[427] Strabo says as much: Ὁιδε, ὁτι ὁι απο των σεισμων ρωχμος Καιετοι λεγονται. l. 8. p. 564. [428] Hence the words cove, alcove; and, perhaps, to cover, and to cope. [429] Strabo. l. 5. p. 356. [430] Καταδε φορμιας της Ιταλιας Αιητην τον νυν Καιητην προσαγορευομενον. l. 4. p. 259. Virgil, to give an air of truth to his narration, makes Caieta the nurse of Æneas. According to Strabo it was sometimes expressed Cai Atta; and gave name to the bay below.--Και τον μεταξυ κολπον εκεινοι Καιατταν ωνομασαν. l. 5. p. 3?6. [431] Scholia Eustathij in Dionysij περιηγησιν. v. 239. and Steph. Byzantinus. Αιγυπτος. [432] Χασμα δε γεννηθεν--εδεξατο τον ποταμον--ειτα εξεῤῥηξεν εις την επιφανειαν κατα Λαρυμναν της Λοκριδος την ανω--Καλειται δ' ὁ τοπος Αγκοη κτλ. Strabo. l. 9. p. 623. It is called Anchia by Pliny. N. H. l. 4. c. 7. As, both the opening and the stream, which formed the lake, was called Anchoe; it signified either fons speluncæ, or spelunca fontis, according as it was adapted. [433] 1 Corinthians, c. 15. v.47, 48. [434] Cluverii Germaniæ Antiq. l. 1. c. 13. p. 91. [435] Beyeri Additamenta to Selden de Diis Syris. p. 291. Achor near Jericho. Joshua, c. 15. v. 7. [436] Ptolem. lib. 5. c. 18. p. 164. [437] Plato in Cratylo. p. 410. [438] See Kircher's Prodromus Copticus. p. 180 and p. 297. [439] Ibidem, and Jameson's Specilegia. c. 9. § 4. [440] Pionius. Euseb. Hist. Ecclesiast. l. 4. p. 173. Pior Monachus Ægyptiacus. Socratis Hist. Eccles. p. 238. Piammon. Sozomen. H. E. p. 259. Piambo, or P'ambo. Socratis Eccles. H. p. 268. It was sometimes expressed Po, as in Poemon Abbas, in Evagtius. In Apophthegmat. Patrum. apud Cotelerii monumenta. tom. 1. p. 636. Baal Peor was only Pi-Or, the Sun; as Priapus was a compound of Peor-Apis, contracted. [441] Gennad. Vitæ illustrium virorum. l. 7. Pachomius, a supposed worker of many miracles. [442] Antonius Diogenes in Photius. cod. 166. [443] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. v. 1. p. 355. Paamyles is an assemblage of common titles. Am-El-Ees, with the prefix. Hence the Greeks formed Melissa, a sacred name as of Ham El-Ait, they formed Melitta, the name of a foreign Deity, more known in Ionia than in Hellas. [444] Plutarch: Quæstiones Græcæ. v. p. 296. [445] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 83. Amphilucus was a title of the Sun. [446] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 4. in like manner, ταφοι των Ιφιμεδειας και Αλωεως παιδων· Pausanias. l. 9. p. 754. [447] Proclus in Platonis Parmenidem: See Orphic Fragment of Gesner. p. 406. A twofold reason may be given for their having this character; as will be shewn hereafter. [448] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 896. Many instances of this sort are to be found in this writer. [449] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 143. [450] See Reland, Dissertatio Copt. p. 108. Jablonsky Prolegomena in Pantheon Ægyptiacum. p. 38. Also Wesselinge. Notes on Herod. l. 2. c. 143.