t mentioned
them; as the chief of the knowledge which they afford is the product of
Greece. However, it must be confessed, that we are under great obligations
to Pliny, Marcellinus, Arnobius, Tertullian, Lactantius, Jerome, Macrobius;
and many others. They contain many necessary truths, wherever they may have
obtained them.

[565] Ennii Annales. l. 2.

[566] Ennii Annales. l. 1.

[567] Apud Ennii fragmenta.

[568] Genesis. c. 10. v. 5.

[569] Strabo. l. 5. p. 346.

[570] Virgil. AEn. l. xi. v. 785.

[571] Servius upon the foregoing passage.

[572] Cluver. Italia. l. 2. p. 719.

[573] Livy. l. 1. c. 49. Pompeius Festus.

[574] Not far from hence was a district called _Ager_ Solonus. Sol-On is a
compound of the two most common names given to the Sun, to whom the place
and waters were sacred.

[575] Dionysius Halicarnassensis. l. 3.

[576] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 138.

[Greek: Thuousi de kai hudati kai anemoisin (hoi Persai)]. Herodotus. l. 1.
c. 131.

Ridetis temporibus priscis Persas fluvium coluisse. Arnobius adversus
Gentes. l. 6. p. 196.

[577] [Greek: Alloi potamous kai krenas, kai panton malista hoi Aiguptioi
protetimekasi, kai Theous anagoreuousi.] Athanasius adversus Gentes. p. 2.

[Greek: Aiguptioi hudati Thuousi; kaitoi men hapasi kainon tois Aiguptiois
to hudor.] Lucian. Jupiter Tragoed. v. 2. p. 223. Edit. Salmurii.

[578] Julius Firmicus. p. 1.

[579] Gruter. Inscript. vol. 1. p. xciv.

[580] Senecae Epist. 41.

[581] Herodotus. l. 4. c. 181. The true name was probably Curene, or
Curane.

[582] Vitruvij Architect. l. 8. p. 163.

[583] Pliny. l. 4. c. 4. p. 192. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 2.

[584] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 117. [Greek: Esti ge de kai Apollonos agalma pros
tei Peirenei, kai peribolos estin].

Pirene and Virene are the same name.

[585] Pur, Pir, Phur, Vir: all signify fire.

[586] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 312.

[587] Diodorus Siculus. l. xi. p. 17.

[588] Strabo. l. 6. p. 412.

[589] Stephanus says that it was near Mount Casius; but Herodotus expressly
tells us, that it was at the distance of three days journey from it.

[590] [Greek: Apo tautes ta emporia ta epi thalasses mechri Ienisou polios
esti tou Arabikou.] Herodotus. l. 3. c. 5.

[591] [Greek: Tode metaxu Ienisou polios, kai Kasiou te oureos, kai tes
Serbonidos limnes, eon ouk oligon chorion, all' hoson epi treis hemeras
hodon, anudron esti deinos.] Herodotus. ibidem.

[592] Go-zan is the place, or temple,