vojx U' Qe/jji'oi 1 avToi ?. Plut. If. et Oiir. p. 356, £ 1C T COP B&an?\.€vovTa (Pb Ocriotv * i Lid * 1 J n - tv* ~i & ts S'etEciv t a * 5 ecu %C6PuT0U$ 9 Eufebius. Pr. Ev. L. j. p.44,45 1 2- . VOL.II.. 3 IS i ! Ancient Mythology DO The Analysis of r ■"n phis (hewed one of them ; whereon was taining a a /acred ai\ con i detail of his life, and great a&ions, to the following i TO 0 arms over the 7 4 j- / H 1 f S J the regions of r? a e A 0 t 6 re ato v * ocean the Pennine and mote countries nor the eldeft fon of Cronus ; fprung from am & race o re tam o not been ; and to whofe * m / of ancient hiftory : and it This is a very cu nous piece will be'found to be in great meafure true, if taken with this allowance, that what is Oliris was a title con means the rree confounded c. one perton, was “l l. d ferred upon more perfons than one I & in are alluded to, who carried a were one branch the eld tions here mentioned. They on the exped t i fpoken of as who is here L _ II J eft fon of Cronus ■ l a. i' l* /.> pi T K/ I will not determine. By 11 Cro as is alfo re Diodorus Sic. L. i. p. 24 I Both the Patriarch, and his fon Ham, had the name of Cronus ■ 6 n'lrnuxuv J'g 10 h j XI as may be learned from Sanchoniathon. wsicf'es, Kgoves b/jiuvuju.os tc>j TactTpt, jctA Paraia is the fame as Pur-aia, the land of Ur; from whence the Gentile ers deduce all their mythology lixpcau Kfijiw t vert a'sa ei a Eufeb. Prsep. L, 1. c. 10. p, 37 writ 1 L I % M l ■| 1 1 h ■i ■i i i p ► I H J I " 1 I I H I i V "I 4 h I i" I I r L i / I I dr I + H I I ■! f I ■T i f V < 1 4 L 4 4 I h I 4 i I 4 s h I Y i I i -H I I H i I I I I" h a". P 4 p I H "I 1 "l V l i H. \ .-I n i > i * of Ancient Mythology The Analysis ■j 2 encounters a H In hi at the mount From thence lie goes to t uampania, about Cum a .'Not far from hence was an adult and 3 race way tain Paktinus j A- <* the celebrated Fhlcgra m which wai i 3 where the giants warred againft heaven Hercules is laid to have 40 addled Here was an mcient t r e } thofe days darned violently, though it did not for many in During his rclidence here he vilited the hot fountains near Mi/enus and Dicaiarchca : and made a ia Herculanea, and Ag I { > D he crofted the fea to Sicily; which fea lum e A, fome warm an Here he boxed with Eryx; de feated the Sicani; and What is many other exploits m ^ 1 ty r't * t c c t is faid to have made them travel over the over the Alpes, into and X^ucra fM)\a—7rpoGa.Ta. Schol. in Apollon. Argonaut. L. 4. v. 1396 h t Aypona iv y 'AtGuxm Tov'EpctxKect, trufifMtpfivrav ccvr<p rav 9*ewj<, xgarvacu t>i y.ui tbs 7 rhti<rw 'aveKovra rw X^av i>%vfitguvai, Diodorus Skul, L, 4. p, 229 5. p. 376. and L. 6. p. 430 *0 Strabo 1 i a tram o r r 1 y f I. ,1 1 I t f 4 Ancient Mythology The Analysis of -i 74 i \ is mid to in 47 Latium. The lome writers b i Ill i c J. but i E r ■i j was Z i r Ci 4 j in their 4 *city, juft 1 v ians {hewed the Taphos of Ohris at Hence it was ima cules was buried at Gades h as that Hei of this 43 hero.: and Strabo feems to a c c have been a s ° fable. In fhort the whole I i t i, account 1 J JS very I 2 matters to more yet the whole is ftill incredi perfons than one of this name, i ble, and can never be fo a ) ( in order to ( 1 / c i ( their faulty m fr ex tract ) m + from Cicero. 51 Quanquam co lamus, feire velim: plures enim nobis tradunt ferutantnr et reconditas literas * * ove natu m ove nam es m t Graecorum is Her 1 . 4 J 4 4 ® Strabo. L. 3. p, 237 He was fuppofed to have been the founder of Tar teflus, where he was worlhiped under the name of Archaleus. Etymolog, Ma nr D F a.J'apcc Syncellus. P. 171 Pomponius Mela. L. 3, c. 6 12.' C, 512 • 41 4 « F 1 + 4 ’ Athenseus r L. I {' Nat. Deorum 3. c. 16 I k r 4 J 1 L 4 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 75 mus Alter traditur Nilo natus, ^Egyptius quem aiunt Pnrygias Tertius eft ex Idteis Dadyli cui m Latonte lDiine s c ferias afferunt. Quartus Jovis eft et Afteriae fororis, quem. Tyrii maxime colunt India cujus Carthaginem qui Belus dicitui ter tius hlium ferunt in Alcumena quem Jupiter genuit; fed Sextus hie, ex Jupiter: quoniam, ut docebo, plures Joves accepimus Hercules was a title given o tiles, who have been multiplied into almoft as many per fonages, as there were countries, where he was worfhiped n l' J What has been attributed to this god hngly , 1 was the work of Herculeans a people, who went under this title r L .J I fame as the Ofirians, Perehans, and Cuthites, They built Tarteflus in Boetica, and occupied great part of Iberia They likewife founded 33 Corunna in Cantabria, and S4 Aleua in Gaul: of which there are traditions to this day. Some others among the 56 Alps of them fettled near 35 Arelate r T hey were alfo alfo at Cuma, and Heraclea in Campania ■ 1 to be found at Tyre, and m r h. J even in the re Arrian fpeaks of this Indian Hercules together with the. others mentioned by Cicero. Ei S'e tm m^a. Taxrrc /, 3 aAA&s a.v arcs 'HaajtAej/J ew, o ©r:Scuo\ ttcti xccTot ctvca a Tropp'jj h’J'&v ym Hift. Ind. P. 319. Varro mentions forty of this s* c Tvpigs btos 3 n o Aiyvirnos 5 tis [Aevnv /J.syoLS GcccriAzus who were all reputed Deities See Ludovicus Normius, in Hifpan. P* 196. 170 See Audigier Origines des Francois, Part. 1. p. 225. 230 Mela. L. 2. c. /;. 1 . 30 7 \ 0 name ys 1. yy r r Eft locus Herculeis aris facer * 6 Petronius. P. t 79 1 ft 11101 I I I I. j i" C 4 f I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology, by which is meant the father of thefe was 6 3 Archemagoras or chief of the Magi - J _ 4 are faid to have been: 6 * Sardus on t Gelonus, Olynthus, Scythus, Galathus Sardon; Cyrnus us. Iberus, Celtus, Poimen As thefe are all mam r.i feftly the names of nations, may perceive by the pur we r j port of this hiftory, that the Sardinians, Comcans, Iberi Celt®, Galat®, Scythas, &c. 6cc. together with thofe ans ftiled Shepherds, were Herculeans; all defcended from that F of the Magi; & i 4 4 r It is laid of the former, that he was born at 66 Nufa in Ara— See Lilius Gyraldus Syntag. io. p. 592. Pauunias.express the name' L. 8, p, 624 Lilius Gy raid* P. 595 ** In the following extra&s we may fee the character of this Deity among’; different nations. 'Hp&xAecc cptivcc es Iv$u$ atpixea-vut A oyos xccmto ecu Iv^oicnvTyym'ea A syeavcci paipeaQat} IvS'ixb sOras AAActTts upfaKit J5 A(>u7TTwi<n'HgaxAe>?s* cTg clutch Ae^acri ersec $7TTcocia% i i?\.ict Kcct jjjopicL # A fjuoLcrty Qcc&iAzuvccvtcc* Herod* Li. 2 AAA* terfj^v AiyvTrTtm*) ocrov t ivccctyuartv H^&xAeau 3t«c Ariftid. Orat. V 'Q 0&9 ■ n b 04 -l'l rlgccxfacc [jcctht^oL 7rgo$ J&v p cctryv&y y£ T&TOV TOP Toiaiv Arrian. Hift. lnd. P. 321 43 n He had at 1 Tyre a Temple as old as the ystu Herod G'wr. i* P- 59 Ecpcwai' yao <xiu.ee Topw onuC,oy.evri v.a.1 to city .■P 2 . c. 44 E~< yug e? Tug? Isoov 'Hpax-Pisas ir<x A«i qtoltov h th Agysia HnoaxAeas. x. A. Arrian. Expedit.-Alex; E. 88 Diodorus Sic. L. 3. p* 195. 1 96, and p. 200 at'0par7r/y^ tfrctowf &.U' pt, ■ 4 TCCl r bia J I I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology he Indus infilled, that lie was a bia: but native mount Meru, was the true however, fome among them, of their 61 country j and that the city Nufa, near *•»«*:* j who allowed, that lie came was in *44 the moft ancient times. He taught the nations came A A to build and to . l I 2 various j I I ? in c towns and cities, which lie built in the moft com mo in After they were thus eftablimed, he gave dious lituations them laws, and infir u died them in the Gods. He alio taught them to plant the Vine, and to ex worfhip of the 'I. 2 * 6S travels e J region in the Eaft. Nor was t it in conqueror on. A A a but over all the habitable 69 world The account < t 4 Aiovvau aTroyovi&Oi'vS'pa.x.et,', Scrabo. L. 15. p. ipog. , The Tyrians kid 61 the fame claim to him n Achill. Ta tins. L. a. p. 67. So did likewife the Cretans, and the people of Naxos. Sonic of the Libyans maintained, that he *4 was educated in the grotto of die Nymphs upon the-river Triton. Diodor. Sic. L. 3. p. 202 nufus the bcnefa&or, fee Arrian. Hift. Ind. P. 321 Of his coming tQ. India from the weft. Philoftratus. L Do 1 20 n 0 V p. 64. KtkAo7 * * u awoy Acravpiov * b Of his trayels, fee Strabo. L. 15. p. 1008 e 9 Tot 1 <N ovv At owe % 7 rzX§QVTCL //era ^gctT 07 resf 0 i~cti rw fyuvuav t# ccw.7reA«# Diodor. Sic. L 65 7 racmv thv omBMnn'* i i JV 3. p. .197 CCS lidl *TBrU q~PQLTiV acLVTQ s ts ’ Arrian. Hift. Indie. P, 318 r given o i •l s« I 1 I The Analysis op Ancient Mythology 80 C the fame as Ofiris 74 recorded and many of the later m He was -was > acknowledged this ■J TOV ft CLP CLVTQIC V ovo \ ft CLP EAXl)(r/ AlOVVTOV ' THTOV awriv smi top KCLl IV ? c THTOV ftCLg SCLVTOtg CL Diodorus, maintain that their God T 8 C TOV 75 s trts is no 'farther mention , that over earth—In like manner the Indi affure that it is the fame us Dionufus according to the Grecian mythology is re twice born; and is faid to have had as r an 77 Ark, and woi ? It was a common fubjedt for E'legy. Plutarch. Ifis et Ofir rjonuro/^eQa cTe mr apytfiv cctq Awucre, J'ic xett tccKmop enut tr <pi S' p n, fxeyi^oM suspyscriais xctTccrmicrVcu tw ymi rmv a vfrm7rcoi'- Diodorus Sicul !L. 4. p. 210 14 7 WTO) / xca n i ov rat re TPone Aiovuvou ) trrpa.%m. Diodorus Sic. JL. 3. p, 201 7 * L. 4. p. 210 c. 42. c. 145 as -the Egyptians did of Ofiris. DcAicw ts otmerat ( Amvcrov ) xca uof/,es freaftca ryct ToAecnv* civu re 6 '0 •is The Indians gave the fame account of Dionufus 41 %ai t aurov (rireo(jt.tx,Tct, Atovucrav T^Tor '—xai frees cnQeiv cn eMa&e Ato• / P I boas re V 7 p lEVtCLl -j vu<ros~~K tA. Arnan. Hift, Indie. P. 321 Paufan. L. 3. p. 272 17 As lus rites came originally from Chaldea, and 13. p. 932. EA 0 g,^«x«/) A mitre , imTSTIOPE Strabo. L .Orphic. Hymn. 44. V J ra.vpojj.erpi'ne i_ j ft J. ■1 r The Analysis of Ancient Mythology Cronus in univerfal 80 benefa&oi r 82 ever they came men as an s in like account is given of > & 81 in an n !l more ties b was c 1 c L c and Themis. Strabo mentions from the hirtorian Ephorus, 82 deities 11 1 c * 1 going over the world *3 and came, to be more improve themfelvcs by cult* r to ing 4 r i _j vation r 1 .'J mentioned as proceeding m a Tov y.sv ovy Kpovov opt x tt pe aCur ctr a p CaciAsx yereaOat top n/Atgop {j,gt a^ncrxi , x,ca $ix thto xnro yxhns TvyvpTa ?roMas STeAfrsip rw otxHy.srvis tpiths' eianyucracrQxi £s re S'pxaioavpw xcti rw xyrhoTinx ruts Diodorus Sicul. L Ougxvov *-tbs av&gH7r'd$ <t7topcz£t)v otxapTxg. ervruyayen XXI TtK jXSV XVOfJUXS XXI S’V'jKoi'BS filB TTXWXt - XXTXXTUTXCrdxi <fg fim s Ttiv 7 tAsi^»v. Diodorus Sicul. L. 3. p. 189 AtoAA&i px fj&TX ©gfueToj, ootpeAncrai /2aA c/a$pov hit&v Stirup t% K«tSr J f Kca ts* Kcta fa'JTGv t f rv Ctv £ \ ft u$ if r J 4 TafiTi TnP S' P* 3 3 4 P r.. 1 b TroXzM 7r£/>/p<?Awj ctUTov rm omv 6 % * TO ySPOS U/ACOP SITtSC T HP Wxg * m n^ornrcc T^BKcthuro* Strabo, L, p, 646 A iro^Km^ vw ytw emot *TtoP ccMfj&gcw Kcc.P7rcoy Kcct GttoV t Ibid 0T< OV t* niASpBp ths ap.ymrr&s xtp rx re r 1 \ p Y 1 i > -■i i" I I I L i. r t I I 1 I T v The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 1 to Egypt, after an abfence of 4 nine years; which is one year lefs, than was attributed to the expeditions of Hercules. very plain and pre is r in a sreo graphical feries from one conqueft to another: fo that the ftory is rendered in fome degree plaufible But we may learn from Diodorus himfelf, that little credit is to be paid after all the pains he may have taken to to this narration owns, that not win upon our and the bards of the fame country, varied in the accounts, which to was moft credible, and what appeared molt confonant to the me morials in Egypt, which time had fpared 7 <rv [Mpwv&vrct dis/wgfv. But, as thefe memorials con lifted chiefly I do not fee how it was poftible for Dio in hieroglyphics dor us to unuerftand, what the bards and priefts could - not a L T ticable, fhould have been the work oi a native Egyptian, and not of a perfon either from Greece, or ■is iTO a airoLiav iw<r cat o i r\v Acrixv ev ei'ixurms sweat. Syncel 6 f r * Ip 1 V lus 69 ¥h .t Some make him advance farther, and conquer all Europe A ertav 'ii Jtcap, k<u THN ETPflflHN, 5tc« TiW txv t y.ui tav Mi >triur Chron. Pafch. P. 47. Herodotus thinks that he did not proceed farther than.; T h race r r Guctcos ut ?rat Txll it -v,. 1 1 2, C. J 03 . Diodorus Sicul. L. x. p. 49 jLi 7 I- writer i H I 4 P I* I J f i J i r / J r r h h I J r "i h J- ( I I I- u I f h f h I Ancient Mythology Tile Analysis of 9 ° name of but the ■Ti 1 ! A 13 Sethofis, Sefoofis, Sefonchous names are accom #4 * * A cu 111 T e vv + c D kings, who reigned alter s or r rin' nt t A uc $ \ r ; <rz /;d The ,s r • e orris lJ after giving at the fame time an account of his conquefts. He adds that he us called Sefoftais ini \r r c c i r n % I t a curious y i +4 V 111 twe % l which Sefonchous maintains the fame rank, and was >6 «/* reipn o 4 ; s mem tons or ms m 7 a i 6 volved to Sefonchofcs ; fo that from the 4 time or os/one /jo Us to Pri Nilus were two thoufand years Gedrenus 17 calls him Se foftris; and mentions him after Ofiris nd Orus, and n U Sethofis of Jofephus contra Apion 14 Eufeb. Chron. P L. x* p, 447 7 ,1, 43 . ©&X>;$* jj£Tcc J& thtup 'S'GaoyxfiMFfy A iyv7rr& 7r<xcrn$ £ & cr t\€u$ jQa Traced;, fxw Aatav Qpfxyarcts ttccctuv V c(rfarr$i Vupiy * * 3* ltri4cs xsti Ocriptfot w 4 a mcc Trfr et^ct, *TM in Apollon, Ar cctQ) o/j/m avrov xuJiei, Schol I- 4 !■ gonaut. L. 4. v. 272 1 I & AiKcttagxos ev irpmcp^ jjj-rct tw ItriS'K-xau Ocr/c/jPos Cl C f\ ” Xi<Tcy<xp.'aiv MyiT core ytvSoVcu caro W ^ I T inn JV^Aia. Schol. in Apollon. Argonaut, ibid Gedrenus. V DOV oveveu 7 m NtiAfi T * TMS 4 / r J 17 p. 20. Ofiris, Orus, Thoules, Sefoftris C / The Analysis op Ancient Mythology r.- . m j -1 Thoules; which laft was by the above writer omitted r urov 'Zevwzetg. The author of the Chronicon Pafchale makes Orus to have been fuc he calls Thoulis: and next to him. introduces Sefoftris relates all his great conquefts ; and gives us this farther in formation, that this prince was the firft of the line of Ham who reigned in Egypt in other words, he was the firft king zS r-.? Ariftotle fpeaks of Sefoftris; but does not determine the on F 1 i was long before the age of * 0 Minos in Crete Rhodius, who is thought to have been a native of Egypt fpeaks of the great actions of this prince; but men tions no name: not only fays that it 0 who was fuppofed to have reigned r 1 * F. ■ 1 J i m agine k. as he was reprefented under, lb He however attributes to him every thing which is many laid of u Sefoftris; particularly the fettling a Colony at Col chis LI iB Succeeded by Chron, Pafch. P. 48 Joannes Antiochenus has borrowed the fame hiftory, and calls this king .Softris. Efixo'tAevorev Kiyuirnaw ttqwtqs eit tijs cp-jAijs tb Sw™:, P. 28 Pie adds, that Softris, or Sefoftris) lived in the time of Hermes, fteytcros AtyuTmoz* I”Ie was fucceeded by Pharaoh^ the firft of the name. Ibid. Plerodotus calls him Pheron, and Pherona. L. 2, c. in floAy 'uTrZgrzivei t 01c ^ovots twv Mwto $x(rt/\ 9 sccv n Politic. L *9 c 0 TO Is ? r ^ L _i 20 (1 h 1 7. c. 10 r L I Apollon. Argonaut. L. 4. V. 272. Bvaev n nvetcpctn yu tt& 7 rams fietirtAsvs it y &oy%ai(n$) Ai $Q 7 ro;* 7 ns <f e ev qlvtqv k xcch$u Schol _ f ■ ■ _ -fc. Oi ibid N 2 Um '■ 1 h i I I "l I * I I- l" I ■l ■J 4 i I i L J I f I I I I H 1 / I- P -J \ V I J I * ■A The Analysis of Ancient Mythology obeli/ks attributed to t % were r.i L to be fo determinate about an I 1 How came they L. i Ur n i of that country wort % % /■> in e * v lofs? the whole ftances were fo utterly at ii I {hall not therefore % was mattei more of Sefoftris come to y I muft again fpeak of him, when I as s H 1 we ri t 1 a attributed to different perfons contain accounts are m c as travertins: immenfe thefe ancient heroes are reprefented t> regions, and carrying their arms to known world the great Tartarian ocean to the caff, and & and to O have carried on thele con and. tliojfe,' whofe xra may poffibly differ, have this m vifit the fame coun rout; and are nearly the fame time common with the others tries 1 t j c c -J f and are o vC < attendants i rvrt are in sn *s 7 - V as wel 1 natives in V H as their religious rites in k occurrences ave A It is not to or in any age much lefs that he as : are ■i 1 l_r. thofe early ages, m ■1 co.uld go over fuch a f 1 1 J I 1 H 4 I "l > L I H L 4 J 1 I I I \ I h I 1 fa" I I T I r J r 4 i ■" j The Analysis of Ancient Mythology ioi F L J mound of earth, no lefs than a mile and a quarter high, and after which fhe built Ba proportionally wide at bottom Media ; and wherever fhe came left memorials of her power j particularly in Chaonia and Ecbatana In fhort fhe levelled hills, and raifed 4 mounds of an immenfe height, which tained her name for ages. After this file invaded Egypt, re 1 with the greater part of Libya na r ■ and having accomplimed her wifh, and there being no an army of three millions of foot, five hundred thoufand horfe, and one hundred thoufand chariots and c r or rivers two thoufand fhips to be fo conftrudled, as to Be taken to om Phen-ieia With thefe fhe entered into a naval en ates king of India; and- at the firffc this fhe built- I- 1 n were i n *1 "i rus . _ M L i 1 £1 L I or o \ A UTYj uev M7r€J'€(ZMTQ ^COUCiTCt TO T^tOV eovr cc ct^iQSrBtiTct, Herod. L 4 A i I c. 184 Such ^mjJLCL'Tci were called T Ctfpol Four fuch were in Troas. TLiaty^v w A o$oi tsttup^ 9 Q\vjul*z&loi xcth bjawci Strabo, L 10. p. 720. There were fuch alfo of the'Amaaons in Mauritan!3i ■i raifed' by the Amonians in aU.places where they fettled K I I I. L J 4 A 1 1 h The Analysis of Ancient Mythology,. 