_Apollodorus_ I. 4. writes, that _Elios_, our _Phut_, married _Rhode_ daughter of _Neptune_, who was really _Tarshish_ son of _Javan_, son of _Japhet_. From her he denominated the celebrated island, where, to his honour, was erected by posterity, the most stupendous statue in brass that ever was in the world, in any metal or other matter; being seventy cubits in height, whence all great statues have been call’d _Colosses_. The _Argonauts_ in _Apollonius_ I. sacrifice to _Apollo_ the patron of navigation; in _Artemidorus_, _Oniro_ II. 35. call’d _Apollo Delphinius_; that author says it means _long voyages_. _Pausanias in Bœoticis_ gives him the same sirname. Hence, I apprehend, the _dolphin_, his cognizance, was plac’d in the heavens. In face, he was like to _Augustus_. I have several _Rhodian_ coins in silver and brass, of different sizes, in all which he is pictur’d. Nor need we be scrupulous in thinking them a good resemblance. For the _Telchines_, inhabitants of _Rhodes_, are said to be the first makers of images. And we may at this time of day, have the satisfaction of seeing an infinite number of representations of him, in the coins, busts, and images of _Augustus_, particularly the famous statue of _Apollo_ in the _Vatican_ garden at _Rome_, made from the emperor’s face. Therefore we may well admit of it for the heroical effigies of _Phut_. _Bochart_ thinks, he fixt his habitation first at _Delos_, and his family, and thence the fable of his being born there. I have an ancient brass coin, with the heroical effigies of his mother _Latona_. Her head in the adverse ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΕΙΤΟϹ, reverse, the goddess sitting, a _hasta pura_ held oblique in her right hand. ΛΗΤΩΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ. [Illustration: TAB. XXXIV. _Stukeley delin._ _Harris Sculp._ _The Kistvaen in Clatford bottom. Jun. 30. 1723 from yᵉ Northwest_] In this island of _Delos_ he had a most magnificent temple, built to him in after ages, when idolatry began. The noble remains of it are to be seen there still. For his great fame and exploits, posterity consecrated him, calling him the son of _Jupiter_, meaning _Jupiter Ammon_, or more properly of _Saturn_. But in no place was _Phut_ more famous than in _Phocis_. He planted the country about the mountain _Parnassus_, where he built, as I apprehend, a great serpentine temple, like ours of _Abury_, at the bottom of that mountain, by the city of _Delphos_. This I gather from the _Greek_ reports of the serpent _Python_ of an immense bulk, bred of the slime left on the earth, by the general deluge, which _Apollo_ here overcame; and instituted annual games call’d _Pythia_, plainly from his own name. These were the first and most ancient games we hear of in _Greece_.