Vaillant, and Suidas, [Greek: Herakles].
[1200] [Greek: ---- lithois chorion periechomenon logasin Opheos kalousin
hoi Thebaioi kephalen.] Pausan. l. 9. p. 747.
[1201] Pausan. l. 7. p. 579.
[1202] [Greek: Timas theon anti agalmaton eichon argoi lithoi.] Ibid.
[1203] [Greek: Kadmos Phoinix lithotomian exeure, kai metalla chrusou ta
peri to Pankaion epenoesen oros.] Clemens. Strom. l. 1. p. 363. See Natalis
Comes of Cadmus.
[1204] Nonnus. Dionys. l. 4. p. 128.
[1205] Clemens. Alex. l. 6. p. 753.
[1206] Styled [Greek: paides Heliou] by Diodorus. l. 5. p. 327.
[1207] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 328.
[1208] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 109.
[1209] [Greek: E ton Thoraion, Ptoon, Oriten, theon.] Lycophron. v. 352.
[1210] Scholiast. Ibid.
[1211] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683.
[1212] Quaestiones Graecae. p. 296.
[1213] Strabo. l. 10. p. 685.
[1214] Harpocration.
[1215] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683. Polybius. l. 11. p. 627.
[1216] [Greek: En tei Oriai kaloumenei tes Histiaiotidos.] Strabo. l. 10.
p. 683.
Oria is literally the land of Ur.
[1217] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683. He mentions a domestic quarrel among some of
this family, and adds, [Greek: tous Oritas--polemoumenous hupo ton
Ellopieon], _that the Oritae were attacked by the Ellopians_.
[1218] Antoninus Liberalis. c. 25. p. 130.
[1219] [Greek: He Huria de tes Tanagrikes nun esti, proteron de tes
Thebaidos, hopou ho Hurios memutheutai, kai he tou Orionos genesis.]
Strabo. l. 9. p. 620. He is called [Greek: Hurieus] by Euphorion. See
Homer. [Sigma]. Scholia. v. 486.
[1220] [Greek: Esti kai Orionos mnema en Tanagra.] Pausan. l. 9. p. 749.
[1221] [Greek: Esti d' he men Huria pros ton Euripon.] Steph. Byzant.
[1222] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 181.
[1223] Europus is the same as Oropus, and signifies Orus Pytho. Ops, Opis,
Opus, Opas, all signify a serpent. Zeus was the same as Orus and Osiris;
hence styled Europus, and Europas; which Homer has converted to [Greek:
Euruopas], and accordingly styles Jupiter [Greek: Euruopa Zeus.]
[1224] Pausanias. l. 3. p. 245. [Greek: einai de autous Huraiou paidas.]
[1225] L. 2. c. 4. p. 87.
[1226] Nonnus. l. 4. p. 136.
[1227] [Greek: O gar de chronos ekeinos enenken anthropous cheiron men
ergois, kai podo tachesi, kai somaton rhomais, hos eoiken, huperphuous, kai
akamatous.] Plutarch. in Theseo. p. 3.
[1228] [Greek: Esti de kai phulon ti ton Chaldaion, kai chora tes
Babulonias hup' ekeinon oikoumene, plesiazousa kai tois A
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