That these armed men sprung out of the ground upon sowing the serpent’s teeth, means our _Hivites_ making a religious procession along the avenue of their serpentine temples on the great festival days, when they sacrific’d. We see a like procession of armed men, carv’d upon the temple of _Persepolis_ in _Le Brun_’s prints. And Ovid calles a _Bœotian_, one of _Cadmus_’s people, _Hyantius_, III. v. 147. _Strabo_ vii. writes, they took that name from their king _Hyas_, which is the same as _Hivite_. _Pliny_ iv. 7. observes the _Bœotians_ were so call’d anciently. In the next book _Met._ iv. ver. 560. we have an account of _Melicerta_ our _Melcarthus_ and his mother deify’d: and of the _Sidonian_ women their companions, some turn’d into stones, others into birds, for grieving at their fate. This seems to mean their building temples after some of the modes we have been describing, and that which is to follow chap. XVI. near the sepulchres of heroes and founders of states; as was the custom of old: what we observed by _Silbury-hill_ and _Abury_. For these temples were prophylactick, and a sacred protection to the ashes of the defunct. So we read in _Virgil_ by _Anchises_’s tomb, _Æneid_ V. _Tunc vicina astris Erycino in vertice sedes Fundatur Veneri Idaliæ; tumuloque sacerdos Ac lucus latè sacer additur Anchisæo._ Immediately after _Ovid_’s account of _Melicerta_, the poet speaks of _Cadmus_ and his wife turn’d into serpents: which I understand of the like serpentine temple made by their sepulchre. _Suidas_ writes, on _Epaminondas_’s tomb was a shield and a snake carv’d, to shew he was of _Spartan_ race. We may very well imagine the circle and snake, the cognizance of _Cadmus_. After _Cadmus_’s decease, his people built a city called _Butua_; and near it is a place call’d _Cylices_, where _Cadmus_ and _Hermione_ were turn’d into serpents: and two stone snakes are there set up by the _Phœnicians_, to their honour: _Bochart_ page 502, where many authors are quoted to prove these particulars. He says, the word _Cylices_ in _Phœnician_, means _tumulos_, our barrows. It was a place full of sepulchral _tumuli_, as _Stonehenge_ and _Abury_: cups revers’d, regarding the form of them. _Nonnus in Dionys._ writes, that there are two great stones or rocks there, which clap together with a great noise, whence auguries are taken. _Tzetzes chiliad._ iv. _hist._ 139, mentions the same thing. I take this to be a main ambre, of which I spoke largely in _Stonehenge_. _Herodot._ V. 61. says the _Cadmeians_ being admitted citizens of _Athens_, built temples there, which had nothing common with the _Greek_ temples; particularly they had a temple of _Ceres Achæa_ and mystical rites. _Achæa_, I suppose, means a serpentine temple, from the oriental name. We read just now, that the _Sidonian_ women, the mourners for _Melcarthus_ and his mother, were turn’d some into stones, others into birds. _Pars volucres factæ, sumptis Ismenides alis._