[376] Strabo acknowledges the failure of his countrymen in this respect.--Πολλα μεν ουν και μη οντα λεγουσιν ὁι Αρχαιοι Συγγραφεις, συντεθραμμενοι τῳ ψευδει δια της μυθολογιας. l. 8. p. 524. [377] _All thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces upon her children_. Hosea. c. 10. v. 14. _Ar_ in this place does not signify a city; but אור, the title of the Deity: from whence was derived ἱερος of the Greeks. The seventy, according to some of their best copies, have rendered Beth Arbel οικον Ιερο-Βααλ, which is no improper version of Beth-Aur-Bel. In some copies we find it altered to the house of _Jeroboam_; but this is a mistake for Jero-Baal. Arbelus is by some represented as the first deified mortal. Cyril contra Julian. l. 1. p. 10. and l. 3. p. 110. There was an Arbela in Sicily. Stephanus, and Suidas. Also in Galilee; situated upon a vast cavern. Josephus seized and fortified it. Josephi Vita. p. 29. [378] See Strabo. l. 11. p. 774. l. 15. p. 1006. l. 1. p. 41. p. 81. See also Philo Biblius apud Euseb. P. E. l. 1. c. 10. p. 34 Iamblichus. § 7. c. 5. [379] Diodorus Siculus. l. 17. p. 538. He makes no mention of Gaugamela. [380] Strabo. l. 10. p. 724. [381] Macrobius. Saturn. l. 3. c. 8. p. 284. [382] Servius in lib. 11. Æneid. v. 558. [383] Plutarch in Numâ. p. 61. [384] Gruter. p. lvi. n. 11. vol 1. [385] Gruter. vol. 1. p. lvi. 12. also p. xl. 9. [386] Or else Beth-Arbel was another name of the same temple. [387] Syncellus. p. 55. [388] Eusebii Chron. p. 14. [389] Etymologicum magnum. Ἡρακλης. [390] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 124. [391] Geog. Nubiensis. p. 17. Michaelis Geog. Hebræorum Extera. p. 154. [392] 2 Kings. c. 17. v. 6. and c. 18. v. 11. also 1 Chron. c. 5. v. 26. [393] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1070. [394] Observations upon the Antient History of Egypt. p. 175. [395] Strabo. l. 7. p. 505. So also Herodotus and Pausanias. [396] Σελλοι, ὁι Δωδωναιοι. Steph. Byzantinus. αμφι δε Σελλοι Σοι ναιουσ' ὑποφηται. Homer. Iliad. Π. v. 234. [397] Pausanias. l. 2. p. l66. [398] It is called Chau-On, Χαυων, by Steph. Byzantinus, from Ctesias. Χαυων, χωρα της Μηδιας. Κτησιας εν πρωτῳ Περσικων. Chau-On is οικος ἡλιου, the house of the Sun, which gave name to the district. [399] Strabo. l. 4. p. 270. and p. 282. [400] 1 Maccab. c. 9. v. 62, 64. [401] Judith. c. 7. v. 3. [402] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 91. [403] There were many places and temples of Baal, denominated Caballis, Cabali, Cabala, Cabalia, Cabalion, Cabalissa, &c. which are mentioned by Pliny, Strabo, Antoninus, and others. Some of them were compounded of Caba: concerning which I shall hereafter treat. [404] Pausanias. l. 4. p. 282. Strabo mentions Caucones in Elea. l. 8. p. 531. The Caucones are also mentioned by Homer. Odyss. γ. v. 366. Caucane in Sicily was of the same purport, mentioned by Ptolemy. l. 3. c. 4.