103 + 7 ■ ■ f ■ Nineve: at other times file is centuries of 8 Herodotus She invades the Babylonians be 1 l . . I Hence is introduced as coeval with Nineve: though, if the lead: credit may be given to 10 Herodotus, it was built L. c •1 I i re it many ages "1 felf is by Ctefias placed upon the ” Euphrates tho u erh I every other writer agrees, that it lay far to the eaft, and was This fhews, how little credit is 1 1PT1S r "1 "i 4 7 Cononis narrationes apud Phot, P, 427 Hcrodot. L r 184. five ages (yeveca) before Nitocris the mother of x. c d Labynitus, whom Cyrus conquered It may be worth while to obferve the different opinions of authors about the time, when Semiramis is fuppofed to have lived \ 1 I “ T Years. * I 1 According to Syncellus fhe lived before, Chriffc Petavins makes the term Helvicus Euiebius Mr, Jackfon Abp. Ufher Philo Biblius from Sanchoniathon (apud.Eufeb, Praep. Evang. L. ,1 p. 31.) about Herodotus about a 77 i 060 o r 4 L r. ¥ 1 2248 1 1 L: : j rJ IQ84 1 P I I . I I I I J 1964 h K J 1 I P 1 I I I l X I r L I !■ J .1 i \ s h 1 1200 h T 713 What credit can be given to the hiftory of a perfon, the time of whofe life cannot be afcertained within 1535 years ? forfo great is the difference of the ex tremes in the numbers above given r ■ r ■ r™ j 1 T *1. 1 See Dionyf. Perieg. Schol. in V. iood 9 Diodorus Sicul. L. 1. p. 90 Herodotus. L. 1. c. c,8 J I d I S 1 • ■ 10 1 I I I Diodorus Sicul. L, 1 5 I P- 92 -: I l| t<© P H n l K h L 1 p■" J I E 1 j i" \ 1 p K I I I } 1 J H I I •j 4 I I I I L i j i i r 1 i* The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 107 were many ages after the foundation of the two kingdoms and were carried on Aflur Adon, Salmanaffur, Sennacherib, and other of his fucceffors. Nineve was at laft ruined, and the kingdom of: 9 O ria was They began under Pul of Nineve by 3 united with that of 11 Babylonia This is pro the fuppofed marriage of Semiramis and to 111 Then it was c Jt Ninus that the Samarim performed the great works attributed to them For excluhve of what was There are fays 31 Strabo, ahnojl over h, vaji 13 mounds of earthy and ears wallsy and ramparts y attributed to Semiramis; and in thefe of communkatiorty and tanks for are There are alfo vaft canals water atrea es o one r- L"_J and lakes to receive them to e o rivers ■j They built the famous terraces at 44 Babylon and thofe I I into their hands emafculating their Haves, that their numerous wives, and an invention This is the reafon that we find thefe kingdoms fo often confounded, and the Babylonians continually fpoken of as Aflyrians, and fometimes as Perfians. m k ri to AiS. Steph. Byz. Strabo. L. 16. p. 1071 Thefe mounds were high altars, upon which they facrificed to the Sun By Ctefias they are fuppofed to have been the tombs of her lovers, whom flic buried alive. Syncellus. P. 6 4 They built Babylon itfelfj which by Eupolemus was faid to have been the work of Belus, and the Giants. Eufeb. Prsp. L. 9. c. 17. p. 418. Quint Curt. L. 5. c. 1. Abydcnus apud Eufeb. Prsep. L. 9. c. 15. Syncellus £1 L j Lj *4 44 ■l I r i i i r h I i ■■S J I * I y i f / h I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology i i II L. l . Medes: and delcribes them both as great in fcience. There was a Zoroafter Proconnelius, in the time of Xerxes, fpo Arnobius mentions Zoroaftres Bactria nus: and Zoroaftres Zoftriani nepos Armenius. Clemens Alexandrinus takes notice of Zoroafter 31 Medus, who is pro- Zoroaftres bably the fame as the Perfo-Medes of Suidas Armenius is likewile mentioned by him, but is filled the fon It is faid of him that of 32 Armenius J lie had a renewal of life: and that during the term that he was in a ftate of death, he learned many things of the Gods rZ imagine did not but to the head of all the another ftiled a Perfian, whom Pythagoras is faid to Juftin takes notice of the Ba&rian 34 Zoro- He is alfo was have 33 vifited after, whom he places in the time of Ninus mt SVSTIV The natives of India have a notion of 8 as of the lame date Zoroafter, who was of Chinefe original, as we are in This learned man .1 r? . t fuppofes all thefe a 9 L. 30. c, 1. p. 523 30 Arnobius. L 1 31 Clemens r. pv 3 i P- 399 Clemens. L. 5. p.711. Tafe aruyej'Pupsv 0 Agftewa IJu/u.ipuAci- JtA. Ei< aJ'/i ytvofJLtvos eS'ctw wctpct ©sw) Clemens. L. 1. p. 3 57. Apuleius Florid. C. 15. p. 795, mentions a Zoroafter after the reign of Cambyfes Juftin. L. 1. c. 1 Syncellus. P. 167 P. 315. It is alfo taken notice of by Huetius. Sinam recenttores Perfe J* I f 0 ywos 54 W ! _ d per Ancient Mythology fas Analysis of t 112 c h!- ¥ perfonages c to have been one, and the Hadrian, the Pamphylian, &c This is very the lame arc % as G He moreover adds, that hov T t aren r* V I 1 ..J * 4 ever 3ie 1 c about the time, when he 37 lived / n are unanimous need only we to can: our IU c £ There arc not be all of the fame sera * m L hut we may perceive, that there was one * t* I more has been confounded with that of others, who came after i" him. This is a circumflancc, which has many l */i Xf* s* V * * I* k C t may have expreffed thcmiclv. 39 t. m erint, ille (Zoroaftcr) fuit tantum 6 unus ) ures unquam ex tat ere, It is is: nec eius nomine to be obferved. that r % At* 4 He lived, it feems in the rcisrn of was one a Sed haud mirum eft, fi Europaei hoc modo diflentiant de hominc pere A t dc ejus tempore concordant omnes, unum tantum conftitucntes Zoroaftrem, eumque in eodem.feculo ponentes. P, 315. Plures autem fucre Zoroaftrcs ut fads .conftat. Gronovias in Marcellinum L. 23, p. 288. Arnobius and Clemens mention more than one, Stanley reckons up fix. See Chaldaic Philofophy 49 P. ar2 S’ &rino, cum illius populares orientates edam de ejtis profapia dubicenr s« 1 1 - A the The Analysis of Ancient Mythology IT'? r.i the battle of Marathon and Plato. We have the birth of Eudoxus, Xenophon authority to fuppofe 3 * this Zerdufht to have therefore no been the famous Zoroafter. He was apparently the renewer of the Sabian rites: and we may be allured, that he could ancients, who was re not ferred to the nr ft acres Hyde aflerts, that all writers agree F 1 iD 4D about the time, when Zoroafter made his appearance: and we have feen above, in the reign of Da he places him as But Xanthus Lydius made him above 31 fix hundred nus r 1 And s * Suidas from feme anonymous author Her- years prior r j thoufand years before that who pro 33 sera us M L. _l fefledly wrote of his doctrines, fuppofed him to have been of the fame 34 antiquity Plutarch alfo “ concurs lows him five thoufand years before that war and al Eudoxus 35 Wi 5 who was a confummate philofopher, and a great traveller fuppofed him to have flourimed • fix thoufand years before Zoroafter may have been called Zerdufht, and Zertooft: blit he was not Zerdufln the fon of Guftafp, who is fuppofed to have lived during the Perfum Monarchy. Said Ebn. Batrick ftiles him Zorodafht, but places him in th time of Nahor, the father of Terah, before the days of Abraham. Vol. x p. 63. SO r Diogenes Laert. Procem. P. 3 npo tcov Tpwtxtov in at tp Zwfwty'ows 35 Leartius Procem. P. 3, 3l 3» Pliny. L. 30. c. x 3+ r }t 'L'j)ooa~ on 6 May of } ov TrerTetJCNr^Aicis tT«nv toov ioumwv ysyovcyat ttpsct* Cvreoov h^oo-iijiv. Ifis et Ofir P. 369. the Vol. II. i i i" L 1 J I "l t I I I 4 h K I Ancient Mythology The Analysis of i 16 writers. He was P given efteemed the fir ft obferver of the heavens; and it is i re m j and from them it was derived to the 44 and ur ii e s to the Greeks. Zoroafler was as W all thole, who are 45 t 31 * t % ior to the Magi, and Ma a* 1 I WGJ r ) p'la F 2V were may h* ( '■# *■ i t CL 4& as! Z6<s Magi) according to 71 l* / O 2 and with the even to ttr vmin?i > cS ns, we are well ftiles him the fon. of 47 Oromazes, who was Plato I. /> YT « t ft r of the Perfians: and it is faid of him that he lau tr the day, on which he was imagine, that fomethin? fortunate was to be t)ortended; feme ifcr O indication, that the child would prove a world to the rr 1 7 o care of 49 Azonaces was a name of t V I 44 101 eipeunov ha Zajcaf-vw, -0 Anon, apud Suidam. A O XV/ Ul fi 'I ' Ai^UTTlor 5C0i( HAAhV^ g'J'g&XVTQ TO, 1 s 4* 7 -: L -I 46 Diog. Laertius Proccm, P. 6 TwMayem'Tm’ZvgoarijH tv Slgoi/.zfy, Plato in Alcibiade. t Agathias calls him the lbn of Oromafdes, L 41 1. n. 122 Jt t 2. p. 62 40 Pliny. L. 7* c> Rifiteodem, qnonatus eft, die. See Lord’s account of the modern Perfees in India. C. 3. It is by them faid, that he laughed loon > ft 1^ as he came into the world 49 r L d } the 4 • j* T "l The Analyst of Ancient Mythology. 117 He was in 3 He jfirffc facrificed to the Gods, and taught men to do the 51 fame He like wife inftrucited them in fcience, for which he came in was greatly 5i famed: and was the fir ft, who gave them laws The Babylonians feem to have referred to him every thin <T which by the Egyptians was attributed to Thoth and Her He had the title of 53 Zarades, which fignifies the mes Lord of lierht. and is equivalent to Orus, Oromanes, and Ofiris. It was fometimes exprefl'ed Zar-Atis, and fup 54 - g to a Chorenenfis ftiles him the father of the Gods I O Zarovanus, and fpeaks of him 5 s as Plutarch would infinuate, that he was nicheans, concerning two prevailing principles, the one good, and the other evil 56 : the former of thefe was named Oro mazes, the latter Areimanius. But thefe notions were of late dat in 1 Dio. Chryfoftom. Oratio Boryfthcnica. 38. Fol. 448. Eufeb. I 5 rEep p. 42. See alio Agathias above ©usit' iwKTaict i tat S'ccgi^vpict' Plutarch. Hi et Ofir Primus dicitur artes maeicas invenifle, et mundi principia, fiderumqne tnctus diligentiffime fpe&affe. Judin. L. 1. c. 1 ZctpccS'Hi,' S'ittv yoLp S7T canct) (cttco rjuia • Agath. L. 2. p. 62 Z < zotiTi r ) Apre / jus , 0 epcrctt . Hefych Zar-Ades fignifies the Lord of light: Zar-Atis and Atifh, the Lord of fire L. t. c. 5. p. 1 6. Of the title Zar-Ovanus, I fhall treat hereaftei sS Plutarch. If. et Ofiris. P. 369 See Agathias. L. 2. p. 62 JO F .1 - L. t _ J 309 SI r i b 1 sn The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 8 r ^ to s * Zoroafter. If we mi in r were t: # # name ' v c 7 £ * US com were genuine, c s? Zo ■=L* J But this was by no means was m 60 true. *r C for I apply to the original perfon of the name, what was is 4 i % 9 A he was inftru&ed by the Ct Gods Some rc t an inter with fire, he was to l-K was in r called ® 3 Adarbain; wherein was jk ratheion in Afia. This region was in Armenia l in upon one t . Plutarch lays, that Zoroafter lived five thoufand years before the Trojan war. Plutarch above P I Qvtos (g © fiof ) fi c J9 o TrAwraiU a ctM ■r A ayaum ay whyr a,r E<n xcct (wofAiaSi xat Sixcucawx? xxi iegcv (puatxu iaqvos euperiti ttcio' t xt owncyoi 7rccvro$ xaAu, al'upQ'J'ox'in' <p P Of i/Ml v WJTG$ iJ'otX.TCS / 4* ^ - i ^ (ppov i fJLwr ctr os quant w, kkj TeAe<os, «ai croaof I Eufcb. P. E. L. i p. 42 l I r' Clemens. L. 5. p. 711 6 * r - . j C\ tp aeffl ywo/uMYOS tfayu waget © IbiA Dion. Chryfoftom. Oratio Boryfthenica* P, 44S Hyde, P, a it mw 4 l r I I p I I I i. i I J L I i "i I I h J P I 4 h i 4 4 J I I n i J 4 h I I I Im H * t f I 4 S I I I F i i i ■i 1 I i r j j. i r 1 < ' h I ! J ■. I * ■. I I ? I I I I F t i i i ■ i r i ■! J S ' L :'! r 1 s I I F F J ff !■ I I j l f ) Y i r ■ 1 f t i J ■ ■i ■ i . s J I I I I r i r t ■ .l ■■ i i 11 i ■ t s I - : ' [ l s 1 3 \ . y r 4 I r i l n * i" i i i r ■j h J p I I I 'i I 1 < s 1 % i t i j r . •: 1 J 'J 11> P 1 s ) 1 f I i r M rJ h- I I I OR PHE US I "| "l b K k i J n \ * I h ■■ Y i< i "m h 4 L r J h •i 1.1 J r i 1 d V i 4 4 I H I I 4 L * H i t L -I I H j" 4 I i i J- •l I I I 4 * The Analysis of Ancient Mythology chara&er of one 32 pl A 4 31 natives i were wor revered for their fuperior knowledge c J I #4 A i X ; I % \ £ fome emblematical fculptures fathers* which were -4 * 01 rhrace, and particularly upon r 111 mount moun er feems to have been a college, and to have confided of tain were much addicted to r a j m % o L and were in great mca in cl Canaan ■> as we e 1 % uy ^ * -s # m en upon m en tioned of Ariftasus, when he made a vilit to Dionufus mount H acinus and was never after 35 feen ?h r A 4 According to the mod; com 4 mon accounts leus, it was ow £ es, and manner of life woman He was a foil tary, and refufed all commerce with the Mtenades, and other women of Thrace, and tore him to pieces were V A thrown into the Hebrusi down which were Maximus Tyrius. C. 37. p, 441 33 Scholia V. 968 upon the Hecuba of Euripides* V. 1267. See alia the Alceftw * Plato de Repub. L, 10. p, 620 33 Diodorus. L *4 p. 282. The biftory of Ariflaeus is nearly a parody of the liiftories of Orpheus, and Cadmus 4 bj J 1 1 f I m i h I I ► t account Jl 1.1 I I i. 1 I I I p I n r b H i i 4 I I l" t I J I A" P l" L H * I r I I r" I i i The Analysis of Ancient Mythology *39 n i" Li 4 Greeks were termed the Dionuuaca. They ieem to have been much the fame as the Cabyritic myiteries, which he F "i IS I faid to have eftablifhed m Samothracia. He fought with' a mighty dragon, y whole teeth he afterwards fowed, and pro duced an * been indebted for the firJd introduction of 1 letters: which are h in I £ 1 number flxteen. He married Harmonia, the daughter of •i Mars and Venus: and his nuptials were efence of all the Gods, and Goddefles; each of whom con P ■ l i r ■i ■■ n i s A h. was ■i - y |*M l" I 4 *- ■ j in !r life, he is faid to have retired with his wife Harmonia to the were jJ I- h I h of Labdacus, the father of Laius. This laft was the hulband I us r > P I h I. I t I Bochart with wonderful ingenuity, and equal learning, i 1 r ■■ i is re i % rJ fuppofes Cadmus to have been a fugitive r i j Canaanite, who fled from the face of Jofliua and that he 4 T i" " was ) K ccf'fr# ec7riitofrBvoi"—'wcnyctyov chtTafreaA/et 6* Eaxcu h) %cu ypctfx,freerct) mra rrpiv HerocL L. 5 ; 'Oi ££ ovrdi ot ervv c r C. 5 ■ Literas Xi. i. c; £ 6. A * * * 1 * ^ ^ L* -in Greciam intulifle e Phcenice Cadmum, ledecim numero. Pliny h li 1 i t r 1 "1 1 .. I z m L h I "I r h "S p l" I n \ J I I I / H J I I "i I * r The Analysis of Ancient Mythology F 1 3 4 Tsc TV7WS SIVOU 7K$ £7Tl Ld Herodotus indeed, to prove tens reigned in that country us that he faw fpecimens of their writing at Thebes in the as an- temple of Apollo 5 Ifmenius: that there was a tripod the reign of Laius, the fon of Labdacus; with 51 cient as n which imported, that it had been there dedi ion with the name cient on r: 10ns L of Amphitryon : but how could he be fure that it was the writing of that perfon, and of thofe times ? We know what is in en I. cl how often infcriptions d it are credible, that the characters of Amphitryon mould i to m could not be underftood ? and which of the two this cafe to believe. I or Plutarch r I : not an w tablet: nor do I believe, that there was a tripod with cha only argue from the rafters as ancient as Amphitryon * 1 k. j principles of the Greeks, Plutarch above r n O / A.ev rav rgmofoov A n pvco v fjucufewWv ccttq TtfAsboctcyp 1 T«i/r« ftAixmv a.y sw 5c«t# A«ioy Tor AaCAjcjca. Herod 5 : C. 59 L J ( "J. I 1 J I i il I J "l n d Analysis of Ancient Mythology i h 43 was borrowed, makes Cadmus an r ■ p IS ue L. been of Babyloniui extraction father Age nor, from. p 1 V r i whom he is fuppofed to have been inflruCted in the fciences M IS io c J axis Mil V n r: I i J We learn the fame from the Scholiaft upon Lycophron Kcti o ti ■. j. M ii V7C r . t now w ooev o c M BV u was Cadmus , who came into Greece o m r j in which Cad • * I mus is reprefen ted as fo knowing: and here it was, that he was and the other characters, which are attri mcs tau J \ buted tohim. For he is 6 ozrwr Thefe arts he carried CL 010 Cadraum Pherecydes. L. iv. Hiftoriarum ex Agenore et Argiope, Nili fiuvii filia natucn effe tradidit. Natalis Comes. L. 8. c. 23. p. 481. There are of this perfonage. AtSws . ?:• E