ly the name of Olympus. [Greek:
He gar Selene par' Aiguptiois kurios Olumpias kaleitai, dia to kata mena
peripolein ton Zodiakon kuklon, on hoi palaioi auton OLYMPON ekaloun.]
Chronicon. p. 45. l. 9. The reason given is idle: but the fact is worth
attending to.

Olympus was the supposed praeceptor of Jupiter. Diodorus. l. 3. p. 206.

[753] Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 241.

[754] [Greek: Epi neos peripheretai chruses hupo Hieron ogdoekonta (ho
Theos). Houtoi de epi ton omon pherontes ton theon proagousin automatos,
hopou agoi to tou theou neuma ton poreian.] Diodorus. l. 17. p. 528.

It is observable, that this historian does not mention an omphalus: but
says, that it was a statue, [Greek: xoanon], which was carried about.

[755] Bochart. Canaan. l. 1. c. 40.

[756] [Greek: Omphe, theia kledon, ho estin onar.] Schol. on Homer. Iliad.
[Beta]. v. 41.

[757] Eusebius. Praep. Evang. l. 5. p. 194.

One title of Jupiter was [Greek: Panomphaios].

[Greek: Entha Panomphaioi Zeni rhezeskon Achaioi]. Homer. Iliad. [Theta].
v. 250.

Ara Panomphaeo vetus est sacrata Tonanti. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 11. v. 198.

[758] Pocock's Egypt. p. 108. Plate xlii.

[759] Pocock. Plate xxxix. p. 105.

[760] He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor. Numbers. c.
22. v. 5.

[761] We learn from Numbers. c. 22. v. 36. and c. 31. v. 8. that the
residence of Balaam was in Midian, on the other side of the river to the
south, beyond the borders of Moab. This seems to have been the situation of
Petra; which was either in Midian or upon the borders of it: so that
Pethor, and Petra, were probably the same place. Petra is by the English
traveller, Sandys, said to be called now Rath Alilat.

Petra by some is called a city of Palestine: [Greek: Petra polis
Palaistines]. Suidas. But it was properly in Arabia, not far from Idume, or
Edom. See Relandi Palaestina. p. 930. and Strabo. l. 16.

[762] The Ammonites were a mixed race; being both of Egyptian and Ethiopic
original: [Greek: Aiguption kai Aithiopon apoikoi]. Herod. l. 2. c. 42.

[763] Pocock's Egypt. vol. 1. plate xlii.

[764] Luxorein by Norden, called Lucorein. It was probably erected to the
Sun and Ouranus, and one of the first temples upon earth.

[765] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 4. v. 1052.

Mopsus was the son of Ampycus. Hygin. Fab. c. cxxviii. By some he is said
to have been the son of Apollo. Apollo and Ampycus were the same.

[766] Orphic. Argonaut. v. 720.

[767] Ibid