cked Arbela, and
took it: and found in it many evidences of its being a place of
consequence. [379][Greek: Thapsas tous teteleutekotas epebale tois
Arbelois, kai pollen men heuren aphthonian tes trophes, ouk oligon de
kosmon, kai gazan barbariken, arguriou de talanta dischilia.] The battle
was fought so near the city, that Alexander was afraid of some contagion
from the dead bodies of the enemy, which lay close by it in great
abundance.

I have mentioned, that Gaugamela was the temple of Cham-El, or Cham-Il.
This was a title of the Deity brought from Chaldea to Egypt; and from
thence to Greece, Hetruria, and other regions. The Greeks, out of different
titles, and combinations, formed various Deities; and then invented
different degrees of relation, which they supposed to have subsisted
between them. According to Acusilaus Cham-Il was the Son of Vulcan, and
Cabeira. [380][Greek: Akousilaos de ho Argeios ek Kabeires kai Hephaistou
Kamilon legei.] He was, by others, rendered Camillus, whose attendants were
the Camilli; and he was esteemed the same as Hermes of Egypt. [381]Statius
Tullianus de vocabulis rerum libro primo ait dixisse Callimachum, Tuscos
Camillum appellare Mercurium, &c. Romani quoque pueros et puellas nobiles
et investes Camillos et Camillas appellant, Flaminicarum et Flaminum
praeministros. Servius speaks to the same purpose. [382]Mercurius Hetrusca
lingua Camillus dicitur. The reason of the attendants being also called
Camilli was in consequence of a custom among the antients of conferring
generally upon the priests the title of the Deity whom they served. The
Camilli were commonly young persons of good family, as we learn from
Plutarch, and were to be found in the temples of Jupiter, or Zeus: for Zeus
and Hermes were originally the same: [383][Greek: Kai ton huperetounta toi
Hieroi tou Dios amphithale paida legesthai Kamillon, hois kai ton Hermen;
houtos enioi ton Hellenon Kamillon apo tes diakonias prosegoreuon]. He
mentions [Greek: Hermen--Kamillon apo tes diakonias], and supposes that
Camillus had the name of Hermes from the similarity of his office, which
was waiting upon the Gods. But the Chaldeans and Egyptians, from whom these
titles were borrowed, esteemed Hermes as the chief Deity, the same as Zeus,
Bel, and Adon. They knew nothing of Mercurius pedissequus, nor Hermes the
lacky. They styled their chief God Cam-Il, or Camillus, and his priests had
the same title. He did not borrow it from them; but