Part 26
[769] Purchas. Pilg. vol. 5. p. 872. and Garcilasso della Vega. Rycaut. p. 403.
[770] See Plutarch's life of Theseus. p. 3, 4. vol. 1.
[771] V. 146.
[772] Campio, Gladiator. Isidorus.
[773] Vegetius. l. 2. c. 7.
[774] Nonnus. l. 18. p. 500.
[775] Eustathius on Dionysius. v. 357.
[776] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 13, 14.
[777] [Greek: Homoiôs de tous Indous ton theon touton par' heautois apophanesthai gegonenai.] Diod. Sic. l. 4. p. 210.
[778] Diodorus. l. 1. p. 14.
[779] Diodorus. l. 1. p. 17.
[780] Ibid. p. 14. This city is also said to have been built by Hercules. Diodorus. l. 4. p. 225.
[781]
Primus aratra manu sollerti fecit Osiris, Et teneram ferro sollicitavit humum. Tibull. l. 1. El. 8. v. 29.
[782] [Greek: Zuthos, ek tôn krithôn poma.] Diodorus. l. 1. p. 37.
[783] [Greek: Basileuonta de Osirin Aiguptious euthus aporou biou kai thêriôdous apallaxai, karpous te deixanta, kai nomous themenon autois.] Plut. Is. et Osir. p. 356.
[784] Eusebius. Pr. Ev. l. 1. p. 44, 45.
[785] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 24.
[786] Both the Patriarch, and his son Ham, had the name of Cronus, as may be learned from Sanchoniathon. [Greek: Egennêthêsan de kai en Paraiai Kronôi treis paides, Kronos homônumos tôi patri, ktl.] Euseb. Præp. l. 1. c. 10. p. 37.
Paraia is the same as Pur-aia, the land of Ur; from whence the Gentile writers deduce all their mythology.
[787] See Radicals. p. 42.
[788] [Greek: Rhagdaiôn de genomenôn ombrôn kai pneumatôn,--dendrou labomenon ton Ousôon, kai apokladeusanta, prôton tolmêsai eis thalassan embênai.] Euseb. Pr. Ev. l. 1. c. 10. p. 35.
[789] Euseb. Chron. p. 7. l. 43.
[790] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1168.
[791] [Greek: Tas Gorgonas ep' ôkeanon ousas ton peri polin Ibêrias tên Tartêsson.] Schol. in Lycophr. ad v. 838.
[792] [Atlas] Apex Perseo et Herculi pervius. Solin. c. 24.
[793] Andromedam Perseus nigris portârit ab Indis. Ovid. Art. Amand. l. 1. v. 53.
[794] Pausan. l. 4. p. 370.
[795] Pliny mentions these bones being brought from Joppa to Rome in the ædileship of M. Scaurus; longitudine pedum 40, altitudine costarum Indicos elephantos excedente, spinæ crassitudine sesquipedali. l. 9. c. 5.
[796] Deseritur Taurique jugum, Perseaque Tarsus. Lucan. l. 3. v. 225. See Solin. c. 38.
[797] Perseam quoque plantam ---- a Perseo Memphi satam. Plin. l. 15. c. 13.
Of Perseus in Cilicia, see Chron. Pasch. p. 39.
[798] Pindar. Pyth. Od. 10. v. 49 and 70. [Greek: Eis to tôn Makarôn andrôn ethnos.] Schol. in v. 70.
[799] Virgil. Æn. l. 7. v. 409.
Ardea a Danae Persei matre condita. Plin. Hist. Nat l. 3. p. 152.
[800] Servius in Virgil. Æn. l. 8.
[801] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 21.
[802] Ibidem.
[803] Herodotus. l. 6. c. 54. See Chron. Paschale. p. 38.
Some make him a Colchian. [Greek: Hêliôi gar phêsin huious genesthai duo en tois topois ekeinois, hois onomata ên Perseus kai Aiêtês; toutous de kataschesin tên chôran; kai Aiêtên men Kolchous kai Maiôtas, Persea de Taurikês Basileusai.] Schol. in Apollon. Argonautic. l. 3. v. 199.
[804] [Greek: Hê de Persou gunê Asteria pais ên Koiou kai Phoibês; hoi Koios de kai Phoibê OURANOU paides.] Schol. in Lycophron. v. 1175.
