.

[548] Jamblichus de Mysteriis. Sect. vii. c. 5. p. 156.

In like manner in Samothracia, the ancient Orphic language was obsolete,
yet they retained it in their temple rites: [Greek: Eschekasi de palaian
hidian dialekton hoi Autochthones (en Samothrakei) hes polla en tais
thusiais mechri tou nun teretai.] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 322.

[549] Jamblichus de Myster. sect. 7. c. 5. See notes. p. 295.

[550] Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. l. 5. p. 676.

Such was Aristaeus Proconneisius: [Greek: Aner goes ei tis allos.] Strabo.
l. 13.

[551] Thus it is said in Eusebius from some antient accounts, that
Telegonus reigned in Egypt, who was the son of Orus the shepherd; and
seventh from Inachus: and that he married Io. Upon which Scaliger asks: Si
Septimus ab Inacho, quomodo Io Inachi filia nupsit ei? How could Io be
married to him when she was to him in degree of ascent, as far off as his
grandmother's great grandmother; that is six removes above him. See
Scaliger on Euseb. ad Num. cccclxxxi.

[552] [Greek: Par' ois gar asunartetos estin he ton Chronon anagraphe, para
toutois oude ta tes historias aletheuein dunaton; ti gar to aition tes en
toi graphein planes, ei me to sunaptein ta me alethe.] Tatianus. p. 269.

[553] [Greek: Nun men opse pote eis Hellenas he ton logon parelthe
didaskalia to kai graphe.] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 364.

[554] [Greek: Hoi men oun archaiotaten auton ten chresin einai thelontes,
para Phoinikon kai Kadmou semnunontai mathein. Ou men oud' ep' ekeinou tou
chronou dunaito tis an deixai sozomenen anagraphen en hierois, out' en
demosiois anathemasi.] Joseph. cont. Apion. l. 1.

[555] [Greek: Ton de tes aletheias historion Hellenes ou memnentai; proton
men dia to neosti autous ton grammaton tes empeirias metochous gegenesthai
kai auton homologousi, phaskontes ta grammata heuresthai, oi men apo
Chaldaion, hoi de par Aiguption, alloi d' an apo Phoinikon. deuteron, oti
eptaion, kai ptaiousi, peri theou me poioumenoi ten mneian, alla peri
mataion kai anophelon pragmaton.] Theoph. ad Autol. l. 3. p. 400.

Plutarch assures us, that Homer was not known to the Athenians till the
time of Hipparchus, about the 63d Olympiad, yet some writers make him
three, some four, some five hundred years before that aera. It is scarce
possible that he should have been so unknown to them if they had been
acquainted with letters.

[556] Eusebius. Chron. p. 24.

[557] Eusebius. Chron. p. 19. Syncellus. p. 148, 152.