ipt. vol. 1. p. 96. n. 6.
Semoni Sanco Deo Fidio. n. 5.
Sanco Fidio Semo Patri. n. 7
Sanco Deo Patr. Reatin. sacrum. n. 8.
From San came the Latine terms, sanus, sano, sanctus, sancire.
Vossius derives San, or Zan, from [Hebrew: SHND], saevire. De Idol. l. 1. c.
22. p. 168.
[147] Macrobii Saturn. l. 3. c. 8. p. 282.
Hence, perhaps, came [Greek: zoein] and [Greek: zen] to live: and [Greek:
zoon], animal: and hence the title of Apollo [Greek: Zenodoter].
[148] Tertullian. Apolog. c. 24.
[149] [Greek: Dousare] (lege [Greek: Dousares]) [Greek: skopelos kai
koruphe hupselotate Arabias; eiretai d' apo tou Dousarou. Theos de houtos
para Arapsi kai Dacharenois timomenos.] Stephanus Byz.
[Greek: Dous], Dous, is the same as Deus. [Greek: Dous-Ares], Deus Sol.
[150] [Greek: Dusoron kaleomenon ouros]. Herod. l. 5. c. 17.
[151] Agathias. l. 2. p. 62.
[152] [Greek: To onoma touto Thrakon he Bendis; houto kai Thrakos theologou
meta ton pollon tes Selenes onomaton kai ten Bendin eis ten theon
anapempsantos].
[Greek: Ploutone te, kai Euphrosune, Bendis te krataia].
Ex Proclo. See Poesis Philosophica. Edit. H. Steph. p. 91.
[153] Plutarch. in Artaxerxe. p. 1012.
[154] Virgil. AEneis. l. 3. v. 80.
Majorum enim haec erat consuetudo, ut Rex esset etiam Sacerdos, et Pontifex:
unde hodieque Imperatores Pontifices dicamus. Servii Scholia ibidem.
[155] [Greek: Hoi d' Hiereis to palaion men dunastai tines esan.] Strabo.
l. 12. p. 851. It is spoken particularly of some places in Asia Minor.
[156] Pythodorus, the high priest of Zela and Comana in Armenia, was the
king of the country. [Greek: En ho Hiereus kurios ton panton.] Strabo. l.
12. p. 838.
[157] Etymologicum Magnum.
[Greek: Kunades Poseidon Atheneisin etimato.] Hesychius.
[158] Genesis. c. 14. v. 19. [Hebrew: AL `LYWN QNH SHMYM].
Sabacon of Ethiopia was Saba Con, or king of Saba.
[159] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1074.
[160] Ptolem. Geogr. lib. 5. cap. 19 p. 165. He places very truly the
Orcheni upon the Sinus Persicus: for they extended so far.
[Greek: Parakeitai tei eremoi Arabiai he Chaldaia chora.] Idem. l. 5. c.
20. p. 167.
[161] Plin. H. N. l. 6. c. 27.
[162] Ezra. c. 5. v. 6. c. 4. v. 9-17.
[163] The priests in Egypt, among other titles, were called Sonchin, sive
Solis Sacerdotes, changed to [Greek: Sonches] in the singular. Pythagoras
was instructed by a Sonchin, or priest of the Sun. It is mentioned as a
proper name by
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