[805] Natalis Comes. l. 7. c. 18.
[806] Schol. in Lycophr. v 18.
Lycophr. v. 17.
[Greek: Ton chrusopatron morphnon--ton Persea.] Schol. in Lycophr. v. 838.
[807] [Greek: Engus tês Neês polios]. He is said to have introduced here Gymnic exercises. Herodot. l. 2. c. 91. And to have often appeared personally to the priests. Herodot. ibid.
Herodotus of the Dorians. l. 6. c. 54.
[808] [Greek: En larnaki xulinôi]. Schol. in Lycophr. v. 838.
[Greek: En kibôtôi tini]. Chron. Pasch. p. 38. from Euripides.
The father of Danae [Greek: eneirxas autên eis tên Kibôton meta tou PAIDOS kathêken eis to pelagos.] Schol. in Pind. Pyth. Od. 10. v. 72.
[809] All salutary streams were consecrated to the Sun. There were some waters of this nature near Carthage, which were named Aquæ Persianæ. See Apuleii Florida. c. 16. p. 795, and p. 801. They were so named from Perez, the Sun, to whom they were sacred.
[810] Ovid. Trist. l. 1. eleg. 3. v. 48. See Natalis Comes. l. 7. c. 18.
[811] Polyb. l. 5. p. 389.
[812] Plin. Hist. Nat. l. 6. c. 16. See Q. Curtius, and Strabo.
[813] Parrhasii in Hyrcania. Strabo. l. 11. p. 775.
[814] Plin. Hist. Nat. l. 2. c. 98.
[815] Of Parrhasians in Arcadia. Strabo. l. 8. p. 595. See Plin. Hist. Nat. l. 4. c. 6.
[Greek: Huios Dinutta Damarchos tên d' anethêken] [Greek: Eikon', ap' Arkadias Parrhasios genean.] Pausan. l. 6. p. 471. See also l. 8. p. 654.
[816] Plato in Alcibiad. vol. 2. p. 120.
[817] Herodot. l. 7. c. 150.
[818] Statii Theb. l. 1. v. 717.
[819] Diodorus Sicul. l. 3. p. 185.
[820] [Greek: Pollais geneais proteron tôn Trôikôn.] Ibid.
[821] [Greek: Tês Libuês en tois pros hesperan meresin epi tou peratos tês oikoumenês.] Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 186.
She likewise was in possession of the [Greek: nêsoi eudaimones], or Islands of the blessed, which lay opposite to her dominions in Africa.
[822] Writers mention that she raised over the slain three large mounds of earth, which were called [Greek: taphoi Amazônôn], the tombs of the Amazons. This shews that the Gorgons and Amazons were the same people, however separated, and represented in a state of warfare.
[823] Iliad [Beta]. v. 811. [Greek: Murina; onoma kurion Amazonos.] Scholia ibid.
[824] Diodorus Sicul. l. 4. p. 216, 217, 225, 227, &c. See also Justin. l. 44. c. 4. and Apollodorus. l. 2. p. 100.
Hercules of Tyre was said to have been the Son of Athamas, the same as Palæmon.
[825] Ludovicus Nonnius in Hispania. p. 196, 170.
[826] Diodorus Sicul. l. 4. p. 227.
Corunna the same as Kir-Ona.
Many Amonian cities of similar analogy to Alesia.
[827] Diodorus, above.
[828] [Greek: Chrusa mêla--probata.] Schol. in Apollon. Argonaut. l. 4. v. 1396. [Greek: ex Agroitou en g' Libukôn.]
[829] [Greek: Ton Hêraklea, summachountôn autôi tôn theôn, kratêsai têi machêi, kai tous pleistous anelonta tên chôran êxêmerôsai.] Diodorus Sicul. l. 4. p. 229. Strabo. l. 5. p. 376. and l. 6. p. 430.
[830] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1007. and l. 11. p. 771. Diodorus Sic. l. 2. p. 124.
[831] Arrian. Hist. Indica. p. 321.
[832] Herod. l. 4. c. 9. Aristid. Orat. v. 1. p. 85.
[833] Ovid. Metam. l. 11. v. 218.
