[672] Lucian de Dea Syria.

[673] Maximus Tyrius. Dissert. 8. p. 87.

[674] Vaillant: Numism. AErea Imperator. Pars prima. p. 243, 245, 285. and
elsewhere.

[675] Hyde. Religio Veterum Persarum. c. 23. p. 306, 7, 8.

[676] See PLATE ii. iii.

[677] Le Bruyn. Plate 153.

See the subsequent plate with the characters of Cneuphis.

[678] Kaempfer. Amoenitates Exoticae. p. 325.

[679] Mandesloe. p. 3. He mentions the sacred fire and a serpent.

[680] Sir John Chardin. Herbert also describes these caverns, and a
serpent, and wings; which was the same emblem as the Cneuphis of Egypt.

[681] Le Bruyn's Travels, vol. 2. p. 20. See plate 117, 118, 119, 120. Also
p. 158, 159, 166, 167.

[682] Thevenot. part 2d. p. 144, 146.

[683] [Greek: Hoi ta tou Mithrou musteria paradidontes legousin ek petras
gegenesthai auton, kai spelaion kalousi ton topon.] Cum Tyrphone Dialog. p.
168.

[684] He speaks of people--[Greek: Pantachou, hopou ton Mithran egnosan,
dia spelaiou hileoumenon.] Porphyry de Antro Nympharum. p. 263.

[685] Justin Martyr supra.

[686] Scholia upon Statius. Thebaid. l. 1. v. 720.

Seu Persei de rupibus Antri
Indignata sequi torquentem cornua Mithran.

[687] Plutarch: Alexander. p. 703. and Arrian. l. vi. p. 273.

[688] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 187.

[689] Thevenot. part 2d. p. 141, 146.

Some say that Thevenot was never out of Europe: consequently the travels
which go under his name were the work of another person: for they have many
curious circumstances, which could not be mere fiction.

[690] Clemens Alexandrinus. l. 6. p. 756.

[691] Hyde de Religione Vet. Persar. p. 306.

[692] See Radicals. p. 77.

[693] Petavius in Epiphanium. p. 42.

[694] Herbert's Travels. p. 138.

[695] Procopius. Persica. l. 1. c. 24.

[696] Ovid. Fast. l. 6. v. 291.

[697] Similis est natura Naphthae, et ita adpellatur circa Babylonem, et in
Astacenis Parthiae, pro bituminis liquidi modo. Pliny. l. 2. c. 106. p. 123.

[698] Callim. H. to Delos. v. 201.

[699] Pliny. l. 2. c. 22. p. 112. He supposes the name to have been given,
igne ibi primum reperto.

[700] Callimachus. H. to Delos. v. 325.

[701] Herodotus. l. iv. c. 69.

[702] [Greek: Kai thuousi Persai puri, epiphorountes autoi ten puros
trophen, epilegontes, Pur, Despota, esthie.] Maximus Tyrius. Dissert. 8. p.
83.

[703] See Lycophron. v. 447. and Stephanus. [Greek: Kupros].

[Greek: Kerastidos eis chthona Kuprou.] Nonni D