tes Lesbias
topos; kai Panephaistia tes Lemnou akroterion--kai en Bithuniai, kai peri
Chalkedona, kai tes Karias; kai en tei Halikarnasidi Dorion pedion; kai en
Hellespontoi; esti kai alle Cherrhonesos tes Indikes; en de tei ektos
Gangou Indikei.] Stephanus Byzant.
See also [Greek: Chrusopolis] ibidem.
[130] Cedrenus. p. 12.
[131] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1095.
[132] Hoffman Lexic.
[133] Plutarch de fluminibus. p. 1151. The original name was Chrusaor,
which had no relation to a golden stream: at least that part of it was so
named which ran through the city Mastaura. See Stephanus Byzant. [Greek:
Mastaura.]
[134] [Hebrew: KTM] of of the Hebrews.
[135] Dionysius [Greek: perieges]. v. 589. Scholia ibidem.
[136] The antients, as I have before observed, were not consistent in their
theology. The Sun was properly Cham, styled also Orus, but, as a title, was
bestowed upon more persons than one.
[137] Josephus of Salatis, the first Shepherd King; [Greek: Houtos en tei
Memphidi kategineto.] Contra Apion. l. 1. Sec.. 14.
[138] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 88.
[139] Josephus contra Apion. l. 1. c. 14.
[140] Justin Martyr mentions this: [Greek: Egno gar kai temenos Chruses
Aphrodites en Aiguptoi legomenon, kai pedion Chruses Aphrodites
onomazomenon.] Cohort, p. 28. Chruse Aphrodite is plainly the Cuthite
Venus; the Deity of the Cuthim.
[141] Pocock's and Norden's Travels, and maps of the country about Cairo.
[142] Colchis, near Comar. Arrian Periplus maris Erythraei. Geog. Vet. vol.
1. p. 33.
[143] [Greek: Kataschein de phasi kai es Pegadas tes ton Oreiton choras.
Hoide Oreitai, chalkai men autois hai petrai, chalke de he psammos,
chalkoun de psegma hoi potamoi agousi. Chrusitin hegountai ten gen dia ten
eugeneian tou Chalkou.] Philostratus. Vita Apollon. l. 3. p. 155.
[144] The Petra and Pagoda were the same: both names for temples.
[145] This mistake arose from Cal-Chus being styled the region of the
Cuthim.
[146] Scholia upon Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 259.
[147] Ibid. Isth. Ode 5. p. 462.
[148] Sanchoniathon apud Euseb: Praep. Evan. l. 1. c. 10. p. 35.
[149] Ibid.
[150] Lucian de Electro. vol. 2. p. 523. Edit. Salmurii.
[151] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. v. 751.
[152] Homer. Odyss. l. [lambda]. v. 15. Phaethon was universally allowed to
be the Sun by the antient mythologists of Greece; to whom we must appeal,
and not to the Roman poets. Orpheus says,
[Greek: Eelion Phaethonta eph' harmasi p
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