[834] Poculo Herculem vectum ad Erytheiam. Macrob. Sat. l. 5. c. 21. Apollodorus. l. 2. p. 100. Schol. Apollon. Argonaut. l. 4. v. 1396. from Pherecydes Syrus; and from the Libyca of Agroitas. [Greek: Labôn chrusoun depas par' Hêliou--dia tou ôkeanou plein.]
[835] Strabo. l. 3. p. 237. He was supposed to have been the founder of Tartossus, where he was worshipped under the name of Archaleus. Etymolog. Mag. [Greek: Gadara.]
[836] Syncellus. p. 171.
[837] Pomponius Mela. l. 3. c. 6.
[838] Athenæus. l. 12. c. 512.
[839] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1009. [Greek: Plasma tôn Hêrakleian poiountôn.]
[840] Nat. Deorum. l. 3. c. 16.
[841] Arrian speaks of this Indian Hercules, together with the others mentioned by Cicero. [Greek: Ei de tôi pista tauta, allos an outos Hêrakleês eiê, ouch ho Thêbaios, ê ho Turios houtos, ê ho Aiguptios, ê tis kai kata anô chôrên ou porrhô tês Indôn gês ôikismenên megas basileus.] Hist. Ind. p. 319. Varro mentions forty of this name, who were all reputed Deities.
[842] See Ludovicus Nonnius, in Hispan. p. 196, 170.
[843] See Audigier Origines des François. part. 1. p. 225, 230.
[844] Mela. l. 2. c. 5. l. 30.
[845] Petronius. p. 179. Est locus Herculeis aris sacer.
[846] He was worshipped by the Suraceni, a particular Indian nation, who styled him [Greek: Gêgenês], or the Man of the Earth. Arrian. Hist. Indic. p. 321.
[847] Hercules apud Celtas. See Voss. de Idolat. l. 1. c. 35. l. 2. c. 15.
[848] Eumenius in Orat. pro Scholis instaurandis. See Lilius Gyraldus, Synt. 10. p. 330.
[849] Suetonius in Augusto. c. 29. Livy. l. 40. c. 51.
[850] Johan. Sambuci Emblemata.
[851] He was the same as Osiris, the Sun. [Greek: Ton en pasi kai dia pantôn Hêlion.] Macrob. Saturn. l. 1. c. 20. p. 207. See Porphyry apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. l. 3. p. 112.
[852] See Lilius Gyraldus Syntag. 10. p. 592. Pausanias expresses the name [Greek: Aichmagoras]. l. 8. p. 624.
[853] Lilius Gyrald p. 595.
[854] In the following extracts we may see the character of this Deity among different nations. [Greek: Hêraklea de hontina es Indous aphikesthai logos katechei par' autoisin Indoisin Gêgenea legesthai; touton toi Hêraklea malista pros Surasênôn gerairesthai, Indikou ethnous.] Arrian. Hist. Ind. p. 321.
[Greek: Alla tis archaios esti theos Aiguptioisi Hêrakleês; hôs de autoi legousi etea esti eptakischilia kai meria es Amasin basileusanta.] Herod. l. 2. c. 43. [Greek: All' ismen Aiguptious, hoson tina agousin Hêraklea, kai Turious, hoti prôton sebousi Theôn.] Aristid. Orat. v. 1. p. 59. He had at Tyre a Temple, as old as the city. [Greek: Ephasan gar hama Turôi oikizomenêi kai to Hieron tou theou hidrunthênai.] Herod. l. 2. c. 44.
[Greek: Esti gar en Turôi Hieron Hêrakleous palaiotaton, hôn mnêmêi anthrôpinêi diasôsetai; ou tou Argeiou Hêrakleous. k. l.] Arrian. Expedit. Alex. p. 88.
[855] Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 195. 196. and p. 200.
[856] [Greek: Dionusou apogonous Oxudrakas.] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1008. The Tyrians laid the same claim to him. [Greek: Ton Dionuson Turioi nomizousin heautôn einai.] Achill. Tatius. l. 2. p. 67. So did likewise the Cretans, and the people of Naxos. Some of the Libyans maintained, that he was educated in the grotto of the Nymphs upon the river Triton. Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 202. 203. Concerning Dionusus the benefactor, see Arrian. Hist. Ind. p. 321.
Of his coming to India from the west. Philostratus. l. 2. p. 64. [Greek: Epêluton auton Assurion.]
