[71] Clemens Alexandrius from Ptolemy Mendesius. Strom. l. 1. p. 378. It was called also Abur, or Abaris, as well as Athur. In after times it was rebuilt; and by Herodotus it is styled Cercasora. By Athuria is to be understood both the city and the district; which was part of the great Nome of Heliopolis. [72] Orphic. Argonaut. v. 1323. [73] Athenagoræ Legatio. p. 293. Proserpine (Κορα) was also called Athela, ibid. [74] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 3. v. 52. [75] Homer. Iliad. Κ. v. 37. [76] Homer. Iliad. Ψ. v. 94. [77] Homer. Odyss. Ξ. v. 147. Ath-El among many nations a title of great honour. [78] Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 31. [79] Valerius Flaccus. l. 2. v. 78. The chief city was Hephæstia. [80] Universa vero gens (Æthiopum) Ætheria appellata est. Plin. l. 6. c. 30. [81] Plin. l. 5. c. 31. [82] Genesis. c. 10. v. 18. c. 11. v. 2. [83] 1 Kings. c. 16. v. 31. [84] 2 Kings. c. 11. v. 1. [85] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 5. v. 162. So in Virgil. Comites Sarpedonis ambo, Et clarus Ethemon Lyciâ comitantur ab altâ. Or, Clarus et Ethemon. Æneis. l. 10. v. 126. [86] 1 Kings. c. 11. v. 14. Adad, the fourth king of Edom. Gen. c. 36. v. 35. [87] 1 Kings. c. 20. v. 1. [88] Nicolaus Damasc. apud Josephum Antiq. l. 7. c. 5. [89] 2 Samuel. c. 8. v. 3. [90] 1 Chron. c. 18. v. 10. [91] Zechariah. c. 12. v. 11. There was a town of this name in Israel. Some suppose that the Prophet alluded to the death of Josiah, who was slain at Megiddo. [92] Plutarch. Apothegmata. p. 180. One of the wives of Esau was of Canaan, and named Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. Gen. c. 36. v. 2. [93] Αδα, ἡδονη· και ὑπο Βαβυλωνιων ἡ Ηρα. Hesychius. [94] Macrobii Saturnalia. l. 1. c. 23. [95] Adamantis fluv. Gangeticus. Adam was sometimes found reversed, as in Amad, a Canaanitish town in the tribe of Ashur. Joshua. c. 19. v. 26. There was a town Hamad, as well as Hamon, in Galilee: also, Amida, in Mesopotamia. [96] Polybius. l. 1. p. 31. Atis, in Phrygia, and Lydia, was represented with a crown of rays, and a tiara spangled with stars, την καταστικτον τοις αστροις τιαραν. Julian. Orat. 5. p. 179. [97] Podalia, Choma, præfluente Adesa. Plin. l. 5. c. 17. It was compounded, also, Az-On. Hence Αζωνες in Sicily, near Selinus. Diodori Excerpta. l. 22. [98] Herbert's Travels. p. 316. He renders the word Attash. Hyde of the various names of fire among the Persians; Va, Adur, Azur, Adish, Atesh, Hyr. c. 29 p. 358. Atesh Perest is a Priest of fire. Ibid. c. 29. p. 366. [99] Aziz, lightning; any thing superlatively bright, analogous to Adad and Rabrab. Hazazon Tamor, mentioned 2 Chron. c. 20. v. 2. [100] Orat. 4. p. 150. [101] Azaz, and Asisus, are the same as Asis and Isis made feminine in Egypt; who was supposed to be the sister of Osiris the Sun. [102] Την ΜΟΝΑΔΑ τους ανδρας ονομαζειν Απολλωνα. Plutarch. Isis & Osiris. p. 354. [103] Hence came asso, assare, of the Romans.