Ut Josephus recte observat, Græcis scriptoribus id in more est, ut peregrina, et barbara nomina, quantum licet, ad Græcam formam emolliant: sic illis Ar Moabitarum est Αρεοπολις; Botsra, Βυρσα; Akis, Αγχους; Astarte, Αστροαρχη; torrens Kison, Χειμαῤῥος των Κισσων; torrens Kedron, Χειμαῤῥος των Κεδρων; et talia ὡσει κονις. Bochart. Geog. Sacra. l. 2. c. 15. p. 111. We are much indebted to the learned father Theophilus of Antioch: he had great knowledge; yet could not help giving way to this epidemical weakness. He mentions Noah as the same as Deucalion, which name was given him from calling people to righteousness: he used to say, δευτε καλει ὑμας ὁ θεος; and from hence, it seems, he was called Deucalion. Ad Antol. l. 3. [469] Plato in Cratylo. p. 409. [470] Suidas, Stephanus, Etymolog. Eustathius, &c. So Coptus in Egypt, from κοπτειν. [471] See Callimachus. vol. 2. Spanheim's not. in Hymn. in Del. v. 87. p. 438. [472] Cumberland's Origines. p. 165. so he derives Goshen in the land of Egypt from a shower of rain. See Sanchon. p. 364. [473] Hyde de Religione veterum Persarum. c. 2. p. 75. [474] Genesis. c. 22. v. 20. [475] Universal History, vol. 1. b. 1. p. 286. notes. [476] Bochart. Geograph. Sacra. l. 1. c. 18. p. 443. Sandford de descensu Christi. l. 1. §. 21. See Gale's Court of the Gentiles, vol. 1. b. 2. c. 6. p. 68. [477] Huetius. Demonst. p. 138. [478] Hebræa, Chaldæa, &c. nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum--Antverpiæ, 1565, Plantin. [479] Pliny. l. 3. c. 8. Ætna, quæ Cyclopas olim tulit. Mela. l. 2. c. 7. [480] Bochart. Geog. Sacra. l. 1. c. 30. p. 560. [481] Ibidem. p. 565, 566. [482] Ibidem. p. 565, 566. [483] Bochart. Geog. Sacra. l. 1. p. 406. [484] Ibidem. [485] P. 412. [486] P. 415. [487] P. 388. [488] P. 381. [489] P. 435. [490] P. 414. [491] Bochart. Geog. Sacra. l. 1. p. 381. [492] P. 385. [493] P. 408. or from Mazor, angustiæ. [494] Ibidem. p. 258. [495] Simonis Onomasticon. [496] Michaelis Spicilegium Geographiæ Hebræor. Exteræ. p. 158. [497] Gale's Court of the Gentiles. vol. 1. b. 2. p. 66. [498] Genesis. c. 4. v. 22. [499] Philo apud Eusebium. Præp. Evan. l. 1. c. 10. [500] Bochart. Geograph. Sacra. l. 2. c. 2. p. 706. [501] Marcellinus. l. 22. c. 15. He was also called Eloüs. Ελωος, Ἡφαιστος παρα Δωριευσιν. Hesych. The Latine title of Mulciber was a compound of Melech Aber, Rex, Parens lucis. [502] Τιμᾳται δε παρα Λαμψακηνοις ὁ Πριαπος, ὁ αυτος ων τῳ Διονυσῳ. Athenæus. l. 1. p. 30. [503] Το αγαλμα Πριηπου, του και Ωρου παρ' Αιγυπτιοις. Suidas. [504] Numbers. c. 25. v. 3. Deuteronomy. c. 4. v. 3. Joshua. c. 22. v. 17. Kircher derives Priapus from פעור פה, Pehorpeh, os nuditatis. [505] Phurnutus de naturâ Deorum. c. 17. p. 205. [506] Orphic Hymn 5. to Protogonus, the same as Phanes, and Priapus. See verse 10. [507] Phurnutus. c. 17. p. 204. [508] Παρ' Αιγυπτιοισι δε Παν μεν αρχαιοτατος, και των οκτω των πρωτων λεγομενων Θεων. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 145.