nd: and,
as the two terms of which it is made up are precisely the same, there
should be a reciprocal resemblance in the translation. If Ad be a chief, or
king; Adad should be superlatively so, and signify a king of kings. I
should therefore suspect, that, in the original of Sanchoniathon, not
[Greek: basileus Theon], but [Greek: basileus basileon] was the true
reading. In short, Ad, and Ada, signified _first_, [Greek: protos]; and, in
a more lax sense, a prince or ruler: Adad, therefore, which is a
reiteration of this title, means [Greek: protos ton proton], or [Greek:
proteuonton]; and answers to the most High, or most Eminent.

Ham was often styled Ad-Ham, or Adam contracted; which has been the cause
of much mistake. There were many places [95]named Adam, Adama, Adamah,
Adamas, Adamana; which had no reference to the protoplast, but were, by the
Amonians, denominated from the head of their family.

EES and IS.

Ees, rendered As and Is, like [Hebrew: ASH] of the Hebrews, related to
light and fire; and was one of the titles of the Sun. It is sometimes
compounded Ad-Ees, and Ad-Is; whence came the Hades of the Greeks, and Atis
and Attis of the Asiatics; which were names of the same Deity, the Sun.
Many places were hence denominated: particularly a city in Africa,
mentioned by [96]Polybius. There was a river [97]Adesa, which passed by the
city Choma in Asia minor. It was, moreover, the name of one of the chief
and most antient cities in Syria, said to have been built by Nimrod. It
was, undoubtedly, the work of some of his brotherhood, the sons of Chus,
who introduced there the rites of fire, and the worship of the Sun; whence
it was styled Adesa, rendered by the Greeks Edessa. One of the names of
fire, among those in the East, who worship it, is [98]Atesh at this day.
The term _As_, like Adad, before mentioned, is sometimes compounded with
itself, and rendered Asas, and Azaz; by the Greeks expressed [Greek:
Azazos] and [99][Greek: Azizos]. In the very place spoken of above, the
Deity was worshipped under the name of Azizus. The Emperor Julian acquaints
us, in his hymn to the [100]Sun, that the people of Edessa possessed a
region, which, from time immemorial, had been sacred to that luminary: that
there were two subordinate Deities, Monimus and Azizus, who were esteemed
coadjutors, and assessors to the chief God. He supposes them to have been
the same as Mars and Mercury: but herein this zealous emperor failed; and
did n