[353] Æsculapius was of Egypt. Cephalus is said to have lived in the time of Cecrops αυτοχθων: or, as some say, in the time of Erectheus; many centuries before Antilochus and Achilles, who were at the siege of Troy. [354] Æsculapius was the Sun. Euseb. Præp. Evang. l. 3. p. 112. [355] Oratio in Herculem. vol. 1. p. 64. Oratio in Æsculapium. p. 67. [356] Homer. Iliad. Λ. v. 831. [357] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 361. [358] Μονιμος δε ἱστορει, εν τῃ των θαυμασιων συναγωγῃ, εν Πελλῃ της Θετταλιας Αχαιον ανθρωπον Πηλει και Χειρωνι καταθυεσθαι. Clementis Cohort. p. 36. [359] Pocock's Travels. v. 1. p. 65. [360] Ibid. [361] Παρα την λιμνην την καλουμενην Αχερουσιαν. Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 86. [362] In Phrygiâ--juxta specus est Acherusia, ad manes, ut aiunt, pervius. Mela. l. 1. c. 19. p. 100. [363] River Acheron, and lake Acherusia in Epirus. Pausan. l. 1. p. 40. Strabo. l. 7. p. 499. Thucydides. l. 1. p. 34. [364] Near Corinth Acherusia. Pausan. l. 2. p. 196. In Elis Acheron. Strabo. l. 8. p. 530. [365] Celsæ nidum Acherontiæ. Horat. l. 3. Ode. 4. v. 14. [366] Near Avernus. In like manner there were πεδια Ηλυσια in Egypt, Messenia, and in the remoter parts of Iberia. See Plutarch in Sertorio, and Strabo. l. 3. p. 223. [367] Also Libri Tarquitiani Aruspicum Hetruscorum, so denominated from Tar-Cushan. Marcellinus. l. 25. c. 2. p. 322. [368] Herodot. Vit. Hom. c. 3. [369] Hesychius. [370] L. 1. p. 77. [371] Fleetwood's Inscript. p. 42. [372] P. 319. n. 2. [373] Sat. 14. v. 259. [374] Pausanias. l. 2. p. l6l, 162. There was a hill called Anakeion: Ανακειον· ορος, η των Διοσκουρων Ἱερον. Suidas. It is said of the celebrated Polygnotus, that he painted τας εν τῳ θησαυρῳ και εν τῳ Ανακειῳ γραφας. Harpocration. The treasury we may suppose to have been a part of the temple. [375] Homer. Iliad. Γ. v. 237. [376] Homer. Odyss. Μ. v. 323. [377] Cicero in Verrem. Orat. 7. sect. ult. [378] Pausanias. l. 9. p. 741. [379] Apollodorus. l. 3. p. 154. [380] Hyginus. fab. 68, and 75. [381] Antonin. Liberalis Metamorph. c. 22. [382] Hymn. in Dian. v. 204. [383] Cicero de Nat. Deorum. l. 3. 23. She is supposed to be the same as Diana. Καλουσι δε την Αρτεμιν Θρακες Βενδειαν, Κρητες δε Δικτυναν, Λακεδαιμονιοι δε Ουπιν. Palæphatus. c. 32. p. 78. [384] Scholia in Callimach. Hymn. in Dianam. v. 204. Ωπιν, και Ἑκαεργην--εκ των Ὑπερβορεων. Pausan. l. 5. p. 392. Metuenda feris Hecaerge, Et Soror, optatum numen venantibus, Opis. Claudian in Laudes Stilic. l. 3. v. 253. [385] 2 Kings. c. 23. v. 10. 2 Chron. c. 28. v. 3. [386] C. 7. v. 31. and c. 19. v. 5. There was a place named Tophel (Toph-El) near Paran upon the Red Sea. Deuteron. c. 1. v. 1. [387] Zonar. vol. 2. p. 227. Τουφαν καλει ὁ δημωδης και πολυς ανθρωπος. [388] Bedæ. Hist. Angliæ. l. 2. c. 16. [389] De legibus specialibus. p. 320. The Greek term τυφος, fumus, vel fastus, will hardly make sense, as introduced here.