[857] Of his travels, see Strabo. l. 15. p. 1008.
[858] [Greek: Ton d' oun Dionuson, epelthonta meta stratopedou pasan tên oikoumenên, didaxai tên phuteian tou ampelou.] Diodor. Sic. l. 3. p. 197.
[Greek: Kai pro Alexandrou, Dionusou peri pollos logos katechei, hôs kai toutou strateusantos es Indous.] Arrian. Hist. Indic. p. 318.
[859] Diodorus. l. 3. p. 204.
[860] [Greek: Indous kai Turrhênous legousin, hôs katestrepsato (Dionusos).] Aristid. Orat. in Dionus. p. 54.
[861] Cic. de Nat. Deor. l. 3. c. 23. Of the various places of his birth, see Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 200.
[862] Linus, Orpheus, Panopides, Thymætes, and Dionysius Milesius, Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 201.
[863] It was a common subject for Elegy. Plutarch. Isis et Osir.
[Greek: Poiêsometha de tên archên apo Dionusou, dio kai palaion einai sphodra touton, kai megistais euergesiais katatetheisthai tôi genei tôn anthrôpôn.] Diodorus Sicul. l. 4. p. 210.
[Greek: Linon phasi tois Pelasgikois grammasi suntaxamenon tas tou prôtou Dionusou praxeis.] Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 201.
[864] L. 4. p. 210.
[Greek: Ton Osirin Dionuson einai legousin.] Herodot. l. 2. c. 42. c. 145.
[865] The Indians gave the same account of Dionusus, as the Egyptians did of Osiris. [Greek: Polias te oikêsai (Dionuson) kai nomous thesthai têisi polesin, oinou te dotêra Indois genesthai;--kai speirein didaxai tên gên, didonta auton spermata;--boas te hup' arotrôi zeuxai Dionuson prôton;--kai theous sebein hoti edidaxe Dionusos--ktl.] Arrian. Hist. Indic. p. 321.
[866] Pausan. l. 3. p. 272. As his rites came originally from Chaldea, and the land of Ur, he is in consequence of it often styled [Greek: Purigenês, amd Purisporos;] Strabo. l. 13. p. 932. [Greek: Elthe, makar Dionuse, PYRISPORE, taurometôpe.] Orphic. Hymn. 44. v. 1.
[867] There was a cavern, where they supposed him to be buried, at Delphi, [Greek: para chruseôi Apollôni.] Cyril contra Jul. p. 342.
[868] [Greek: Kronos perieôn tên oikoumenên.] Sanchoniath. apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 38.
[869] [Greek: Ton men oun Kronon onta presbutaton basilea genesthai; kai tous kath' heauton anthrôpous ex agriou diaitês eis bion hêmeron metastêsai, kai dia touto apodochês megalês tuchonta pollous epelthein tês oikoumenês topous; eisêgêsasthai de pasi tên te dikaiosunên kai tên haplotêta tês psuchês.] Diodorus Sicul. l. 5. p. 334.
[870] [Greek: Ouranon--tous anthrôpous sporadên oikountas sunagagein eis poleôs peribolon, kai tês men anomias kai thêriôdous biou pausai--kataktêsasthai de auton tês oikoumenês tên pleistên.] Ibid. l. 3. p. 1*9.
[871] [Greek: Apollôna meta Themidos, ôphelêsai boulomenon to genos hêmôn; eita tên ôpheleian eipôn, hoti eis hêmerotêta proukaleito.] Strabo. l. 9. p. 646.
[872] [Greek: Kath' hon chronon Apollôna tên gên epionta hêmeroun tous anthrôpous apo te tôn anêmerôn karpôn kai biôn.] Ibid.
[873] Diodorus Sicul. l. 3. p. 195.
The wanderings of Isis and Iona relate to the same history: as do likewise those of Cadmus.
[874] Eusebii Chron. p. 7. l. 37.
[875] [Greek: Thoulis. Houtos ebasileuse pasês Aiguptou, kai heôs ôkeanou; kai mian tôn en autôi nêsôn ekalesen apo tou idiou onomatos Thoulên.] Suidas.
[876] [Greek: Meta Osirin ebasileusen Oros; kai meta ton Oron ebasileuse Thoulis, hostis parelabe meta dunameôs tinos pasan tên gên heôs tou ôkeanou.] Chron. Pasch. p. 46.
