401 Georgius Syncellus, _Chronographia_, vol. i. p. 290, ed. G. Dindorf (Bonn, 1829): Ἡρακλέα τινές φασιν ἐν Φοινίκῃ γνωρίζεσθαι Σάνδαν ἐπιλεγόμενον, ὡς καὶ μεχρὶ νῦν ὑπὸ Καππαδόκων καὶ Κιλίκων. In this passage Σάνδαν is a correction of F. C. Movers’s (_Die Phoenizier_, i. 460) for the MS. reading Δισανδάν, the ΔΙ having apparently arisen by dittography from the preceding ΑΙ; and Κιλίκων is a correction of E. Meyer’s (“Über einige semitische Götter,” _Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft_, xxxi. 737) for the MS. reading Ἱλίων. Compare Jerome (quoted by Movers and Meyer, _ll.cc._): “_Hercules cognomento Desanaus in Syria Phoenice clarus habetur. Inde ad nostram usque memoriam a Cappadocibus et Eliensibus (al. Deliis) Desanaus adhuc dicitur._” If the text of Jerome is here sound, he would seem to have had before him a Greek original which was corrupt like the text of Syncellus or of Syncellus’s authority. The Cilician Hercules is called Sandes by Nonnus (_Dionys._, xxxiv. 183 _sq._). Compare Raoul-Rochette in _Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres_, xvii. Deuxième Partie (Paris, 1848), pp. 159 _sqq._ 402 Ammianus Marcellinus, xiv. 8. 3; Dio Chrysostom, _Or._ xxxiii. vol. ii. p. 16, ed. L. Dindorf (Leipsic, 1857). The pyre is mentioned only by Dio Chrysostom, whose words clearly imply that its erection was a custom observed periodically. On Sandan or Sandon see K. O. Müller, “Sandon und Sardanapal,” _Kunstarchaeologische Werke_, iii. 6 _sqq._; F. C. Movers, _Die Phoenizier_, i. 458 _sqq._; Raoul-Rochette, “Sur l’Hercule Assyrien et Phénicien,” _Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres_, xvii. Deuxième Partie (Paris, 1848), pp. 178 _sqq._; E. Meyer, “Über einige Semitische Götter,” _Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft_, xxxi. (1877) pp. 736-740: _id._, _Geschichte des Altertums_,2 i. 2. pp. 641 _sqq._ § 484.