A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6)Bryant, Jacob
History
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6)
Bryant, Jacob
History, Ancient; Mythology
[245] Strabo. l. 5. p. 336. Ταρκωνα, αφ' ὁυ Ταρκυνια ἡ πολις.
[246] Lycophron. v. 116.
Ἡ Τορωνε, γυνη Πρωτεως. Scholia ibidem.
[247] Τυῤῥηνοι σαλπιγγα. Tatianus Assyrius. p. 243.
[248] L. 17. p. 468.
[249] Scholia upon Lycophron. v. 754.
[250] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 749.
[251] Pausanias. l. 7. p. 524.
Δειμε δε τοι μαλα καλον Ανακτορον. Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo. v. 77.
[252] Homer. Odyss. λ. v. 105. Strabo supposes Trinakis to have been the
modern name of the island; forgetting that it was prior to the time of
Homer. l. 6. p. 407: he also thinks that it was called Trinacria from its
figure: which is a mistake.
[253] Hymn to Diana. v. 56. I make no doubt but Callimachus wrote Τρινακια.
[254] Pliny. l. 5. c. 31.
[255] Etymolog. Magn.
[256] Stephanas Byzant.
[257] Τραχιν, ἡ νυν Ἡρακλεια καλουμενη. Hesych. or, as Athenæus represents
it, more truly, Ἡρακλειαν, την Τραχινιαν καλεομενην. l. 11. p. 462.
[258] Τριαινα τοπος Αργους· ενθα την τριαιναν ορθην εστησεν ὁ Ποσειδων,
συγγινομενος τη Αμυμωνη, και ευθυς κατ' εκεινο ὑδωρ ανεβλυσεν, ὁ και την
επικλησιν εσχεν εξ Αμυμωνης. Scholia in Euripidis Phœniss. v. 195.
[259] Eusebius. Præp. Evan. l. 3. c. 11. p. 113.
[260] Palæphatus. p. 56.
[261] Ibid. p. 96.
[262] Palæphatus. p. 20.
[263] Iliad. Σ. v. 486.
[264] Diodorus Siculus. l. 3. p. 324.
[265] Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 243.
[266] Homer. Odyss. Λ. v. 306.
[267] Chron. Paschale. p. 36.
Νεβρωδ----καλουσιν Ωριωνα. Cedrenus. p. 14.
[268] Homer. Odyss. Λ. v. 571.
[269] Strabo. l. 3. p. 259.
[270] Alorus was the first king of Babylon; and the same person as Orion,
and Nimrod. See Radicals. p. 10. notes.
[271] Ἑλωρος, ενθα ψυχρον εκβαλλει ποτον. Lycophron. v. 1033.
Ῥειθρων Ἑλωρου προσθεν. Idem. v. 1184. Ὁ ποταμος ὁ Ἑλωρος εσχε το ονομα απο
τινος βασιλεως Ἑλωρου. Schol. ibid. There were in Sicily many places of
this name; Πεδιον Ἑλωριον. Diodorus. l. 13. p. 148. Elorus Castellum.
Fazellus. Dec. 1. l. 4. c. 2.
Via Helorina. Ἑλωρος πολις. Cluver. Sicilia Antiqua. l. 1. c. 13. p. 186.
[272] Diodorus Siculus. l. 4. p. 284.
[273] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 13. p. 356.
[274] Κατα μεσην δε την πολιν ἡ ακροπολις, ἡν εκαλουν βυρσαν, οφρυς ἱκανως
ορθια. Strabo. l. 17. p. 1189.
See also Justin. l. 18. c. 5. and Livy. l. 34. c. 62.
[275] Ζαγκλη πολις Σικελιας--απο Ζαγκλου του γηγενους. Stephanus Byzant.
[276] Scholia in Lycophron. v. 328.
Ωριων--κατα τροπην του ου εις ω απο του ουριων εστιν απο ἱστοριας του
ουρησαι τους θεους εν τῃ βυρσῃ, και γενεσθαι αυτον. Etymolog. Mag. Ωριων.
[277] Τιτθη, τιτθος, τιτθιον, μαστος. Hesychius.
[278] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 878.
[279] Ορος--ὁ δε Τιτθειον ονομαζουσιν εφ' ἡμων, τηνικαυτα δε εκαλειτο
Μυρτιον. Pausan. l. 2. p. 170.
[280] Callimach. Hymn in Delon. v. 48. Μαστοι, often taken notice of by
Xenophon. Αναβας. l. 4. p. 320. A hill at Lesbos. Εν Λεσβῳ κλεινης Ερεσου
περικυμονι ΜΑΣΤΩ. Athenæus. l. 3. p. 111. Εχει δ' εν αυτῳ και μαστον.
Polyb. l. 1. p. 57.
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