for an ensign a sow embroidered in gold. As to the word _Ilion_, which was the sacred name of Troy, it is very easy to recognize the name of the material principle, called ὕλη (_ulè_) by the Greeks and _ylis_ by the Egyptians. Iamblichus speaks of it at great length in his _Book on the Mysteries_ (§ 7), as the principle from which all has birth: this was also the opinion of Porphyry (Euseb., _Præp. Evang._, l. ix., c. 9 and 11). [102] Metrodorus of Lampsacus cited by Tatian (_Adver. Gent._, § 37). Plato, _In Alcibiad._, ii., Cronius, Porphyry, Phurnutus, Iamblichus, cited by Court de Gébelin, _Génie allég._, p. 36, 43; Plato, _In Ion._; Cicero, _De Natur. Deor._, l. ii.; Strabo, l. i.; Origen, _Contr. Cels._ Among the moderns can be counted Bacon, Blackwell, Basnage, Bergier, and Court de Gébelin himself, who has given a list of eighty writers who have this opinion. [103] Dionys. Halic., _De Comp. verb._, t. v., c. 16, 26; Quintil., l. x., c. 1; Longin., _De Sublim._, c. 13; Ælian., _Var. Hist._, l. viii., c. 2; Plat., _Alcibiad._, i. [104] Plat., _In Vitâ Lycurg._ [105] Allat., _De Patr. Homer._, c. 5; Meurs., _In Pisist._, c. 9 et 12; Plat., _In Hipparc._ [106] Senec., _Epist._, 117. [107] _Ibidem_, 88. [108] Dionys. Halic., _In Vitâ Homer._; Eustath., _In Iliad_, l. i. [109] Strabo, l. xiv., p. 646. [110] Arist., _De Poët._, c. 2, cit. par Barth., _Voyag. d’Anach._, t. vii., c. 80, p. 44. [111] The word _Epopœia_ is taken from the Greek ἐπο-ποιός which designates alike a poet and an epic poem. It is derived from the Phœnician words אפא (_apho_) an impassioned transport, a vortex, an impulse, an enthusiasm; and פאה (_phohe_), a mouth, a discourse. One can observe that the Latin word _versus_, which is applied also to a thing which turns, which is borne along, and to a poetic verse, translates exactly the Greek word ἔπος, whose root אוף (_aôph_) expresses a _vortex_. The Hebrew אופן (_aôphon_) signifies properly a _wheel_. [112] See in the collection of Meibomius, Aristides, Quintilianus, and _Les Mém. de l’Acad. des Belles-Lettres_, t. v., p. 152. [113] Voltaire, _Dict. philos._, art. RIME. [114] Refer to what I have already said in last footnote p. 40. [115] Fréret said that the verses of the poet Eumelus engraven upon the arch of the Cypselidæ were thus represented. Voyez sa _Dissert. sur l’Art de l’Equitation_. Il cite Pausanias, l. v., p. 419. [116] Court de Gébelin, _Mond. primit._, t. ix., p. 222. Conférez avec Aristotle, _Poët._, p. 20, 21, 22. [117] Plat., _Dial. Ion_. [118] Plat., _ut suprà_. [119] Ælian., _Var. Hist_., l. xiii., c. 14; Diog. Laërt., _In Solon._, l. i., § 57.