[837] Εν τῃ χωρᾳ των Απολλωνιατων καλειται τι Νυμφαιον· πετρα δε εστι πυρ αναδιδουσα· ὑπ' αυτῃ δε κρηναι ῥεουσι χλιαρου Ασφαλτου. Strabo. l. 7. p. 487. [838] Strabo. Ibidem. l. 7. p. 487. He supposes that it was called Ampelitis from αμπελος, the vine: because its waters were good to kill vermin, Ακος της φθειριωσης αμπελου. A far fetched etymology. Neither Strabo, nor Posidonius, whom he quotes, considers that the term is of Syriac original. [839] Philostrati vita Apollonii. l. 8. c. 4. p. 116. [840] Dionis Historia Romana. Johannis Resin: Antiq. l. 3. c. 11. [841] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 718. [842] Evagrius. l. 3. c. 12. [843] Marcellinus. l. 15. c. 7. p. 68. [844] Celsus apud Originem. l. 7. p. 333. See also Plutarch. de Oraculorum defectu. [845] Callimachus. Hymn to Diana. v. 226. [846] Callimachus. Ibid. v. 33. Πολλας δε ξυνη πολεας. [847] Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo. v. 56. [848] Cicero de Divinatio. l. 1. [849] Lucian. Astrolog. v. 1. p. 993. [850] See in the former treatise, inscribed Ομφη. [851] Are not all the names which relate to the different stages of manhood, as well as to family cognation, taken from the titles of priests, which were originally used in temples; such as Pater, Vir, Virgo, Puer, Mater, Matrona, Patronus, Frater, Soror, Αδελφος, Κουρος? [852] Verses from an antient Choriambic poem, which are quoted by Terentianus Maurus de Metris. [853] Lucilli Fragmenta. [854] Ode of Ausonius to Attius Patera Rhetor in Professorum Burdigalensium commemoratione. Ode 10. [855] Ausonius. Ode 4. [856] He is called Balen by Æschylus. Persæ. p. 156. Βαλην, αρχαιος Βαλην. [857] Βελιν δε καλουσι τουτον· σεβουσι δε ὑπερφυως, Απολλωνα ειναι εθελοντες. Herodian. l. 8. of the Aquileians. Inscriptio vetus Aquileiæ reperta. APOLLINI. BELENO. C. AQUILEIENS. FELIX. [858] Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautic. l. 2. v. 703. [859] Ibidem. l. 1. v. 1135. [860] Juvenal. Sat. 14. v. 265. [861] Manilius. l. 5. v. 434. [862] Phavorinus. Ἡ Ολυμπια πρωτον Κρονιος λοφος ελεγετο. Scholia in Lycophron. v. 42. Σωτηρ ὑψινεφες Ζευ, Κρονιον τε ναιων λοφον. Pindar. Olymp. Ode 5. p. 43. [863] Pindar. Olympic Ode 6. p. 52. Apollo was the same as Iamus; whose priests were the Iämidæ, the most antient order in Greece. [864] It is a word of Amonian original, analogous to Eliza-bet, Bet-Armus, Bet-Tumus in India, Phainobeth in Egypt. [865] Lycophron. v. 159. here they sacrificed Ζηνι Ομβριῳ. [866] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 6. p. 51. [867] Τας μεν δη πετρας σεβουσι τε μαλιστα, και τῳ Ετεοκλει φασιν αυτας πεσειν εκ του ουρανου. Pausanias. l. 9. p. 786. [868] Euripides in Ione. v. 935. See Radicals, p. 85. Macar. [869] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 358. [870] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 825. [871] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 1. p. 8. [872] Scholia in Pindar. Olymp. Ode 1. p. 8. [873] Diogenes Laertius: Vita Anaxagoræ. [874] Pliny. l. 2. c. 58. p. 102. [875] Ηλιβατον πετραν they construed λιθον αφ' ἡλιου βαινομενον. [876] Pindar. Olympic. Ode 1. p. 8.