eafter be fully discussed. Ovid seems to make Ampelus a native of
Thrace; and supposes him to have been the son of a satyr by one of the
nymphs in that country:

[821] Ampelon intonsum, Satyro Nymphaque creatum,
Fertur in Ismariis Bacchus amasse jugis.

But however they may have mistaken this personage, it is certain that in
early times he was well known, and highly reverenced. Hence wherever the
Amonians settled, the name of Ampelus will occur: and many places will be
found to have been denominated from the worship of the Deity under this
sacred title. We learn from Stephanus Byzantinus, [822]_that, according to
Hecataeus, in his Europa, Ampelus was the name of a city in Liguria. There
was likewise a promontory in the district of Torone called Ampelus: a like
promontory in Samos: another in Cyrene. Agroetas mentions two cities there,
an upper, and a lower, of that name. There_ _was likewise a harbour in
Italy so called_. We read of a city [823]Ampeloessa in Syria, and a nation
in Lybia called Ampeliotae: [Greek: Ampeliotai de ethnos Libues]. Suidas.
Also, Ampelona in Arabia; and a promontory, Ampelusia, near Tingis, in
Mauritania. In all these places, however distant, the Amonians had made
settlements. Over against the island Samos stood the sacred promontory,
Mycale, in Ionia. This, too, was called Ampelus, according to Hesychius, as
the passage is happily altered by Albertus and others. [Greek: Ampelos,
mechane, kai akra Mukales, egoun orous.] From the words [Greek: egoun
orous] one might infer, that Ampelus was no uncommon name for a mountain in
general: so far is certain, that many such were so denominated: which name
could not relate to [Greek: ampelos], the vine; but they were so called
from the Deity to whom they were [824]sacred. Many of these places were
barren crags, and rocks of the sea, ill suited to the cultivation of the
[825]vine. And not only eminences were so called, but the strand and
shores, also, for the same reason: because here, too, were altars and
pillars to this God. Hence we read in Hesychius: [Greek:
Ampelos--aigialos--Kurenaiois aigialos.] _By Ampelus is signified the sea
shore; or Ampelus, among the people of Cyrene, signifies the sea shore_.

From what has been said, we may be assured that Ampelus and Omphalus were
the same term originally, however varied afterwards and differently
appropriated. They are each a compound from Omphe, and relate to the
oracular Deity. Ampelus, at Mycale,