nursed Jupiter, was supposed to have been changed. It was called Hagnon,
the same as Ain-On, the fount of the Sun. From Ain of the Amonians,
expressed Agn, came the [Greek: hagnos] of the Greeks, which signified any
thing pure and clean; purus sive castus. Hence was derived [Greek:
hagneion, pegaion; hagnaion, katharon; hagne, kathara]: as we may learn
from Hesychius. Pausanias styles the fountain [613]Hagno: but it was
originally Hagnon, the fountain of the Sun: hence we learn in another place
of Hesychius, [Greek: hagnopoleisthai, to hupo heliou theresthai.] The town
Egnatia, which I mentioned above, stood in campis Salentinii, and at this
day is called Anazo, and Anazzo. It was so named from the rites of fire:
and that those customs were here practised, we may learn from some remains
of them among the natives in the times of Horace and Pliny. The former
calls the place by contraction [614]Gnatia:

Dein Gnatia Nymphis
Iratis extructa dedit risumque, jocumque;
Dum flammis sine thura liquescere limine sacro
Persuadere cupit.

Horace speaks as if they had no fire: but according to Pliny they boasted
of having a sacred and spontaneous appearance of it in their temple.
[615]Reperitur apud auctores in Salentino oppido Egnatia, imposito ligno in
saxum quoddam ibi sacram protinus flammam existere. From hence,
undoubtedly, came also the name of Salentum, which is a compound of Sal-En,
Solis fons; and arose from this sacred fire to which the Salentini
pretended. They were Amonians, who settled here, and who came last from
Crete [616][Greek: Tous de Salentinous Kreton apoikous phasi]. Innumerable
instances of this sort might be brought from Sicily: for this island
abounded with places, which were of Amonian original. Thucydides and other
Greek writers, call them Phenicians[617]: [Greek: Okoun de kai Phoinikes
peri pasan men Sikelian]. But they were a different people from those,
which he supposes. Besides, the term Phenician was not a name, but a title:
which was assumed by people of different parts; as I shall shew. The
district, upon which the Grecians conferred it, could not have supplied
people sufficient to occupy the many regions, which the Phenicians were
supposed to have possessed. It was an appellation, by which no part of
Canaan was called by the antient and true inhabitants: nor was it ever
admitted, and in use, till the Grecians got possession of the coast. It was
even then limited to a small tract;