is rate prior to the foundation of Argos; and many
centuries before her father; near a thousand years before her brother.
[1101] See Excerpta ex Diodori. l. xl. apud Photium. p. 1152. concerning
the different nations in Egypt, and of their migrations from that country.
[1102] Diana says to her father Jupiter,
[Greek: Dos moi parthenien aionion, Appa, phulaxai,]
[Greek: Kai poluonumien]. Callim. H. in Dianam. v. 6.
[Greek: Pantas ep' anthropous epeie poluonumos estin]. Homer. [Eta]. in
Apoll. v. 82.
[Greek: Polle men anthropoisi k' ouk anonumos]
[Greek: Thea keklemai Kupris]. Eurip. Hippolytus. v. 1.
The Egyptian Deities had many titles.
ISIDI. MYRIONYMAE. Gruter. lxxxiii. n. 11.
[1103] Lycophron. v. 219.
[1104] Scholia. ibid.
[1105] Lycophron. Schol. v. 162.
[1106] Vetus Auctor apud Phavorinum.
[1107] Nonnus. l. 41. p. 1070. Harmonia, by the Scholiast upon Apollonius,
is styled [Greek: Numphe Nais] l. 2. v. 992. The marriage of Cadmus and
Harmonia is said to be only a parody of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis.
Diodorus. l. 5. p. 323.
[1108] Nonnus. l. 41. p. 1068.
[1109] Oraculum Apollinis Sminthei apud Lactantium, D. I. l. 1. c. 8. p.
32. She is styled the mother of the Amazons. Steph. Byzant. [Greek:
Akmonia.]
[1110] Nonnus. l. 12. p. 328.
[1111] Ibid.
[1112] Nonnus. l. 12. p. 328.
[1113] Plutarch. Sympos. l. 9. quaest. 13. p. 738.
[1114] Philo apud Euseb. P. E. l. 1. p. 31.
[1115] Judges. c. 3 v. 3. Hermon was particularly worshipped about Libanus,
and Antilibanus, where was the country of the Cadmonites, and Syrian
Hivites.
[1116] Lucian de Syria Dea. p. 6.
[1117] Apud Proclum in Timaeum. p. 121. See Orpheus. Fragm. p. 403.
[1118] Pyth. Ode 4. p. 237.
[1119] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 173.
[1120] Og, Ogus, Ogenus, Ogugus, [Greek: Oguges, Ogenidai], all relate to
the ocean.
[1121] [Greek: Anotero de tou Ismeniou ten krenen idois an, hentina Areos
phasin hieran einai, kai drakonta hupo tou Areos epitetachthai phulaka tei
pegei; pros taute tei krenei taphos esti Kaanthou; Melias de adelphon, kai
Okeanou paida einai Kaanthon legousin stalenai de hupo tou patros zetesanta
herpasmenen ten adelphen ktl]. Pausan. l. 9. p. 730.
[1122] Dicitur Europa fuisse Agenoris Phoenicum Regis, et Meliae Nymphae,
filia. Natalis Comes. l. 8. p. 481.
[1123] So Phlegyas was said to have fired the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Euseb. Chron. p. 27. Apud Delphos templum
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