tto.km Tlocreii'wos Aywms th s BwAa KaJ'p.cs. Scholia Euripid 9 various genealogies BnAa*;, Ay<\vMQ A^ KM Phoeniff. Y. 5 QifiKuHi <fs ev cf 1 sroc (pw/p. Aywap <Ps 0 noaeif'uvos ya.y.u Aau. m ryv Bn A 3 km Icrcaa, w AtyuTTM, km MsAix, w icrffi Ax TTOTXfJ.B' TS i'S yiVSTXl KM 5 f. b X T &)V a i yiVOVTCU eirenot eviayei Aynwo A^ytoirnv rnv NsiAa ra H KaJpo;. Apollon. Scholia. L. 3 Dionullac. L. 4. p. 126. V. 1206. The P.oet calls the Thebans of Bceotia, Clyvyts ft acres Am 1 VOLOS v. 1.185 IO 1 1 Nonnus. L. 4. p. 1 26 23 hr ft Ar I h The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 144 ► ria T is r ] to Greece : for before he X came to Hellas, he is faid to have t 13 KOU ) TW CITtO ’ r V ffCLV rom 1 s ) i h Li m L J was not ( ) t a Phenician, My next e I as 5 L l^l I fueh perfon exifted vour will be to prove that If we no .. A P oonnder * we i t 1 find, that it was impofuble for one L n to ¥ Z 1 * 4 what he is fuppofed to r compleated. The more, than that he 4 f P *P* f rn * r* t* t> countries afford us a more extenfwc account amon Diodorus ,+ doubts rP ■P I ft r are to Strabo, and Paufaunas % 1 1 > j 1 1 4 i infer, that no the charac- ■ .we # * p t j i as 4 I k I L -.1 He is faid to ■ 1 ** Eufeb. Chron. P. 27. and Syncellus. I* M See Paufan. L xcu Ka-f//.o« «tA. Eufeb. Chron- P. 27 4 *■ * “1 to 15 L j 152 9- P- 734 ctTo ©« 6 W .4 *4 T'jlV A I") UTTICOV e&A rsnrts stf rm L .. I I ■l 2 H 0 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology *45 and afterwards to 16 Lindus, where he appointed order of priefts. He did an L - * the fame at Thera, and afterwards was at lS Thafus and 17 r J his travels partook of the Cabiritic myfleries m in 15 Samothracia vihted 20 : 1 Lj He was at Lelbos which he named where fome of his pofterity Iffa 21 1 were I to L.J * Sporades; which ifland was denominated Membliaros from one of his **• followers. Mention is made of his being upon 4 the 13 Hellefpont, and in Thrace he relided. and 1 . J • found out a mine of * 4 gold, having before found one _ 1 is faid to have *5 in 1 n wealth opog. We hear of him afterwards in £6 8 mi ro H there *7 k 1 J X6 Diodorus Sic, L. 5. p. 329 YictSjuc$~— 7 rgocr£Gr%e tjjf (Bvpuv, Herod Canon apud Phorium, P, 443. and Scholia DionyfiL V, 517. E t%e 01 T/\€UCrctPT€$ XCCTCC r 1 i 17 C * X ^|> . J ccprcov $QmxQov iS'pvm tegQV Hgctxfe'ds V) QcUTQSy VTO T QdV V t }]S Eup&iths tw ©a aw £x.Ticrccv 19 Diodorus Sic. L ) y p- 323 86 . Priene in Ionia called Cadraia. Strabo r ■ r r l_ I Nonnus. L. a. p j 4 I 'J I P- 943 J •h- Lycophron. V. 219 Steph. Byzant *3 Nonnus. P. 86 1 . j F. 1 *+ Auri metalla et conflaturam Cadmus Phoenix (invenit) ad Pangaeum Plin mon 56. KctS'fj.aSy xa.1 Tf'Agfpacro'a tv ©pax»} xaTwxtyray. - Apdl i 7. c tem 1 lodorus *s Plin 16 Strabo. L» 14. p. 998 Strabo. L. 10. p, 685. 3 - P- * 3 ° Jf xa. Hygin. F. 274 34 -c J «: a 7 t U II ■% are r 1 7 ’J L ' J J \ l t I I I I H 1 a n The Analysis op Ancient Mytholog =147 the chief of his advert I He married Harmonia at the lake H Tritonis; and is faid to have founded m world no lefs than an hundred cities : J » according to the Egyptian accounts, tr ures were in iiDva ?o 3 5 Some of thefe cities feem to have been rituated far weft in I L'J 1 3 ( 30 K m 8 of old called 37 Cadmeia: fo that he may was \ 1 be ranked among the founders of that city m r L_ SKCiKS f to is Kouvq wokis. $ mi Slot * is mentioned by Moles Ghorenenfts to have fettled in Armenia, where there was a regio Cadmeia not far from 38 p. 1 and to have come from 19 Babylonia race Jr k J fo in this region e in A igirowwi KtfJivy ccA>jtj) 5* Nonnus, L* 13* p. 372 p- 323- 3+ A p/jiovrp Diodorus fays that he married her in Samothracia. L. 5 ■d ■a 3 s Nonnus. L. 13. p. 372 6 Nonnus. L. 13. p. 370 37 Stephanus Byzanc. The Carthaginians are by Si Jins Italicus ftiied Cadmev A ans. Sacri cum perfida pa&i I Gens Cadmea fuper regno ceitamina movit. L. 1. v, 5 1 " 3 » L. 1. c. 9,10. p. 26. L. 2. c. 4. p. 87. s Mofes Choren. L. 1. c. 9. p. 2 6. There was a city Cadmea in Cilicia K«^//£(a gKT/ffSw scat £v KiAnuct. Eufebii Chron. P. 30, 1 . 22 F^ Cadmeia U 2 * i. 1 I I h ft t* "i I 4 * r F ■•y Ancient Mythology The Analysis op 150 rent caff obliged to retire felves over various the fons of Ghus rr n 1 r 1 hole I . J were * c * i >rcai J % 111 con & * earth were in after times or title > % was attri And as eo world to % \ (T lonies widely diftant; their ideal chieftain, whether Cadmus, or Bacchus, 01 went to <!■-* h \ Hercules, was fuppofed to have traverfed the A i tf/% ages were 1 c O ■Hi t \ a I a * + L. J 1 of 7 * . c * rr1 ♦ the ancients d > m * r t w-rvt O v- of titles, out of reverence to their Wherever they rnr es to them, and cities, under various came t denominations; all which were taken from fome attribute. Thefe titles and attributes * 1 rnr« KT A ' tjl manifold, and 41 multitude of Deities, whole to a never could be fettled, nor * * Cadmus was one of thefe. He was the fame n icra c confident 1 * L Li as Hermes of Egypt, called alfo Thoth, Athoth, and Cunathoth: and T * Mr*-. Acs yoi tc tw&nw Kat wohvcowuiw. Callicrw H. in Dianam. v* 6 A'/TTrct » <pvh a&i climw Homer, IL in A noil* V« 8 z 05 fcC'D 4 rio^Uj }J£V aVUMTTQlCn % b% ocvmvysA Qboc kwA nyxt Kums, Eurip* Hippolytus* Y I 3 ISIDI. MYRlONYM-flE. Gruter. lxxxiii n. 11 A i" 4 I i r 1 L * ► 4 I 1 I > P. a" i "l "l I t j "i i i t i i\ J J I 1 4 i t i i "i rf- ih I A I M I 1 \ J I I P I \ J I "i 4 I I I r H * I I s 4 A i "i I L- Ancient Mythology The Analysis or l the lontans cxpreflcd it Academus, to have Academia formed Hu that, when the Cadmians from it. came to us 1 Attica, they introduced a new cm ol 7+ Archi ■at f tecture which the natives had been ufed m a t v And he deferibes to at feme diftance from thofe of the the fi fruition of the place called Aca from This was demia, which flood 7S Athens all accounts at the diftance of a few furlongs and fcience; and by * % e V i 1 called here Mori®. irmgs, and baths for the convenience There were of thoic, who here took their exercife, The tradition among or Academus V the Athenians was founded it in ancient times name. Laertius ftiies him the hero Ecademus from whom it received its ?ft A7ro rim L. MO r * * >\ X a twos Hpms o vo Am writer ious. the comic Hr eWMoif v - Jf s of him as a Deit\ 7 t* ¥ € c -t. i. Koa <r(pi *lgct tv AB wyori iJ'fluf/JvcCf tajj* ou-Jgi* jj.h'nx *r oi<n ?Mrrztoi Awi vcaoitn 7 a>\cc ns rm <x>kw xut «f>/ xat Ay? % tint J\nyj}TP0i Lgov m xm o^yut, Herod* L* 5* c« St *** Paufanias. L; r P- 7 1 76 Diog. Laertius. L. 3. § 6. Hornius lays. Academia a Cadmo nomen ac 3. but Ecademus, and Cadmus, were undoubt cepit, non ab Ecaderno. L. 7 cdly the fame perfon. Harpocration thinks that it took its name from die per fon, who firft confecrated c Atto th Ka.^ieooi'rxv Tvi A xxfxfjM XTICTXVT55 TO It Jl H f*&V Axct^npJCC CC 7 TO *H 0 (OQ$ TiVOS Ax&i nfSJ.i upon Demofthem, contra Timocratem. Eupolis Comicus Ulpian TuXr \ tm 11 Vita Platon is. tv A^poTtuToa apiul LaiVtuim in r ’ L. §* c. 7 * S'fivuoicriv h l 1 r \ The Analysis Ancient Mythology 59 I i * ' ©SB <riv trees v M L7T. precin&s, were looked upon 7 » oi/roog tspctt as ■ and the place itfelf in ancient times was of fo great fandtity. 79 7fgoTepoy sv Akcx. ^ k 1 ,- lot, f The Ceramicus at Athens had the fame name and .was A FA undoubtedly given from the fame peribnage n L!i zctXeircu as srooc 0 no r a" . tion was, that it was denominated from the hero 80 Ceramus. the {on of Dionufus. This arofe from the common mif l J j was it was lacred, and whole name it bore the fup L was 1 L pofed hero; and Ceramus was Cer-Kam, the tower tem pie of Ham, which gave name to the inclofure. This abufe of terms is no where more 1 in an 1 ion mentioned by Gruter; where there is a mixed title of the i wor J Sr amae c • I MARTI MPL U M I MMUNi T U M T ■> ? L J 1 f In like manner near mount JLaphyf title of the chief God.. n 7 reps ocvtop cfe wctclv ca ovrcos teoctt EActfctf OOI Hp yctp yvfxvccotov cciro A oc. cF ft b TJiS ©ga ? x.ct?iovvTcit 1VTcgictt. Sc hoi. upon Ariffcoph* Ns^sAcu. V .ffilian. Tar.- Hift. L. 3. c. 35 II L J _ J L J A To cT g yuptoy o Kioafj.i'/tos to jxtv ouo^cc s clttq Hpcoos Kspccj^ou' £s.iovv<tqv ts Apia.J'vvs- Panfan. L ®* Gruter.. Infcrip. P.. 57. n. 13 p. 8 simt 5 tea * - 1 . j Hum. 1 k t 1 ■'i J 4 I 1 1 v- I h I 4 I I I. |l >.-h "i r 4 4 r 4 .1 .■ I 1 •m I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology \ L r J J* Thus we find that Alpha was both an oracle, and an ora I The Grecians took it in the latter accepta cular animal tion dience to an oracle, they gave out, that Cadmus followed a What is alluded to in the animal, which was 1 I cow I I I r i r ■ of it by Paula nias Em I TJK bQQ£ J tion M r i L ‘J There was a white mark on each fide of the cow ure > J moon I I o I J . j c r n > t . i L This is an exadfc defcription of the TTSPl^OJCOV, tjVTS MtlVW 4 Apis, and other facred kine in Egypt ■!- r ^ n p a lates to an oracle e that P r rSl ns Ti i L» \ i*\i| w I f I h I l" This the Grecians have r had be 1 r: r as w r- ti I > hr: b T J k j M ft cow f a i i ble to be taken in either of thefe acceptations Nonnus J P ± Cadmus as 4 from and defcribes him I I l* to ft , 4 to the common notion as going in quell of a bull, and as be Yet ace of relidence by a 4 I oo in cow r p j Paufan. L. 9. p. 733 I £ I F i" £ U ■■ $7 I 1 ■ * s Herodot. L. 3. c. 2t> t Atyvit t t a Zi/oru/ra i Em fommjpcS Qcr^fsPos fajrwi'- L. 4 * p* 126 riocyc 1 ^roA/crcroy £Treeru/xc 7recrBtjct Tiuviicru Sacuy&vQP lev ttoS'cl £ys. Nonnus p r" 1 5* P * 4 4 4« p. J 3° r 1 4 s he PH P I I I I 1 I 4 "i r. 1 4. \ ■i h i" 4 4 r i i F l i h "i i - .1 n f «■ \ i i I "i t s I l I I I 1 i j n i i 4 ■i 4 > v 4 I I h > "I K I s d 4 i i h H h I > d H r H J+ 1 . 1 I H h I V I I* I l I I I I ll * 1 I 1 { r i J- i Fhe Analysis of Ancient Mythology t M gons fhield with a ferpent for a device, to hgnify that he was a Theban. The Spartans were of the fame 14. or an and there is faid to have been the fame device upon 1 race the fhield of r n 1 j The Menelaus, and of 16 Agamemnon 15 J 1 >4 which was there inftituted by the Cadmians Colchis, Apollo in Phocis, Hercules at Lerna, engaged with hiftories of the fame purport; but ferpents, all which are amifs to take notice of fome of to which Cadmus is faid to have It will not, I think thofe countries weflward betaken himfelf. From Bceotia he is and it is certain, that the Cad aces upon that coafl: to ria Thef mians fettled in many protia was a province of the Athamanes, who were deno I I L J 4 & 4 L Suidas. Epaminondas Paufanias. L. 10. p. 862 14 r 1 L j IS f h I r 16 Both Menelaus and Agamemnon were ancient titles of the chief Deity. The latter is fuppofed to have been the fame as Zeus, iEther* and Ccelus He feems to have been worshiped under the fymbol of a ferpent with three heads Hence Homer has given to his hero of this name a ferpent for a device both 4 upon his breaftplate, and upon his baldrick L J Ttfs cf’ £§ agyvosog t£A cljmv cturccg tir cut )tw * a ycracv avwcvos Iliad. A. V* 38 Kvccveos zXbXiktq S'PCtXOOV' £A CO o£ TfgiS a.fJL(picf BQZUi I z minated VOL. II K I I 4 I I I •*1 "i i h n s J .J i i i "i F I k I 4 Analysis of Ancient Mythology F ^ V ft I ■ L. _■ ■f. have r elided was in r * IS r i j 1 - k i not only in Liguria, but in i L . i J 1 4 m nea . 'J memorials h naan I I of their original; efpeci l n % i \ Some of them had carried on a great torim of Paleitina I river Folia Philiftina; and Fofiiones Phi- from them was called 30 Mime I I r m r i i_ j n is laid of Cadmus, that 1 1 %1 I I J "l a l F i i IS I r l i I a town in 4 I |> L n i i IS Y ► L l: i I L_ I I J et J I h i L rj i fylvis Athamas, et nomine prifco ■■ ri Enchelise, vern teftantes funera Cadmi ■l rj 1 1 Alfo a city Conope, by Stepnanus placed in Acarnania *9 Antoninus Liberalis. C. 12. p. 70. A city Conopium was alfo to be found upon the Palus Masotis. Steph. Byzant Plin. L. 3. c. 16. The Cadmians of Liguria came laftfrom Attica and JBceotia j hence we find a I I 1 4 30 river Eridanus in thefe parts, as well as in the former country, Florct/Aoi eTg Auflj'a/o/s pgy aiv TB*A iGtros xcct H ptS'otvtf tw KgA*n>t$> XCCTCL I ttUT« ouoixa e%(av. x. A* Paufan »* Vol P- 45 f I 1 ■ 1 . j Y I*- P* 37b I 3 * Lucan; 3. v. 187. The fame is mentioned by the poet Dionyfius Kan oh S' otv 7 rigi v.qKttov iS'ois 7 repi KvSea. Tu/xfiov., TvuSoi C * A gfAQVWfi KacTftoio Tg (pwfjus epi(T7reiy j" Otpitov <rz?htoy Q-sros >$\ct|;ccyTQ, ^,390 OV \ V The I l!- 4 -t j * * (■ 4 L I 4 h 1 I I I I I p h I \ J h I I V ■I y h f C «■ h |*M J ■l 1 .1 I I fc i. 4 * I ■■ "l 1 r ■ ■ 4 "l 1 r "i n r L ■/ H f * I v I I "l i i i "1 l" p" a a £ h h "i 4 I J r j K 1 4 1 h I n i I i« i A I 4 h * L J i" I I < h h l L "w 4 F e i h l I "i p p"- I ► ■" |L . 1 t 1 L ( J f ( I 1 * "i I ■s h p ■i i" < l p % h •V S I 4 I 4 k h I I K ± ■% 1 I I ■i I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology fcript: for that was written in imitation of the former, and called 9S Poimandras. Thus have I endeavoured to ftate the progrefs of th and r- to defcribe the rout which they took in O I have (hewn, that under the title of Phenicians and Cad Canaan, and in the region they firft fettled in .mians vna / H ■ Antioch 9 Amoysm rqg Xvgicts 7 To 7 \lv skthtclv, Cafus m ► A now Chus: and Eelus is a Babylonifh title of as well of his immediate defcendants, who are here alluded to as thence to Armenia: and that there were colonies here of Amonians ■¥ from, the hiftory of Cadmus: but more efpecially from the fimilitude of language, perfon, and manners, which * fubfifted among thefe 97 nations. Zonaras is very explicit mentions the incroachments of the upon this head fons of Ham in thefe parts, and fhews the extent of the tref 1 r ' Hermes Trifmegittus, five TlaffActvtyw Syncellus. P. 326. Eufebius. Chron. P« 24 By which are meant the Syrians, Arabians and Armenians. T ofi A msvtcou g9 uo$ 9 xcu to e t*/)v cf iaAfiXTors lieu tbs £ib$ Tw 06 Jn. 07 cti tcou ApxG&w 7 tqAAvv ofiocpuAicti* e/xty-xt nrcov %CLl TBs Tfc>y gCtWTVgGLS M.tA Zll'CLl i Vil X.CCTCC Strabo i. p. 70 .7 p L'.j k ; B b 2 J V r i I h I + T X 1 4 S 1 i ■l I Jm I l" 4 n p r The Analysis ok Ancient Mythology I Perfis, and Gedrofia, under the name of Orita^. They are to be found in Bcetica upon the Atlantic under the fame name t IV .■ h 4 - h I I Di uvio ranean f c P Thefe are the migrations, of which the ancient hiftorian 5 Iftrus wrote in a curious treatife, long fince loft; which We meet with he infcribed irsn toov Aiywmw amutias 4 a fummary account of them in Diodorus Siculus, who men tions, that after the death of Ifis and Ofiris the Egyptians over the face of *1 I Owe ovv Alyvwrioi <pct<n xou uerct ravra ami the earth Mac 7 rXsi?a$ usvqv 6 r i l TW OIKS migrations there were two remarkable above koltcc wa<rav h I J T: 1 ■! >■ L r the of the Tons of -Ghus, concerning whom I h J w n k. -I r J .1 ■■ the other of the Ifraelites, which was The author above takes notice of both thefe occurrences in a moft valuable extract C wherein he Hoes not fufEciently dif 4 I I * I * I nor the 4 I I L ; times I n h P In Bcetica they were called Oritani. Strabo. L. 8 There were Orita? in Epirus. Dicaearchus flatus Graeciae. Meret Ogeircu, P. 4. v. 45 Oritaein Perfis. Arrian Maris Erythr 4 p. 204. 1 P t&tqv smv h t "l J L "1 I 4. c. 26. alfo in'Gedrofia See Au< 5 tor Periph i "i * 1 •x f j j _1 1 1 * Hgos nrov £wtv tsj IrcT# 'TroroLfJt# O pitch IvS'tKOV* Steph. Byzant. There fephus. Ant Schol. 'Dionyf. V. 1095. flpirca earn E l ■i were Oritae in Perfis, hard by the Cutha'of Jo ■ 1 9* c. 4. and c, 15 Clemens* Alexand. Strom A !> b b B 4 I 382 t L 1 l p ■ I k L j ri 1 h 4 4 Diodorus Siculus k J p.. SLA, n ■ i L.. I 4 1 ■1 I curious f I h J 4 P I r j L X 1 X / I I X ** Analysis of Ancient Mytholo gy t i i * j TM oi eft\<p clv e$r cctoi wff ftiveg fourty* sig > t KQLl (TVfgOLCpSVTeS mi r ivocg sTsgsg toths, eyovreg 3 Tl)V UP ftyeiAovag' cav VS fCLTOl ■ *1 Oh ftoAvg Xscag etsfts<rev eig tqv vvv r i Upon thiSi as fome. writers tell the mojl \ n US eminent were m elves to ODlt or o o e or toem the mojl were were a large> But enae tnete lefs noble , body of people , who retired into the province called now r * we as we can carry it, ana of the rites and religion introduced into ? Zonaras.: ere s ( dea to Egypt ; and from thence were derived to the Greeks. The •J feme is of the .Cadmians, and other Cuthites, in thefe parts, is ut- i • us r-H terly unknown. With them commences the hiftory of the *h It is true, there are accounts concerning 4 f . — i Ex Diodori. L. xl. apud Photium. P. 1152 9 "A fimilar account is given by the fame author. L. 1, p. 24*.. Zonaras. V. 1. p. 22. Alfo Syncellus. P. 102 * 1, He is very full upon this head. • Contra Apion. L * ft" j ] >* p. 443. and 444. . theus ■ I 3 * V •I 1 J h I I 4 •1 L h 1 < i r l" n 4 h "i ? r I H I J h h 4 > I 1 Y* 4»P«r i i h I I P I 4 > 4 b I s« r h h I I =; ■ J \ -I ( i h ■ r i i I- ■. «■ "i i w i j h f i h I I -J I r 1 1 r "i i i i S i i" n •j k 4 H I I i I .J 1 "i I J. H 4 I I "i I I I 4 J j* i" k I L %■ I I I I 4 n t i i i j \ 4 ? i" J I I J iri h I 1 I » J I h i * ■S i h V d n =i I L A h i i h h i H J I I "L I i I I 3 "i. i p I I \ \ V. f I I I J" J I I I I t r H 4 I h s I h J- h 1 ■l ■■ h i The Analysis op Ancient Mythology in the firfl: 200 + ages r I hiftorians and mythologifts of different and cou ntries be particularly found in the facred rites traces of it are to of Egypt, and of Greece r t i in the more an i. ■i H cient writers, that the great Patriarch was I I as a i * t i liarly favoured by heaven; and honoured him with many each of which had a reference to fome particulai titles I I Atlas, Theuth, Zuth, Xuthus, Inachus, Ohris When I L r ^ i j "i 4 i 4 the title of Helius among others was conferred upon him w 1 h- "i . 