He is mentioned by Cedrenus. [Greek: Thoulês, hos kai heôs tou ôkeanou pusan tên gên pareilêphen.] p. 20.
[877] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 49.
[878] See Apollon. Argonaut. l. 4. v. 277. and Herodot. l. 2. c. 102.
Syncellus. p. 59, 60
[879] Diodorus Sic. above. He was near losing his whole army.
[880] [Greek: Tên de chôran hoplois katestrepsato tois heautou Basileus Basileôn, kai Despotês Despotôn Sesoôsis.] Diodor. Sicul. ibid.
[881] He passed through all Ethiopia to the Cinnamon country. Strabo. l. 17. p. 1138. This must be Indica Ethiopia, and the island Seran-Dive. Hence came Cinnamon: here were [Greek: stêlai kai epigraphai.]
Venit ad occasum, mundique extrema Sesostris. Lucan. l. 10. v. 276
[882] [Greek: Sesôstris etê mê, hos hapasan echeirôsato tên Asian en eniautois ennea.] Syncellus. p. 59.
Some make him advance farther, and conquer all Europe: [Greek: homoiôs hupetaxe kai tên Asian pasan, kai TÊN EUROPÊN, kai tên Skuthian, kai tên Musian.] Chron. Pasch. p. 47. Herodotus thinks he did not proceed farther than Thrace. l. 2. c. 103.
[883] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 49.
[884] Of all the great actions of Sesostris, see Marsham. Can. Chron. sec. 14. p. 354.
[885] [Greek: Peri de toutôn to men alêthes ekthesthai met' akribeias ou rhadion.] Diodorus Sicul. L. 1. p. 52.
[886] Sir John Marsham's Can. Chron. sec. 14. p. 354.
Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, p. 217.
[887] 1 Kings. c. 14. v. 25, 26. _And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had transgressed against the Lord); with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without number, that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians._ 2 Chron. c. 12. v. 2, 3.
[888] [Greek: Paralabôin de Sousakos amachêti tên polin]. Joseph. Antiq. l. 8. c. 10.
[889] Sethosis of Josephus contra Apion. l. 1. p. 447.
[890] Euseb. Chron. p. 7. l. 43. [Greek: Thoulês; meta de touton Sesôstris.]
[891] [Greek: Sesonchôsis, Aiguptou pasês basileus meta Ôron tês Isidos kai Osiridos paida, tên men Asian hormêsas pasan katestrepsato, homoiôs de ta pleista tês Eurôpês. Theopompos de en tritôi Sesôstrin auton kalei.] Schol. in Apollon. Argonaut. l. 4. v. 272.
[892] [Greek: Dikaiarchos en prôtôi, meta ton Isidos kai Osiridos Ôron, basilea gegonenai Sesonchôsin legei; hôste genesthai apo tês Sesonchôsidos basileias mechri tês Neilou etê dischilia.] Schol. in Apollon. Argonaut. ibid.
[893] Cedrenus. v. 1. p. 20. Osiris, Orus, Thoules, Sesostris.
[894] Succeeded by [Greek: Pharaô.] Chron. Pasch. p. 48.
[895] Joannes Antiochenus has borrowed the same history, and calls this king Sostris. [Greek: Ebasileusen Aiguptiôn prôtos ek tês phulês tou Cham Sôstris.] p. 23. He adds, that Sostris, or Sesostris, lived in the time of Hermes, [Greek: Hermês ho trismegistos Aiguptios.] He was succeeded by Pharaoh, [Greek: prôtos], the first of the name. Ibid. Herodotus calls him Pheron, and Pherona. l. 2. c. 111.
[896] [Greek: Polu huperteinei tois chronois tên Minô basileian hê Sesôstrios.] Politic. l. 7. c. 10.
[897] Apollon. Argonaut. l. 4. v. 272. [Greek: Enthen dê tina phasi--Sesonchôsis, Aiguptou pasês basileus--Theopompos de en tritôi Sesôstrin auton kalei.] Schol. ibid.
[Greek: Peri de tôn chronôn, kath' hous egeneto Sesonchôsis, ho men Apollônios touto monon phêsi, polus gar adên apenênothen aiôn.] Schol. ibid.
