.

[506] Orphic Hymn 5. to Protogonus, the same as Phanes, and Priapus. See
verse 10.

[507] Phurnutus. c. 17. p. 204.

[508] [Greek: Par' Aiguptioisi de Pan men archaiotatos, kai ton okto ton
proton legomenon Theon]. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 145.

Albae Juliae Inscriptio.
PRIEPO
PANTHEO.
Gruter. v. 1. p. XCV. n. 1.

[509] Agathias. l. 4. p. 133.

[510] See Theophilus ad Autolycum. l. 2. p. 357.

[511] See Philo Biblius apud Euseb. P. E. l. 1. c. 10. p. 32. He mentions
applying to a great number of authors, in Phenicia.

[512]

[Greek: Pollen exereunesamenos hulen, ouchi ten par' Hellesi.]
Philo apud Euseb. P. Evang. l. 1. c. ix. p. 32.

[513] Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. l. 1. p. 356.

[514] Eusebij Praep. Evang. l. 10. c. 4. p. 471.

[Greek: Tou ophelese Puthagoran ta Aduta, kai Herakleous stelai.]
Theophilus ad Autol. l. 3. p. 381.

[515] Plato in Timaeo. Clemens. Strom. l. 1. p. 426.

[Greek: O Solon, Solon, Hellenes aei paides--ktl].

[516] Theophilus ad Autolycum. l. 3. p. 390.

[517] See Eusebius. Praep. Evan. l. 10. c. 4. p. 469. and c. 5. p. 473. also
Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 361. Diodorus Siculus. l. 1. p. 62, 63.
and p. 86, 87.

[518] [Greek: Katholou de phasi tous Hellenas exidiazesthai tous
epiphanestatous Aiguption Heroas te, kai Theous.] l. 1. p. 20.

See here a long account of the mythology of Egypt being transported to
Greece; and there adopted by the Helladians as their own, and strangely
sophisticated.

[519] [Greek: Hekataios men oun ho Milesios peri tes Peloponnesou phesin,
hoti pro ton Hellenon oikesan auten Barbaroi; schedon de ti kai he sumpasa
Hellas katoikia Barbaron huperxe to palaion.] Strabo. l. 7. p. 321.

[520] [Greek: Ode metaxu chronos paraleleiptai, en hoi meden exaireton
Hellesin historetai.] Theopompus in Tricareno.

[521] How uncertain they were in their notions may be seen from what
follows: Alii Cadmum, alii Danaum, quidam Cecropem Atheniensem, vel Linum
Thebanum, et temporibus Trojanis Palamedem Argivum, memorant sedecim
literarum formas, mox alios, et praecipue Simonidem caeteras invenisse.
Lilius Gyraldus de Poetis. Dialog. 1. p. 13. Edit. Lugd. Bat. 1696.

[Greek: Tote ho Palamedes heure ta is grammata tou alphabetou, a, b, g, d,
e, i, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u; prosetheke de Kadmos ho Milesios hetera
grammata tria, th, ph, ch--pros tauta Simonides ho Keios prosetheke duo