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Apollinis incendit Phlegyas. Lutatius Placidus upon Statius. Thebaid. l. 1. v. 703. But Phlegyas was the Deity of fire, prior to Apollo and his temple. Apollo is said to have married Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas. Hyginus. f. 161. and by her he had a son Delphus, from whom Delphi had its name. ibid. See Pausan. l. 10. p. 811. The mythologists have made Apollo slay Caanthus: but Caanthus, Cunthus, Cunaethus, were all titles of the same Deity called Chan-Thoth in Egypt. [1124] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 331. [1125] Solinus. l. 17. [1126] Pausanias. l. 3. p. 245. [1127] Palaephatus. p. 22. [1128] Dionysiaca. l. 1. p. 42. l. 1. p. 38. [1129] Strabo. l. 12. p. 867. [1130] See Radicals. p. 95. [1131] Places sacred to the Sun had the name of Achad, and Achor. Nisibis was so called. _In Achor, quae est Nisibis_. Ephraimus Syrus. _Et in Achad, quae nunc dicitur Nisibis_. Hieron. See Geograph. Hebraeor. Extera. p. 227. of the learned Michaelis. The Deity, called Achor, and Achad, seems to be alluded to by Isaiah. c. 65. v. 10. and c. 66. v. 17. Achad well known in Syria: Selden de Diis Syris. c. 6. p. 105. [1132] Hoffman--Academia. Hornius. Hist. Philos. l. 7. [1133] [Greek: Kai sphi Hira esti en Atheneisi hidrumena, ton ouden meta toisi loipoisi Athenaioisi, alla te kechorismena ton allon Hiron; kai de kai Achaiies Demetros Hiron te kai orgia]. Herod. l. 5. c. 61. [1134] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 71. [1135] Diog. Laertius. l. 3. Sec. 6. Hornius says, Academia a Cadmo nomen accepit, non ab Ecademo. l. 7. c. 3. but Ecademus, and Cadmus, were undoubtedly the same person. Harpocration thinks that it took its name from the person, who first consecrated it. [Greek: Apo tou Kathierosantos Akademou.] [Greek: He men Akademia apo Heroos tinos Akademou ktisantos ton topon.] Ulpian upon Demosthen. contra Timocratem. [1136] Eupolis Comicus: [Greek: en Astroteutois] apud Laertium in Vita Platonis. l. 3. Sec.. 7. [1137] [Greek: En gar gumnasion apo Akademou--peri auton de esan hai ontos hierai Elaiai tes Theou, hai kalountai Moriai.] Schol. upon Aristoph. [Greek: Nephelai]. v. 1001. [1138] AElian. Var. Hist. l. 3. c. 35. [1139] [Greek: To de chorion ho Keramikos to men onoma echei apo Heroos Keramou; Dionusou te einai kai Ariadnes.] Pausan. l. 1. p. 8. [1140] Gruter. Inscrip. p. 57. n. 13. [1141] Pausan. l. 9. p. 779. [1142] Athenaeus. l. 11. p. 480. [1143] Pliny. l. 5. c. 29. [1144] Plutarc
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