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
[312] See the whole in Nonnus. l. 5. p. 148. It seems to have been a winged
machine, which is called Κημος, from Cham the Sun. Hence the notion of the
chariot of the Sun, and horses of the same.
[313] Καυκασου εν κνημοισι, Τυφαονιη ὁτε πετρη. Apollonius Rhodius. l. 2.
v. 1214.
[314] Typhon was a high place; but represented as a Giant, and supposed to
be thunderstruck here, near the city Antioch. Strabo. l. 16. p. 1090. Here
was Νυμφαιον, σπηλαιον τι ἱερον. p. 1091.
[315] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1089. He mentions a place near the fountains of the
river Orontes called Paradisos: Μεχρι και των του Οροντου πηγων, ἁι πλησιον
του τε Λιβανου και του Παραδεισου. Strabo. l. 16. p. 1096.
[316] Diodorus Siculus. l. 4. p. 283.
[317] Servii Comment. in Virgil. Æneid. l. 2. v. 204.
[318] Nonni Dionys. l. 25. p. 668.
[319] Tot jugera ventre prementem. Ovid of the Pytho of Parnassus. Met. l.
1. v. 459.
See Pausanias. l. 10. p. 695. He says, the extent related to the place,
ενθα ὁ Τιτυος ετεθη.
[320] Ὡς δε αυθις επανηκειν (τον Κλεοντα) ες τα Γαδειρα, ανδρα ἑυρειν
θαλασσιον ΕΚΠΕΠΤΩΚΟΤΑ ες την γην· τουτον πλεθρα μεν πεντε μαλιστα επεχειν,
κεραυνωθεντα δε ὑπο του θεου καιεσθαι. Pausan. l. 10. p. 806.
[321] Diogenes Laertius. Proœm. p. 5.
[322] Τεμενος· ἱερον χωριον αφωρισμενον Θεῳ. Scholia in Homer. Il. l. Γ. v.
696.
Και τεμενος περιπυστον Αμυκλαιοιο Κανωβου. Dionysius. Περιηγης. v. 13.
Ασυλον τεμενος at Daphne upon the Orontes. See above. p. 428.
[323] Lycophron. v. 6l3.
[324] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 11. v. 56.
[325] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 3. v. 1176.
[326] Βη δ' επ' εραν Διας φευγων οφιωδεα Κυπρον. Parthenius, as corrected
by Vossius. See Notes to Pompon. Mela. p. 391.
[327] Lycophron. v. 110.
[328] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 2. v. 707.
[329] Hyginus. Fab. 140.
[330] Plutarch de Oraculoram defectu. v. 1. p. 417.
[331] Clemens Alexand. Cohort. p. 29.
[332] Prolegomena to the Pyth. Odes of Pindar.
[333] P. 39.
[334] Silius Ital. l. 3. v. 29.
[335] Λυχνον ασβεστον. Plutarch de Defect. Orac. vol. 1. p. 410.
[336] Porphyr. de Abstinentiâ. l. 2.
[337] L. 1. p. 63.
[338] Το δε λυχνιον εν Πρυτανειῳ. Theoc. Idyll. 21. v. 36.
Πυρος τε φεγγος αφθιτον κεκλημενον. Æsch. Χοηφοροι. v. 268.
[339] See Hyde Relig. Vet. Persarum: and Stanley upon the Chaldaic
religion.
[340] Αει δε τοι αεναον πυρ. Callimach. Hymn to Apollo. v. 84.
[341] Vol. 2. p. 84.
[342] Clima. 4. p. 213.
[343] Leviticus. c. 6. v. 13. Hence the ξυλοφορια; a custom, by which the
people were obliged to carry wood, to replenish the fire when decaying.
[344] It is said in the Scriptures, that _there were giants in the earth in
those days; and also after that_. Genesis. c. 6. v. 4. The word in the
original for giants is Nephelim.
[345] C. 2. p. 6.
[346] V. 22.
[347] Orphic. Argonaut. v. 395.
[348] De Venatione. p. 972.
[349] Pyth. Ode 4. p. 244.
[350] Ibid. p. 246.
[351] Justin. Martyr de Monarchiâ. p. 42.
[352] De Venat. p. 972.
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