aeo est [Hebrew: AWR], Ur; quod lucem, et ignem,
etiam et Solem denotat. It is often compounded with the term above, and
rendered Abor, Aborus, Aborras: and it is otherwise diversified. This title
was often given to Chus by his descendants; whom they styled Chusorus. From
Aur, taken as an element, came Uro, Ardeo; as a Deity, oro, hora, [Greek:
hora, Hieron, Hiereus]. Zeus was styled Cham-Ur, rendered [Greek: Komuros]
by the Greeks; and under this title was worshipped at Halicarnassus. He is
so called by Lycophron. [47][Greek: Emos kataithon thusthla Komuroi Leon.]
Upon which the Scholiast observes; [Greek: (Komuros) ho Zeus en
Halikarnasoi timaitai.]

EL.

El, Al, [Greek: El], sometimes expressed Eli, was the name of the true God;
but by the Zabians was transferred to the Sun: whence the Greeks borrowed
their [Greek: Helios], and [Greek: Eelios]. El, and Elion, were titles, by
which the people of Canaan distinguished their chief Deity. [48][Greek:
Ginetai tis Elioun, kaloumenos hupsistos.] This they sometimes still
farther compounded, and made Abelion: hence inscriptions are to be found
[49]DEO ABELLIONI. El according to Damascius was a title given to Cronus.
[50][Greek: Phoinikes kai Suroi ton Kronon El, kai Bel, kai Bolathen
eponomazousi.] _The Phenicians and Syrians name Cronus Eel, and Beel, and
Bolathes._ The Canaanitish term Elion is a compound of Eli On, both titles
of the Sun: hence the former is often joined with Aur, and Orus.
[51]Elorus, and Alorus, were names both of persons and places. It is
sometimes combined with Cham: whence we have Camillus, and Camulus: under
which name the Deity of the Gentile world was in many places worshipped.
Camulus and Camillus were in a manner antiquated among the Romans; but
their worship was kept up in other countries. We find in Gruter an
inscription [52]DEO CAMULO: and another, CAMULO. SANCTO. FORTISSIMO. They
were both the same Deity, a little diversified; who was worshipped by the
Hetrurians, and esteemed the same as Hermes. [53]Tusci Camillum appellant
Mercurium. And not only the Deity, but the minister and attendant had the
same name: for the priests of old were almost universally denominated from
the God whom they served, or from his temple. The name appears to have been
once very general. [54]Rerum omnium sacrarum administri Camilli dicebantur.
But Plutarch seems to confine the term to one particular office and person.
[55][Greek: Ton huperetounta toi Hieroi tou Dios