. p. 209.
Janus was Juno, and styled Junonius. Macrob. Sat. l. 1. c. 9. p. 159.
Lunam; eandem Dianam, eandem Cererem, eandem Junonem, eandem Proserpinam
dicunt. Servius in Georgic. l. 1. v. 5.
Astarte, Luna, Europa, Dea Syria, Rhea, the same. Lucian. de Syria Dea.
[Greek: Keioi Aristaion ton auton kai Dia kai Apollo nomizontes. ktl.]
Athenagoras. p. 290.
[Greek: Helios, Zeus]. Sanchoniathon. Euseb. P. E. lib. 1. c. x. p.34.
[Greek: Helios, Kronos]. Damascius apud Photium. c. 242.
[930] Auson. Epigram. 30.
See Gruter for inscriptions to Apollo Pantheon. Dionusus was also Atis, or
Attis. [Greek: Dionuson tines Attin prosagoreuesthai thelousin]. Clementis
Cohort. p. 16.
[931] Orphic. Hymn. x. p. 200. Gesner.
[Greek: Par' Aiguptioisi de Pan men archaiotatos, kai ton okto ton proton
legomenon Theon.] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 145. Priapus was Zeus; also Pan, and
Orus: among the people of Lampsacus esteemed Dionusus.
[932] Euphorion.
[933] L. 10. p. 805.
[934] Oprhic. Hymn. in Poseidon xvi. p. 208.
[935] Selden de Diis Syris. p. 77. and additamenta. He was of old styled
Arcles in Greece; and supposed to have been the son of Xuth. [Greek: Kothos
kai Arkles, hoi Chuthou paides.] Plutarch. Quaestiones Graecae. v. 1. p 296.
[936] Nonnus. l. 40. p. 1038.
[937] In Demosthenem [Greek: Kata Meidiou. Pan schema peritetheasin autoi.]
p. 647. See also Macrob. Sat. l. 1. c. 18.
[Greek: Auton ton Dia kai ton Dionuson paidas kai neous he theologia
kalei.] Proclus upon Plato's Parmenides. See Orphic Fragments. p. 406.
[938] Hesychius. The passage is differently read. Kuster exhibits it
[Greek: Aphroditos]. [Greek: Hode ta peri Amathounta gegraphos Paian, hos
andra ten theon eschematisthai en Kuproi phesin.]
[939] Servius upon Virgil. AEneid. l. 2. v. 632.
[940] Scholia upon Apollon. Rhod. l. 3. v. 52. [Greek: Ton kaloumenon
Moiron einai presbuteran.] In some places of the east, Venus was the same
as Cybele and Rhea, the Mother of the Gods: [Greek: Peri tes choras tautes
sebousi men hos epi tan ten Aphroditen, hos metera theon, poikilais kai
enchoriois onomasi prosagoreuontes.] Ptol. Tetrabibl. l. 2.
[941] Apud Calvum Acterianus. Macrob. Sat. l. 3. c. 8. Putant eandem marem
esse ac foeminam. Ibidem.
[942] Apud Augustin. de Civitate Dei. l. 4. c. 11. and l. 7. c. 9.
The author of the Orphic verses speaks of the Moon as both male and female.
[Greek: Auxomene kai leipomene, theluste kai arsen.] Hymn
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