. AEneid. l. 7. v. 679.

[459] Cicero de Divinatione. l. 2.

[460] See also v. 28, 29, 31, and 32.

[461] Gruter. Inscript. lxxvi. n. 6.

[462] Ibid. lxxvi. n. 7.

BONO DEO
PUERO POSPORO.
Gruter. Inscrip. p. lxxxviii. n. 13

[463] Lucretius. l. 4. v. 1020.

[464] Propertius alludes to the same circumstance:

Nam quid Praenestis dubias, O Cynthia, _sortes_?
Quid petis AEaei moenia Telegoni? l. 2. eleg. 32. v. 3.

What in the book of Hester is styled Purim, the seventy render, c. 9. v.
29. [Greek: phrourai]. The days of Purim were styled [Greek: phrourai--Tei
dialektoi auton kalountai phrourai.] so in c. 10. The additamenta Graeca
mention--[Greek: ten prokeimenen epistolen ton phrourai], instead of
[Greek: phourai] and [Greek: Pourai]: from P'Ur and Ph'Ur, ignis.

[465] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 4. and l. 2. c. 52.

[Greek: Epeita de Chronou Pollou dielthontos eputhonto (hoi Hellenes) ek
tes Aiguptou apikomena ta ounomata ton Theon].

[466] So [Greek: daimon] from [Greek: daemon]; [Greek: Apollon] from
[Greek: he homou polesis; Dionusos] quasi [Greek: didounusos] from [Greek:
didoi] and [Greek: oinos], and [Greek: oinos] from [Greek: oiesthai].
[Greek: Kronos], quasi [Greek: chronou koros]. [Greek: Tethun, to
ethoumenon]--with many more. Plato in Cratylo.

AEgyptus [Greek: para to aigas piainein]. Eustath. in Odyss. l. 4. p. 1499.

[467] Poseidon, [Greek: poiounta eiden]. Tisiphone, [Greek: Touton phone],
Athene quasi [Greek: athanatos]. Hecate from [Greek: hekaton] centum.
Saturnus, quasi sacer, [Greek: nous]. See Heraclides Ponticus, and
Fulgentii-Mythologia.

See the Etymologies also of Macrobius. Saturnalia. l. 1. c. 17. P. 189.

[Greek: Mousai;] quasi [Greek: homou ousai]. Plutarch de Fraterno Amore. v.
2. P. 480. [Greek: Di' eunoian kai Philadelphian].

[Greek: Pasiphae, dia to pasi phainein ta manteia]. Plutarch. Agis and
Cleomenes. v. 2. p. 799.

[468] Eustathius on Dionysius: [Greek: periegesis].

Ut Josephus recte observat, Graecis scriptoribus id in more est, ut
peregrina, et barbara nomina, quantum licet, ad Graecam formam emolliant:
sic illis Ar Moabitarum est [Greek: Areopolis]; Botsra, [Greek: Bursa];
Akis, [Greek: Anchous]; Astarte, [Greek: Astroarche]; torrens Kison,
[Greek: Cheimarrhos ton Kisson]; torrens Kedron, [Greek: Cheimarrhos ton
Kedron]; et talia [Greek: hosei konis]. Bochart. Geog. Sacra. l. 2. c. 15.
p. 111.

We are much indebted to the learned father Theo