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
Αρτεμις ιοχεαιρα, κασιγνητη Ἑκατοιο. Iliad. Υ. v. 71.
[768] Odyss. Σ. v. 83.
[769] Purchas. Pilg. vol. 5. p. 872. and Garcilasso della Vega. Rycaut. p.
403.
[770] See Plutarch's life of Theseus. p. 3, 4. vol. 1.
[771] V. 146.
[772] Campio, Gladiator. Isidorus.
[773] Vegetius. l. 2. c. 7.
[774] Nonnus. l. 18. p. 500.
[775] Eustathius on Dionysius. v. 357.
[776] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 13, 14.
[777] Ὁμοιως δε τους Ινδους τον θεον τουτον παρ' ἑαυτοις αποφανεσθαι
γεγονεναι. Diod. Sic. l. 4. p. 210.
[778] Diodorus. l. 1. p. 14.
[779] Diodorus. l. 1. p. 17.
[780] Ibid. p. 14. This city is also said to have been built by Hercules.
Diodorus. l. 4. p. 225.
[781]
Primus aratra manu sollerti fecit Osiris,
Et teneram ferro sollicitavit humum. Tibull. l. 1. El. 8. v. 29.
[782] Ζυθος, εκ των κριθων πομα. Diodorus. l. 1. p. 37.
[783] Βασιλευοντα δε Οσιριν Αιγυπτιους ευθυς απορου βιου και θηριωδους
απαλλαξαι, καρπους τε δειξαντα, και νομους θεμενον αυτοις. Plut. Is. et
Osir. p. 356.
[784] Eusebius. Pr. Ev. l. 1. p. 44, 45.
[785] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 24.
[786] Both the Patriarch, and his son Ham, had the name of Cronus, as may
be learned from Sanchoniathon. Εγεννηθησαν δε και εν Παραιᾳ Κρονῳ τρεις
παιδες, Κρονος ὁμωνυμος τῳ πατρι, κτλ. Euseb. Præp. l. 1. c. 10. p. 37.
Paraia is the same as Pur-aia, the land of Ur; from whence the Gentile
writers deduce all their mythology.
[787] See Radicals. p. 42.
[788] Ῥαγδαιων δε γενομενων ομβρων και πνευματων,--δενδρου λαβομενον τον
Ουσωον, και αποκλαδευσαντα, πρωτον τολμησαι εις θαλασσαν εμβηναι. Euseb.
Pr. Ev. l. 1. c. 10. p. 35.
[789] Euseb. Chron. p. 7. l. 43.
[790] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1168.
[791] Τας Γοργονας επ' ωκεανον ουσας τον περι πολιν Ιβηριας την Ταρτησσον.
Schol. in Lycophr. ad v. 838.
[792] [Atlas] Apex Perseo et Herculi pervius. Solin. c. 24.
[793] Andromedam Perseus nigris portârit ab Indis. Ovid. Art. Amand. l. 1.
v. 53.
[794] Pausan. l. 4. p. 370.
[795] Pliny mentions these bones being brought from Joppa to Rome in the
ædileship of M. Scaurus; longitudine pedum 40, altitudine costarum Indicos
elephantos excedente, spinæ crassitudine sesquipedali. l. 9. c. 5.
[796] Deseritur Taurique jugum, Perseaque Tarsus. Lucan. l. 3. v. 225. See
Solin. c. 38.
[797] Perseam quoque plantam ---- a Perseo Memphi satam. Plin. l. 15. c.
13.
Of Perseus in Cilicia, see Chron. Pasch. p. 39.
[798] Pindar. Pyth. Od. 10. v. 49 and 70. Εις το των Μακαρων ανδρων εθνος.
Schol. in v. 70.
[799] Virgil. Æn. l. 7. v. 409.
Ardea a Danae Persei matre condita. Plin. Hist. Nat l. 3. p. 152.
[800] Servius in Virgil. Æn. l. 8.
[801] Diodorus Sic. l. 1. p. 21.
[802] Ibidem.
[803] Herodotus. l. 6. c. 54. See Chron. Paschale. p. 38.
Some make him a Colchian. Ἡλιῳ γαρ φησιν ὑιους γενεσθαι δυο εν τοις τοποις
εκεινοις, ὁις ονοματα ην Περσευς και Αιητης· τουτους δε κατασχεσιν την
χωραν· και Αιητην μεν Κολχους και Μαιωτας, Περσεα δε Ταυρικης Βασιλευσαι.
Schol. in Apollon. Argonautic. l. 3. v. 199.
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