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
[1178] Ειτα μετα τουτον εισιν ΟΡΕΙΤΑΙ λεγομενοι. Dicæarchus. Geog. Vet.
vol. 2. p. 3. v. 45.
[1179] L. 2. c. 57, 58.
[1180] Κατα Βουθρωτον Φοινικη. Strabo. l. 7. p. 499. It was a place of
great note. Polybius. l. 1. p. 94, 95.
[1181] Cæsar de Bello Civili. l. 3. c. 6.
[1182] Lucan. l. 5. v. 458.
[1183] Κομαρας. Strabo. l. 7. p. 500. The same observable in India-Petra
Aornon near Comar. Arrian. Exped. p. 191. and Indic. p. 319.
[1184] Steph. Byzant.
[1185] Τεκμων πολις Θεσπρωτων. Steph. Byzant. See T. Livius. l. 45. c. 26.
[1186] 2 Samuel. c. 23. v. 8. In our version rendered the Tachmonite, chief
among the captains.
[1187] Victoria ad Comum parta. T. Livius. l. 33. c. 36.
[1188] Gurtler. l. 2. p. 597.
[1189] Also a city Conope, by Stephanus placed in Acarnania.
[1190] Antoninus Liberalis. c. 12. p. 70. A city Conopium was also to be
found upon the Palus Mæotis. Steph. Byzant.
[1191] Plin. l. 3. c. 16. The Cadmians of Liguria came last from Attica and
Bœotia: hence we find a river Eridanus in these parts, as well as in the
former country. Ποταμοι δε Αθηναιοις ῥεουσιν Ἑιλισσος τε, και Ηριδανῳ τῳ
Κελτικῳ κατα αυτα ονομα εχων. κ. λ. Pausan. l. 1. p. 45.
[1192] Vol. 1. p. 376.
[1193] Lucan. l. 3. v. 187. The same is mentioned by the poet Dionysius.
Κεινον δ αυ περι κολπον ιδοις περικυδεα τυμβον,
Τυμβον, ὁν Ἁρμονιης, Καδμοιο τε φημις ενισπει,
Κειθε γαρ εις Οφιων σκολιον γενος ηλλαξαντο. v. 390.
[1194] Geog. Vet. vol. 1. p. 9. Here were Πετραι Πλαγται.
[1195] Nonni Dionys. l. 44. p. 1144.
[1196] Nonnus. l. 25. p. 646.
[1197] Λαινεην ποιησε κορυσσομενην Αριαδνην. Nonnus. l. 44. p. 1242.
[1198] Pausan. l. 9. p. 743.
[1199] See Goltius, Vaillant, and Suidas, Ἡρακλης.
[1200] ---- λιθοις χωριον περιεχομενον λογασιν Οφεως καλουσιν ὁι Θηβαιοι
κεφαλην. Pausan. l. 9. p. 747.
[1201] Pausan. l. 7. p. 579.
[1202] Τιμας θεων αντι αγαλματων ειχον αργοι λιθοι. Ibid.
[1203] Καδμος Φοινιξ λιθοτομιαν εξευρε, και μεταλλα χρυσου τα περι το
Παγκαιον επενοησεν ορος. Clemens. Strom. l. 1. p. 363. See Natalis Comes of
Cadmus.
[1204] Nonnus. Dionys. l. 4. p. 128.
[1205] Clemens. Alex. l. 6. p. 753.
[1206] Styled παιδες Ἡλιου by Diodorus. l. 5. p. 327.
[1207] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 328.
[1208] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 109.
[1209] Η τον Θοραιον, Πτωον, Ωριτην, θεον. Lycophron. v. 352.
[1210] Scholiast. Ibid.
[1211] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683.
[1212] Quæstiones Græcæ. p. 296.
[1213] Strabo. l. 10. p. 685.
[1214] Harpocration.
[1215] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683. Polybius. l. 11. p. 627.
[1216] Εν τῃ Ωριᾳ καλουμενῃ της Ἱστιαιωτιδος. Strabo. l. 10. p. 683.
Oria is literally the land of Ur.
[1217] Strabo. l. 10. p. 683. He mentions a domestic quarrel among some of
this family, and adds, τους Ωριτας--πολεμουμενους ὑπο των Ελλοπιεων, _that
the Oritæ were attacked by the Ellopians_.
[1218] Antoninus Liberalis. c. 25. p. 130.
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