Lycophron speaks of Apollo [Greek: Zôstêrios], and a promontory [Greek: Zôstêrion, en hôi hieron Zostêriou Apollônos.] Schol. ad v. 1278.
[898] Schol. Apollon. l. 4. v. 272. Syncellus joins him with Serapis. p. 91.
[899] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 144.
[Greek: Oupô teirea panta k. t. l.] Apollon. Argonaut. l. 4. v. 261. See the whole, and Schol. ibid.
[900] Canon. Chronic. Sec. 10. p. 238, 239.
[901] Quis igitur Sesonchosis ille, qui, Menen antevertens annis amplius 5000, inter Semideos locum habere videatur? Marsham. Canon Chronic. Sec. 10. p. 238.
Sesostris in XII. Africani Dynastiâ (quæ Eusobiani Canonis epocham antevertit) ex Scaligeri calculis regnavit anno Per. Jul. 1392: quo ratiocinio Sesostris factus est annos 2355 ipso Sesostre senior. Nam ex S. literis (suo loco) apparebit, Sesostrim expeditionem suscepisse in Asiam, et Hierosolyma cepisse Anno Per. Jul. 3747. Ibid. p. 239.
[902] Antiq. l. 8. c. 10. p. 449. and 450.
[903] He came merely as a confederate to Jeroboam, in favour of the kingdom of Israel; and his intention was to ruin Judah: but his cruel purpose was averted by the voluntary submission both of the king and people; and by the treasures they gave up to him, which were the purchase of their security.
[904] Hercules is said to have commanded the armies of Osiris. Diodorus. Sicul. l. 1. p. 15.
[905] L. 2. c. 106. Concerning the interpretation of these emblems, see Joan Pierii Hieroglyph. l. 34. c. 20.
[906] Pausan. l. 1. p. 101. The Statue remains to this day. In like manner it was reported that Dionusus raised Pillars. Strabo. l. 3. p. 260.
[Greek: Entha te kai Stêlai Thêbaigeneos Dionusou]. Dionys. Perieg. v. 623.
Hercules erected the like. All which was done by people styled Dionysians and Herculeans.
[907] Joshua. c. 12. v. 24. Adonibezek had threescore and ten vassal princes at his feet; if the headman of every village may be so called. Judges. c. 1. v. 7.
[908] Benhadad of Damascus was attended with thirty-two kings, when he invaded Samaria. 1 Kings. c. 20. v. 1.
[909] The people plowed, and sowed, and had fruits, and pastures, within their walls.
[910] 2 Kings. c. 17. v. 6. and c. 18. v. 11. and v. 34. Isaiah. c. 10. v. 9. c. 37. v. 13.
[911] Diodorus Sicul. l. 2. p. 90.
[912] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 91.
[913] Ibid. p. 92.
[914] [Greek: Hautê men apedexato chômata ana to pedion eonta axiotheêta.] Herod. l. 1. c. 184.
Such [Greek: chômata] were raised by the Amonians in all places where they settled, called [Greek: taphoi].
Four such were in Troas. [Greek: Eisi men oun lophoi tettares, Olumpioi kaloumenoi.] Strabo. l. 10. p. 720. There were such also of the Amazons in Mauritania.
[915] She carried back but twenty men, according to Strabo. l. 15. p. 1051.
[916] Chron. Paschale. p. 36. Semiramis was, we find, Rhea: and Rhea was the same as Cybele, the mother of the Gods: [Greek: tên Rhean, Kibelên, kai Kubên, kai Dindumênên.] Strabo. l. 10. p. 721.
[917] Cononis narrationes apud Phot. p. 427.
[918] Herodot. l. 1. c. 184. five ages ([Greek: geneai]) before Nitocris the mother of Labynitus, whom Cyrus conquered.
It may be worth while to observe the different opinions of authors about the time, when Semiramis is supposed to have lived.
Years. According to Syncellus she lived before Christ 2177 Petavius makes the term 2060 Helvicus 2248 Eusebius 1984 Mr. Jackson 1964 Abp. Usher 1215 Philo Biblius from Sanchoniathon (apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. 1200 l. 1. p. 31.) about Herodotus about 713
What credit can be given to the history of a person, the time of whose life cannot be ascertained within 1535 years? for so great is the difference of the extremes in the numbers before given.