1 " They called him alfoMijv, and May, which is the Moon 4 i_ j b j the fecret meaning of which name I fhall hereafter fhew When colonies went abroad b 4 r many took to themfelves the r r. denominated Achaemenidae, Auritae, Heliadae, from the Sun. are to be found in Arabia, and The natives at Orchomeno set ; as were alfo fome of the inhabitants of was. the ancient name of the Arcadians People of the former name other parts of the world m I I were b A inter was % 4 I "i I I and Dios was r ^ ■d Kat Api^cov o Xiosgy Tctis vecrecri xca Atovvcios X a Ax/cT eu s ev ttpcoto) xt icr£®$ eSrm S'e A gxaS'tccs 'Xehwrcts wou, Schol. in Apollon 0 i" ru avra <pouj\ xccl 1 R-hod 4. y, 264 i_ j the > t L 4 L 1 x i" V 4 J I r 1 The Analysis Ancient Mythology \Z 201 the vine, and the inventer of 9 fermented liquors: whence he was denominated Zeuth } which fignifies ferment; rendered was alfo Dionufbs, inter 10 Bac r chus was Ch be in general efteemed Ham, fo much reverenced by the Li may 1 w niformly adapted : nor were the ancients confident their in thefe ancient hiftories, than that fatal turn in the Greeks wi th which l 1 and r 1 i_* was preferved : they called him Noas, Naiis, and fometimes ri vers were denominated from him. Anaxagoras of Clazomeme had been in Egypt; and bad there obtained fome know of Noas or Nous; and both he and his difciples * JL lennble that it was a foreign appellation fa :■ 1 Tov Ocrtpiv ^toiucrcv. Diod. Sic A xat ajirmyptoo jjlb vnv b^outocs u itpos (pVTBtccv cc/m.7re?i& 'TPtOOf/.£Pm , i fJLCt&SW TO XciTGLaY-tVcd^QfJLtVCV tXr T0V XglSrav 7T$PGt%U hUTTQfJ&VQV 7 r€pi 'tqv oivov eucocTjcts. Djod. Sic xexhurcu xn to eviw &evxahuoi* TheopbiL ad Autolyc. L. 2. p. 370 1. p. 11 L_l I 3. p. 207 1 n Pi^cu^os t/£ Aiyuirrm By rots %fovois Ncc£ 0$ Nojs %ca &iovv<ro$} xcti Qcig# kccMitccl Tzetzes Chil VOL 10, Hift. 335 r l ined n L > s i r 1 r. I I I r i .■ i H 1 "I J J "i fl 1 * h I r J i r. 1 "I A 1 h r i l I i 1 n i Y I h r i "H I n K "i "i r L h I ■r i i + \ I H J I h r 1 l' I I 1 I It J H r ► v P I ■V "l r i >> The Analysis of Ancient Mythologv 209 Lj His name lias been rendered very 11 alii of the Patriarch e itfelf, by having been lengthened with terminations and otherwife fafhioned according to the idiom of different na "■"da tions are M and particular, that we cannot mils of the truth He feems in the Eaft to have been called Noas. Noafis J name was com pounded Dionufus. The Amonians, wherever they came hence places called Nufa will founded cities to his honoui often occur. Hefychius fays, that there were both cities and mountains ftiled Nufean in many parts of the 28 world: and he i n ft an ces in Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Babylonia, Eruthrea y Thracia, Theftaly, Cilicia,’India, Libya, Lydia, Macedonia, the ifland Naxos; alfo a Nufa near mount Pangaeus; and a Syria, the fame, which was called af~ There was alfo a place called Nufa upon mount Caucafus; and upon Helicon: alfo in the ifland Eubcea ; where was a notion, that grapes would in one day. Of the Nuia India Philoftratus takes notice; and fays, that from place of this name in o s 29 bloffom, and come to perfe&ion ■ 1 in y 30 ■, 1 But this, if the \ ST CLl VVTIQS CC 7 T 0 2 V H xctSr eva tottqv' zq-i yetp A AtSriOTricc? (BerrctAiot? x KiAnaa?] Atj 3 iw$y Hefych /Ssrrw ?r Nucra, xcct ego A tyvTTT&i BctfivAooi’QSy HgvSrpa?} Q^cckm AuS icct-) Malted evicts Ncc^y 3 ttSoi to llctyycaov^ tottqs ErQiX. cTict 'uias rifj.epct? mv cl/j.ttsAov (pcuriv avvvn VC'lCiy S> Served T 0 V 7 rear * V ft * 7 Steph. Byzant Vit. Apollon. Tyan. L VOL. II P* &6 M n [* t ^1 au th or E e A" 1 ' I s I H h V H "i s« I I «■ I I h h h h I 1 J 4 j •j f The Analysis of Ancient Mythology." deans likewife mentioned him by the name of Xifouthros Nws S<cr 2.1 % r. 41 / of name occurring in acco m of Syria laid the lame claim to him c c The natives F through which the waters after the deluge were faid to likewife reported to. have built retreated; hav 4 .% was fame nature: and a like tradition; that the 43 waters of the E lefs the notions may be of the waters havin retreated or o yet they fhew what im were retained by the Amonians, who m of this event As dil- came ferent nations fucceeded one another in thefe parts, and time a mixture and modelled it-according to their vai notions and tradition and the event for a 44 R S was in 41 Cedren. P.ti; Lucian, de Dea Syria 4S c O gov es 7m%vv to sdctfyos tin ZltuKaAieovos (rv/j.Catcrct.r^vwor.'jW'at tccut'o 44 How various thefe accounts-were from Lucian r .*88 \ r p. 883 4 * " 1 P XCU ' AS>B crt 5 /jr_£. T5 )V £ 7T0JJX zlCC V T))V to 6 £0*0. Paufan. L. i. p. 43. even in the fame place, we may learn a cidt xa&Tct A>;o'£ cL f s>?\Gytov t zS^ DcJDea Syria* c D o/Aoi A oyot eAsyovro t«>' ci p.iv inoi, aAAo: Bxpfiaaah r i * A f 01 /X&r TQLQi. c. •D -4 ■ the i 4 * ti I I lJ b 1 I I I J The Analysis of Ancient Mythology fays, that this great occurrence 214 the hiftories of nations I 4 in was He mentions Berofus of Chaldea, Hiero I I nymus of Egypt, who wrote concerning Phenicia; alfo Mnafeas, Abydenus, Melon, and Nicolaus Damafcenus, as writers, by whom it was recorded: and I •l dds, that it was taken notice of by many others <X * 4 we mail find the traces "i. I" As we of this event more vivid and determinate than thole of L and more conformable to the accounts of Mofes r Greece r J 4 dt to this pur :1 J V L I 45 enus j 1 ■t I king, whom he names Seifithrus; and fays,. that the that as I I* us Cent out birds 4 & n H ► J I "i but that the I I birds j not finding any refiing place-) returned to him again ‘This was repeated three times j when the birds were found to t A * i l return w ee Wit a d f 4 b b 4 Kgovot 7rgQ(nifjLcam fjuev eotevca ttA?? TrtfJLTrry e?rt J s excc' xeAeuei 7 rccv^ on €V HtTTTupQ1 <?IV GL7T01 uevi&t ctraTrAge-. xcu Q/L&pwv d\scriB ygaiAfjLocrMv y\v e%pfjL$vov $v 'HA;b wotei ry Xe tcr&p0s tccvtcc g^r/rsAe# tt 0/>;a cc $ 5 syoscos syr Ap 7tuoccvTiKcc [aw kclt ctAct fiftav £ r cl m &$s* Tpmi cTs Ti/mega* eyrenct m exoiraa'^ jAerysi rcov opviSrwp irtimv '7rotsu/ABVQ$ i en<B yw i^oieu r& v^cc ’TQSexfupctV. A L ^63 cPg 2£Q[ASV& Ttpects 7T&Actytt$ U%'CtV6Q$) CL7rQ0%€rCU OKU XCVTQg 07Ttar0) xofAtCpwcu 4* o TO 5 fl. K I Oil I t I fOj 0 *<?PTG'l 5 TTGLpet T Op JjZiG'lSrgQV T J10*i xcu 1r uvr^crw ersput* Cl$ I L . I rgtrytnv BPTV%fi€V) a7rtxcLTQ ycto <Pv) irn Ae xcltoutt hzo 1 rago-u^ G toi [aiv ctv$rpte 7 roov <x(pctvi? 8 cni I qctgp.etna to tanv &7rt%a>pom Tctpitp^ro. Abyden. apud Eufeb. Prasp. Evang See alfo Cyril, contra Julian r L . I 9 12 p. 8 m I 4 r ~ 1 r ^ j 1 the L 1 1 L I v b i I 1* I I 4 I If* -Ti * 1 J 1 r ¥ i" 1 i< 1 Nn ¥ 4 1 4 h I I 1 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 5 wMi 1 U j never more feen of men the earth. Abydenus concludes with a particular, in which all the eaftern writers are unanimous; that the place 4 fcent from the ark was in Armenia: and lpeaks of its Plutarch mentions re time mams a the Noachic 46 dove, and its being fent out of the ark J curious account to the prefent purpofe is by 47 Eufebius given from Melon, who wrote J takes notice among other things of the per ion, who furvived e cai Armenia: but he has mixed much extraneous matter in his narration and fuppofes, that they came to the mountainous ria 1 L_ and the e native of Samofata, a city of Com in Lucian magene upon the Euphrates: a part of the world where was a d" 1 L J e were ferved in the rites and worihip of the country. His know was obtained from the Ahatic nations ledge therefore 3 r Aj cow (put 71 7t s o$pccv frt Xagvcotzs a&fg.u&jw uev irciKiv <fuouerin\ eutfwts ccttott a<r. Plu 46 Oi fu&v [MJ^roAoyoi tcw cTijA &f/.ct tarch. de folert.. Animal. V i «- ■ p. 968 47 r O cTg TW <TU<rxevi]v r*w nccra yfcL^ccS MwA«r 5 Kara rov xctraxAvcr- A o//.evicts fltTreAS'Sir tov 'iTSgtfaify&gVTcL a. v & gee 7 r 0 v fjjBTct fhcCl'UCTGtVTtt T‘f\V o r 1 \ fJ*QV (pWW USOJV* 2 X f c Tcov wttov B^shauvouByoy viro tcov eyp^coptc^v^ bAStbip nir opeww t?/? vo-clv bm/aj fJLZTX. Eufeb. Prasp. Evang 1 / v %copglv is L. 9 C* IQ. P* 420 ■j amoncr a 'h I X I 4 I b I I"-. j" «■ ■■ I I J" L> "i i j r n i" i \ r r s 1 i H h 4 1 > i'i i C I r f > i % i ■■ + \ H M- 1 I I -I 4 p + L 1 \ i •t ^ "l I I- I "l F h L I i s i 4 L n I h 4 i i i i h I > > I I h I > I * T. I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 221 ■“ 1 It is (aid of Sefoftris, that he conftru&ed was two hundred cedar 6l which was rj ei m n it was. when, finifhed. dedicated Ofiris at Thebes b A It is not credible, that there fhould have been a fhip of this iize, efpecially in an inland diftri£t, the moft remote of any mrine The r \ former was framed upon this large fcale : and it was the cronautic ex ion i the dimensions of a was by which mu ft be meant were And I have moreover on 07 , Trireme " 1 ft Triremes at the time alluded to {hewn, that all thefe dragons,. as they have been reprefented Dracontia were in ..i tj among other rites, the worfhip of the ferpent was infti tuted. There is therefore realbn to think, that this temple as well as that of SefoJflris, was fafhioned J {hip : and as to th perficial contents after the model of a latter, it was probably intended in its outlines to be th ex commemoration of which act re it was m Diodor. SicuL L, i. p» 52. K$iro yccg A /IgaKOV to* £ Hi%ero frccfipQTctrctv yevucoy^ Os TTCt^et {ACCK&1 rs 'TTZVr vtqpov vmv xgcLTU, Pi fid. Pyth, Od» 4* P Os xai t co xcci t&> f mxu a wpeer os jSAi^ff e7r?uw# v&vv 7rivrmovTonoy 61 n 261 VTITKQVTQPGV VOVy k._ 1 7 rs Schol. ibid )K *>5 SVIOiy Theba L J 3 3 f i I I I h I V c j * \ i h i! -M «fc L i I i *A I C "i I I ■■ I I I * 1 L I I I I K I n i H 4 L i" i I r J h I. I H r h 4 I h i" "i 1 "l 4 h 1 r The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 227 A that all thefe emblematical re I think it is pretty plain have given fo many inAance s 3 re and the confervation of one 1 r I have before taken notice, that this hif- family in the arl r ^ J tory was pretty recent, when thefe works were executed in and when thefe rites were firft eftablifhed : and there S7P is reafon to think, that in early times moil ihrines among the Mizraim were formed under the refemblatice of a {hip, 7 memory of this great event. Nay, farther both fhips in from hence • being Ailed and temples received their names and Nows, and Mariners Naur on, Nautae, in reference to the Patriarch, who was varioufly * Ailed Noas, Naus, and Noah myfteries have fome However the Greeks may m tiieir yet in their reference times introduced a Ahd as a fymbol . 1 Aagwi;, Larnax, ark, which they call, 77 an KibctiTog, and the like. And though they were apt to men tion the fame perlon under various titles; and by thefe different people feem to be made principals in the m ean s fame hiAory : yet they were fo far uniform in their accounts of this particular event, that they made each of them to be Thus it is faid of Deucalion, Perfeus in a Tara* tv AAPNA.KI Jtacea-tuiriitt. See Theophil. ad Autolic. L. 3 Plato of Deucalion and his wife 11 Xctovag ctVT 07 roPQ$ alfo Nonnus. L, 6. p. 200 2V Kl&MT 1 p . 391 1) -r Acre* S 9 ms 7 tok rov Ai7toXqv haora Theocrit. Idyll. ■}. V. 78 Zftior ecu' to. f machine cr o l. I.H I n i i I I i V i i 4 4 Analysis of Ancient Mythology 229 name of Thebaj not in Egypt only and Bceotia, but in Ci licia, Ionia, Attica, Pthiotis, Cataonia, Syria, and Italy It was fometimes expreffed Thiba a town of which name was I_I 8 * is called Thibis in Pontus by 8j Pliny. He mentions a notion, which prevailed, that the people oi this place could not Jink in water \ eofdem non may. fee in this a remote alluhon to the . J merei : we name J There was another term, belides Theba, under which the was r 1 tus *1 original: as both - an * 4 haven a m city of great antiquity in in the fame manner. The fathers of the Greek church gia, were denominated . j when they treat of the ark, interpret it in this manner is alfo the term made ufe of by the 86 Seventy !■ 1 Steph, Byzantiri . Itwasfaid to have been built by the Amazons, From the Amazons being Thcbeans, we may judge of their race, and true hiftory . Plin. L. 7 Katroi tbs ye ttspi FIovtcv oixBVTctS TrctAca Onfats 7rgoffctyQP€vof/.et f 8$ t, A. Plut. Symgos. L, 5* c« 7. H One of the havens at Alexandria, Strab. L. 17. p, 1145 s 5‘ Upas A.iroLjjjcta* Strab, L* iz> p, 854 KtScoros* Aag>ra§ ^v?uv>u Hefych ^ ricifitrov bv <navr(f Ktj2a)TQV ex |;uA&>j' Tfr paywtyt K iGootqp* Genef C. 6. v. 14. Edit. Aid. 7 Hebr. C, 11, v. 7 r c. 2 r i L J , vaqmete: ■Trmm^n xetret Tnv Pet a. v. 20. . i which A, v 1 t 1 H I op Ancient Mythology I The Analysis 230 n i_ j A \ w -h I river e I upon from its name deed, all over feem to have been alfo called Apamea name In I I 4 1. v r j k t 1 memori J e I I K f L 4 I I r was A "i A 38 which 4 it in A 4 1 1 I 1 1 1 faid to have been conferred upon J arnea is I 1 latter times. It was t m mem or y it is connected we fhall £nd that the people had concern 1 l L •k / of the ark, and of the hiftory, with which b proof of this, And in more I the flood, and the prefervation of mankind through I I Noah, than are to be met with elfewhere. The learned Falconerius has a curious diflertation upon a coin of Phi 1 "i 89 ■j-w I I 41 "I I I I h Strab,. L. 12. p. 864, It. was undoubtedly the fame as Cetense, of which I.have treated before; and which I have fliewn to haye been named from its Cekenas Iihould imagine was the name of the city ; and Cibotus which diftindtion was not attended to in former novsque urbi Apa c. 13. Ter ' 1 tius Apatneam vadit, ante appellatam Ceksnas, deinde Ciboton. Plin. L. 5. fituatiqn was properly the temple times. Migratum inde haud procul veteribus Cetenis J niese nomen inditum ab Apamea forore Seleuci Regis. Liv* L. 38 ■ T 1 h j p C. 20 I 4 8> Odtav. Falconerii Diflertatio de nummo Apameenfi. Deucalionei diluviity pum exhibente ; ad Petr, Seguinum S. Germani Antifliodor. Paris. Decanum Ex Libra, cui atulus, Sele&a Numifmata And qua ex Mul'eo Petr. Seguini Paris. 1684: He mentions another coin fimilar to the above, and ftruck by the fame people, who are-ftiled Magnetes Apameenfes. On one fide is the head of Severus crowned with laurel: on the other, the ark with the fame pet fons in it, and the like circumftances deferibed: above, Bill AFQNO&ETflN I I I APTE MArHHTjQN AriAMEnfr. . J 1 The two laft fyllables of MAFNHTflN I arc upon the blank fpacc of the There ark. L "i "1 ■V 1 ! J I l I 1 I J I i 1 * p" 1 4 r "i 1 j i "i 1 h I ! 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L > t ■■ ■ 1 f s s I i 1 I < i a" I V I i J i I a" I i, >. ft ^ i- ft I 1 -. r i 4 I ! a" * I 1, s * :• i - r- s I • L I r "i i ■ i \ i k: I J- T S T "I ■i i ■ h H a ■j * ■; r ■. i. s d* I J J / u i- 4 • i- • I*! J ■ s m I A 5 # I ! > J i I |U Vl. : ■; i 0 y .■ iifc t 4 I I. * i. i i i .4 1 i :: & s : ■J. 1* I ■it I! J J s i J I • I \ V t f 1 .( I E i \ » i F "i .b I i i i I *1 f a •' ■ I . I I • I s ■ 7 J J it i ■ i.. • p. ■■ i i ■ -1 1 . s' ■ . I T • ■. . I ■ . I ■ ■. ■■■a-i I -: : ■. r-^■ i . I I fh ■ p H i n i. - l- ■ ■ p i t/iK ■L t L 1 I I I J i h F r i *i I Kh. J * > L Ancient Mythology Tub Analysis of a r 1 254 Lj « 1 * > nient may be, which is not i J + o * L> F K > P L F A I k* 1 r ■i 1 j r mine called 1 1 canoe, Jannus is of the way r 1 1 as an L ■'j 1 1 1 ■1 J Mr jn ■ n i & v & d .■ L* J * } I - S' ; ■> I q" I I P ^ C. til « * b f 1 I ir. I I 1- 4 k j Vi d f 1 !■ L r i 1 1 * A P ;i 1 1 h I I f J f ) 4 r " r 11 1 > d ’V V 0 : j 1 ■: h t 11 1 , 1 * V. L I 4 4 h 4 1 !