A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)Bryant, Jacob
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A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)
Bryant, Jacob
History, Ancient; Mythology
[726] Ομφη, θεια κληδων. Hesych. It was sometimes expressed without the
aspirate, αμβη: hence the place of the oracle was styled Ambon, αμβων.
Αμβων, ἁι προσαναβασεις των ορων. Hesych.
[727] Τον Ομφιν ευεργετην ὁ Ἑρμαιος φησι δηλουν ἑρμηνευομενον. Plutarch:
Isis et Osiris. vol. 1. p. 368.
[728] Ολυμποι εισιν ἑξ--κλ. Scholia upon Apollonius Rhodius. l. 1. v. 598.
[729] Many places styled Olympus and Olympian.
In Lycia: Ολυμπος μεγαλη πολις, και ὁρος ὁμωνυμον. Strabo. l. 14. p. 982.
Ολυμπη πολις Ιλλυριας. Stephanus Byzantinus.
In Cyprus: Αμαθος πολις, και ορος μαστοειδες Ολυμπος. Strabo. l. 14. p.
1001.
Ἡδε ακρορεια καλειται Ολυμπος. Strabo. Ibidem.
Josephus mentions the temple of Olympian Zeus at Tyre. Antiq. Jud. l. 8. c.
1.
At Megara in Greece: Τεμενος Ολυμπειον. Pausanias. l. 1. p. 97.
In Elis: Ἡ Ολυμπια πρωτον Κρονιος λοφος ελεγετο. Scholia upon Lycophron. v.
42.
In Attica: Ναος Κρονου, και Ῥεας, και τεμενος την επικλησιν Ολυμπιας.
Pausan. l. 1. p. 43.
In Achaia: Διος Ολυμπιου ναος. Pausan. l. 2. p. 123.
At Delos: Ολυμπειον, τοπος εν Δηλωι. Stephanus Byzantinus. Εστι και πολις
Παμφυλιας.
Libya was called Olympia. Stephanus Byzant.
The moon called Olympias: Ἡ γαρ Σεληνη παρ' Αιγυπτιοις κυριως Ολυμπιας
καλειται. Eusebii Chron. p. 45. l. 10.
The earth itself called Olympia by Plutarch, who mentions της Γης Ολυμπιας
ἱερον in Theseus, by which is meant the temple of the Prophetic Earth.
Many other instances might be produced.
[730] Sophocles: Œdipus Tyrannus. v. 487.
Ομφαλον εριβρομου Χθονος. Pind. Pyth. Ode 6. v. 3.
Ορθοδικαν Γας ομφαλον κελαδητε. Pind. Pyth. Ode 11. antist.
[731] Euripides in Ione. v. 233.
Μεσομφαλος Εστια. v. 461.
[732] Titus Livius. l. 38. c. 47.
[733] Strabo. l. 9. p. 642.
[734] Varro de Ling. Lat. l. 6. p. 68.
Pausanias gives this account of the omphalus at Delphi. Τον δε ὑπο Δελφων
καλουμενον ομφαλον λιθου πεποιημενον λευκου, τουτο ειναι το εν μεσῳ γης
πασης αυτοι λεγουσιν ὁι Δελφοι· δεικνυται τε και ομφαλος ΤΙΣ εν τῳ ναῳ
τιταινωμενος. Pausan. l. 10. p. 835.
It is described by Tatianus, but in a different manner. Εν τῳ τεμενει του
Λητοϊδου καλειται τις ομφαλος. Ὁδε ομφαλος ταφος εστιν Διονυσου. p. 251.
Oratio contra Græcos.
[735] Plutarch περι λελοιπ. Χρηστηρ.
[736] Horus Apollo. § 21. p. 30. edit. 1729.
[737] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 141. It is spoken of Phliuns, far removed from
the centre of the Peloponnesus.
[738] This omphalus was near the Plutonian cavern. Diodorus. l. 5.
Τρις δ' επι καλλιστης νησου δραμες ομφαλον Εννης.
Callimachus: Hymn to Ceres. Cicero in Verrem, 4. c. 48.
[739] Homer. Odyss. l. α. v. 50.
[740] Stephanus Byzantinus. The natives were also styled Pyrrhidæ; and the
country Chaonia from the temple Cha-On, οικος ἡλιου.
[741] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 7.
[742] Strabo. l. 8. p. 542.
[743] By Livy called Aliphira. l. 32. c. 5.
In Messenia was a city Amphia--Πολισμα επι λοφου ὑψηλου κειμενον. Pausan.
l. 4. p. 292. The country was called Amphia.
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