[45] Niebuhr, _Descript. de l’Arab._, p. 164. Two powerful tribes became divided in Arabia at this epoch: that of the Himyarites, who possessed the meridional part, or Yemen, and that of the Koreishites, who occupied the septentrional part, or Hejaz. The capital of the Himyarites was called _Dhofar_; their kings took the title of _Tobba_ and enjoyed an hereditary power. The Koreishites possessed the sacred city of Arabia, Mecca, where was found the ancient temple still venerated today by the Mussulmans. [46] _Asiat. Research._, t. iii., p. ii. [47] Diodorus Siculus, l. ii., 12. Strabo, l. xvi. Suidas, art. _Semiramis_. [48] Phot., _Cod._, 44. Ex. Diodor., l. xl. Syncell., p. 61. Joseph., _Contr. Apion_. [49] Hérod., l. ii. Diod. Siculus, l. i., § 2. [50] Diodor. Sicul., l. i., § 2. Delille-de-Salles, _Hist. des Homm._, Egypte, t. iii., p. 178. [51] Plat., in _Tim. Dial._ Theopomp. _apud_ Euseb., _Præp. Evan._, l. x., c. 10. Diod. Sicul., l. i., _initio_. [52] Diodor. Sicul., l. i., _initio_. [53] Pausan., _Bœot._, p. 768. [54] This word is Egyptian and Phœnician alike. It is composed of the words אור (_aur_), light, and רפא (_rophœ_), cure, salvation. [55] Eurydice, in Greek Εὐρυδίκη, comes from the Phœnician words ראה (_rohe_), vision, clearness, evidence, and דך (_dich_), that which demonstrates or teaches: these two words are preceded by the Greek adverb εὖ, which expresses all that is good, happy, and perfect in its kind. [56] Plat., _In Phædon. Ibid._, _In Panegyr._ Aristot., _Rhet._, l. ii., c. 24. Isocr., _Paneg._ Cicero, _De Leg._, l. ii. Plutar., _De Isid._ Paus., _In Phoc._, etc. [57] Théodoret, _Therapeut._ [58] Philo, _De Vitâ Mosis_, l. i. [59] Jamblic., _De Vitâ Pythag._, c. 2. Apul., _Florid._, ii. Diog. Laërt., l. viii. [60] _Voyage du jeune Anacharsis_, t. i., _Introd._, p. 7. [61] Meurs., _De Relig. Athen._, l. i., c. 9. [62] Apollon., l. iii., p. 237. [63] Hygin., _Fabl._, 143. [64] Pausan., _Arcad._, p. 266, 268, etc. [65] Strabo, l. x; Meurs., _Eleus._, c. 21 _et seq._; Paus., _Ath._, c. 28; Fulgent., _Myth._, l. i.; Philostr., _In Apollon._, l. ii.; Athen., l. xi.; Procl., _In Tim. Comment._, l. v. [66] Euseb., _Præp. Evang._, l. xiii., c. 12. [67] The unity of God is taught in an Orphic hymn of which Justin, Tatian, Clement of Alexandria, Cyril, and Theodore have preserved fragments. (_Orphei Hymn. Edente Eschenbach._, p. 242.) [68] Clem. Alex., _Admon. ad Gent._, p. 48; _ibid._, _Strom._, l. v., p. 607. [69] Apoll., _Arg._, l. i., v. 496; Clem. Alex., _Strom._, l. iv., p. 475. [70] Thimothée, cité par Bannier, _Mythol._, i., p. 104. [71] Macrobius, _Somm. Scip._, l. i., c. 12. [72] Eurip., _Hippol._, v. 948.