■ L i'll J A t i>- I I H "1 I I L *■ I F •N r I i. ■"I with which he J • J "1 r L V I "l was r =L r > I "d I J. r -4 1 L T LJ 1 1 ■r 1 anus Bifrons. One of thefe faces was that b "i h I h "if man Vi countenance of a young A ^ many emblems ■j* 1 There was J r L _i I I J 4 K 4 About * I? h 1 1 ■1 » > I T kf ► I > •1 his different depart ■1 J de him I .4 7 I 4 o i, I J ri k I ri r j hand, with I 1 m one rjy 51 51 E£ I h L r i J r.j 1 1 to a rock : from whence ifftied h v- b L V d- j- 1 r J * 1 J fc I g L r i key. T he non water ion given of him by -Albricus feems p ^ P > 4 \ *1 I ■■ I r 1 to have r r 1 I * L I ? J h % p ^ 4 I J throno fulgenti radiis 1 anus circumquaque, altera in 4 F r n 1 j I I t □ f A I I h d quarum una ante erat tern 1 H * * 1 J H i H. I * I ’i LI r 1 p- ij 4 F I 4 1 d 1 1 4 1 I 4 O I ctvvos bp rot$ 7 r&Aouois 7rctvv " 4 TroJViTiXOS xai xo/wyix^. gx to L J'/a/rw. In Numa. Vol I etre Acapowt etrs GcunTuuSy yevofisva ngitoS'm Keci aypie Asysrcti jj,STa&ahuv 'rw \ r Jl 1 y i J, I p .,72 p ^ 1 J Jctpvos—S'ic&cis Big 1 raA/av- x<xi cru^oiXJ7ff*« to/$ + F xcci \ I •^/AaiTrav Kat d'lanctv. — ■ tous 7r$(>i tyiv Irothictp ctvros ctypiois •ftivus eve cm/ sts en^ov Cm <r %ti fea, tts t a eei Kat yscogye/v xat 'iroAiTeveaOctij fJiereCu^e xca fjLSTiKotffx>;crs, Plutarch. Qnasft. Rom. vol...2 KOU CCVOfJLOlS %PU r ? 1 i 269 ri I Lj \ "l 1 r Ip» Q 2 l L. * L 1 h L I I I b- I c ■■J 1 < P 4 J > I 1" I Li J*" * *1 ' 4 * I 1 h I- + I ■Ancient 3 i ±. f F r The Analysis 1 of n Ip" I "l 3 r i -i r > i b c I I * lifr I I i I eaii i fl b ■ i ■ ■. r J J L I r + i and he is faid to on the Sicilian coins of * a twofold countenance crown h I f ' b * i h r i- i - h I- 1 '5 I I i I a com figure often occurs r 1 L A J 4 » f IlIS ► j V a j 7 I I i I and on feems to b r b l" a is a i i- L u h. r l i 1 Fie was H i i I 1 I as a I man i i l i - '1 ■ r and a-pro h I I I «■ being in a manner is addreffed by Ovid ie bifrons, anni tacite labentis origo the fir ft month of the was fliled Matutinus Under this defcription he I I year "d P I. I ane. t r I From I b H I "i year as if ■I i 1 b > i t I Imsapiog awo rs tews 9 "i 1 L J Iv to him were I I I I c p 4 ■s L J H. I There was a tr « , * lo * j. i J l *■ h i > r A and one of the i" J- K I H as a I mns of the Salii he was ven h i 1 ■i t j tj b I 1 § * i i A 01 •ei "l I I I fliled the ” god of gods r 4 f ] eus fliles 4 I i i i in is h i roe KOU OL M 4 "l 3 i 1 i ■p + AIQHOS KPONE. DArrENETOP -Til r I b re .i ct. /cot* p Fern*, <pvr)s 3 acuwcn, 'Peas ttocti 1 i " 3 i 1 h F I P I I * i" * L- T L UgOOTOV Off Jy££U 6 9 2 Parut. Sicilia I Faft. L. i. v. 65 * Plutarch, in Numa Athenaeus. L, 15 1 cat irjygd'iaf, x.ctt 7rAcia ta__J 4 n ■ 4 4 ? r r 1 1 h 1 1 4 p. 72 . 1 I £ Hence he was fliled Tempi i a I ornm pofitor 4 1 j Sat- L 59 ( 1 r. 1 tz Hymn. 13 * 3 Naturte obftetrix: fo correfted by the Authoi i P \ I \ 1 h. We r 5 1 1 L 4 J I - V f r L i * ■: i i i 4 j- I J I p I J !» 4 I a s r r / I h I ■n i t ■" h J J. r i X: I - - I s -L K K h I I I I J T I I I f ' L I I I ■■ V A H 4 * TCt YiV 0U8 I £ % r j >■ 3 J A. n axa primus o vi ac k- J * i t iT er L i # ro e c J 1 r* erne L_. e 4 e 4 ft * 4 u v D 3 c 4 # I O A as avG? * i ■ ■ IS i 4 I ei ■■l ) xcu V V f # 4 7 r .- 1 or a a 1 “ I o iipQfj 4 i * h I h i •m r i I - l i i I I I 1 r I "l \ I OF and which never returned, was held in a different 3 and was for omen a n l j among was O Ion,andlonah C 4 It was efteemed an in terpreter of the will of the Gods to man; and on that ac count in the fir ft ages r ^ p " ■" "i 7 **> i s-U as a e t* c a mariners it was who in to I at 1C1 to let a dove oi ous or from order to judge from its movements of s. in J L_ . was at the head of Taurus: and they are in was at r 1 confequence of . j M or have fet appearance >i 4 out upon their expedition avTSAAom s i A Tots 6 s Afiyov&VTcu 7rXev<reoo& It was thought OCV 01 as we in g a m time of from 5 Ovid zer to ' J l v The raven however did not mtircly lole its credit. It was efteemed an augu ral bird; and is tus led to Cyrene I< at Afeuriv eatovTi Onus' etf'os Tt-vcregas ciyPiets Hefych The Peleiades* fomedmes expreffed Pleiades, are faid to have been’ the r faid to have preceded, and directed the colony, which Bat riyticrctTQ Callim. Hymn, in Apoll. v. 66 1 I I n *• * ■ i daughters of Atlas According to Pherecydes Syrus, they were daughters of Lycurgus, and nurfes ofDionufu Theocrid Idyll. 13. v. 25 1 Fafti. L. r.. v. 65 Sri and Scholia ibid 4 1 1 L J O' I I L j dove 1 t.* The Analysis Ancient Mythology O "J to ores out was obfolete term, he makes Theba, a woman who gave her o ic doves for a prefent. One of thefe, it is faid two a i r" i L. duas Columbas, humanam vocem edentes quarum altera r n H o cles mentions thefe facred doves, and the vocal grove, accou nt is came f n 1 1 that they came from and intimates L j were F i Egypt to Phenicia, and from thence at leaft through the hands of Phenicians firft prefents his H from the people of the place *5 jpeons cues Egypt: and that one m rom H a beech tree . an its ? how necejjary it with an human voice was wm Sophocles. Trachin. v. 174. See Scholia TWs AwJWaiwv (pacrf 4* Trpofxoam&i Svo ffcAftad'a* joteA > an f a? ex AtyvTTrfav cc l y<t7r , T9fJ.ivoh^ tw fxtv ccutezov & AtfiWfV (pnyou uvt^a^cc^oci (poovri <zvSocg)TW‘fo out £tn 1 o TuP TOriV airixt&cu’ ICofMvnv Si piv sm uMVTtfiw ecu to i ri\io 5 yi. vSuxi . Herod VOL 2. C. 55 there r n j . j 4 J iV I I -I I J < ■l l< •"l l" I i. I f L d \ I I 1 I p r i i i L I I ■" i- v I Y f I 4 4 h I * ■i ■"i % I I I F "l I I I I ■j The Analysis of Ancient Mythology r OI writers, related to fim; though they did not icnov/ in what the reference confided was Atareatis, (bmetim.es contracted Dercctis and Dercetus: and O ^ worfhined under the fame mixed figure. Atareatis, (filed a o Dercetus, is a compound of Atar or Athar, the fame as On and Ofiris and of Gatus or Catus, rend 3? the *L ICi c Cl lonians, a full. Dagon, Sidon, Dercetus fame 45 were all names of the r. 1C ion { * i V. * to c 3 He lived both before and after the (food was and was re Am vffomm rr\g rs i at Babylon with two head C * 3 K, 7. A r 5 c 7 IQ Paleftine: as we learn from Helladius Befantinous. 46 7T0V <5fi OVTCL TOt 7TCM7CI 00 Sfta ctv 1 The meaning of which is this: that though Oanes was in an animal of L ' 1 was ; a man re o 1 the fea : and on that account they reprefented him with the 1 All tliefe characters were taken original icrog r A r oma ics in • i wnen and through whom arts and fci renewed in the world. As ter of hi ic knowledge; he was eica to one par the earth was ences 1 were fuppofed to have been he was a mefienger of the Deity, and a will O O' O The iiun e writer fuys Sanchoniathon apud Eufeb. P. E. L. 1 . c. 10 Cl.TO 4! /g 7-8 'irona yu'erai £ifc»r. Ibid. P. 3 S. X‘ Juv tt trxa Suyavig 46 Apud Photium. C. 279, p. 1594 r m VoL. II 3 J I 4 1- J I Ancient Mythology Tiis Analysis of y 102 1 t confequcnce of tliefe l i 1 F \ * I J 4 in 1 1 as t ■ i e c i i iic anions: From them it was i favourite dees traces of it are r cr .i i j derived to other nations and i \ i em I onians, it teems to nfigne: and to In' r to ■" r ^ , i Iiave been I 4 I T I h I have been depicted I on t- i" I I went to war J L -I r L .J H ■# » Hence. x J I H H I P" 1 47 4 o I mentions- the latter by the * f onians 4 I rendered in the Vul- namc of run, Jonah e is CL-LXC I i ( i. \ > terra eorum in m The like occurs in the account given of the who went up to near 7 a acie tree e/o e l" I Columb a I I I i f ians y I J 1 irates. It was thefe words 1 I on upon 3 • I I I put into their mouths : +s Arife and let are go again to our own people and to the land, of out us na P 4 4 ~rom m is 3 / I t rom re non o 4 4- "i 1 * * \ It is accordingly rendered 1 * in I I I I 1 I I I The like I a raae occurs in er h 4 I I I* 49 f *■ I H I I I "I 4 I r • nations m a every one to. every one to his own land. H 1 4 4 L j ¥ i i ^ eopie \ Jeremiah. C. 25 49 C* 46* y. 16 an nee 1 . I 1 b 47 h v. 38.. I jl P -"l H I 4 L 4 ■I a very particular man in "I k h ner 7Tcc a~coTry ixctpsa t oas ISAA'/ivoun a. To as alfo C, 4 6. v. i 6* r r 1 tj h h In I H k 1 1 I 4 I n I r j* i r 9 The Analysis of Ancient Mytholo n y ait o I tlie Iris, as :r. All, who went Dove; which was c two under that ftandard. oi in o blem, were (tiled Semarim, and Samorim. It was a title con device lor their national infinme 7 c b _ j {tiled the sate of 63 Semi One of the gates of Babylon was O cr ramis 7 c b Ramis, or the Dove, engraved by way of diftindion over it lJ odorus, was We find then, that the title Samarim, or Semiramis, did not relate to one perfon, but to many : and it inces c / y t c to tied about Cochin, and Madura, in India ; and the great kino's of Calicut were {tiled the Samarim even in later tiim Q CD when thofe countries were vifited by the 65 Portuguefe and Enfflifh The wormip of the Dove prevailed 66 in Tia about Erne fa and Hierapolis, as I have (hewn and there Samarim in thele 67 parts As Semiramis was nothing elfe but a divine emblem, ua were we need not wonder and the circumfcances of xe Grecian writers accord y at the etymology ot her name, are trail fmitted \ as r fi.d 68 i Herodotus. L. 3. c. 155 44 Diodorus Sic % X J, Ut V u * 2. p. roo 65 See Alzarez Cabral; and the voyage of Vafquez de Gama 66 Purchas, Vol. I. paflim. 67 Bochaut. Geog. Sacra. P. 317 Hefychius. Diodorus fays of the perfon, who was fuppofed to have named 68 her, ovouci muevov L. 2. p. Q3 xiro rwp weaicftmv * 1 R r 2 VOL wg 1 J p t n i J I i r Analysis of Ancient Mythology S lt As Semiram is was Serna-Ram is mo o cr M 6 was Sema-El, and 1 lJ of the like purport Her nicer Ino was no other than Iona ► the fame as Venus, and reputed a goddefs of the fea, and 11 The poets reprefented Ino as the / ) l h J. 1 r marina.. Henn-Ione, and n miles a dove: and Ino and Hermione are different names 1 i« J s but Hermione is a com / i r Semele related to the fame I ► i TA as well as made a Dionufus e. r ii fabled that Dionufus was born in fire,; and that Semele was eonfumed in the fame element. It is moreover faid of her _ but recalled to This circumftance is alluded to in the that ine was confined in V light by Dionufus to Semele,, where fhe is mentioned, mn -i, So T i, , * r E? oro imp xta r Deluge ; and to the flate of death m .1 a was j F y i'^ \ p h J J 77 S g Sreojv etveti tojv vu.Xcicrcn Similar to Hermon bius, Hermeracles, Hermochemia. It was tural, Chermion, Chermione, and Charmione 79 Bochart. Hierozoi'con, L. i, c. x J Hymn. 43, Pauiiin. L. 9. p; 719.. Herm’onax, HermonaflTa, Hermodorus, Hermotu fometimes cxpreffed with the gut W V *78 I J S I So J - 1 it: 1 ***** & * PI I ■ I G ■ a k > i" i * i i ■j t i r j k I V I 4 I •h r r L 1 .M. I • s 1 r i ■i i" I h A \ t % * Trf / 1 /_ 3f j 4 it * ana men r L U l % I i. I 1 i «! i r J r h. L I mac rove me realms oe various mDe S i P 'd K f I ri Li_ J n i A I * 4Vi 4 ^ i r J i l i L J i air 4 I ■j J we owe r p h 4 A >_ >1 Id a J- I i 1 - s r 1 i_I "i * 4 s r, ! waves i i 4 h I L j I y •i I I I * 7 Diva non miti generata ponto. Senec. Hippol. Aft. i ^ 4 Venus, orta mari, mare prseftat eunti. Ovid. Epift, 15 Sic te Diva potens Cypri I Sic fratres Helenas, luoida fidera Ventorumque regat Pater, &c. Horat. Lib I Tlo?Tta, JLtitov'tiu, Aipjvia., Ylshayui, Avct^uofjt, Mater .DWiim, Genetillis L v. 273 r I V. 213 r L J I n 1 Hj i" r 1 U Hence filled 1. Od 3 alfo Ouoavia, Genetrix, i'll I I * I i" r> 4 1 A > vet <r a n$, 0 t i Kutpi 5 I I d CtTTO Kfcw xparee 1 ttovtoio - v Mufaeus. V. 249 I I HU I p t I I I r i* c L J > w 1 r 1 I p Analysis of Ancient Mythology 327 M L s 'j This renewal of life was a 51 c r. in their ics defcribed him as o ► water-lilly, and or called Orus He was the fuppofed fon of His: but it has r 1 the Ark 35 that receptacle , which was ftiled the mother of mankind, Orus is as u on Hence it is faid of His, that fhe had at bottom is the fame making people immortal: and that, when fhe 3 ° waters 1 m mor r: L I The fame mythology, and the fame hieroglyphics were China and Japan; where they are to be as far as The Indians have a perfon at reverence, and efteem a Deity; and whom they call 3 This is the fame name as Boutus of Buto, and Budo and Bceotus of Greece. The ac on: for it is but made count given of him is fimilar to that of r faid. that he did not come to life the ufual way > the fide of his mother: which himfelf e a mani. fedse fuas 37 as a virgin 35f Twi' l<riPV7roS y Q%yv* I (is et Ofiris. P. 374 CCUTtfP XCU TO ct$XVa<riCL$<pGC,OfJ.rtyLOVi£l ov rov VI QV Clgw NEKPON IvpS avaq-iurcu J'oucrav rnv ^vftyiv cc?k<c zcct T-ns dor. Sic. L. i. p. 22 Rccramnus de Nativitate Chrifti. C 1* 1)7TO TCOP KA0’ TAAT02, fri fAGTah&SftP 1 DiO TirctVW £Tl£uheuhvTCt« KCU sUTOC 3 au c&vcccnccs 7fciJjcrai an dor em [ 4 I TftE Analysis of Ancient Mythology 333 mended , Ac fuch times there Teems to have been an invoi n LrCI. tion made by the people to the Dove, Ionali; which was 'AffOL The prin their view 61 Iw . j rites m CT Cl a time to darknefs; who was at laft found co 6 i Oc rigtg —8 kclt era; ymnai rs ; ■ i 63 < mations at b L J notice 1 ^ was re whole extremities as is exhibited which in confequence of it was made ure were alike. It was a kind of crefcent. fuch new moon fa moon Meen. Hence r * its O likewile it is, that the moon was a o the mother of all r the Moon and the Ark were lynonymou terms 0 r informed by Plutarch Analogous to the abov we are that the chief concern of the Egyptians was fhewn at the 1 ~ L J ins 0 1 a / Demofthen. <p£<p. P. 568. There was an infcription of this purport at Argos: which infeription 61 was engraved in the temple of Io, the fame as Ionah, Chron. Pafch. P. 41. Icoyaq i Xehm. Euftath. in Dionyf. V. 95 Theophilus ad Autol. L. f. p, 343 63 Athens gor, Legatio. P. m 6 z Lj ■ r t JT i * . W°S, I I I 1 p b ■■ r lrt rt I 1 1 T t * i i 3 p * r * 4 I 4 # 4 » 4 ff If » # * t 4 # : J t j i ■ i. 1 - ; f '|L I } n w 4 11 i » \ F 4 J i 4 4 I t 4 % * l p * J i- r 1 * ■ J i ■; f \ 4 < ■It X "J I ' I V . *h‘i /l* t/t \ + ■* "I J "l L I * I I I I I 4 1 pi -"l T- I- The Analysis Ancient Mythology 337 L M the time of VMT 0? CtV 5 ntgots grow cline , darknefs now encreaiing TO TKOTOS N J J was m d c e when the fun pa ffes Swiv miftake not. was o J This* if 20 2 2 " 1 month, and day of the month, on which Noah entered the J came Noah's life-i in the second mon THE SEVENTEENTH DAY of the month, the fame day were a o think this hif memorial of the Patriarch and De- no doubt, but JirR r 1 r n j L As this W J traditions, when the Sun was in Scorpio r is t 1 fj Pint. Ids et Ofiris 73 'H Se Ta (pojrcs fA.etpex.i»STcciy itai •kdoltsitx.i awatfAi P. 366 3 I * 1 j&to fxvpos Adup a’pctvio-vyvcu rov Qcrwtv hey&vt. Pint. Ifis et Ofiris. P, 366 1 07rt S'Zttoc, rw O a-tpi^os yeve&vcu A tyvyr'not fwQohoy&tri Ibid v * 4 r 1 p.367. The-Egyptians varied in their rites, as we learn from feveral paflages in Herodotus. They differed alfo in particular places about the commence¬ ment of the year. Hence we find the fame hiltor.y of Ofiris commemorated both in autumn, and in fpring 75 Genefis L . 7. V. IX- 1_ J H A L C A C U A T fur mi fed', that they * of perfons ; but ancient terms were not the names VI P L j VOL were x * J-P J 1 , 3 * hi J LP ¥ it; T' "111 n -■ ■H * - r> - T I ;■ ■ i. A 1 J i I h k ft i A \ a i a H| h % I i" I I J l J I 1 i at J I I "i o I 1 I I- M I f I IS g< 1 ■} I I le n i i j 4 I 11 I i I It* I 6 r M } J 1 " ■i A I wK o a f a m t K j Id a / a a se a 0 / f £ ■l I > m >5 * a a b#- % * .j t j h. It £ f i 1 sa f r ri I P. ’I W 4 -! k._i I I- •? h I + 4 ■■ I I I I I I oe I 0 J i r T J I 0 JfOTO I ' n i XJ ■\ ■J ■L L t I I H j ► H i J n -I ta. ri "l n p n r r ^ L._ J r j 4 I 4 I h -i The egg is alfo {tiled Hop Xequpioi T Trwifj.iov ctvefjiovi vstov. Hefycliius yind God made a wind to ^afs over the earthy and the waters ajpwaged. Gefief. C« 8 'V. i. Damafcius ftiles the 14 I egg TO TtVSfAeVQPi KCtl TO KUOV COOV r h . \ 4 I i 3 r i L J J 35.Orphic. Hymn. 5 . In all thefe fytnbols the term At(puws continually occurs dVffltWj; Clam$ <y«pw$ m Berofus. All theie relate to one perfon, and-the fame hiftory I "l r.i L j I 4 0 t 1- Analysis Ancient Mythology n r I them at Afcalon rites 0 1 r l > l .. J which was ftiled in . J the ancient and true name of this city to have been Beroe ■ i * J But rf s great miftake : for the ancient name was Barit or this is nt h mans were. a the fame as Barit, he manifeftly alludes r — luge, and to the covenant afterwards made with as coeval with the world man. He i i 5 ? I and time itfelf according to the 4 Grecians commenced from*. r 5 I %aA£ 8 <n . 4 b He {peaks of her as a nymph,.who had the whole ocean; for her pofleuion '7 I h i i I i were derived p ^ u J r ^ l: nzff a. ircto 'EAAwgt Betu ]&£m 7rfa.&ts They ftiled it the sera or Inachus Iva%p Eufeb. Chron. P. 24* 1 . 