y do not mention any trade carried on, nor riches accruing from
this lucky circumstance: so that there is no reason to think that one grain
of gold was gathered from these celebrated streams. Among the several
islands occupied by this people were Rhodes and Delos. In the former, the
chief city is said to have been blessed with showers of gold. [109][Greek:
Entha pote breche theon Basileus ho megas chrusais niphadessi polin.] At
Delos every thing was golden, even the slippers of the God.

[110][Greek: Chrusea kai ta pedila, poluchrusos gar Apollon.]

And this not only in aftertimes, when the island was enriched with
offerings from different nations, but even at the birth of the God; by
which is meant the foundation of his temple, and introduction of his rites.

[111][Greek: Chrusea toi tote panta themeilia geinato, Dele,]
[Greek: Chrusoi de trochoessa panemeros errhee limne,]
[Greek: Chruseion d' ekomisse genethlion ernos elaies,]
[Greek: Chrusoi de plemmure bathus Inopos helichtheis,]
[Greek: Aute de chrusoio ap' oudeos heileo paida,]
[Greek: En d' ebaleu kolpoisin.]

We find that the very soil and foundations of the island were golden: the
lake floated with golden waves: the olive tree vegetated with golden fruit:
and the river Inopus, deep as it was, swelled with gold. Homer, in a hymn
to the same personage, represents the whole more compendiously, by saying,
that the island was weighed down with treasure:

[112][Greek: Chrusoi d' ara Delos hapasa]
[Greek: Bebrithei.]

I have before mentioned that the Amonians settled in Liguria: and, in
consequence of it, the Heliadae are represented as weeping, not only amber,
but gold. Philostratus, speaking of a particular species of fir-trees in
Boetica, says, that they dropped blood, just as the Heliadae upon the Padus
did[113] gold.

Chus, by the Egyptians and Canaanites, was styled Or-Chus, and[114]
Chus-Or: the latter of which was expressed by the Greeks, analogous to the
examples above, [Greek: Chrusor], Chrusor: and we learn in Eusebius, from
Philo, that Chrusor was one of the principal Deities of the Phenicians, a
great benefactor to mankind; and by some supposed to have been the same as
Hephaistus. Both the Tyrians and Sidonians were undoubtedly a mixed race,
and preserved the memory of Ham, and Chus, equally with that of Canaan.

This name, so often rendered Chrusos, and Chrusor, was sometimes changed to
[Greek: Chrusaor], Chrusaor: