These are the words of Cassandra: upon which the Scholiast observes; Πρυλις, ὑιος του Καδμιλου, και Καδμου, ητοι Ἑρμου: _Prulis of Lesbos was the son of Cadmilus, or Cadmus, the same as Hermes_. And afterwards he mentions, [1104]ὁ Καδμος, ητοι Ἑρμης, _Cadmus, who is the same as Hermes_. In another place he takes notice, that the name of Hermes among the Hetrurians was [1105]Cadmilus: and it has been shewn, that Cadmilus, and Cadmus, are the same. To close the whole, we have this further evidence from Phavorinus, that Cadmus was certainly an epithet or title of Hermes. [1106]Καδμος, ου κυριον μονον, αλλα και Ἑρμου επιθετον. Harmonia, the wife of Cadmus, who has been esteemed a mere woman, seems to have been an emblem of nature, and the fostering nurse of all things. She is from hence styled [1107]παντροφος Ἁρμονια. And when Venus is represented in the allegory as making her a visit, she is said to go [1108]εις δομον Ἁρμονιας παμμητορος, _to the house of the all-productive parent_. In some of the Orphic verses she is represented not only as a Deity, but as the light of the world. [1109]Ἁρμονιη, κοσμοιο φαεσφορε, και σοφε Δαιμον. Harmonia was supposed to have been a personage, from whom all knowledge was derived. On this account the books of science were styled [1110]κυρβιας Ἁρμονιας, the books of Harmonia, as well as the books of Hermes. These were four in number, of which Nonnus gives a curious account, and says, that they contained matter of wonderful antiquity. [1111]Ειν ἑνι θεσφατα παντα, ταπερ πεπρωμενα κοσμῳ Πρωτογονοιο Φανητος επιγραφε μαντιπολος χειρ. The first of them is said to have been coeval with the world. [1112]Πρωτην κυρβιν οπωπεν ατερμονος ἡλικα κοσμου, Ειν ἑνι παντα φερουσαν, ὁσα σκηπτουχος Οφιων Ηνυσεν. From hence we find, that Hermon, or Harmonia, was a Deity, to whom the first writing is ascribed. The same is said of Hermes. [1113]Ἑρμης λεγεται Θεων εν Αιγυπτῳ γραμματα πρωτος ἑυρειν. The invention is also attributed to Taut, or Thoth. [1114]Πρωτος εστι Τααυτος, ὁ των γραμματων την ἑυρεσιν επινοησας,--ὁν Αιγυπτιοι μεν εκαλεσαν Θωυθ, Αλεξανδρεις δε Θωθ, Ἑρμην δε Ἑλληνες μετεφρασαν. Cadmus is said not only to have brought letters into Greece, but to have been the inventor of them: from whence we may fairly conclude, that under the characters of Hermon, Hermes, Taut, Thoth, and Cadmus, one person is alluded to. The Deity called by the Greeks Harmonia, was introduced among the Canaanites very early by people from Egypt: and was worshipped in Sidon, and the adjacent country, by the name of [1115]Baal Hermon.