[1001] Apud Brigantas in Northumbria. Camden's Britannia. p. 1071.
[1002] See Radicals. p. 42. of Zon.
[1003] Chron. Paschale. p. 43. Servius upon Virg. AEneid. l. 6. v. 14.
[1004] Lycophron. v. 1301.
[1005] Zor and Taur, among the Amonians, had sometimes the same meaning.
[1006] See the engraving of the Mneuis, called by Herodotus the bull of
Mycerinus. Herod. l. 2. c. 130. Editio Wesseling. et Gronov.
[1007] See the Plates annexed, which are copied from Kaempfer's Amoenitates
Exoticae. p. 312. Le Bruyn. Plate 158. Hyde. Relig. Vet. Pers. Tab. 6. See
also plate 2. and plate 4. 5. vol. 1. of this work. They were all
originally taken from the noble ruins at Istachar, and Naki Rustan in
Persia.
[1008] Huetii Prop. 4. p. 92.
Lord, in his account of the Persees, says, that Zertoost (so he expresses
the name) was conveyed by an Angel, and saw the Deity in a vision, who
appeared like a bright light, or flame. Account of the Persees. c. 3.
[1009] See Stanley's Chaldaic Philos. p. 7. and p. 11. They were by
Damascius styled [Greek: Zonoi] and [Greek: Azonoi]: both terms of the same
purport, though distinguished by persons who did not know their purport.
[1010] See Plates annexed.
[1011] Martianus Capella. l. 1. c. 17. Ex cunctis igitur Coeli regionibus
advocatis Diis, caeteri, quos Azonos vocant, ipso commonente Cyllenio,
convocantur. Psellus styles them [Greek: Azonoi], and [Greek: Zonaioi]. See
Scholia upon the Chaldaic Oracles.
[1012] Arnobius. l. 1. p. 31.
[1013] The Sun was styled both Zon, and Azon; Zan and Azan: so Dercetis was
called Atargatis: Neith of Egypt, Aneith. The same was to be observed in
places. Zelis was called Azilis: Saba, Azaba: Stura, Astura: Puglia,
Apuglia: Busus, Ebusus: Damasec, Adamasec. Azon was therefore the same as
Zon; and Azon Nakis may be interpreted Sol Rex, vel Dominus.
[1014] Antholog. l. 3. p. 269.
[1015] See Huetius. Demons. Evang. prop. 4. p. 129.
[1016] In Theolog. Platonis. l. 1. c. 4.
[1017]
[Greek: Oude ti pharmakon]
[Greek: Thressais en sanisi,]
[Greek: Tas Orpheie kategrapse gerus.] Alcestis. v. 968.
[1018] Plato de Repub. l. 2. p. 364.
[1019] Lactant. de F. R. l. 1. p. 105.
[1020] Scholia in Alcestin. v. 968.
Concerning Orpheus, see Diodorus. l. 1. p. 86. Aristoph. Ranae. v. 1064.
Euseb. P. E. lib. 10. p. 469.
[1021] L. 22. See Natalis comes. l. 7. p. 401.
[1022] L. 9. p. 768.
[1023] V. 41.
[1024] Ibid. v. 99.
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