362 Silius Italicus, iii. 14-32; Mela, iii. 46; Strabo, iii. 5. 3, 5, 7, pp. 169, 170, 172; Diodorus Siculus, v. 20. 2; Philostratus, _Vita Apollonii_, v. 4 _sq._; Appian, _Hispanica_, 65. Compare Arrian, _Anabasis_, ii. 16. 4. That the bones of Hercules were buried at Gades is mentioned by Mela (_l.c._). Compare Arnobius, _Adversus Nationes_, i. 36. In Italy women were not allowed to participate in sacrifices offered to Hercules (Aulus Gellius, xi. 6. 2; Macrobius, _Saturn._ i. 12. 28; Sextus Aurelius Victor, _De origine gentis Romanae_, vi. 6; Plutarch, _Quaestiones Romanae_, 60). Whether the priests of Melcarth at Gades were celibate, or had only to observe continence at certain seasons, does not appear. At Tyre the priest of Melcarth might be married (Justin, xviii. 4. 5). The worship of Melcarth under the name of Hercules continued to flourish in the south of Spain down to the time of the Roman Empire. See J. Toutain, _Les Cultes païens dans l’Empire Romain_, Première Partie, i. (Paris, 1907) pp. 400 _sqq._ 363 Livy, xxi. 21. 9, 22. 5-9; Cicero, _De Divinatione_, i. 24. 49; Silius Italicus, iii. 1 _sqq._, 158 _sqq._ 364 Pausanias, x. 4. 5. 365 B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum_ (Oxford, 1887), p. 674; G. A. Cooke, _Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions_, p. 351. 366 F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner, _Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias_, pp. 10-12, with pl. A; Stoll, _s.v._ “Melikertes,” in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, ii. 2634. M86 Evidence of a custom of burning a god or goddess at Carthage. The fire-walk at Tyre. The fire-walk at Castabala. The Carthaginian king Hamilcar sacrifices himself in the fire. 367 Justin, xviii. 6. 1-7; Virgil, _Aen._ iv. 473 _sqq._, v. i. _sqq._; Ovid, _Fasti_, iii. 545 _sqq._; Timaeus, in _Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, i. 197. Compare W. Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_,2 pp. 373 _sqq._ The name of Dido has been plausibly derived by Gesenius, Movers, E. Meyer, and A. H. Sayce from the Semitic _dôd_, “beloved.” See F. C. Movers, _Die Phoenizier_, i. 616; Meltzer, _s.v._ “Dido,” in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, i. 1017 _sq._; A. H. Sayce, _Lectures on the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians_ (London and Edinburgh, 1887), pp. 56 _sqq._ If they are right, the divine character of Dido becomes more probable than ever, since “the Beloved” (_Dodah_) seems to have been a title of a Semitic goddess, perhaps Astarte. See above, p. 20, note 2. According to Varro it was not Dido but her sister Anna who slew herself on a pyre for love of Aeneas (Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ iv. 682). 368 Justin, xviii. 6. 8. 369 Silius Italicus, i. 81 _sqq._ 370 See above, pp. 16, 110 _sqq._