In Samuel they are styled Sarnaim. 1. c. 29. v. 7. [280] Ostrum Sarranum. [281] Jeremiah. c. 39. v. 3. [282] Isaiah. c. 37. v. 4. Jeremiah. c. 39. v. 3. [283] It is sometimes expressed Saronas. Est et regio Saronas, sive δρυμος. Reland. Palæstina. p. 188. Any place sacred to the Deity Saron was liable to have this name: hence we find plains so called in the Onomasticon of Eusebius. Ὁ Σαρων--ἡ απο του ορους Θαβωρ επι την Τιβεριαδα λιμνην χωρα. [284] Plin. l. 4. c. 8. [285] Lilius Gyraldus. Syntag. 4. p. 170. from Pausanias, and Aristides in Themistoclem. [286] Σαρωνια, Αρτεμις· Αχαιοι. Hesych. She was, by the Persians, named Sar-Ait. Σαρητις, Αρτεμις· ὁι Περσαι. ibidem. [287] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 189. [288] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 181. [289] Callimachus calls the island Asterie κακον σαρον. Αστεριη, ποντοιο κακον σαρον. This, by the Scholiast, is interpreted καλυντρον· but it certainly means a Rock. Hymn. in Delon. v. 225. [290] Σαρωνιδες πετραι, η ἁι δια παλαιοτητα κεχηνυιαι δρυες. Hesych. [291] Callimachus. Hymn to Zeus. v. 22. [292] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 308. [293] See Observations and Inquiries upon Ancient History. p. 196. [294] Eusebii Præp. Evang. l. 10. c. 13. p. 500. [295] Josephus contra Apion. l. 1. c. 13. p. 445. [296] Diodorus Siculus. l. 3. p. 144. [297] Heliodori Æthiopica. l. 4. p. 174. [298] Achor, θεος απομυιος. Clement. Alexandr. Cohortatio. p. 33. [299] Lucan. l. 8. v. 475. [300] Και γαρ τον Οσιριν Ἑλλανικος Υσιριν ειρηκεν ακηκοεναι απο των Ἱερεων λεγομενον. Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. vol. 1. p. 364. [301] Eusebius. Præp. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 39. [302] Annum quoque vetustissimi Græcorum λυκαβαντα appellant τον απο του ΛYΚΟΥ; id est Sole. &c. Macrob. Saturn. l. 1. c. 17. p. 194. [303] Lycaon was the same as Apollo; and worshipped in Lycia: his priests were styled Lycaones: he was supposed to have been turned into a wolf. Ovid. Metam. l. 1. v. 232. Apollo's mother, Latona, was also changed to the same animal. Ἡ Λητω εις Δηλον ηλθε μεταβαλλουσα εις λυκον. Scholia in Dionys. v. 525. People are said to have been led to Parnassus by the howling of wolves; Λυκων ωρυγαις. Pausanias. l. 10. p. 811. The Hirpi were worshippers of fire, and were conducted to their settlement in Campania by a wolf. Strabo. l. 5. p. 383. In the account given of Danaus, and of the temple founded by him at Argos, is a story of a wolf and a bull. Pausan. l. 2. p. 153. The temple was styled Απολλωνος ἱερον Λυκιου. [304] Pausanias above: also, Apollo Λυκαιος, and Λυκειος. Pausan. l. 1. p. 44. l. 2. p. 152, 153. [305] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 811. [306] Pausanias. l. 7. p. 530. [307] Pausanias. l. 8. p. 678. [308] Ὁι Δελφοι το πρωτον Λυκωρεις εκαλουντο. Scholia in Apollon. Rhod. l. 4. v. 1489. [309] Stephanus Byzant. and Strabo. l. 9. p. 640. said to have been named from wolves. Pausanias. l. 10. p. 811. [310] Λυκωρεια, πολις Δελφιδος, εν ᾑ τιμᾳται ὁ Απολλων. Etymolog. Magnum.