A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)Bryant, Jacob
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A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)
Bryant, Jacob
History, Ancient; Mythology
[22] The harbour at Carthage was named Cothon. Strabo. l. 17. p. 1189.
Also, an island in that harbour. Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 168.
[23] Χουσον μεν ουδεν εβλαψεν ὁ κρονος. Αιθιοπες γαρ, ὡν ηρξεν, ετι και νυν
ὑπο ἑαυτων τε και των εν τῃ Ασιᾳ παντων, ΧΟΥΣΑΙΟΙ καλουνται. Josephus. Ant.
Jud. l. 1. c. 6. § 2.
[24] Euseb. Præp. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 39.
[25] Sanchoniathon apud eundem. Ibid.
See Michaelis Geographia Hebræor. Extera. p. 2.
[26] Ὁ πρωτος οικησας τῃν Μεστραιαν χωραν, ητοι Αιγυπτον, Μεστραϊμ,
εβασιλευσεν εν αυτῃ τῃ Μεστραιᾳ. Euseb. Chron. p. 17.
Μεστραϊμ of the LXX.
Josephus calls the country of Egypt Mestra. Την γαρ Αιγυπτον Μεστρην, και
Μεστραιους τους Αιγυπτιους ἁπαντας, ὁι ταυτην οικουντες, καλουμεν. Ant.
Jud. l. 1. c. 6. § 2.
[27] Apud Euseb. Præp. Evan. l. 1. c. 10. p. 36.
Hierapolis of Syria, was called Magog, or rather the city of Magog. It was
also called Bambyce. Cœle (Syria) habet--Bambycen, quæ alio nomine
Hierapolis vocatur, Syris vero Magog. Plin. Hist. Nat. l. 5. § 19. p. 266.
[28] Genesis. c. 10. v. 8, 9. Hence called Νεβρωδ ὁ κυνηγος, και Γιγας,
Αιθιοψ.--Chronicon Paschale. P. 28.
[29] Πρωτον γενεσθαι Βασιλεα Αλωπον εν Βαβυλωνι Χαλδαιον. Euseb. Chron. p.
5. ex Apollodoro. The same from Abydenus. Euseb. Chron. p. 6.
Εν τοις αστροις του ουρανου εταξαν (τον Νεβρωδ), και καλουσιν Ωριωνα.
Cedrenus. p. 14.
Εγεννηθη δε και αλλος εκ της φυλες του Σημ (Χαμ), Χους ονομαστι, ὁ Αιθιοψ,
ὁστις εγεννησε τον Νεβρωδ, Γιγαντα, τον την Βαβυλωνιαν κτισαντα, ὁν
λεγουσιν ὁι Περσαι αποθεωθεντα, και γενομενον εν τοις αστροις του ουρανου,
ὁντινα καλουσιν Ωριωνα. Chronicon Paschale. p. 36.
[30] Homer. Odyss. l. Λ v. 571.
[31] Chronicon. Pasch. p. 36.
[32] Strabo. l. 6. p. 421.
[33] Gratii Cyneget. v. 527.
[34] Solinus de Situ Orbis. c. 11.
[35] Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 3. c. 1.
[36] Silius Italicus. l. 3. v. 393.
[37] Seneca. Œdipus. act 2. v. 436.
[38] Sylvæ. l. 1. carm. 2. v. 226.
Dionysius of the Indian Camaritæ:
Ζωματα, και Νεβριδας επι στηθεσσι βαλοντες,
Ευοι Βακχε λεγοντες. V. 703.
At the rites of Osiris, Και γαρ νεβριδας περικαθαπτονται (ὁι Αιγυπτιοι) και
θυρσους φορουσι κτλ. Plutarch Isis et Osir. p. 364.
[39] Arnobius. l. 5. p. 185. edit. 1661. Ceres fessa, oras ut venit
Atticas--Nebridarum familiam pelliculâ cohonestavit hinnulea.
[40] Nimrod built Babylon; which is said to have been the work of Belus.
Βαβυλων'--ειρηται δ' υπο Βηλου. Etymologicum Magnum.
Arcem (Babylonis) Rex antiquissimus condidit Belus. Ammian. Marcellinus. l.
23.
Here was a temple, styled the temple of Belus.
[41] Eusebius. Præp. Evang. l. 1. c. 9. p. 32. l. 1. c. 10. p. 36. p. 40.
[42] See also the Phædrus of Plato: Ηκουσα τοινυν περι Ναυκρατιν της
Αιγυπτου κτλ.
[43] Anthologia. l. 1. 91. l. 1. 29.
[44] Eusebius. Præp. Evang. l. 1, c. 10. p. 36. from Sanchoniathon.
[45] Lucan. l. 1. v. 444.
[46] Selden de Diis Syrib: Prolegomena. c. 3.
[47] Lycophron. v. 459. Scholia ibidem.
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