under the forementioned emblem of a serpent. Hence the
temple of the Deity may have been originally called Cu-Coel-Ops, Domus
Coeli Pythonis; and the priests and people Cucelopians. But whatever may
have been the purport of the name, the history of these personages is
sufficiently determinate.

There was a place in Thrace called [589]Cuclops, where some of the
Cyclopian race had settled; for many of the Amonians came hither. Hence
Thrace seems at one time to have been the seat of science: and the
Athenians acknowledged, that they borrowed largely from them. The natives
were very famous; particularly the Pierians for their music, the Peonians
for pharmacy, and the Edonians for their rites and worship. Those, who went
under the name of Cyclopes, probably introduced architecture; for which art
they seem to have been every where noted. There was a fountain in these
parts, of which Aristotle takes notice, as of a wonderful nature.
[590][Greek: En de Kuklopsi tois Thraxi krenidion estin, hudor echon, ho
tei men opsei katharon, kai diaphanes, kai tois allois homoion; hotan de
piei ti zoon ex autou, parachrema diaphtheiretai.] _In the region of the
Cyclopians of Thrace is a fountain, clear to the eye, and pure, and in no
wise differing from common water: of which, however, if an animal drinks,
it is immediately poisoned_. There is another account given by Theopompus;
who speaks of the people by the name of the Chropes, which is a contraction
for Charopes. He says, that even going into the water was fatal.
[591][Greek: Theopompos historei krenen en Chropsi tes Thrakes, ex hes tous
lousamenous parachrema metallassein.] _Theopompus mentions a fountain among
the Charopes of Thrace, in which, if a person attempts to bathe, he
immediately loses his life._ I have taken notice of this history, because
we find, that the persons who are called [592]Cuclopes by one writer, are
styled Char-opes by another, and very justly: for the terms are nearly of
the same purport. The Charopes were denominated from a temple, and place
called Char-Ops, or Char-Opis, locus Dei Pythonis: and the Cyclopes were,
as I have before supposed, denominated from Cu-Coel-Ops, or Cu-Coel-Opis,
the temple of the same Deity. They were both equally named from the Ophite
God, the great object of their adoration, and from the temple where he was
worshipped.

The head of Medusa in Argolis is said to have been the work of the
[593]Cyclopians. This seems to have been an an