him: nor do I believe, that he is ever
represented with one either upon a gem, or a marble. He is described as
wishing for a harp, and for a bow.

[125][Greek: Eie moi kitharis te phile, kai kampula toxa.]

And his mother is said to have been pleased that she produced him to the
world an archer:

[126][Greek: Chaire de Leto,]
[Greek: Houneka toxophoron kai karteron huion etikten.]

These habiliments are often specified: but I do not recollect any mention
made of a sword, nor was the term Chrusaor of Grecian etymology.

Since then we may be assured that Chus was the person alluded to under the
name of Chrusos, Chrubor, and Chrusaor; we need not wonder that his
substitute Apollo is so often styled [Greek: Chrusokomes], and [Greek:
Chrusoluros]: that the harp, called by the Amonians [127] Chan-Or, and
Cuth-Or, from the supposed inventor, should by the Grecians be denominated
[Greek: Chrusea phorminx] [128][Greek: Apollonos]: that so many cities,
where Apollo was particularly worshipped, should be called Chruse, and
Chrusopolis, the number of which was of no small [129]amount. Nor is this
observable in cities only, but in rivers, which were named in the same
manner. For it was usual, in the first ages, to consecrate rivers to
Deities, and to call them after their names. Hence many were denominated
from Chusorus, which by the Greeks was changed to [Greek: Chrusorrhoas];
and from this mistake they were supposed to abound with gold. The Nile was
called Chrusorrhoas[130], which had no pretensions to gold: and there was a
river of this name at [131]Damascus. Others too might be produced, none of
which had any claim to that mineral. There was a stream Chrusorrhoas near
the Amazonian city Themiscura in [132]Pontus: and the river Pactolus was of
old so called, whence probably came the notion of its abounding with gold.
[133][Greek: Paktolos potamos esti tes Ludias----ekaleito de proteron
Chrusorrhoas.] It was named Chrusorrhoas first, and in aftertimes Pactolus:
whence we may conclude, in respect to gold, that the name was not given on
account of any such circumstance; but the notion was inferred from the
name.

It is apparent that this repeated mistake arose in great measure from the
term Chusus and Chrusus being similar: whence the latter was easily
convertible into the former; which to the Grecians appeared a more
intelligible, and at the same time a more splendid, title. But there was
still another