55 Danes appeared ev to) ttputq euiccurq). Alexand,'Polyhift. apud Eufeb/Chron time commenced from his appearance T})? 'EAAwxws Icfogicu etp%w AHO INAXOT APfEIOT: the meaning of which is from Noah the Arkite. Ocell. Lncanus. L. 1. c. 3. Nonni Dionyf. L. 41. p. 1074. v; 3. 4 F OLIVO TOW 1 n a- i_ j 1 \ \ P, 6 . for 1 I "l Lib no a.. H I J I Analysis of Ancient Mythology r OI r n o mt * I nis was fometimes attributed to Leda, and fometimes to OYlfLOg A-TTlKUy i]T;C 6 TSKSP Q . 0 V IJ ; j . J r l ferpent was defcribed round it; either as an emblem of that Providence, by which mankind flgnify a renewal of life from a Aate of death which circumftance was annu times preferved was or elfe denoted by a animal, by fkin, was its I/J _ new its life, and to become politis novus ex turns and frem aftei was light whatever was within contained Nonnus has fomethinsr hmilar to this The ark, fraught with tl e r n j whole of animal life, and tolled about by unruly flood an is defcribed under the character Beroe in labour to r L . r ^ Schol. in Callimach. Hymn, ad Dianam. ¥*232. Ram Notts is £ fieyoLs .Noos or Noas, from whom the diftrift was named. The reft of the fable is eafily decyphered. To T vv£clp$iqv (&)or) ot 7 towtou A ey&cnv &gctvo7re t£s ca t ct<p r Jvat P- 6 37 - ricMTQyovQv itaXto) fAsyotV} ut&2go , 7r?iuyTO^ £loyepr f yevzcriv M ctxccpodv^ Srpnrcov t lx Plut. Sympos 2 L J _ J ft 1 Orphic. Hymn. 5 ccv^r pcuTTo)V were called Barides by Vitruvius like buildings in the Grecian Hippodromes I ■ Qtpiv Qcoypa<pU{Ti~~~xa& J 6 Kocr/JLOV $BXofAZvQt (c; AsyvTTTtoi) ypcc 4 12 . a c. 2. p. 4.. The chief Arkite yypas ccfpscs cctto^vbtou* Horapollo ev:c&urop to perfonage was, from the Ark, denominated A gKcaosy Areas, Argas, Argus and he was for the reafons given defcribed as a ferpent. Hence we read of 1 Hefychius, which is remarkable Apyccf^ Ops, in E te VOL r i L 1 ., i I L i J. i b r ( i I Ancient Analysis J Philoftratus mentions, that, when F t d bees i fent their firft'colony to Ionia, the mufes led the way in the Form of bees fide of the Danube was occupied by 7 bees. When the inclofed in an Ark bees were fhepherd Comatas was i fuppofed to have fed him. Jove alfo upon mount Ida was When faid to have been nourifhed by 9 bees e i ■_ fecond time eredled, it was built by bees was a at J wno com from the Such are the ■i were ro ecian accounts S. i r £ but the Meliffae, thus interpreted { ftiled Seira, Theba, Selene, and Dama When Pindar mentions 11 the Scholiaft tells us, that the fes of Damater; and that, accord ing to fome writers, all the female attendants of that God I dels were fo called. And he farther adds, that thefe were th F a voice oj toe l Meliffae were T 1 of the earth; and ons ankind agriculture ; by which ey weaned them th A" ■ w I 1 % to rom ? i j r ■ d I this L- n M "I crat nysvro t 3 vccvtikh sv sifei pe A t cr cr <uv . Icon t a Trip civ nr a 11 ; -ny. L. 5 2. p. 793 c. 10 7 A ey 3 cri$ Me A urtxai KccrBypcri Theocrit* Idylh 7. v. Si * Callimach. Hymn, in Jov. V. 50 PsUIlLD, L. IO. P« 8iO. T & G V 07T0 jbCfA'^ £7" (T Goi] 'TO V POLOV Pyth*.Ode 4 - p* '^39* MeAto-cras wjg l&'$ TctS T?J5 Scholiaft upon Theocritus in like r I 1 ID &v/jmTPG$ 'IxtA. The (or, as fome read manner fays nrct$ £Ta:ttoL$ xeti Ajj pa MeAia-trccs Atyia-bxt. Idyll. 15. v. 94 "M iBpBl a.r) GLUTtyS (IzBp&tQcVte) r" AAAjiA oipccytcLv* Ibid By s "l h .1 I '£ 4 I . 0 at J ■ * ■ - i p I r I- r n I i ■i i r 1 I * a I * F J .■ I J e a I 0 I l l L f l: i i A ■* h a L I n i F 1 e a l h * 0 I n u i j wo I I I I I r A > This name there was la I i i I: o * I J whole myfteries the wormip of n k. ^ were t . ' K rites of fire. The city was fituated accom called Taurus: and its branch vaft r upon ■A IS n b_. j j Ti?s S'£ P ota* a A oyo$ Toct JV *tw Hcei Pcu&j' ccyTy Achilles Tatius. L. 3. p. 167 18; There were many places in Syria and, Canaan Mention is made 1 t! . a c r 1 °9 2 Kings which feem to have been denominated from this hieroglyphic the tribe of Simeon : We alfo read of En 1 5 - v 111 . . _i Rimmon, Gath-Rimmon, and the mourning of Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo. See Jofh v. 45. Zachariah. C 30 Texeira’s Travels Nehemiah. C. u. v. 20. Jolh. C. ig 9. v. 7 I 2. V 1 r 1 : p h IX I 1 . j 31 poicitf Hefych 1 L Surcrunt 7 J 1 I H I I n d "i "i L i i" i. j i i 1 i "i "i k £ h I J J. I I !■ i T I i" -I \ h I I f t-. s p i. "I 4 h L i< "i i "i j ■+ 4 1 * J. 1 - I I H i li "i j i 4 1 J I h r i h "i h * 4 I ■■ I. I I r ■j S L J I A 1 I- I -i Y i i- i * i I i I \ p i K n i b I I H I H I I 4 1 ■■ i" >1 H H 1 J I 4 tntil Y p ■l id ■ ■" I' r Y m ■TJ A LTJ 6 o L J ferv Thalaffio not know the L J r L" r i I L! LTj J may be feen bv their various as name Thalaflius was the God of t-he-fau the 6lI S I fame as Pofeidon : the £ aifo as Belus This is- fsl r won si !l t . I donians. ®ocAcc<r<ria$ Zsv$ bv Zioom rifActrou lath efych. Tha Beroius was among the ancient of the fea. From hence 62 r i ccor deans the n and Thalafla of the Greeks; and the God Thalaflius of the- 51 Thalatta J J r t is remarkable that at the celebration Romans II t tials among the Greeks, after- they had facrihced to the youth was introduced Gods, and appeafed the Daemons a K with a cheft of flowers: who re v r $ h Etpvyov tt&KOV) SVgOV CtfJLBlVQV ries n a more r nate lot r not well be called’ prema-’ The expreflion would befides. • an: evil r i L I Epithalamium Julias. V. 132 61 Plutarch in Romulo. Livius.. L. i. cv .9 Varro deduces it from Talaron, lignum lanificii. See Poropeius Feftus, That the Romans were ignorant of the purport is plain from the queftion of'Plutarch in another place. Zlicc itio. ttoAuSpuAAwtos o.J'st a.i To. Act <710$ Quteft. Roman®. P. 271. It was more commonly rendered Thalaflius, and 5 Thalaffio. «x Eufeb. Chron, P..6. To /tsOrofunweeBat.' S'Ct&CtGQ'CC a t tv TOJS ycLUQt$ 1* 1 j r, L d tUIti* I J i r i J L The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 394 - r- mentioned, that - Ohris was the fame as Or us it has been was upon this account called the elder Orus 69 T I \ - V, I *0 O l v: V k c ■- 1 ■* • f v. V * 'i 1 1 1 £."• :\ necn * l* i. m a different ft ate. Plutarch tells us, that as the head, or to J I lans as ion 1 i and Onris in which Orus was 71 preferved ft fit] and often reprefented as the Sun it were ftiled Heliad 02 Hence many have been milled; and have referred felf 4 what has been faid of thefe perfonages, But the Egyptians in this title did not allude to the Sun but to a I ' as ap I . J ICS F J Ihip, which is fupported by a crocodile ■i ltanding upon a crocodile, and at the fame time {bribed. as I I furrounded with other lymbolical reprefentations as- in in V X 1 ■r>. J I T 4 the midft of waters; they accord; i + 7 ■P i \ ± h( 69 Top A Ifis et Ofiris, P. 355 7 ° Top fiev Q<rigiv TfA etrfAGZ' Ibid. P, 374. 71 lorn Plut. - Iv KrrvoKKma ov itctt 5 y 1 JVI envy co$ UTro^Q^nuy Toy J's £Ioq ?3 ct7ro*- > 4 vSkt txoy -arpcffjjs yevec ,Jtaoo t i0»v» I inr, oncor Ilpy xoor/uuoy 7 * HAic^cT’g <7 iy&cr t ^totS <^1 tf&As Milters* Eufeb* Prssp. Ev\ 31, xca Ibid l 374 . 'Kcopap ytvfcr£co$} xui Ibid SpCOTTti e7Ti£y£pKOT0$ TErAoifc B7H. KgOXQ 37 2 V * L J I ccv \ r 3 ‘ P- II5 t H f p * s> • "-"n - (4 r y -if ' - k J T I • I ■F " "h d- h..J •«!* ri J- ^V + ■ s F fa ■"■■ • i'll I -■ V-.Lrt ?; iV i i. 1- ■ r ■ i ■ k \-W -■ • ■ p * ■ ■. 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" s r b^ B . s v > j. s fa 1 J f j 7_-V- l 1 4 1 * •■■t ■ - x . i- ' 1 ^1 r r: ■ fa V. H I a I F 1 1 1 1 ■ ■ s"- ■ s 1 y 1 1 1 .v *1 •m = i faV .'fvA 'll. 1 ' . a I r I fa " a > 4 I M - a -s- J, h. 4 J L. b K n* ■ a I fap. ■. I 1-1 • J - h 1 s ■V^a .V- h L ri. 4 d " > \ I N- V fa 1 ' :vl 1 Al >■. ■■ v s : I I vri. ■■^b ■1 ■ fc-Jib,-. I • 1 r d p • ;7 4 ■ 'Vi L >4 - p p - ^b^.'l fa- ■a iV« T.>. fa Y i ,-7 .A ■-: ^ -i ^ r■>’ F •X 1 ^ L 1 : ■■■ i ; 7 faj s" ^ ' F I fa J.1 - .r^ p" . + -J • p -I - "■■’bV -5 1 * a P a_ — I P I 1 L> P « • .4 1 V / ; ■ xS* . >: j r ■a Claw** f" ■ 1 tP b 1 1 1 fa .s The Analysis of Ancient Mythology r 95 n tory, made ufe or types, which had Tome analogy and re Some of thele could fcarc r CiY I 1 . A J Such man in an arl * dead; and who afterwards was their carrying about the image of a who appeared to be 73 BP fuppofed to return from a {late of darknefs lif 4" was to v. I But fuch deferiptions related rather to their ceremonies The flmilitude, of which I aui ? now is to O' i tJ obferved in their hieroglyphics and fculptures Thefe will am - 1 l-** O A Hence the crocodile, and Hippo potamus, were emblems of the Ark inundation of the Nile they rofe with the waters, and were fuperior to the flood The Lotus, that peculiar 7 S account was ■J and we accordingly And a frog upon the Lotus introduced as a facred emblem in the 76 Bembine table We are more- over told by Iamblichus, that the figure of a wan upon this plant in the midil of mud, was an emblem of 77 Helius • r ima and that the fymbols of Selene had the like reference to the Moon re □ I Ifis et Ofiris. F. 357 Efi/WcOF ca f Up607T8 TS$l’mtQTO$ €P Ki€ot)TtCp irBPt^P *Tov Qatpw uSb ' 7 rctpcty$voiuL$VGVr Ibid. P. 358 73 ILZVQV, • 74 r. p. 79. The Egyptian Priefts ufed to crown themfelves with the Lotus. Heliodo tt If L ri o. p. 4 5 7 Figure GG. Edit. Amfterdam. 151 . &g}i> S 7 ri Acdru> J r ■■ i 76 1 Sedt. 7 L 1 Afc * -N r 'i E 4*/ fmemcnC Hr The Analysis of Ancient Mythology The image of the moon, which in 397 fc..j r ✓ and referred the hiliory, with which it was attended, to the term Helms borrowed. Hence in their was human imagination conceited Some of the fathers ever no tice, that the Egyptians defcribed Heiius m a c a crocodile: which, he thinks, was Eufebius fay air s that the padage of the Sun was water, which was denoted by the crocodile Si I am per too good aftrono fuaded, that the ancient were or and naturalifts, to have entertained any fuch notions mer s,. By Heiius they meant a perfon fo denominated : and the Moon, to 78 8 was U k I the reputed mother of the world, as Plutarch confefles which character cannot be made in any degree to correfpond with the planet. Selene was the fame as Ills, T ami the fame alfo as Rhea, Vefta, Cubele, and Da-Mater The crocodile was greatly reverenced by the u Egyptians r 1 k account of their and, according^to Diodorus, it was upon hyp# TW 'TYQpttCtV 7TQVG5 ycVVQ Toy HAioi, Pr£p. Evan 8 ° Oti HA/os JV ctioepos yXuxSfB xxi c c 0 Zpovov. L. 5. p. 670. t c t* Xvf+CCWZt %0Q%o£?iXo$ TTOTtJXGV OrCtig L. 3. p* 115. A?? A oi <^e to {/.w irAotov tyw zv vygw Plutarch, Ifis et Ohris. P* 381, Strabo* L BV w (pBpBTCU 0 xwncrtr* Si Ibid 82 p. 1165. >1 / kin «• O I 1 t p ll I I I 1 I I «■ I I I I I i I I fa" I I 4 "l 1 PL ATM ZUt 1 f t. 4 "i h I I J .1 I + I I I I p b The Analysis of Ancient Mythology J F i *\ I 1 _ J or aces was an non in I That the Apis, and Mneuis were both J =1 and who r i is 7 certain r. J an ancient age was r L J r j may be known from the account I I L I * F l the name but P U i [ I i L J I was r * % k — J limited to Italy; that of Inachus and Phoroneus os F 1 i of Deucalion to Theffaly. Mneues, or as the ancient f ■'j i 3 : -■ i compound of Men-Neuas it. Mneuas. is a nans and relates Minos, Min-noas - I alfo who was re Taur. or Mino-taurus I •i who in Crete was ftiled the under the emblem of the Men Diodorus \ \ W S j i + rj iver Gods and Heroes, when a I 6 was made in the manner as a man of a moft rj I meu. exalted foul, and a I I. H h I I I K h 4 I and he Thefe laws were unwritten I 1 I j H I which l- I n i i i i i =1 F. Hv TOLUT?) G’ShttCTlV 'A^pOe^tTVl'} Oo Tnv l<rtv A.iyvTTTtoL XO, C, 2*7 K Wf/.fi AtyuTrrict yLovo'cu to ovoucl ctviav l. / J I auTW xa Ayrrss. nfAwcri cPg xat 0^A Bictv- byj QbxBpw Xolt CLVTW 0 - L . "l I xa-t ir^ciTThiGi) kxi ypcupaai. JElian de Animal Atovucros. See Lycophron. V. 209. and Scholia I Msrcc 71 IV TnxAuiCCV £ L n C Jl { 7 AtyUTTTQV ClB XUTCL^CtCriVy TW UV1QXoyBUBVW y€ •Tfcs %<CT yQV£Vcct* 7Tt TB TW ©g«P X<Zl cracructi 7 reiorcu (pccrri 7rgooTov aypocTTo/s yQfxoi$%gn Toy MidgtWj ctvfipa xcu' Ty fx£yay$ xcu CLO Ttt T QV I r * canes ecro/xspb's, Diod. L. i* p„ 84 ‘ztAjjOjj Ciouv (lege Bwr) rot / TW (zi&J TtQlVOTOrTGV RpfrW oeJ^aoxe rcov fjj%uQv£voixero)v usyaKon* ayoSco) I I r rau Taras, as 1 V "rf I J I I I { I ■■ I I r 1 1 I I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 420 il ^ J whence came the term Appa, Appas term for a fathei ■1 K and Apia among to P the Romans. Homer -p Patna among L J when N eft or was fent ancient words: and he tells us to ■p fight againft the Centaurs of from that he, went 4 to V '1 This may 1* r. warn mr; either that he went far away elfe to a great diftance from the region was fo called from Apis of I differ from 13 Strabo, Eu or L J .. d n 1 ftathius. and all the Scholiaft ►J / w j meant fomething 'at a diftance. Hence was A which is A terra a 1 » fcarcely fenfe. Paufanias who an 1 was as a fibres us was ►j that of old the ftiled Strabo was a geographer, as and 14. ia v l I I We may there I that it was fo denominated from Apis JL fore be affured, that the term, was foinetimes ufed for But it likewijfc fignined patria from Apis a proper name j t whence came the Greek term xs Khtcclg a X < I L . r as, as was ex Amon, Ammon : Adoo wmca jigm jure as Atis was rendered Attis Addon as 3 I I =: 3 1 i I Iliad. A. V. 270. T. V. 49. OdvfT. H. V 1 % 2 ' H They render by 7rcpp& Ejc ym fJL&xs&v a7r£%B<ni Horn. Iliad. L. A. V. 2. Anw J's ‘Trofj.oj Strabo. L. 8. p. 570 ' 4 Tyv evrcs IcrUijrj-J pfUKccv Asriocv L. 2. p. 123. Apis is fuppofed to have come from' beyond Naupa&us; Awn N ctuTontTicts. wSSich. Supplices. But by the coming of Apis is to Schol. in ■J 3 I *7 I (AthcTos) xctXeiauat, Paul exstvd ex sr eg us be underftood the intraduilion of particular rites which were originally from Egypt . j ; HeJychius 35 Acs i L 1 - The Analysis of Ancient Mythology A2 2 Noah : and to him thefe animals were iacred Tsg T.a vg&g rsg kgsg, tov rs om that \ as ms us 1 o Keu tov M veviv, O Amy r I -p f MneuiSi were upon as manner were and to be to wis s . ■ J J living oracles, and real Deities H *3 in a r ^ 1 . 1 f e '•« H Diodorus fpeaks of the honour, F ’ L_J in they were held, as being equal to that paid to the as Gods l J that they were reverenced as J us I z 6 Deities, and this umvei The Mneuis was wo hence facred * L J P r at is was at that the former was v as ■ 11 s si r “> j ■l. the Sun. They were who among other ^titles had that of i k; I dedicated to Helius: but 1 of the Deus Lunus minated 1 C j 1 more to 1 1 did not refer : and to the I O' t ■ii o to in I 3 66 Ifis et Ofii'is 21 r r h<ti* Ibid. ew tyi$ Qfftoi^os BDCOt f CC V . ifc Att^. Ibid. P* $61 *3 Eu/zopf'OF e«cor« foj TOV J Top cTa A r ser/y blxovcl fxtv Oaipt^os e/u.'j'U^op Ibid, P. 268 21V0LI i *4 O Eas Attrn eq-'iu ocjjoi ■Oaios: Ibid 0 I 1 Tehevryicrccvros QtriPitf'os tstov^bj ) *?? 4*^*7 fidrehei-jLiewi xc&ivw* %A. Diodoi 5 Toys cTg Toombs tbs ie£es 5 tov t£ Kyrtv^ TQl$®eo& Jj. : ‘I. p. 79 . Aw< 5 5 9^05 Amm-Tt&H CCUTS XOU diet T&UTCt I. p. 76 I h Mnviv 7 ty.cco'Bai Tdccpccn^Xwico$ Stud as. Xctl TOP r I P Tom Se Taygas tbs ze^as crebecrUctz ■ ttaQst'ETSrP 0gy$ P* 19. Apis, populorum omnium numcn. Mela c. 9. ©eos BMpyerctTQs 0 A-etis* ^Elian de Animal. L ♦Zt rctcnv AiT/UTTTZOZS. L, I ll 1. c. 10 r n machine I< p I 1 s ■ I i -! i r i i i ■>! l S I >-5 m j; "i r § *■ i ■ a" a" I X I r", iv i > • I I I I : l n i • v ■V * '1 i ■: ?■, l 1 J J I |H ■J j 0 ■%i i S : V ■■'J ■l ■y 4 I" - J "iT •Lh r, I .1 • f'J ■ J -■ — J' r h s ■:r J- J .Vh :5t I I* I. I 1 • I :■ i S r J J J i i • -j l f The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 3 e ■ 1 I. which in I r A was lans to the new moon vourite emblem which I have fhewn to have been a fa And there is reafon think, that they N made me of fome art to imprefs the hg of a as it is cer cent upon the fides of thefe iacred animals tain, that white marks of this form were c The Mneuis was ui upon them chofen of a black colour, that thefe impremons i. »7 mi more The like is faid of the Apis, who is appear defcribed as a Deity zs Bos m JEgypto etiam: numinis vice .J ne ei in dextro latere candi colitui cans macula, coi account is given diveriis o notarum nguris exprefli maximeqne lateri dextro infignis 11 n c r omnium corniculantis lunas fpecie Thefe animals are r ■ a - faid to have had this regard paid to 10 being emblems of hujbandry , them, as ins ..1 l r l . I as 4 r 0 Of m?s u e L / I I 4 j & i ■. i .1 to t mt a i V 6 * i fjLeyt<j*Q$2 a(poSpct /jlgAus* Athv c&Amv. Porphyrins apud Eufcb, Pri£p* Evan. 