See Dionys. Perieg. Schol. in v. 1006.
[919] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 90.
[920] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 98.
[921] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 92.
[922] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1007.
[923] Arrian. Hist. Ind. p. 318.
[924] Josephus cont. Ap. l. 1. c. 19. p. 451.
[925] Steph. Byzant. [Greek: Babulôn.]
[926] Suidas: [Greek: Semiramis.]
[927] Pliny. l. 7. p. 417.
[928] Semiramis teneros mares castravit omnium prima. Marcellinus. l. 14. c. 6.
[929] [Greek: Semiramis lagnos gunê, kai miaiphonos.] Athenag. Legatio. p. 307.
[930] Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v. 339.
[931] This is the reason that we find these kingdoms so often confounded, and the Babylonians continually spoken of as Assyrians, and sometimes as Persians. [Greek: Babulôn Persikê polis]. Steph. Byz.
[932] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1071.
[933] These mounds were high altars, upon which they sacrificed to the Sun. By Ctesias they are supposed to have been the tombs of her lovers, whom she buried alive. Syncellus. p. 64.
[934] They built Babylon itself; which by Eupolemus was said to have been the work of Belus, and the Giants. Euseb. Præp. l. 9. c. 17. p. 418. Quint. Curt. l. 5. c. 1. Abydenus apud Euseb. Præp. l. 9. c. 15. Syncellus. p. 44.
[935] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 364.
[936] He ordered it to be inscribed upon his tomb, [Greek: hoti kai Magikôn genoito didaskalos]. Porph. de Abstin. l. 4. p. 399.
[937] By Zoroaster was denoted both the Deity, and also his priest. It was a name conferred upon many personages.
[938] Zerdûsht, seu, ut semel cum vocali damna scriptum vidi, Zordush't, idem est, qui Græcis sonat [Greek: Zôroastrês]. Hyde Relig. Vet. Persar. c. 24. p. 312.
[939] L. 30. c. 1. p. 523.
[940] Arnobius. l. 1. p. 31.
[941] Clemens. l. 1. p. 399.
[942] Ibid. l. 5. p. 711. [Greek: Tade sunegraphen Zoroastrês ho Armeniou to genos Pamphulos. kl. En adêi genomenos edaên para Theôn.]
[943] Clemens. l. 1. p. 357. Apuleius Florid. c. 15. p. 795, mentions a Zoroaster after the reign of Cambyses.
[944] Justin. l. 1. c. 1.
[945] Syncellus. p. 167.
[946] P. 315. It is also taken notice of by Huetius. Sinam recentiores Persæ apud Indos degentes faciunt (Zoroastrem). D.E. Prop. 4. p. 89.
[947] Sed haud mirum est, si Europæi hoc modo dissentiant de homine peregrino, cum illius populares orientales etiam de ejus prosapiâ dubitent. At de ejus tempore concordant omnes, unum tantum constituentes Zoroastrem, eumque in eodem seculo ponentes. p. 315.
[948] Plures autem fuere Zoroastres ut satis constat. Gronovius in Marcellinum. l. 23. p. 288. Arnobius and Clemens mention more than one. Stanley reckons up six. See Chaldaic Philosophy.
[949] P. 312.
[950] Zoroaster may have been called Zerdusht, and Zertoost: but he was not Zerdusht the son of Gustasp, who is supposed to have lived during the Persian Monarchy. Said Ebn. Batrick styles him Zorodasht, but places him in the time of Nahor, the father of Terah, before the days of Abraham. vol. 1. p. 63.
[951] Diogenes Laert. Prooem. p. 3.
[952] [Greek: Pro tôn Trôikôn etesi ph' Zôroastrês.]
[953] Laertius Prooem. p. 3.
[954] Pliny. l. 30. c. 1.
[955] [Greek: Zôroastris ho Magos, hon pentakischiliois etesin tôn Trôikôn gegonenai presbuteron historousin.] Isis et Osir. p. 369.
[956] Zoroastrem hunc sex millibus annorum ante Platonis mortem. Pliny. l. 30. c. 1.
[957] P. 16. and p. 47.
[958] Euseb. Chron. p. 32. Syncellus. p. 167.
[959] Pliny. l. 30. c. 1. p. 524.