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
[1096] Stephanus Byzant. The Carthaginians are by Silius Italicus styled
Cadmeans.
Sacri cum perfida pacti
Gens Cadmea super regno certamina movit. l. 1. v. 5.
[1097] L. 1. c. 9, 10. p. 26. l. 2. c. 4. p. 87.
[1098] Moses Choren. l. 1. c. 9. p. 26. There was a city Cadmea in Cilicia.
Καδμεια εκτισθη και Σιδη εν Κιλικια. Eusebii Chron. p. 30. l. 23.
[1099] Stephanus Byzant. Some think that this is a mistake for Καλχηδων,
Chalcedon. But Chalcedon was not in Armenia, nor in its vicinity.
[1100] Cadmus was coeval with Dardanus. He was in Samothrace before the
foundation of Troy. Diodorus Sicul. l. 5. p. 323. Yet he is said to be
contemporary with the Argonauts: Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. l. 1. p. 382.
and posterior to Tiresias, who was in the time of Epigonoi. Yet Tiresias is
said to have prophesied of Cadmus, and his offspring.
πολλα δε Καδμῳ
Χρησει, και μεγαλοις ὑστερα Λαβδακιδαις
Callimachi Lavacra Palladis. v. 125.
The son of Cadmus is supposed to have lived at the time of the Trojan war:
Lycophron. v. 217. and Scholia. His daughter Semele is said to have been
sixteen hundred years before Herodotus, by that writer's own account. l. 2
c. 145. She was at this rate prior to the foundation of Argos; and many
centuries before her father; near a thousand years before her brother.
[1101] See Excerpta ex Diodori. l. xl. apud Photium. p. 1152. concerning
the different nations in Egypt, and of their migrations from that country.
[1102] Diana says to her father Jupiter,
Δος μοι παρθενιην αιωνιον, Αππα, φυλαξαι,
Και πολυωνυμιην. Callim. H. in Dianam. v. 6.
Παντας επ' ανθρωπους επειη πολυωνυμος εστιν. Homer. Η. in Apoll. v. 82.
Πολλη μεν ανθρωποισι κ' ουκ ανωνυμος
Θεα κεκλημαι Κυπρις. Eurip. Hippolytus. v. 1.
The Egyptian Deities had many titles.
ISIDI. MYRIONYMÆ. Gruter. lxxxiii. n. 11.
[1103] Lycophron. v. 219.
[1104] Scholia. ibid.
[1105] Lycophron. Schol. v. 162.
[1106] Vetus Auctor apud Phavorinum.
[1107] Nonnus. l. 41. p. 1070. Harmonia, by the Scholiast upon Apollonius,
is styled Νυμφη Ναϊς l. 2. v. 992. The marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia is
said to be only a parody of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. Diodorus. l.
5. p. 323.
[1108] Nonnus. l. 41. p. 1068.
[1109] Oraculum Apollinis Sminthei apud Lactantium, D. I. l. 1. c. 8. p.
32. She is styled the mother of the Amazons. Steph. Byzant. Ακμονια.
[1110] Nonnus. l. 12. p. 328.
[1111] Ibid.
[1112] Nonnus. l. 12. p. 328.
[1113] Plutarch. Sympos. l. 9. quæst. 13. p. 738.
[1114] Philo apud Euseb. P. E. l. 1. p. 31.
[1115] Judges. c. 3 v. 3. Hermon was particularly worshipped about Libanus,
and Antilibanus, where was the country of the Cadmonites, and Syrian
Hivites.
[1116] Lucian de Syriâ Deâ. p. 6.
[1117] Apud Proclum in Timæum. p. 121. See Orpheus. Fragm. p. 403.
[1118] Pyth. Ode 4. p. 237.
[1119] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 173.
[1120] Og, Ogus, Ogenus, Ogugus, Ωγυγης, Ωγενιδαι, all relate to the ocean.
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