[281] Strabo mentions in Cyprus, Αμαθους πολις--και ορος μαστοειδες Ολυμπος. l. 14. p. 1001. [282] The Circean promontory in Italy seems to have been named Tit-On; for, the bay below is by Lycophron styled Titonian. Τιτωνιον τε χευμα. v. 1275. Rivers and seas were often denominated from places near which they flowed. [283] Of the Cyclopes I shall hereafter treat at large. [284] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1080. Azara signified a treasure. [285] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1106. [286] Bell. Jud. l. 7. p. 417. [287] Canticles. c. 8. v. 10. [288] Jeremiah. c. 49. v. 27. [289] Amos. c. 1. v. 7. [290] Ibid. c. 1. v. 10. [291] Ibid. c. 1. v. 14. [292] It is remarkable, that in many of the very antient temples there was a tradition of their having suffered by lightning. [293] Canticles. c. 8. v. 8. [294] 2 Chron. c. 27. v. 3. [295] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1096. [296] Canticles. c. 7. v. 4. [297] Pervenit ad Draconis speluncam ultimam, Custodiebat qui thesauros abditos. Phædrus. l. 4. Fab. 18. See Macrobius. Saturn. l. 1. c. 20. of dragons guarding treasures. [298] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 2. v. 405. [299] Nonni Dionysiaca. l. 14. p. 408. [300] Nonni Dionys. l. 33. p. 840. [301] Ibid. l. 35. p. 876. [302] Ibid. l. 6. p. 186. [303] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1183. [304] Εν δε τοις εδειξε και ζωον ὑπερφυες, Διονυσου αγαλμα, ᾡ Ινδοι εθυον. Δρακων ην, μηκος πενταπλεθρον· ετρεφετο δε εν χοριῳ κοιλῳ, εν κρημνῳ βαθει, τειχει ὑψηλῳ ὑπερ των ακρων περιβεβλημενος· και ανηλισκε τας Ινδων αγελας. κτλ. Maximus Tyr. Dissert. 8. c. 6. p. 85. [305] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1022. [306] Μακρα πεδιον. Εν τουτῳ δε Ποσειδωνιος ἱστορει τον Δρακοντα πεπτωκοτα ὁραθηναι νεκρον, μηκος σχεδον τι και πλεθριαιον, παχος δε, ὡσθ' ἱππεας ἑκατερωθεν παρασταντας αλληλους μη καθορᾳν· χασμα δε, ὡστ' εφιππον δεξασθαι, της δε φολιδος λεπιδα ἑκαστην ὑπεραιρουσαν θυρεου. Strabo. l. 16. p. 1095. The epithet πεπτωκως could not properly be given to a serpent: but to a building decayed, and in ruins nothing is more applicable. A serpent creeps upon its belly, and is even with the ground, which he goes over, and cannot fall lower. The moderns indeed delineate dragons with legs: but I do not know that this was customary among the antients. [307] Virgil. Æneis. l. 6. v. 595. [308] Homer. Odyss. l. Λ. v. 575. Quintus Calaber styles him πουλυπελεθρος. Πουλυπελεθρος εκειτο κατα χθονος ευρυπεδοιο. l. 3. v. 395. Τιτυον μεγαν, ὁν ῥ' ετεκεν γε Δι' Ἑλαρη, θρεψεν δε και αψ ελοχευσατο Γαια. Apollon. Rhodius. l. 1. v. 761. [309] Αιγυπτος--εκληθη Μυσαρα--και Αερια, και Ποταμιτις, και ΑΕΤΙΑ, απο τινος Ινδου Αετου. Stephanus Byzant. Eustathius mentions, Και Αετια, απο τινος Ινδου Αετου. κτλ. In Dionysium. v. 239. p. 42. [310] Orus Apollo styles it in the Ionian manner Ηθ. l. 1. c. 7. p. 10. Τοδε Ηθ καρδια. [311] Αιγυπτον δε γραφοντες, θυμιατηριον καιομενον ζωγραφουσι, και επανω καρδιαν. l. 1. c. 22. p. 38. It also signified an eagle.