Patæcion is mentioned by Plutarch de audiendis Poetis. p. 21. Patiramphes is for Pata-Ramphan, the priest of the God Ramphan, changed to Ramphas by the Greeks. Ram-phan is the great Phan or Phanes, a Deity well known in Egypt. [170] Also in Asampatæ; a nation upon the Mæotis. Plin. l. 6. c. 7. [171] L. 11. p. 794. He speaks of it as a proper name; but it was certainly a title and term of office. [172] Herodotus. l. 4. c. 110. [173] Aor, is אור of the Chaldeans. [174] Proclus in Timæum. l. 1. p. 31. See Iablonsky. l. 1. c. 3. p. 57. Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 356. It is remarkable that the worshippers of Wishnou, or Vistnou in India, are now called Petacares, and are distinguished by three red lines on their foreheads. The priests of Brama have the same title, Petac Arez, the priests of Arez, or the Sun. Lucæ Viecampii Hist. Mission. Evangel. in India, 1747. c. 10. §. 3. p. 57. [175] Eubebius. Præp. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 34. [176] Damascius apud Photium. c. 243. Belus primus Rex Assyriorum, quos constat Saturnum (quem eundem et Solem dicunt) Junonemque coluisse. Servius in Virg. Æneid. l. 1. [177] Theoph. ad Antolycum. l. 3. p. 399. Μη γινωσκοντες, μητε τις εστιν ὁ Κρονος, μητε τις εστιν ὁ Βηλος. Idem. [178] Psalm 92. v. 10. [179] Psalm 112. v. 9. [180] Jeremiah. c. 48. v. 25. [181] Luke. c. 1, v. 69. [182] Pausanias. l. 3. p. 239. Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo, v. 71. He mentions Minerva Κραναια, Cranæa. l. 10. p. 886. Among the Romans this title, in later times, was expressed Granus and Grannus: hence, in Gruter Inscriptions, p. 37. n. 10, 11, 12. APPOLLINI GRANNO. [183] The Dorians expressed it Ουπις. Palæphatus. p. 78. [184] Cicero de Nat. Deor. l. 3. 23. [185] Huetii Demonstratio. p. 83. [186] Orus Apollo. c. 1. p. 2. Some have, by mistake, altered this to Ουραιον. [187] Leviticus. c. 20. v. 27. Deuteronomy, c. 18. v. 11. Translated _a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer_. Tunc etiam ortæ sunt opiniones, et sententiæ; et inventi sunt ex cis augures, et magni divinatores, et sortilegi, et inquirentes Ob et Iideoni, et requirentes mortuos. Selden de Diis Syris. Synt. 1. c. 2. p. 48. from M. Maimonides in more Nebuchim. [188] Justin Martyr's second Apology. p. 6. Of serpent worship, see Eusebius. P. E. l. 1. c. 10. p. 40, 41. And Clementis Alexand. Cohort. p. 14. Arnobius. l. 5. Ælian. l. 10. c. 31. of the Asp. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 74. [189] 1 Samuel. c. 28. v. 7. בעלת אוב. [190] It is called Abdir, Abadir, and Abaddir, by Priscian. He supposes the stone Abaddir to have been that which Saturn swallowed, instead of his son by Rhea. Abdir, et Abadir, Βαιτυλος. l. 1.; and, in another part, Abadir Deus est. Dicitur et hoc nomine lapis ille, quem Saturnus dicitur devorâsse pro Jove, quem Græci Βαιτυλον vocant. l. 2. [191] Bochart. Hierozoicon. l. 1. c. 3. p. 22. [192] Macrobius. Saturnalia. l. 1. c. 10. p. l62.