[514] Aves Diomedis--judicant inter suos et advenas, &c. Isidorus Orig. l. 12. c. 7. Pliny. l. 10. c. 44. [515] Apollodorus. l. 1. p. 37. [516] Stephanas Byzant. Οπικοι. [517] The same is said by Epiphanius. Ἑυια τον οφιν παιδες Ἑβραιων ονομαζουσι. Epiphanius advers. Hæres. l. 3. tom. 2. p. 1092. [518] Steph. Byzant. [519] Ptolemy. p. 93. Ευια. [520] Pausanias. l. 4. p. 356. [521] L. 2. p. 202. [522] Pausan. l. 3. p. 249. [523] There was a city of this name in Macedonia, and in Troas. Also a river. [524] Ovid Metamorph. l. 7. v. 357. [525] Strabo. l. 13. p. 913. It is compounded of Eva-Ain, the fountain, or river of Eva, the serpent. [526] Strabo. l. 5. p. 383. [527] Μενελαον, ὁς ην Πιτανατης. Hesych. Δρακων επι τῃ ασπιδι (Μενελαου) εστιν ειργασμενος. Pausan. l. 10. p. 863. [528] Πιτανατης, λοχος. Hesych. [529] It was the insigne of many countries. Textilis _Anguis_ Discurrit per utramque aciem. Sidon. Apollinaris. Carm. 5. v. 409. [530] Stent bellatrices Aquilæ, sævique _Dracones_. Claudian de Nuptiis Honor. et Mariæ. v. 193. Ut primum vestras Aquilas Provincia vidit, Desiit hostiles confestim horrere _Dracones_. Sidon. Apollinaris. Carm. 2. v. 235. [531] Epiphanius Hæres. 37. p. 267. [532] Clemens. l. 7. p. 900. [533] Tertullian de Præscript. Hæret. c. 47. p. 221. [534] Vossius, Selden, and many learned men have touched upon this subject. There is a treatise of Philip Olearius de Ophiolatriâ. Also Dissertatio Theologico-Historico, &c. &c. de cultu serpentum. Auctore M. Johan. Christian. Kock. Lipsiæ. 1717. [535] Homer. Odyss. l. 10. v. 106. [536] Hæc a principio patria Cyclopum fuit. Justin. of the island Sicily. l. 4. c. 2. [537] Ος οψεται μεν του μονογληνου στεγας Χαρωνος. Lycophron. v. 659. Charon was not a person, but Char-On, the temple of the Sun. [538] Των περι την Αιτνην και Λεοντινην Κυκλωπας (δυναστευσαι). Strabo. l. 1. p. 38. [539] The province of Leontina called Xuthia. Diodorus. l. 5. p. 291. [540] Cyclops. v. 297. [541] Lycophron. v. 659. [542] Γλυκυτατα φασι τα κρεα τους ξενους φερειν. Ουδεις μολων δευρ', ὁστις ου κατεσφαγη. Euripid. Cyclops. v. 126. [543] The river Nilus was called Triton, and afterwards Nilus. Μετωνομασθῃ δε απο Νειλου του Κυκλωπος. Scholia in Apollon. l. 4. v. 268. Nilus Deorum maximus. Huetii Demons. Evang. Prop. 4. p. 111. [544] Αιγυπτιε Ζευ, Νειλε. Athenæus. l. 5. p. 203. Vulcanus--Nilo natus, Opas, ut Ægyptii appellant. Cicero de Naturâ Deor. l. 3. c. 22. Hence Νειλος Κυκλωψ must have been the chief Deity; and the Cyclopians his votaries and priests. Νειλοιο τεμενος Κρονιδα. Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 239. He was no other than Ouranus, and Cœlus.