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
Part of Thrace, Macaria. Apollonius Rhod. l. 1. v. 1115.
A city in Arcadia. Μακαριαι. Steph. Byzant.
Μακαρ, a king of Lesbos. Clement. Cohort. p. 27.
An island of Lycia, Macara. Steph. Byzant.
The Macares, who were the reputed sons of Deucalion, after a deluge,
settled in Chios, Rhodes, and other islands. Diodorus Sic. l. 5. p. 347.
[254] Pausanias. l. 8. p. 602. He speaks of Macaria the daughter of
Hercules. l. 1. p. 80.
[255] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 896.
[256] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 347. Μακαρ ὁ Κρινακου. Schol. in Homer. Iliad. Ω.
v. 544.
[257] Ὁι Σαννοι, ὁυς προτερον ελεγον Μακρωνας. Strabo. l. 12.
Sanni, Σαννοι, means Heliadæ, the same as Macarones. Μακρωνες, near
Colchis, ὁι νυν Σαννοι. Stephanus Byzant.
[258] The same as the Cadmeum. Μακαρων νησος, ἡ ακροπολις των εν Βοιωτιᾳ
Θηβων το παλαιον, ὡς ὁ Παρμενιδης. Suidas.
Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 347. Μακαρων νησοι, near Britain and Thule.
Scholia in Lycophron. v. 1200.
Ἁιδ' εισιν Μακαρων νησοι, τοθι περ τον αριστον
Ζηνα, Θεων βασιληα, Ῥεη τεκε τῳδ' ενι χωρῳ.
Of the Theban Acropolis, Tzetzes in Lycophron. v. 1194.
[259] Herodotus. l. 3. c. 16.
[260] Macra, a river in Italy. Plin. l. 3. c. 5.
[261] Euripides in Ione. v. 937. Ενθα προσβοῤῥους πετρας Μακρας καλουσι γης
ανακτες Ατθιδος. Ibid.
Pausanias informs us that the children of Niobe were supposed to have been
here slain in this cavern.
[262] Euripides ibid. Also, in another place, he mentions
Κεκροπος ες Αντρα, και Μακρας πετρηρεφεις.
[263] Διαβασι δε τον Κηφισσον βωμος εστιν αρχαιος Μειλιχιου Διος.
Pausanias. l. 1. p. 9.
[264] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 154.
[265] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 132.
[266] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 897.
[267] Pausanias. l. 7. p. 573.
[268] The country of the Amalekites is called the land of Ham. 1
Chronicles. c. 4. v. 40.
[269] 1 Kings. c. 11. v. 33.
[270] I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of
the Chamerims with the priests; and them that worship the host of heaven
upon the house tops, and them that worship, and that swear by the Lord, and
that swear by _Malcham_. Zephaniah. c. 1. v. 4.
[271] Judges. c. 1. v. 10. Joshua. c. 15. v. 13. Deuteronomy. c. 2. v. 21.
Joshua. c. 11. v. 22. and c. 13. v. 12.
The priests at the Elusinian mysteries were called ανακτοτελεσται. Clement.
Alex. Cohort. p. 16.
[272] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 87. It was in the island Lade before Miletus. The
author adds, when the bones were discovered. Αυτικα δε λογος ηλθεν ες τους
πολλους Γηρυονου του Χρυσαορου ειναι μεν τον νεκρον--κτλ--και χειμαῤῥον τε
ποταμον Ωκεανον εκαλουν.
See Cicero de Nat. Deor. l. 3. of Anaces, Ανακτες. Τους Διος κουρους Ανακας
ὁι Αθηναιοι προσηγορευσαν. Plutarch. Numa.
[273] Michael Psellus. p. 10.
[274] Psalm 28. v. 1. Deuteron. c. 32. v. 15. Isaiah. c. 17 v.10. Psalm 78.
v. 35. It is often styled Selah.
[275] Isaiah. c. 23. v. 8.
[276] Genesis. c. 17. v. 15.
[277] Tobit. c. 1. v. 22.
[278] Esther. c. 1. v. 16.
[279] Joshua. c. 13. v. 3. סרני. Judges. c. 16. v. 5.
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