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J. * I I I J J r I 1 b r i r J L J i * I £ r Oft G 7. r X 55 I I r eafi rtf it o I n d 1 i P 3 i F f< I r ■s e< 1 I s l e l i I * a L ■■ 1 F I I r fi e n, L' e I r i n i \ * i i i m I y- ¥ A i i a ■■ a s I I 4 i j i pH i r i 4 a r J L * I I ■ *9 They were ftiled Bao-iA^o; XxoGa;, Royal Souths: Herodotus 57. So in Egypt they had been called Royal Shepherds: IW/Aejs Uoiy.ms 7 ° Herod, ibid 7 ’ Ibid ' l" 4 r ~t I I I. I I I* A- r 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I 7* «• i 1 1 r L* Vi r' Called by Euripides Aprs pup &ievp ctmo-crocv* Hippol She was confe quently the &me as Hera or Juno. Hence probably her name.is a compound of _ ^ r r 1 Temis, the fame as Themis, the Goddefs of Juftice. 1 have fometimes thought that it was from Ar-temis, the city of Themis 5 I £*] r 1 1 n L I L_l ■l I I F L I 73 Eerer» xa/ fa/j&yecra'tr evr«rxc»xo5» Callimachus temis Ai/nma 5 and A//xj/«r(s• Paufanias 74■ P, xxxix, n. 8 Hanc tibi marmoreo casfam de monte, Diana ^ J I Regina undarum, Nympha, decus riemorutn to Diana. V. 39. Hence Ar. 4. p. 287 r r n 1 j 8 3. p. 271 r 1 ■ 1 r' L J L . L J r 1 n .S I b 1 IE n F I Y I i. I. Ancient Mythology The Analisbm of r " j I A rkite of 9 Haran infer, that it was the i tr I 1 i we may and k d b 1^ rj 1 E L a'ban a 10 Of I I l I . A that thofe places, which were called Albani 4 imagine had this name from Al Laban, the Moon, the objed: I of worlhip in thofe parts. This Al Laban was contra&ed Alban and rendered with a termination Albanus r i make no doubt, but that the Arkite idolatry prevailed Strabo mentions ii U w r 1 'A lJ 1 r God. Lunus o 4 I I Albanus in Latium a faered mip was reverenced; which Juno, or Ionah. From ( 4 Dion Camus calls the mip li hence we may infer, that it was a r h 4 called Baris I L uno were and Venus was ftiled 13 Lubentia* and Lubentina I I 1 ._j I which b r i "K I L i i" i" i The place was called both Haran and Charan: by the Greeks Carrhae, and the people Carrheni. It ftill preferves the name of Haran and Heren: See Pocock’s Trav. VoL i p. 161. It is the of Chrufococcas the Haren of Ulug Beig Ahcactf*. J x cLTqx. j;cr tv f v Xa ioct t >. A<5t. Apoft See Plate reprefenting the Deus Lunus Carrhenorum I , 1 L. 12 . P.835 From Labanaj and Lavana, came Luna. It is remarkable that the Portus Argous in Hetruria was hard by Portus Lunus. Strabo. L. 5. p. 333 - 339 - 342 . and the people of thefe parts are by Silius Italicus called Mseonians. L. 8. v. 484 L. 39. p. 62 Auguftin. de Civitate Dei. L 8. v. 4 I s I r’ L d L_J JO / L 1 I r h I 1 4 d > I 4 I Hpaff nv 5 h *5 5* P* 53 1 Lubentia J J J L 1 I b 4 ■ f ■■■ 1, . I T; l . ■■ i ■ i ■ j K ■ ■i £ I I ■ / ■. v i’'. S 1 > M m\ i fc W * n;>; I! * m h. I I 11 ? } i 4 I r J t * {: , i ill <iu j t i i 1 > p 1 r p : i .■ * - 1 i r : V- K i i i, ii > M 4 f y * i i t Si tliil fc • . 4 'i: - l - * ■: r ! f . •( * ^ 1 I p ! J 4 ; ■ I ■ 1 j ■ I r ► r.’t I iIHi r ■ i i ii 4 I’ I f 4 1 v: ii : -r I f i fc h h I I- I h ■. ■. ^ i ■ J I d I j V i n ■! ■ ; r Hit* ta I 1 J 1 I- Iff! i 1 Ii }*'t ; ■r T 1 F ' \ t . i .> ■r M b P , j : V J I I r I r 1 ; I 0 ‘ N ■ r ■ y J ' : M t ■ ■1:1 ■. . ? > 1 4 ? f I I V * 1 Si i ij 1 1. :# 1 . J U' 3 I l l l 1 11 ; l> J ■■ b • 1 h t ■ * * i '•L J ■ I J II ■j: t r r ■ j * i .Hi 1 h P ; t i i i n r l ■ 1 * 1 ; 1 ■ i- ■. I it, i 1 ii i r. i 1 t 1 y j in 1 4. L ■ •. I c II jl ■1 1 T. i a f * 1 1 * ■' * ’ l ; 4- 11 .1 i 'k :■ 'i 1 4 t J .4. / v ■•v* I I I A i p i" b |i I * K + 4 i I J J 1 I r b I r 4 * I 4 I P I 4- I J [ t I 1 I I i" r i r 4 4 4 I I "i t h F "i i j I i I I I i ► P J- I 4 b 4. K I > Pi I I -i. I I "4 4 i p J 4 - i ir 4 1 1 4 i" 4 2 f I 1 J b 4 I P r "i i + A b > Y ■P" I I l| I I P h i L 4 i i i I L 4 4 I "I 1 h i* I 4 J J I I I r i 4 I I I h i I. i i i K b P I i P 4 I 1 f b I I S P I r b I 1 I r. I I P I P 4 I h 1 b 1 i i I i i i ii i i i p 4 i i 4 j i* i I i r L I 4 I i" i" 4 I I I 1 ? t ■. f I I s I I r r s 4 T- 1 P I 1 I d I r i j I c r i i i I / I > i r i 4 I I i i. i L I ■i 1 i N i I i f i i 1 t * I i J i ■r P H b J =1 J H 1 I P- h I I > L i 1 I f / i I i - I 4 f A 1 f ? 1 h" r 4 I l| f P h 4 f t I I 4 H I I ► P iLXl'K Will H 4 i j i i i it i ■j I I I L 4 I 1 Analysis Ancient Mythology E / j r. \ to were .J j daemons, and in number three: and they are fometimes as as chief Deity of Egypt, and the reputed father of the Gods r_n i tes, which flood in Heliopolis, he ccordin cr to was mapion ftiled * Hpowsro? o TWJ) ®$M from whom this obelifk was named, is I* u ■*. j mafes. or Ram-Ahs Rameftes is of the fame purport 1 L _l rj a I Aftes. 9 Aftus, a all variations of the fame term, and fj A equally relate to fire came m or r-” I hence alfo the Hiftia. Heftia, and Vefta of other countries. The Cabiri f ' L . J i many times reprefented as Heliadse are i t r j the Sun. ftiled Cam-Il: alfo the defcendants of Proteus rj i io Potes: and Caf r 1 Varro they were 11 fius Hermina defcribed them as 32 3 Gods .. One of the moft ancient temples of thefe Deit L was Aiyovrcu S's givai 'H (pcticpw Trcu^zS' Hcfych Nonnus. L. 24. p. 626 K cu TSxewv H (pathos mv aAsyiQe KoGaocoy 12 6 s Marcellinus 17. c. 4. p See volume the firft. p. 59. and 62 AxaatXaos cTe 0 Apyetoi ex Ket&tgM r 1 . j ? r. l h Utpca^a Ha.pt.1X0v Xeyst, Tad's rgeis KctSeiPtts ms flgareas xat KCU Kct€eiou 5 } z A. ere m 10. p. 724 Hi, quos Augurum libri feriptos habent fic, Divi Potes, funt pro illis 3 Samothrace 0eoi £vv&rot* Varro de Ling* Lat. T Kou p I I ■ I ■ L j 4 . p. 17 qui m Macrob. Sat. L. 3. c. 4. p. 376 S* r at b- The Analysis of Ancient Mythology ixpon Mount Cad us in the fame region. They are faid to float, or SI are reprefented as hufbandmen, and at the fame time of the fea a* men To them the city Biblus is faid to have been t Dione, the Dove. They alfo built Berytus, the city 2 3 as city to have confecrated 2+ clvcl re mains of the former world Thefe rites confided m me L ... morials of the Ark Berith, and of the perfons therein pre ferved; who were the original Cabiri Baalim. By San or . ^ number; the are defcribed as ei choniathon tl in the God of health, and re is likewife mentioned by Damafcius 2 5 1US was ftorer of life r 1 as a Gods was 26 enamoured : one w darknefs, but out of that gloom difplayed a He too 27 I l the Cabiri the hi dory of the nrd In the cities of Syria ages was o Ibid np( 070 l ttAciov svpci ■ Ka£/^ci-S aypoTais *3 BaccAnfu rn xca a 4 - 'Oi xxi 110NT0T AKH'ANA m rw Bvdutqv cxpteoooxv. Ibid. p. 39 *s Ibid a i Ibid, p* 38 t & 5 xat Aim w. Ibid 22 ■ 1 . _i 5 *6 'Q ev Bvcvry AaxXmrios ex e<riv EAV^, aJe Ao-oTT-nos", a A Act tis eri%pyciK 72701 $ 0 E<r Oyf'QQS eytvsru syrt yag eyevovro tccio h x.A (pot Vi m ggwjxsros ytyovz—* AcncAiiTTiov tp fMivGu# gt t v jmouvo: Apud Photium. p* 1073 7 El> 0 -XOTW OV 1 L j At &> Avy 1 w toKv (ptos avu-fas. Ibid VOL. II ■l The Analysis of Ancient Mythology "I In Berytus Saturn was reve k J P I lies in I J r ■■ renced, who was no other than Sadyc, the man two of which were in their natural portion forward.: the two upon the hinder reprefented with a8 four eyes I s 1 was L. e i other were I in a ¥ d i countries were firfl: compofed by I a have mentioned, that nothing 2 9 Thabion was more than for the priefts to be called the fons of the common 4 Thaba was the Ark. the Theba. Deity, whom r_j 1 was no other than.. 1 K of the lonians E h I- I "i k. i C f P 1 I h L I r the prieft of Theba-Ion, the Arkite Dove, He is faid to have been the L 30 in f r officiated in Phenicia There were many cities,, and thofe in parts very remote where the Cabiritic rites were for a long time maintained * K Some of thefe cities were named Cibura, Cabura, and Ca all of them moil ancient Hierophant, that ever t L ■ 1 If 1 L L I |"| ■"I H may be feen a reference to the. In Pontus was a city Cabira, the beira; and in fame ancient hiftory |_ A royal feat of Mithridates ; where was one of the aioft mag The nature of the wormip to whom it was facred': for ^ H | n 1 i J A pkcci(s3j to the--Deus Lu- 1 I e was i I A J mis Arltithi was, the city Ci near Caroura j ►J I *8 Eufeb. P; E. p. 39. *9 'Teona, Tavra 0 QctCtuvo? nan vr photos tup an at upo; yeyovoTUP ( lhiv:xui> 'lepGtpxvrns, aAAK^opjjtras—*— -ttCLIPS'&>%&• Ibid 3 ° p\ Ion,, Golumba l" 1 4 I I - C Strabo ert. cTe kcli tbto .t))$ 'XzXyiv)) z* 1 TO isaov I -1 I L. 12. p. 83A I bura. J I OF bura: and it is well known, that all this region was r* to temple of the 3a God Lunus, the fame as Kpmios was a Near Side in Cilicia was r . n nd we name a that the fame worfhip The Cabiritic rites were t Imbros. and Lemnos likewife kept up L j in 23 in Samothracia the city in Theba in Boeotia Damater. the fame as Theba and r -■ Ins. had the title of n Cabiria and it was an opinion, that thefe myfleries were firft eftablimed by her: by 35 which was meant, that they were derived from the Ark, Hence the Cabiri had reputed mother of all beings An in nance of this often joint worfhip with Damater Was obfervable at Anthedon in Boeotia, where flood 36 Ka 1 2 the fame as the Ca and the prove 0 Ci -j barni of the Parians, who were wei + - $ \ L: . I 37 that the chief province of the Cabiri related to the vablc Their influence was nd fea - # ini r cr 11 U o manners for fuccefs in their voyages nlored *•> vr 5 ' £ Ibid. p. 869 J tjt,£ ocp ^ K a^sipoi ). Strsbo* I!** 10. p* Euftath. in Dionyf. V. 524 &Acrc£. Pauflin. L. 9. p* 75® ip v TgAmh T* A Kaotip Asyottzvov OUV ?V Aj IfJLVU y.Ctt < \u%)) fjLZv zq-t iztcc hVQZ V i* *n V- I* * 3 Iv A I •It *r rv j a/A' u. j. rr.i i E fa 34 tp i a pci yevv rots Kat ft cal Ibid. P. 753-. The region was Hefych J i is S'&pov tq called Cabeiraia P- 759 3S It c * 1 I Q O 2 n Ancient Analysis rJ M lJ 38 1 of the fame ordei were ft ft J ►j ftiled 39 Aveueroretefcu, as being of a royal or were the fame as ries were 1 m ftiled Cabiri; and that In thefe the Rhoia the biritic p 40 m 1 — -pi was m oduced : and they were often celebrated in woods, and was attended with fhouts frantic manoeuvre. Nonnus has* upon mountains i and icreams, and every fome allufton to thefe rites, when at the marriage of Har of the Cabiri. . 41 CO r. were to imagi a 1 nation: yet no was not partake in thefe myfteries ■ I L j TsAeras ©sow 6 ? r n L a Ai/a TS TlVQKTVOdV s® Apollon. Rhod. y. 918 Clemens Alexand. Cohort, p. 16 Ibid 4* T 7 Vba^T«S J 41 L. 3. p. 88 I “I L . I 4 l Euripides. Hauyai. V. 73. quoted by Strabo. L 10. p. 720 ; K i (rtf m The Analysis of Ancient Mythology ! : i n % A L ■ " A iovv<rov vspcttfev s i n a ov 4 i 1 1 I 1 k' < L i > ) c } 1 fi i E? (XbvLVOvg j L H i. 9 C ■: L r j to be found in Pindar I e is * 1 #■ 44 M l JCV r j 5 c (Ti Tfsvmi 6 svct re a V7iQ fj r. i m from the Ark: when the whole of memorial of the exit r \ Bans was the fame Kr, which the original has viroi’.rr^uvrca to The fecond line in 'mav'Ton £ v 43 Ibid. p. 72 1 I. have altered to •yTrof/.caL&vrci Pindarns apud Strabonem, L n r \ ' 1 10.0.719 44 as 1 H i" I i l ? I- 1 i. L. * \ h I > I + 4 I i * I h I. The Analysis of Ancient Mytholog AO V a * fuch as the Croziers, Phcenicopter, Tou r can. &c. were ;or long time vacant, and unformed: 1 never been taken ivmp 1 l_ notice of, till our late difcove fide of the line made on the other p" been reduced nes wei From that time they h VC r 4 into names * v \ e. as we have it a 1 lineated was not. the work of Greece, it mu ft certainly have been the produce of IQ came horn l, OP V ■ :> C 4 h muft have been from the fame quarter. For it cannot be in the conftruding of. a fphere t would borrow from the Ia Helladians, or xans from any people hatever: much lefs would they croud it with afterifms w relating-to various events, in in VJ was not known to the thofe ear fons of Mizraim of Fgyptian ori their Gods, .and The Zodiac, which Diodorus lays that the Sphere was the invention of Atlas ; by which 'we are unde'rftand the Atlantians, L. 3. p. 193. 11 fwT«5 A iyv 7 TT.ias avfouTm' ctT&v'TW e&uomv TOP s viaurov, fuafeza figgeat £ a cr a fjievui nov otf&w es clvtcjv' n:axn a J's ege vgwv ez rm AXTVflN sfeyov* He- rodot. L. 2. c. 4 -’ Teco/ jlSt pi as ts av eugeTcct L. 1. p. 361. s I are I ► emblems of * v K ^ ± ginalj and were defign.ed as s 0 * * M to s 2 # y£T' ov clu iv (ot A/^uTTTio^)* Clemens Alcxand. Strom r 1 k. 1 m.ureece. tJu fxrw ovae <pycm } oxm 11 + -T r r (fpaAAov to Atovutrov) y aAAo xa t i l. p. 62, 63 P I EAAjjiw gAabo^ J? vouto J See alfo Diodorus Siculus. L V j Aiyinmot - Trap VOfiQUQV of arts from Egypt Herodot. L. 2. c. 49. J I L \ r n the I i I* 1 I 4 The Analysis -op Ancient Mythology tions, that iEetes once reigned in that country takes Fhrixus in Iberia* as well as in Colchis In Armenia, too 17 i and as far off media, and the neighbouring regions , there as are along the coafl about Sinope, upon the Pontus Euxinus j and at places m Lemnos, the like traces are to be obferved y both of the expedi Phrixus . There are retreat in ve ntres e m and upon the coafl of the Adriatic Crete, and in Italy, 'They are particularly to be feen about the Ceraunian moun iZ tarns m irus In all In ano- o in a 2 ther place he again takes notice of the great number of in the eaft: which were held ■ Diodorus Si high reverence by the barbarous nations in ; i cuius alfo mentions many tokens. of the aa Argonauts about M nrictSj zxt T 5 t>r Trhvato rm TOUT'S Trccpx T0t)V KOLTCC Ttfv A'/JJXI TJJ? $ptka* TS cTS xai IraAfatS xvj Kca r a I cLTQrfiot ttqAAcl^b %ai Agfiewas xai t m S'eixivTcct* Kai f&w Kca 7 repi Xw&TWi *** 17 yOt)PCt)V CtVT Of 5 TQ7TW A 1 &P$ KCU TW TOTTOOV AeyBTUL TTQKXoL TTS IctarovcS » xoti raw KoAj^w., c %OU TOV BhA7)(T7rOUTOV tb I Gurovas q^pxreix rns Kprnn GV xat ■5 AJ>b. p. 77 TS . l b J v ArgidV} Abikput at yctp rtva crnfum J tea 7 rspt ra Kegswiot opti- Kdi nsriPT tqv a * s> TwjWf&S iWOtf T3)5 TObV A is rio^giirwyiaTvi jcoAtw 5ta< TaiS wpo rs ttAclvs cnyjLUca Ibid* p* 39 1 19 Ibid. p. 798 L, 4* P* *59 TW VC&UTOIV ao H The Analysis of Ancient Mythology ji r 1 j Hetruria in I r . i .j. H J 4 h Which latter had its name I o r n as a certainty , raa# the like memorials are to and at Gades in Iberia , I r i i nia i 0 H I I I J 4 2 / coau I J I E r . .J From thefe evidences Co very numerous, i d fo-wi I b dely diftant, Strabo concludes I T I I He and of their k I an J I 4 t I V A as of fadts I 1 l- univer 5 i r- i i h I I for I think the evidence, to which, he appeals, makes mull repeat what upon f I I J. have more than once faid, that if fuch a like occahon I J I 1 I The Grecians have taken what is attributed to him L an ancient relation: and as b themfelves, to which they had no > 4 1 the real purport of it was totally hid I run themfelves into a thou 4 I * The Argo r fand abfurdities L built: and the heroes are faid to have been in number ac L. J I- IS P l" 4 4 I 1 J 1 The author, of the one r CO b L J I J p h I ■i r "i lictTct tup AwaXiav Apywos, Strabo. L. 5. P* 34 2 S * Paiftum t o 'Hpas hgov rm A gy evicts Circaeum Apyss xtetvov ofptov. Lycoph. v, 1274 totle 0 au/xas: ctcrixctncov . p. and Taciti Annales. L. 6. c* 34 T cov cTs yrepi rov Icttrovot crufx^ctvrtov^ %ctt nw Apyoo^ xca : A gyovctvrcts tmv QfjLoAoy&f*w&p 'srupet ttocciv % t A« Strabo, L He mentions near "i Jacrova iS'cti/mot. L. 6. p. 386- Near See the Scholia : alfo Arif- P A •"l I P- 77 1 1 1 r l I \ I 1 ■J 4 I I J I t H I- * i L. h -J K ■v I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology I them back by the lame way, s olau Nor into other dif- For if the of by the authors as they went out: but herein can this be were not m which Strabo builds fo much, and of which mention is 4 K have attended his comrades throughout which is con i H i. tradi&ory to mod accounts of this expedition more over tells us, that the Argonauts upon their return landed 4 where Hercules made a demand upon at Troas *1 o d their city. Here we find the crew of a little bilander in I one and fifty thoufand men could not effedt in ten years t j 31 Hercules lived but one generation before the Trojan war and the event of the firft capture was fo recent, thatAn I all which is chifes was fuppofed to have been witnefs to it i believe, that fuch a change can we I K w 3 ° L. 4. p. 259 3 * 'O 1 'EAAjiJ'fiS (ftetciv 'Hpctx Afft i y£v£a^<x.t vice irpoTlgov L, 1. p. 21. Homei Iliad. E. v. 642 I 31 Anchifes is made to fay TOyT paixcdv. Diodor* omevv I t-f h I- h d 4 I rmcri . j 1 . ■i i* Satis una fuperque w H 1 Vidimus excidia, cc either I VOL. II 3 r I 1 Si 0 1 I 1 4 I "1 r l 4 I Analysis of Ancient Mythology n 490 n 1 L-J "l I the polity of ith 1 or in u 1 L L: h I 1 J I fuppofed to have returned to Iol are P I I I H I I r \ ►j l cus : and the whole is months ; or as feme defcribe it. m j 34 1 two o upon and a delineation of it in & I I ■1 I ■j i h this was. id to L N I 4 1 J 1 3 L J r heavens But is it pom * l" * l" 1 f h j 1 or + 1+ c * ■ 1 j v •H ( indeed at any rate r fuch to h i_ I or r j s I k 1 •1 are faid to have built tem r \ 1 4 h f I -s K t I «! 