[564] I do not mean to exclude the Romans, though I have not mentioned them; as the chief of the knowledge which they afford is the product of Greece. However, it must be confessed, that we are under great obligations to Pliny, Marcellinus, Arnobius, Tertullian, Lactantius, Jerome, Macrobius; and many others. They contain many necessary truths, wherever they may have obtained them. [565] Ennii Annales. l. 2. [566] Ennii Annales. l. 1. [567] Apud Ennii fragmenta. [568] Genesis. c. 10. v. 5. [569] Strabo. l. 5. p. 346. [570] Virgil. Æn. l. xi. v. 785. [571] Servius upon the foregoing passage. [572] Cluver. Italia. l. 2. p. 719. [573] Livy. l. 1. c. 49. Pompeius Festus. [574] Not far from hence was a district called _Ager_ Solonus. Sol-On is a compound of the two most common names given to the Sun, to whom the place and waters were sacred. [575] Dionysius Halicarnassensis. l. 3. [576] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 138. Θυουσι δε και ὑδατι και ανεμοισιν (ὁι Περσαι). Herodotus. l. 1. c. 131. Ridetis temporibus priscis Persas fluvium coluisse. Arnobius adversus Gentes. l. 6. p. 196. [577] Αλλοι ποταμους και κρηνας, και παντων μαλιστα ὁι Αιγυπτιοι προτετιμηκασι, και Θεους αναγορευουσι. Athanasius adversus Gentes. p. 2. Αιγυπτιοι ὑδατι Θυουσι· καιτοι μεν ἁπασι καινον τοις Αιγυπτιοις το ὑδωρ. Lucian. Jupiter Tragœd. v. 2. p. 223. Edit. Salmurii. [578] Julius Firmicus. p. 1. [579] Gruter. Inscript. vol. 1. p. xciv. [580] Senecæ Epist. 41. [581] Herodotus. l. 4. c. 181. The true name was probably Curene, or Curane. [582] Vitruvij Architect. l. 8. p. 163. [583] Pliny. l. 4. c. 4. p. 192. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 2. [584] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 117. Εστι γε δη και Απολλωνος αγαλμα προς τῃ Πειρηνῃ, και περιβολος εστιν. Pirene and Virene are the same name. [585] Pur, Pir, Phur, Vir: all signify fire. [586] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 312. [587] Diodorus Siculus. l. xi. p. 17. [588] Strabo. l. 6. p. 412. [589] Stephanus says that it was near Mount Casius; but Herodotus expressly tells us, that it was at the distance of three days journey from it. [590] Απο ταυτης τα εμπορια τα επι θαλασσης μεχρι Ιηνισου πολιος εστι του Αραβικου. Herodotus. l. 3. c. 5. [591] Τοδε μεταξυ Ιηνισου πολιος, και Κασιου τε ουρεος, και της Σερβωνιδος λιμνης, εον ουκ ολιγον χωριον, αλλ' ὁσον επι τρεις ἡμερας ὁδον, ανυδρον εστι δεινος. Herodotus. ibidem.