Ενθα παρθενου Στυγνον Σιβυλλης εστιν οικητηριον Γρωνῳ Βερεθρῳ συγκατηρεφες στεγης. Lycophron of the Sibyl's cavern, near the promontory Zosterion. v. 1278. [665] Pausanias. l. 3. p. 5. 275. [666] Scholia upon Aristophanes: Plutus. v. 9. and Euripides in the Orestes. v. 164. [667] Lucan. l. 5. v. 82. [668] Μουσων γαρ ην Ἱερον ενταυθα περι την αναπνοην του ναματος. Plutarch de Pyth. Oracul. vol. 1. p. 402. [669] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 877. [670] Pausanias. l. 5. p. 387. Sama Con, Cœli vel Cœlestis Dominus. [671] Strabo. l. 12. p. 869. l. 13. p. 934. Demeter and Kora were worshipped at the Charonian cavern mentioned by Strabo: Χαρωνιον αντρον θαυμαστον τη φυσει. l. 14. p. 961. [672] Lucian de Deâ Syriâ. [673] Maximus Tyrius. Dissert. 8. p. 87. [674] Vaillant: Numism. Ærea Imperator. Pars prima. p. 243, 245, 285. and elsewhere. [675] Hyde. Religio Veterum Persarum. c. 23. p. 306, 7, 8. [676] See PLATE ii. iii. [677] Le Bruyn. Plate 153. See the subsequent plate with the characters of Cneuphis. [678] Kæmpfer. Amœnitates Exoticæ. p. 325. [679] Mandesloe. p. 3. He mentions the sacred fire and a serpent. [680] Sir John Chardin. Herbert also describes these caverns, and a serpent, and wings; which was the same emblem as the Cneuphis of Egypt. [681] Le Bruyn's Travels, vol. 2. p. 20. See plate 117, 118, 119, 120. Also p. 158, 159, 166, 167. [682] Thevenot. part 2d. p. 144, 146. [683] Ὁι τα του Μιθρου μυστηρια παραδιδοντες λεγουσιν εκ πετρας γεγενησθαι αυτον, και σπηλαιον καλουσι τον τοπον. Cum Tyrphone Dialog. p. 168. [684] He speaks of people--Πανταχου, ὁπου τον Μιθραν εγνωσαν, δια σπηλαιου ἱλεουμενων. Porphyry de Antro Nympharum. p. 263. [685] Justin Martyr supra. [686] Scholia upon Statius. Thebaid. l. 1. v. 720. Seu Persei de rupibus Antri Indignata sequi torquentem cornua Mithran. [687] Plutarch: Alexander. p. 703. and Arrian. l. vi. p. 273. [688] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 187. [689] Thevenot. part 2d. p. 141, 146. Some say that Thevenot was never out of Europe: consequently the travels which go under his name were the work of another person: for they have many curious circumstances, which could not be mere fiction. [690] Clemens Alexandrinus. l. 6. p. 756. [691] Hyde de Religione Vet. Persar. p. 306. [692] See Radicals. p. 77. [693] Petavius in Epiphanium. p. 42. [694] Herbert's Travels. p. 138. [695] Procopius. Persica. l. 1. c. 24. [696] Ovid. Fast. l. 6. v. 291. [697] Similis est natura Naphthæ, et ita adpellatur circa Babylonem, et in Astacenis Parthiæ, pro bituminis liquidi modo. Pliny. l. 2. c. 106. p. 123. [698] Callim. H. to Delos. v. 201. [699] Pliny. l. 2. c. 22. p. 112. He supposes the name to have been given, igne ibi primum reperto. [700] Callimachus. H. to Delos. v. 325. [701] Herodotus. l. iv. c. 69.