with a crown of rays, and a
tiara spangled with stars, [Greek: ten katastikton tois astrois tiaran.]
Julian. Orat. 5. p. 179.

[97] Podalia, Choma, praefluente Adesa. Plin. l. 5. c. 17.

It was compounded, also, Az-On. Hence [Greek: Azones] in Sicily, near
Selinus. Diodori Excerpta. l. 22.

[98] Herbert's Travels. p. 316. He renders the word Attash.

Hyde of the various names of fire among the Persians; Va, Adur, Azur,
Adish, Atesh, Hyr. c. 29 p. 358. Atesh Perest is a Priest of fire. Ibid. c.
29. p. 366.

[99] Aziz, lightning; any thing superlatively bright, analogous to Adad and
Rabrab. Hazazon Tamor, mentioned 2 Chron. c. 20. v. 2.

[100] Orat. 4. p. 150.

[101] Azaz, and Asisus, are the same as Asis and Isis made feminine in
Egypt; who was supposed to be the sister of Osiris the Sun.

[102] [Greek: Ten MONADA tous andras onomazein Apollona.] Plutarch. Isis &
Osiris. p. 354.

[103] Hence came asso, assare, of the Romans.

Jezebel, whose father was Ethbaal, king of Sidon, and whose daughter was
Athaliah, seems to have been named from Aza-bel; for all the Sidonian names
are compounds of sacred terms.

[104] Places, which have this term in their composition, are to be found
also in Canaan and Africa. See Relandi Palaestina. vol. 2. p. 597. Joseph.
Ant. l. 8. c. 2. Hazor, the chief city of Jabin, who is styled king of
Canaan, stood near Lacus Samochonites. Azorus, near Heraclea, in Thessaly,
at the bottom of Mount Oeta. Hazor is mentioned as a kingdom, and,
seemingly, near Edom and Kedar. Jeremiah. c. 49. v. 30. 33.

[105] Hazor in Sicily stood near Enna, and was, by the Greeks, rendered
[Greek: Assoros], and [Greek: Assoron]. Azor and Azur was a common name for
places where Puratheia were constructed. See Hyde. Relig. Pers. c. 3. p.
100.

[106] The country about the Cayster was particularly named Asia.

[Greek: Asioi en leimoni Kauestriou amphi reethra.] Homer. Iliad. [Beta].
v. 461.

Of these parts see Strabo. l. 13. p. 932.

[107] [Greek: Hierapolis--thermon udaton pollon plethousa, apo tou hiera
polla echein.] Stephanus Byzant.

[108] [Greek: Hierapolis, hopou ta therma hudata, kai to Ploutonion, ampho
paradoxologian tina echonta.] Strabo. l. 13. p. 933.

[109] Damascius apud Photium in Vita Isidor. c. 242.

[110] At Hierapolis, Acharaca, Magnesia, and Myus. Strabo. l. 12. p. 868.

[Greek: Acharaka, en ei to Ploutonion, echon kai alsos poluteles, kai neon
Ploutonos te kai Heras kan to