The kings of Sicyon were taken from Castor Rhodius.

[558] [Greek: Kai chre ton nouneche sunienai kata pases akribeias, hoti
kata ten Hellenon paradosin oud' historias tis en par' autois anagraphe;
Kadmos gar--meta pollas geneas. kl.] Tatianus Assyrius. p. 274.

[559] Clemens Alexand. l. 1. p. 352. and Diogenes Laertius, from
Dicaearchus, and Heraclides.

[560] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1160.

[561] AElian mentions, that the Bull Onuphis was worshipped at a place in
Egypt, which he could not specify on account of its asperity. AElian de
Animalibus. l. 12. c. 11.

Even Strabo omits some names, because they were too rough and dissonant.
[Greek: Ou lego de ton ethnon ta onomata ta palaia dia ten adoxian, kai
hama ten atopian tes ekphoras auton.] l. 12. p. 1123.

[562] [Greek: Meta tauta planen Hellesi aitiatai (ho Philon) legon, ou gar
mataios auta pollakos diesteilametha, alla pros tas authis parekdochas ton
en tois pragmasin onomaton; haper hoi Hellenes agnoesantes, allos
exedexanto, planethentes tei amphiboliai ton onomaton]. Philo apud
Eusebium. P. E. l. 1. c. x. p. 34.

[563] Bozrah, a citadel, they changed to [Greek: bursa], a skin. Out of Ar,
the capital of Moab, they formed Areopolis, the city of the Mars. The river
Jaboc they expressed Io Bacchus. They did not know that diu in the east
signified an island: and therefore out of Diu-Socotra in the Red-Sea, they
formed the island Dioscorides: and from Diu-Ador, or Adorus, they made an
island Diodorus. The same island Socotra they sometimes denominated the
island of Socrates. The place of fountains, Ai-Ain, they attributed to
Ajax, and called it [Greek: Aiantos akroterion], in the same sea. The
antient frontier town of Egypt, Rhinocolura, they derived from [Greek: ris,
rinos,] a nose: and supposed that some people's noses were here cut off.
Pannonia they derived from the Latin pannus, cloth. So Nilus was from
[Greek: ne ilus]: Gadeira quasi [Greek: Ges deira]. Necus in Egypt and
Ethiopia signified a king: but such kings they have turned to [Greek:
nekuas]: and the city of Necho, or Royal City, to [Greek: Nikopolis] and
[Greek: Nekropolis].

Lysimachus in his Egyptian history changed the name of Jerusalem to [Greek:
Ierosula]: and supposed that the city was so called because the Israelites
in their march to Canaan used to plunder temples, and steal sacred things.
See Josephus contra Ap. l. 1. c. 34. p. 467.

[564] I do not mean to exclude the Romans, though I have no