Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 239. He was no
other than Ouranus, and Coelus.
[545] [Greek: Asterion, huios Anaktos], who was buried in the island Lade,
near Miletus, is mentioned as a gigantic personage by Pausanias. l. 1. p.
87. Large bones have been found in Sicily; which were probably the bones of
elephants, but have been esteemed the bones of the Cyclopians by Kircher
and Fazellus. Fazellus. Dec. 1. l. 1. c. 6.
[546] Herodotus. l. 5. c. 61. He alludes to them under the name of
Cadmians.
[547] Odyss. 10. v. 190.
[548] AEneid. l. 3. v. 619.
[549] Hymn in Dian. v. 51.
[Greek: Mounos d' ophthalmos messoi epekeito metopoi.] Hesiod. Theogon. v.
143.
Clemens Alexandrinus tells us, that Homer's account of Polyphemus is
borrowed from the character of Saturnus in the Orphic poetry. Strom. l. 6.
p. 751.
[550] Scholia in AEschyl. Prometh. p. 56.
[551] [Greek: Paides Ouranou, kai Ges.]
[552] [Greek: Ex hes autoi (Ouranoi) treis paidas ginoskousin
hekatontacheiras, kai treis heterous apotiktousi Kuklopas.] Proclus in
Photio. c. ccxxxix. p. 982.
Euripides makes them the sons of Oceanus.
[Greek: Hin' hoi monopes pontiou paides Theou]
[Greek: Kuklopes oikous' antr' erem' androktonoi.] Cyclops. v. 21.
[553] [Greek: Kai de Hieron estin archaion, Kuklopon kaloumenos bomos, kai
thuousin ep' autai Kuklopsi.] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 114.
[554] Odyss. [Zeta]. v. 5. [Greek: Hupereian, hoi men ten en Sikelia
Kamarinen.] Schol. ibid.
[555] [Greek: En polei tes Babulonias Kamarinei, hen tinas legein polin
Ourian.] Alexand. Polyhist. apud Euseb. Praep. Evan. l. 9. p. 418.
[556] Natalis Comes. l. 9. p. 510. By the Celtae are meant those of Iberia:
[Greek: opsigonoi Titenes] of Callimachus.
[557] Lycoph. v. 659. Appian mentions a nation of Cyclopians in Illyria,
who were near the Pheacians.
[558] The liba made in such temples were from it named Charisia. [Greek:
Charision, eidos plakounton.] Hesych.
[559] In Parthia, [Greek: Kalliope, Charis]. Appian. Syriac. p. 125.
[Greek: Phrugias polis Karis]. Steph. Byzant.
Charisiae in Arcadia. Ibid. The island Cos, called of old Caris. Ibid.
[560] Herodotus. l. 4. c. 13. [Greek: Arimaspous andras mounophthalmous.]
Strabo. l. 1. p. 40. [Greek: Tacha de kai tous monommatous Kuklopas ek tes
Skuthikes historias metenenochen (Homeros.)]
[561] [Greek: Oupis te, Loxo te, kai euaion Hekaerge.] Callimach. H. in
Delon. v. 292.
[562] Casaubon. not. in Strabon. l.
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