ionys. l. iv.

[704] Hospes erat caesus. Ovid. Metamorph. l. x. v. 228.

[705] Ovid. Metamorph. l. x. v. 228.

[706] Strabo. l. 10. p. 684.

[707] Solinus. cap. 17. Pliny takes notice of the city Carystus.
Euboea--Urbibus clara quondam Pyrrha, Orco, Geraesto, Carysto, Oritano, &c.
aquisque callidis, quae Ellopiae vocantur, nobilis. l. 4, c. 12.

[708] [Greek: En tois Kastabalois esti to tes Perasias Artemidos hieron,
hopou phasi tas hiereias gumnois tois posi di' anthrakian badizein
apatheis.] Strabo. l. 12 p. 811.

[709] [Greek: Mithras ho helios para Persais.] Hesych.

[Greek: Mithres ho protos en Persais Theos.] Ibidem.

Mithra was the same. Elias Cretensis in Gregorij Theologi Opera.

[710] Elias Cretensis. Ibidem. In like manner Nonnus says, that there could
be no initiation--[Greek: Achris hou tas ogdoekonta kolaseis parelthoi.] In
Nazianzeni Steliteutic. 2.

[711] [Greek: Kai tote loipon emuousi auton ta teleotera, ean zesei.]
Nonnus supra.

[712] Account of Persia, by Jonas Hanway, Esq. vol. 3. c. 31, 32. p. 206.

[713] [Greek: Eikona pherontos spelaiou tou Kosmou]. Por. de Ant. Nymph. p.
254.

[714] [Greek: Meta de touton ton Zoroastren kratesantos kai par' allois di'
antron kai spelaion, eit' oun autophuon, eite cheiropoieton, tas teletas
apodidonai.] Porph. de Antro Nymph. p. 108. The purport of the history of
Mithras, and of the cave from whence he proceeded, I shall hereafter shew.
Jupiter was nursed in a cave; and Proserpine, [Greek: Kore Kosmou], nursed
in a cave: [Greek: hosautos kai he Demeter en antroi trephei ten Koren meta
Numphon; kai alla toiauta polla heuresei tis epion ta ton theologon.]
Porph. ibid. p. 254.

[715] Numbers. c. 22. v. 41. Leviticus. c. 26. v. 30.

[716] 2 Kings. c. 16. v. 3, 4.

[717] 1 Kings. c. 22. v. 43. 2 Kings. c. 12. v. 3. c. 15. v. 4-35.

[718] There were two sorts of high places. The one was a natural eminence;
a hill or mountain of the earth. The other was a factitious mound, of which
I shall hereafter treat at large.

[719] Numbers. c. 22. v. 41. and c. 23. v. 14-28.

[720] Preface of Demetrius Moschus to Orpheus de Lapidibus--[Greek:
Theiodamanti tou Priamou sunentesen Orpheus--ktl.]

[721] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1064.

[Greek: Persas epi ta hupselotata ton oreon thusias erdein.] Herodotus. l.
2. c. 131.

Some nations, instead of an image, worshipped the hill as the
Deity--[Greek: Epephemisan de kai Dii agalmata hoi protoi anthropoi
koruphas oron,