See Observations on Antient History. p. 166. Solebant autem Ægyptii sibi suisque Deorum patriorum nomina plerumque imponere.--Moremque hunc gens illa servare perrexit, postquam salutari luce Evangelicâ diu fruita esset. Jablonsky. v. 1. l. 1. c. 5. p. 105. [47] It is possibly alluded to in Psalm 80. v. 16. and in Jeremiah. c. 6. v. 20. [48] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 365. Χενοσιρις. [49] The purport of the term Cahen, or Cohen, was not totally unknown in Greece. They changed it to κοης, and κοιης; but still supposed it to signify a priest. Κοιης, ἱερευς Καβειρων, ὁ καθαιρωμενος φονεα. Hesychius. Κοιᾳται ἱερᾳται. Ibid. It was also used for a title of the Deity. Κοιας, ὁ στρογγυλος λιθος; scilicet Βαιτυλος. Moscopulus. p. 5. The Bætulus was the most antient representation of the Deity. See Apollon. Rhod. Schol. ad. l. 1. v. 919. [50] Ου, καθαπερ τα λοιπα ζωα εν ἡμερᾳ μιᾳ τελευτᾳ, ὁυτω και τουτους: αλλα μερος αυτων καθ' ἑκαστην ἡμεραν νεκρουμενον ὑπο των Ἱερεων θαπτεσθαι. κτλ. Ἑως δ' αν ἁι ἑβδομηκοντα και δυο πληρωθῳσιν ἡμερας, τοτε ὁλος αποθνησκει. Horapollo. l. 1. c. 14. p. 2. [51] Εις ἱερον επειδαν πρωτα κομισθη Κυνοκεφαλος, δελτον αυτῳ παρατιθησιν ὁ Ἱερευς, και σχοινιον, και μελαν, πειραζων, ει εκ της επισταμενης εστι συγγενειας γραμματα, και ει γραφει. Horapollo. l. 1. c. 14. p. 28. [52] Horapollo. l. 1. c. 16 p. 30. Δωδεκατις της ἡμερας καθ' ἑκαστην ὡραν ουρει· τοδε αυτο και ταις δυσι νυξι ποιει. κτλ. Speaking of the two Equinoxes. [53] Hoffman: Cunocephalus. Vossius de Idol. vol. 2. l. 3. c. 78. [54] What Orus Apollo attributes to the Cunocephalus, Damascius (in Vitâ Isidori) mentions of the Cat. Photii Bibliotheca. c. 242. p. 1049. [55] By Strabo expressed Κειπος, who says, that it was reverenced by the people at Babylon, opposite to Memphis. l. 17. p. 1167. Κειπον δε Βαβυλωνιοι ὁι κατα Μεμφιν (σεβουσι). [56] Babun, Βαβυν, of Hellanicus Lesbius. Athenæus. l. 15. p. 680. called Bebon, Βεβων, by Manethon. Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. p. 371, 376. Babon was thought to have been the same as Typhon: by some esteemed a female, and the wife of that personage. Plutarch. ibid. The Ape and Monkey were held sacred, not in Egypt only, but in India, and likewise in a part of Africa. Diodorus Sicul. l. 20. p. 793. Maffeus mentions a noble Pagoda in India, which was called the monkeys' Pagoda. Historia Ind. l. 1. p. 25: and Balbus takes notice of Peguan temples, called by the natives Varelle, in which monkeys were kept, out of a religious principle. See Balbi Itinerarium. [57] Martianus Capella. l. 4. sub initio. Astronomia is made to speak to the same purpose.--Per immensa spatia seculorum, ne profanâ loquacitate vulgarer, Ægyptiorum clausa adytis occulebar. Martianus Capella. l. 8. [58] Johannes Sarisburiensis Metalogic. l. 2. p. 787. Editio Lugd. Bat. anno 1639.