[290] Ibid. c. 1. v. 10.

[291] Ibid. c. 1. v. 14.

[292] It is remarkable, that in many of the very antient temples there was
a tradition of their having suffered by lightning.

[293] Canticles. c. 8. v. 8.

[294] 2 Chron. c. 27. v. 3.

[295] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1096.

[296] Canticles. c. 7. v. 4.

[297]

Pervenit ad Draconis speluncam ultimam,
Custodiebat qui thesauros abditos. Phaedrus. l. 4. Fab. 18.

See Macrobius. Saturn. l. 1. c. 20. of dragons guarding treasures.

[298] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 2. v. 405.

[299] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 14. p. 408.

[300] Nonni Dionys. l. 33. p. 840.

[301] Ibid. l. 35. p. 876.

[302] Ibid. l. 6. p. 186.

[303] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1183.

[304] [Greek: En de tois edeixe kai zoon huperphues, Dionusou agalma, hoi
Indoi ethuon. Drakon en, mekos pentaplethron; etrepheto de en chorioi
koiloi, en kremnoi bathei, teichei hupseloi huper ton akron peribeblemenos;
kai aneliske tas Indon agelas. ktl.] Maximus Tyr. Dissert. 8. c. 6. p. 85.

[305] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1022.

[306] [Greek: Makra pedion. En toutoi de Poseidonios historei ton Drakonta
peptokota horathenai nekron, mekos schedon ti kai plethriaion, pachos de,
hosth' hippeas hekaterothen parastantas allelous me kathorain; chasma de,
host' ephippon dexasthai, tes de pholidos lepida hekasten huperairousan
thureou.] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1095. The epithet [Greek: peptokos] could not
properly be given to a serpent: but to a building decayed, and in ruins
nothing is more applicable. A serpent creeps upon its belly, and is even
with the ground, which he goes over, and cannot fall lower. The moderns
indeed delineate dragons with legs: but I do not know that this was
customary among the antients.

[307] Virgil. AEneis. l. 6. v. 595.

[308] Homer. Odyss. l. [Lambda]. v. 575.

Quintus Calaber styles him [Greek: poulupelethros].

[Greek: Poulupelethros ekeito kata chthonos eurupedoio.] l. 3. v. 395.

[Greek: Tituon megan, hon rh' eteken ge]
[Greek: Di' Helare, threpsen de kai aps elocheusato Gaia.]
Apollon. Rhodius. l. 1. v. 761.

[309] [Greek: Aiguptos--eklethe Musara--kai Aeria, kai Potamitis, kai
AETIA, apo tinos Indou Aetou.] Stephanus Byzant.

Eustathius mentions, [Greek: Kai Aetia, apo tinos Indou Aetou. ktl.] In
Dionysium. v. 239. p. 42.

[310] Orus Apollo styles it in the Ionian manner [Greek: Eth]. l. 1. c. 7.
p. 10. [Greek: Tode Eth kardia].

[311] [Greek: Aigupton de