1 over Vaft continents founded cities 1 ■1 1 Dies P I I h t l ; □ F 1 I and through feas unknown : and all this open 35 boat m an 0 mountains, and often carried for ovei I I I 4 I "l p ► ► r i 1 j l ¥ aS cL y Jt i in theii ■■ b. _l k J I > IKI 3 i s I J I :■ 1 1 i- A 1 I L^j V. L But there is fqarce a circumstance wr 11 er s in h > "I P ■ b 1 4 + i given of Hercules. According to 36 Herodotus he was left 1 out. h H 4 J l H "I 1 II I L ¥ A I I rma. Demaretes and Diodorus I J 37 ■1 ■r :■ h- s 1 1 K I 4 I 4 c I 4 33 ?• P- SB 1 n 1 1 Toy Trai^Ta 'srAoi/v ev S'ucri fxww ccvvo , ccvtb$* Scholia in Lycoph. V. j 7 5 The Argo was filled Apyaov /nca«pos by Diodorus ; .and the Scholiafl: upon ' k ' Orphic Argo 1 I 3 * I l" L I Pindar : alfo by Euripides I It is alio called Apywov axetrov I * ^ I I 5 naut. V. 1261. and V. 489. Titpvs Iburrwp I auareno Herodotus. L. 7. c. 193 Apollonius Rhodiusi L. I,, v. 1285. Theocrit. Idyll. 13 Apollodorus. L ,r, p. 45. Diodorus, L. 4. p J- L J | I f 3 T f F ^ I L J 38 K 1 1 251. 4 made i" 1 1 I,. I ■■ i" 1" i" I J I P I I !- 4 I The Analysis op Ancient Mythology 49 7 r.i s i L, s* IS J5 4 OTt f 1 It was that the heavens by Minerva as a memorial i_ Poets m ►J L J ru ww was e r 1 59 Inde lacemtum primum mare, cum o X This according to Manilius, was in ferted in the fphere ’ J L J In Coelum fubdu&a, marl quod prima cucurrit All the other 61 poets are □ 0 5 * Theon in Aratum v. 55 r. The J)' 7 rit ( CCTTO m KCtTOLGK&JCttJiZVTQS The Argo is termed eoyov Auwcam IApollonius, L. i fame is to be found in Apoilodorus. Karros (A^yo ) Awjras tWy&e/ TWKOVTOpOV VOLUV XCCTtO'XZVCtO'S} TJ?Z ; 7ZTpQ(rctyQfgUV££G'Ctl f I - w -A ^ * Apyo). L. i. p. 42 9 Lucan. Pharfal. L. 3. v. 193 h. . it Manilii Auron. L. 1. v. 403. Prima Deftm magnis canimus freta pervia nautis, Valerius Flaccus, L. 1. v. 1 60 rn LJ Fatidicamque ratem Hjec fuit ignoti prima carina mans jEqnor Jafonio pulfatum remig ■I Martial. L. 7. Epig. 19 n Ovid, de Ponto. L pnm urn I* 3 L t j ■lit i. v. i. 1 Primseque ratis molitor Jafon. Ovid. Metam. L. 8. v. 302. Per non tentatas prima cucurrit aquas. Ovid. Trift. L. 3. Eleg. 9. v. 8 Prima rnalas docuit rairantibus asquora vends Peliaco pinus Venice casfa vias. Ovid. Amorum. L. 2. Eleg. ix Vellera cum \ v. 1 l petiere carina. Metamorph. L, 6. v. 72 A. II Per mare non notum pr;ma Prima fretum fcandens Pagafaso littore pinus hominem projecit in undas. Lucan. L, 6 . v. 400. See \ Terrenum ignotas v. 1 alfo Hv gin u s 3 s VOL, II p _ i L . I I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 499 J *5 ,T GU 010 r i was o \ who calls it Canopus, and fays, that it was too Vitruvius regionibus enough to be feen in Q Ki eft ignota. It was alfo fcarce high it from an eminence near 67 Cnidus. But-there is fcarce a as 68 Cnidus Europe of a latitude lo far fouth ace in in 1 This alone would prove, that the fphere could not be the ) work of a Grecian : and that this anerifm could have no The Bar Canobus, as I have and relation to that country gn, and attended but both the liar itfelf, and £ with a vei the hiftory, to which it related, was in great meafure a fe Not a word is faid of it in their an I cient accounts of the e 9 Arero to a. Am t'/}~ A safe's xety.svoi Aa//.ierp:s v. 13. o £V OLlLCXt) TOO Orca. Proclus de Sphseri 6 < 1 kpn^ia-tS- K a vo:C ■l 0110 sm ,a<r w i Vitruvius. L. 9, c M / <rc /5 sv Tu> EAAadhjiw y. A iu a t< 67 Strabo. L. 2. p. lho. KatwCos a<f.am pm Scholia Dionyf. v. 10. It could fcarcely be feen -at Rhodes, which was nearly the fame latitude as Gut&s (o Kut'o^o ;) ev P o Proclus de Sphseri. See Scholia was the fame as the God Elbrus, or A for us, who 68 (SeupvTOi £<rn r r, Trcct'TzA&s cap m Dionyf* Tr^uiy???. v. 11 Cnidus ) 3 W fJLQAtS b “ l OCXTOs. 69 Canopus, and Canobu 11 vssVAsov TQiro) I ^5 and was fuppofed to have been the the pilot of the 1 Paleftine and Syria He is represented by Hefych worth iped in was ius, as founder of Carthage 1 xiCefvh'Tin 1 {tiled lacupei. Paufan. L. a jTW'Afjaf. Artemis Aforus, and Azorus, was the fame as the Plazor of the f- was Axgo. A Cfi'p p. 240.- and 274 Scriptures. 0 j The 3 S2 I I s J 1 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology CO 2 the Doves Here was 77 * - r ■j and the lea port Iolcus, of the fame purport as Argos and Theba. It was one of the moft ancient cities ofThefFaly, in fuppofed to have been laid up which the Argo and acer It was de was the name mews the true 1 1 which was one of I or float. Iolcus was ■is a variation of Aia- V the Grecian names for a originally exprefled laolcus, which Olcas, the place of the Ark Medea Apollonius makes in when Aie fpeaks of being wafted to ufe of the true name I Greece e ctvrfj v [is raysm vwsg ttovtolq i a mi as 7 \Xou feminine is the fame as Peeafus: and received sig ) I ■i.' to its name from a well known emblem, the horfe of Pofei we are to. underftand an ark don.; by which f 1 or 1 . J 70 II btrsi 0 W'OIJJTJJff TOLS VOLVS S 171 mt op 1 u sysi Aoyop eiri yt\g meg. TOP .i i i CWTOP SP mean, [hips ; and hence it ts l _ For there is a /. and a i was efleemed the horfe of Pofeidon, and often termed a*name, which relates to pavg ts l. ms o / / 'em land > an ween V t. i ■i O ( Hence it came, that <9 ea in r 1 / c t So fliip, and fhews the a L 77 Avtikcc a n$pw'uTofrvhmos /l\ugTo, rhihiccSus Si -sra. pc-',)i/ jsi z oi? eon-ms Apollon. Rhod, L. 3. v. mo. Ilomer alfo ttiles it Eu Odyfi". A. V. 255 79 Artemidorus. L. 1. c. 58 -®° Qvoux tiv Tto irAoi y Tl)j yaa-os tact 1 leAacryw Apollon. L. x. V; 580 ^opofi lacAJCOa ft n c fj n 4 b . 1 f PaiEcphatus purport IU The Analysis of Ancient Mythology S°3 A r . whelmed it: and as it o of a horfe,. it gave rife to. the fable of the two chief Deities contending about horfe 80 * He 7T0Tg OJ e? IffTTw-y fcnray asAA 3 Zsv£. yyi It was upon., this account that the cities At-* the title of ‘hrmai mi mi womo$ Emriycao 3 * J l t SP * y j. j I have mentioned that the Arkite worfliip was introduced into Italy by people niled Arcades, and Argsei: and here Hippium in the region of Daun 81 I ima was an. OS: la of thefe appellations related to the animal gine, that none ■■ an horfe j but to an emblem, under which in y c the ark was 8i reverenced. Daunia itfelr is a com or Da-Ionia,. and, fignines the land' of the Dov In Thef 7 <R faly every place feems to have had a reference to this hiftor > . i Two of the. chief mountains were Pelion, and Glia; one of Orph. Argonaut. V.' 1275 Ta Ttpt Rawing xat to Avyos to 'linrtov IT f - II,. 8. p. 568.. Apyos — Iacroi', 3 Ittotoj', 3 'br?r&07oi> St There is no fatisfaftory hiftory, that any of thefe places were really famous for horfes: and though the poet fays Aptum dicet equis Argos 5 yet I have reafon to think, that the notion arofe from a miftake in terms Seres was originally differently expreffed ; and.that it fignified. Hippo ■i 1 Eat, or the temple of the Ark. It was and Non'nus under the char after of Perfeus deferibesfome Perezites, who fettled. * in. Daunia, founding a temple under this emblem IIoAukA V<TQ10 7?Ctc’ ffTTTs * ^ Tuc<rw:£i 7T7 jfe vzPiacrax CV Q?\.OV 7T &T 0 (T XT 0 80 L. 5. p.329. See alfo 1 • Straoo 81 I imagine* that th r term i ttttc fo me times reprefented by a Cetus p■■ picv TiAifj.ct yaws QAxccacc A an Kvircs qAqV) 'Z&$pif,t£Tp p. 1232, Hence.we,may fee that there.is a correfpondence in C T\V I is f kpo-evs. Nonni Dionyf. L. 47^ in all thefe hiftoriss > * \ 1 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 1 5.04. which the 83 Oracle I was a near it two iflands, named the iflands Thefe circumftances contain of 84 Pyrrha and Deucalion no afford wonderful evidence of the. Arkites, and their rites which were introduced in all thefe places. The Grecians -1 J took the hiftory to themfelves; and in confequence of this ion t Argsei fettled, they fuppofed that their title of Arcades or I Arero had been. Hence not 01 it / the moft diftant feas, but over hills, and mountains, and .j They fent their heroes to 3 it no c Colchis, merely becaufe fome of their family had fettled They made them vifit Troas and Phrygia, where there ( city Theba, and Lariffa, limilar to thofe in their was both Some Arcades had fettled here ‘ who were fuppofed to have been led by Dardanus, the brother of Virgil, 1 know not why, would make him come 1 a better my by which we are to underftand an ftiles him Areas i 1 and fays, that after a deluge he came with his ne Arkite Corybas from Arcadia • to Samothrace; and from p hew 8 3 O cro'cty 04* fa x A 71 $ cov xca Scholia in Iliad. B. v. 93 t/5 oaaa 0 * He \ llJ Apollon* Argon, I Ghfeatj eiTct cocp'X lluppccj Kca *£uo vycriSioL irKnonoV) ow CiebKxXitov ?icsA# t«/> Strabo. I Hi &*)'•} eXas op TVsp ctvTcop sT? ut OkQ u&v Ticpox to J ■*S I v* mo & 0 i 1 *■8+ * 9, 66 a & .» 1 1. p. 48 4 * thence L I p- * L J of Ancient Mythology There were fome lonim, who fettled 5 ° 7 J have been done afterwards Antiochea the Greeks, and were fuppofed to have come from Argo aw J f It is alfo faid by another writer. Cedrenus accordingly ftiles them 95 i • rom os dc m e who were by nation Argives,. made them a vifit, and built He did the fame in Perils: and in for them a temple both regions inftituted Puratheia : and the flame, which he rj gave to each of thefe edifices, was O 1 Thefe temples however not built by were J Perleus; but eredted to his honour. For I have fhewn, that Perfeus was a Deity, the fame as Helius, and Ofiris: and aces by the lonim, who were in The accounts therefore, which have been giv Arkites n as true, if in dead of Perfeus we fubftitute Perefians, and Perezzites; and inftead of natives of h read Argoi, and Arkitas,- or as it is foinetimes ren above^ may be all admitted Argos we o dered , 97 Architas a great part of Syria. From and occupied Paleftine thence they ( came Aeym I ANITAS b * P. 22* JLna es to Hihiriav egos ekmv £ 7C A/fy 7} (7 CC V 7f£i£C£ f JQl$ CCVTOtS 'SfUgOtS lo)VlTCCL £TJ put\ Chron. I aC 9 5 S'J'-g Tb’s alt ■ 1 7 c Acygiot chale* p* 42 QiTll’SS AprOTS LQNiTAI %iirta {ytctyuijw £x r r J O cTe auras riepaws ex tigs rots I&ttqAitcus (It Ihould be jJLCLVtoV 96 O negvtvs em tiw zvoi&v loi'QTtoXl'TGLls) IHQV } GTt £V T ?1 % r J A. Chron. Pafch. p. 40 57 So the title was exprelTed in Syria was {tiled' Venus Archiris. Macrob. Sat. L X T The Goddefs upon mount Libanus -I. C. 21 r L 1 cian s \ 1 p - The Analysis op Ancient Mythology 5°9 l IS ai in the retnotefl region of built , and named , after the ark , which was the was r 1 t The chief title, by which, the Argonauts were diftin emimed, was •lnyeE tion has been matter of debate, among mod writers upon 1 O 1 J a as. a in r ■ r ♦ defcended i \ h * : I ftctprcis, mu ■i r Oi 7rXei?oi, mi mzoi oup di[M,rog sv'yetomto P ii mi OLVTOV l H (t)C i d * * a « ■J f fays, that the Minyas an ancient race. were 1 and defcended- from 3 Minyas of Theffaly. This Mmyas the fon of Callirrhoe, and Pofeidon: though Pau was fanias makes him the. fon of 4 Chrufes: and other writers ftill more in their 5 opinions vary r ’ Apollon. L To J'e TOiv Mivmv yevos agX ai0V fAii'ua.'S'ai Opy^ojxsvMv, O yot[> Mtyuos tt^wtos nocfiv Ovy^sfMvictiv Schol. ibid.. tn Lycoph. V. 874* 'M.irvatt Parian* L. P* 7^3 Alfo . Schol. Apollon V. %2Q i_d r | Mivus t 0 OerTxte, — nXn<no%&m - GC 7 TQ c xect yznopft oi Schol. in Pindar; Olymp* Ode 13* p. 124- Homer. Iliad* B. v. 511 A 'uro Miwy T8 YlotrBtS'covos 'Trctif'Q? x&i KaMjppw* Schol A to r& A to* of a / . j *> T/05 yivsTcu XPTXH Mi vuas See Scholia upon L. t. v. 220 X.CCI CC7T aUT8 Pindar. Pyth."Ode 4. p 4 2 AO. * - Servius in Virg, Eclog. 4 > vv 34 r n L J are I. I The Analysis of Ancient Mythology 5 1 ■ 3 Colchis a J nominated from it, m m were r L'j Memei, the fame as the Minyae in where the 10 was emblem of the facred Bull was fo religioufly preferved. All thefe places will be found to have been thus denominated from the fame rites and worlhip se. or Menians, were Arkites: and this denomi The people, who were c nation they took from the Ark ; and alfo from the Patrf _i who was at times called Meen, Menes, and Manes arch r i J Thofe therefore, who in will univerfally be found to have a refe this appellation rence to thofe, whofe country * molt ancient, Minyse is men- were name of Mmyas tioned in XX Ararat,, where This people relided at the bottom of Mount I have mentioned, that they called the Ark firft refted the appulfe of the facred ihip mountain Baris from tbi O and retained many memorials of the Deluge. At no great diftance Areas, and 3 X 2 r the fame region, was a city named ■■ The Minnsei upon the Red Sea in were Arabians Area n n Colchorum. &c. Serviusia 8 Minyfe appelhti vel ab agro hujus nominis Virg. Eclog. 4. v, 34 9 JVJ iVVCt TroXlS ©?TTtxAl« Arcadia. Strabo, L. 8, p. 519. Stephanus. Mevat. See Cluver. L. 2 * Eufeb. Prtep. Evang. L. 9. p. 414 Antoninus, p. 148* p, 2 J 4 * ft is called A ibid. H. _ j S'i Irtpet $pvyioc{. St£ph. Byzant. Minyse • c. 7. Sicilia, p. 339. called now n~ EC'i 4 Jo Minio THt> 'Mtvvot.fct *J.iy cl 0 pos E a.pi$ by Hierocles Grammaticus U1HD il • , ; it a I a t. P- 7 °S who* 5 l 3 1 L J the grove and temple of Iona m all which names we V may fee a reference to the fame rites and hiftory The molt celebrated city of this was Orcho name rheflaly ; which was fo denominated from the r menus m lunar God, and from the rites fpoken of above it was alfo called Aim on, and the Hence region Almonia; equi it was alfo dif- valent to Aimon and Aimonia, by which M iwct y 7 ro?.i$ ®srrcO\i-oig y t) tigorepw AKum m } n * L j > c a<p to i In Theffalia autem ** Orchomenus Minyeus antea di&us •Xi BImon lignifies literally the town of the God Lunus, or M was exprefled and reverenced under the figure of a lunette r 1 t j * # ci r les were on ■1 was Kv 1 Ei'TauSa <f £ j ecu t a. aAcnj, to tk IflNAl Si V.CCI TJ7S A pwas axpoTOAis W ON. Strabo. L. 8. p. 532, 533 Strabo fuppofes eviiiS-A XafJLBs sxdXcw tcc J 4 ». And Sama certainly had that meaning: but in fimilar to <rauu and ertifjux, which were de .1 T8T0 3 Sama-Con, fignum c&lefte, five fignum Dei that Samos and Samicon were fo named from Sama, high m 1 rived from it Steph. Byzant L. 4. c. 8. Harduin reads Salmon. Orchomenus is a compound of Or-Chom-Men, three titles, which need no explanation 20 2* C, 3 763 . quafi Met a 3 Schol. Apollon, L* i, v Tov IojA %QV MtlVCtl tfKQVV Selenitae VOL 1 yuett 1 1 L . b i * h i. 1 HI G * L 9 ) I Ji I 1 r\ / / i i 7 i * j a Wi I / 3 v ■i i_d i l" I * et ¥ tf * h ¥ i ¥ I I i v. I I ► 'A 'l i i r. ¥ ¥ ¥ U i ¥ ¥ 4 i A t I I I I 4 4 •J 1 1 l: ■j A n I L L. . J e i * j i j i ¥ # i i i t ■p H “1 I ¥ A ¥ ¥ to think ¥ J t all I 1 I r* i lfi L I •I c I k I ► r r< i "i u I L h l h "i 42. c. 3. p. 589. Tacitus. Annal. L. 6 . c. 34- 39 It may be worth while to fee the hiftory, which the mythologies give of thefe perfonages. Jafus was the Ion of Argus. Apollodorus. L. 1 Jafius, Janigena, tempore Deucalionis, cuj ; us nuptiis interfuit Id from Berofus Tourmv JcccrB Buy ar tip. Paufan. L, 2 * 7) was reftored to fecond youth Jura 4 t a 3 1 r | . i d d p. 59, 60 Hoffman r * 1 h. I I A nfj.wpoi epxcQets. See Servius in JEneid 3, v. 108. 170 5 > p. 4-I.2-. Mfort Jo> r L . 145* Iclctb Gcouos* Ibid I I Yncas anrogucracra. 4® Odyff. 5. V. 245 4 1 A*yuix.Qv Aoyoiy Auftor Reditus 1 1. ' 1 J J I 1 . J I n Lx <rov } v 'Ittiov, v l7nroCoroT, » IlfAao-ytzov. L, & I_ P ^ L J 4 I * L. K I 1 I h ij i" I I 1 I 4 A I I k I > i i I T n 1 t 1 The Analysis of Ancient Mythology he lived, he bad fair 534 have obtained it n h a* o As he was folici tL i_ j tons to obtain fome information, he betook himfelf to 37 Do 3- l reputed the molt ancient in Greece. But they was * were them by names and -titles: but thofe h. J were ■I { i, in WOl c 1 K with this melancholy confemon, concerning the Gods of his country, 39 that he did not know how they came firft how long they had been in it into the world nor nor were. He believed L • i J o k that their nature, and origin, had always been a fecret and that even the Pelafgi, who rirft introduced them, and their rites, were 40 d J > ■- 1- h r c in our we The Gentile hiftories of themfelves could not have out r “i 1 tion j J I Herod. L. 2. c. 50 ot n^A caryoi &ZGiai %7rev%oi*evoij cos eyco ev Ac o^covyi oiSgc ya p ctxyxcecrctv xoo 37 nVVVCLVOp.'cVOS bTOO ZUMCTKCO $GP E 8 uOP £s 7 TCCVTCC WOGTZPCV €7rmVfJLMV ^ OWOfJLOt $7r0l£UV70 GV$$Vt C&UJtCOVj GV Ibid, c, 53. See page 307. of the fir ft volume of this work AiyvTrvv cczviKPuem ret cvra !■- ctXB&ctS i. eTTUvopTo ex 3 s XfiWB ttgXXb A0 GPTG$ 6e&>v xnh, Herod, ibid L . J- fxuroc t&jv 39 E rvevJ'e syevera macros tcop ©ecop^ ene S'e ctet wav 7 rccvre^ oxowi Se nrives 00$ ci7rm j Xcryto. Herod, fupra J 1 1 fid f«, b -K }W‘T'f«,TQ[*.£%Pia> TPCCTiP Ti %cu- * Ibid 1_ 1 f * n a 1 1 1 "M ■l K .J I- P h •r