[451] This was certainly the meaning; for Plato, speaking of the Grecians in opposition to other nations, styled Βαρβαροι, makes use of the very expression: Πολλη μεν ἡ Ἑλλας, εφη, ω Κεβης, εν ῃ ενεισι που αγαθοι ανδρες, πολλα δε και τα των βαρβαρων γενη. In Phædone. p. 96. [452] Kircher. Prodromus Copticus. p. 300 and p. 293. [453] Kircher. Prod. p. 293. [454] Sanchoniathon apud Euseb. Præp. Evan. l. 1. c. 10. p. 37. [455] Damascius: Vita Isodori, apud Photium. Cod. ccxlii. [456] Jablonsky; Pantheon Egypt. v. 2. l. 5. c. 2. p. 70. [457] Ausonius. Epigram. 30. Kircher says, that Pi in the Coptic is a prefix, by which a noun is known to be masculine, and of the singular number: and that Pa is a pronoun possessive. Paromi is Vir meus. It may be so in the Coptic: but in antient times Pi, Pa, Phi, were only variations of the same article: and were indifferently put before all names: of which I have given many instances. See Prodromus. Copt. p. 303. [458] Virgil. Æneid. l. 7. v. 679. [459] Cicero de Divinatione. l. 2. [460] See also v. 28, 29, 31, and 32. [461] Gruter. Inscript. lxxvi. n. 6. [462] Ibid. lxxvi. n. 7. BONO DEO PUERO POSPORO. Gruter. Inscrip. p. lxxxviii. n. 13 [463] Lucretius. l. 4. v. 1020. [464] Propertius alludes to the same circumstance: Nam quid Prænestis dubias, O Cynthia, _sortes_? Quid petis Ææi mœnia Telegoni? l. 2. eleg. 32. v. 3. What in the book of Hester is styled Purim, the seventy render, c. 9. v. 29. φρουραι. The days of Purim were styled φρουραι--Τῃ διαλεκτῳ αυτων καλουνται φρουραι. so in c. 10. The additamenta Græca mention--την προκειμενην επιστολην των φρουραι, instead of φουραι and Πουραι: from P'Ur and Ph'Ur, ignis. [465] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 4. and l. 2. c. 52. Επειτα δε Χρονου Πολλου διελθοντος επυθοντο (ὁι Ἑλληνες) εκ της Αιγυπτου απικομενα τα ουνοματα των Θεων. [466] So δαιμων from δαημων; Απολλων from ἡ ὁμου πολησις· Διονυσος quasi διδουνυσος from διδοι and οινος, and οινος from οιεσθαι. Κρονος, quasi χρονου κορος. Τηθυν, το ηθουμενον--with many more. Plato in Cratylo. Ægyptus παρα το αιγας πιαινειν. Eustath. in Odyss. l. 4. p. 1499. [467] Poseidon, ποιουντα ειδην. Tisiphone, Τουτων φωνη, Athene quasi αθανατος. Hecate from ἑκατον centum. Saturnus, quasi sacer, νους. See Heraclides Ponticus, and Fulgentii-Mythologia. See the Etymologies also of Macrobius. Saturnalia. l. 1. c. 17. P. 189. Μουσαι· quasi ὁμου ουσαι. Plutarch de Fraterno Amore. v. 2. P. 480. Δι' ευνοιαν και Φιλαδελφιαν. Πασιφαη, δια το πασι φαινειν τα μαντεια. Plutarch. Agis and Cleomenes. v. 2. p. 799. [468] Eustathius on Dionysius: περιηγησις.