It is also compounded with Cham, as in Orchamus, a common Babylonish appellation. Rexit Achæmenias urbes pater Orchamus; isque Septimus a prisci numeratur origine Beli. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 4. v. 212. [48] Eusebii Præp. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 36. [49] Gruter. v. 1. 37. n. 4, 5, 6. [50] Damascius apud Photium. c. 242. [51] Αλωρος, Alorus, the first king who reigned. Syncellus. p. 18. Ἁλια, Halia, was a festival at Rhodes in honour of the Sun, to whom that Island was sacred. Ῥοδιοι τα Ἁλια τιμωσιν. Athenæus. l. 13. p. 561. The first inhabitants were styled Heliadæ. Diodorus Sic. l. 5. p. 327. And they called the chief temple of the Deity Ἁλιον, Halion. Eustath. ad Hom. Odyss. Ζ. They came after a deluge, led by Ochimus, Macar, and others. [52] Gruter. Inscript. xl. 9. and lvi. 11. [53] Macrobii Saturn. l. 3. c. 8. [54] Pomponius Laetus. Camilla was in like manner attendant on the Gods. Cælitum Camilla expectata advenis. Ennius in Medo, ex Varrone de Ling. Lat. p. 71. Edit. Dordrechti. 1619. [55] Juba apud Plutarchum in Numa. vol. 1. p. 64. [56] Scholia in Apollon. Rhodium. l. 1. v. 917. So Camœna was rendered Casmœna. [57] De Amore Fraterno. p. 483. [58] Isaiah. c. 14. v. 12. [59] Genesis. c. 41. v. 45. and Exodus. c. 1. v. 11. [60] Theophilus ad Autolycum. l. 3. p. 392. Iablonsky. l. 2. c. 1. p. 138. [61] Canticles. c. 8. v. 11. Mention is made of Amon, Jeremiah. c. 46. v. 25. Nahum. c. 3. v. 8. It was sometimes compounded; and the Deity worshipped under the titles of Or-On: and there were temples of this denomination in Canaan. Solomon fortified Beth-Oron the upper, and Beth-Oron the nether. 2 Chron. c. 8. v. 5. As Ham was styled Hamon, so was his son Chus, or Cuth, named Cuthon and Cothon; as we may judge from places, which, were denominated, undoubtedly, from him. At Adrumetum was an island at the entrance of the harbour so called: Hirtius. Afric. p. 798. Another at Carthage, probably so named from a tower or temple. Ὑποκεινται δε τῃ ακροπολει ὁι τε λιμενες, και ὁ ΚΩΘΩΝ.--Strabo. l. 17. p. 1189. [62] Voss. de Idol. vol. 1. l. 2. c. 17. p. 391. [63] Apocalyps. c. 9. v. 11. [64] The Sun's disk, styled Αιθοψ: Ἱππευων ἑλικηδον ὁλον πολον ΑΙΘΟΠΙ ΔΙΣΚῼ. Nonnus. l. 40. v. 371. Αιθιοπαιδα Διονυσον. Ανακρεων. αλλοι τον οινον. αλλοι την Αρτεμιν. Hesychius. Altered to Αιθοπα παιδα by Albertus. [65] The Egyptian Theology abounded with personages formed from these emanations, who, according to Psellus, were called Eons, Ζωνες, Αζωνες. See Iamblichus, and Psellus, and Damascius. [66] Stephanus Byzant. [67] Scholia on Dionysius. v. 239. What it alluded to may be seen from other authors. [68] Homer. Iliad. Ο. v. 690. Ὁ ενθερμος, και πυρωδης. Hesychius. [69] Ηθ καρδια. Etymolog. Magnum ex Orione, in Athribis. They express it after the manner of the Ionians, who always deviated from the original term. The Dorians would have called it, with more propriety, Ath. [70] Horus Apollo. l. 1. c. 22. p. 38.