[1056]

[Greek: Stiktous d' hemaxanto brachionas, amphi melaine]
[Greek: Deuomenai spodie threikion plokamon.] Antholog. l. 3. p. 270.

[1057] Servius in Virgil. eclog. 8. See Salmasius upon Solinus. p. 425.

[1058] [Greek: Peri ten pentekosten Olumpiada.] Tatianus. Assyr. p. 275.
These were the Orphic hymns, which were sung by the Lycomedae at Athens.

[1059] Diodorus Sic. l. 5. p. 322.

[1060]

[Greek: Aiguptiou Dionusou]
[Greek: Mustidos ennuchias teletas edidaxeto technes.] Nonnus. Dionus. l.
4. p. 128.

There will be found in some circumstances a great resemblance between
Cadmus and Orpheus.

[1061] [Greek: Hoi de Phoinikes houtoi hoi sun Kadmoi apikomenoi--eisegagon
didaskalia es tous Hellenas, kai de kai grammata, ouk eonta prin Hellesin.]
Herod. l. 5. c. 58.

Literas--in Greciam intulisse e Phoenice Cadmum, sedecim numero. Pliny. l.
7. c. 56.

[1062] Plutarch. De genio Socratis. vol. 1. p. 578.

[1063] Plutarch. above.

[1064]

[Greek: Ho men de heis ton tripodon epigramma echei,]
[Greek: Amphitruon m' anetheken eon apo Teleboaon.]
[Greek: Tauta helikien an eie kata Laion ton Labdakou.] Herod. l. 5. c.
59.

[1065] Pausanias. l. 8. p. 628.

[1066] He is said to have introduced [Greek: Dionusiaken, teletourgian,
phallephorian]

[1067] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 20.

[1068] Cadmum Pherecydes. l. iv. Historiarum ex Agenore et Argiope, Nili
fluvii filia natum esse tradidit. Natalis Comes. l. 8. c. 23. p. 481. There
are various genealogies of this personage. [Greek: Libues tes Epaphou kai
Poseidonos, Agenor kai Belos. Agenoros kai Antiopes tes Belou Kadmos.]
Scholia Euripid. Phoeniss. v. 5.

[Greek: Pherekudes de en d houto phesin. Agenor de ho Poseidonos gamei
Damno ten Belou; ton de ginontai Phoinix kai Isaia, hen ischei Aiguptos,
kai Melia, hen ischei Danaos. epeita enischei Agenor Argiopen ten Neilou
tou potamou; tou de ginetai Kadmos.] Apollon. Scholia. l. 3. v. 1185.

[1069] Dionusiac. l. 4. p. 126.

[1070] V. 1206. The Poet calls the Thebans of Boeotia, [Greek: Ogugou
spartos leos.]

[1071] Nonnus, l. 4. p. 126.

[1072] Euseb. Chron. p. 27. and Syncellus. p. 152.

[1073] See Pausan. l. 9. p. 734.

[1074] [Greek: Phoinix kai Kadmos, apo Thebon ton Aiguption exelthontes eis
ten Surian ktl.] Euseb. Chron. p. 27.

[1075] Diodorus Sic. l. 5. p. 329.

[1076] [Greek: Kadmos--prosesche ten Theran.] Herod. l. 4. c. 147.

[1077] Conon apud P