As a lion was from hence styled Charops, so from another temple it was named Charon. Χαρων ὁ λεων. Hesych. Achilles is styled Αιχμητης Χαρων, Lycoph. v. 260. a martial Charonian Lion. [601] Pausan. l. 8. p. 696. [602] Pausan. l. 1. p. 49. [603] Hesiod. Theogon. v. 141. Scholia Apollon. l. 1. v. 730. Κυκλωπες τοτε Διι μεν διδοασι βροντην, και αστραπην, και κεραυνον. Apollodorus. l. 1. p. 4. [604] See Stephanus. Ακμονια πολις Φρυγιας κτλ. He styles Acmon Ακμονα τον Μανεως. Manes was the chief Deity of Lydia, Lycia, and Persis; and the same as Menes of Egypt. There was a city Acmonia in Thrace. Ptol. l. 5. p. 138. [605] Εστι και αλλο Ακμονιον αλσος περι Θερμαδοντα. Steph. Byzant. Apollonius takes notice of Αλσεος Ακμονιοιο. l. 2. v. 994. Here Mars was supposed to have married Harmonia, the mother of the Amazonians. [606] Acmonides is represented as a patronymic; but there is reason to think that it is an Amonian compound, Acmon-Ades, Acmon the God of light, the same as Cœlus, Cronus, and Osiris. Acmon and Acmonides were certainly the same person: Ακμων· Κρονυς, Ουρανος. Hesych. Ακμονιδης, ὁ Χαρων, και ὁ Ουρανος. ibid. He was the Cyclopian God, to whom different departments were given by the mythologists. Charon Cyclops is mentioned by Lycophron. v. 659. above quoted. [607] Simmiæ Rhodii Πτερυγια. Theocritus. Heinsii. p. 214. [608] Callimachi Hymn. in Dianam. v. 146. [609] Δακτυλοι Ιδαιοι Κρηταεες. Apollonius Rhod. l. 1. v. 1129. The Scholiast upon this Poet takes notice of only three; of which one was Acmon: Κελμις, Δαμναμενευς τε μεγας, και ὑπερβιος Ακμων, Ὁι πρωτοι τεχνην πολυμητιος Ἡφαιστοιο Ἑυρον εν ουρειῃσι ναπαις ιοεντα σιδηρον, Ες πυρ τ' ηνεγκαν, και αριπρεπες εργον εδειξαν. These verses are quoted from the antient author, ὁ την φορωνιδα συνθεις. Diodorus Siculus, l. 1. p. 333. says, that some made the Idæi Dactyli ten in number; others an hundred. [610] Clemens Alexand. Strom. l. 1. p. 401. Strabo. l. 10. p. 725. [611] Strabo. l. 10. p. 715. They are by Tatianus Assyrius spoken of as the Cyclopes, and the same invention attributed to them. Χαλκευειν Κυκλωπες (εδιδαξαν). p. 243. Fabricam ferrariam primi excogitârunt Cyclopes, See Hoffman. Ferrum. [612] Κυκλωπες, Θρακικον εθνος, απο Κυκλωπος βασιλεως ὁυτως ονομαζομενοι.--πλειονες δε αυτων εν τῃ Κουρητιδι· ησαν δε ΑΡΙΣΤΟΙ ΤΕΧΝΙΤΑΙ. Schol. in Euripid. Orest. v. 966. Mention is afterwards made των εκ της Κουρητιδος Κυκλωπων. The Curetes worshipped Cronus: so that Cronus and Cuclops were the same. See Porphyry de Abstin. l. 2. p. 225. [613] They are said to have made the altar upon which the Gods were sworn, when the Titans rebelled against Jupiter. Scholiast upon Aratus. p. 52. In memorial of this altar an Asterism was formed in the Sphere, denominated βωμος, ara. [614] Virgil Æn. l. 8. v. 424. [615] Prœtides implerunt falsis mugitibus auras. Virgil. Eclog. 6. v. 48. [616] Herod. l. 7. c. 123.