eis epi cheumasi Neilou,]
[Greek: Moune, mainas, aoidos, epi psamathois Acherontos.]

The Deity was likewise called Achad, and Achon: and many cities and
countries were hence [325]denominated. Acon in Palestine is said to have
been so named in honour of Hercules, the chief Deity in those [326]parts.

I have mentioned, that Ham, styled also Cham, was looked up to as the Sun,
and worshipped by his posterity. Hence both his images and priests were
styled Chamin: and many princes assumed this title, just as they did that
of Orus, and Arez. His posterity esteemed themselves of the Solar race, by
way of eminence: and the great founder of the Persic Monarchy was styled
Achamin, rendered by the Greeks [Greek: Achaimenes], Achaemenes: and all of
his family afterwards had the title of [Greek: Achaimenioi], and [Greek:
Achaimenidai], from the same pretensions. They all of them universally
esteemed themselves the children of the Sun; though they were likewise so
called from their worship. Hence Lutatius Placidus in his Scholia upon
Statius interprets the word Achaemenidae by [327]Solis Cultores. This may
serve to authenticate my etymology, and shew, that the term is derived from
Cham, the Sun: but the purport of it was generally more limited, and the
title confined to the royal race of the Persians, who were looked upon as
the offspring of the Sun. The Cuthites of Ethiopia Africana had the same
high opinion of themselves: hence Calasiris in Heliodorus invokes the Sun
as his great ancestor. [328][Greek: Epikeklestho martus ho Genarches hemon
Helios;] and Chariclea in another place makes use of a like invocation:
[329][Greek: Helie, Genarcha progonon hemon]. _O, Sun, the great source of
my ancestry_. The Amonians, who settled at Rhodes, styled themselves
[Greek: Heliadai], _the Solar [330]race_. Those who settled upon the Padus
did the [331]same. Hyde mentions a people in Diarbeker, called [332]Chamsi;
and says, that the meaning of the word is Solares; and the same in purport
as Shemsi and Shamsi of the Arabians.

The term [Greek: Uk], of which I have been treating, was obsolete, and
scarce known in the times when Greece most flourished: yet some traces of
it may be found, though strangely perverted from its original meaning. For
the writers of this nation, not knowing the purport of the words, which
they found in their antient hymns, changed them to something similar in
sound; and thus retained them with a degree of religious, but