they received it from
him. The name is sometimes expressed Camulus: and the Amonians, who
travelled westward, brought his rites and worship into the western parts of
Europe: hence there are inscriptions to be found inscribed [384]Camulo
Sancto Fortissimo. He was sometimes taken for Mars: as we may learn from an
inscription in Gruter:

[385] MARTI CAMULO
Ob Salutem Tiberi Claud. Caes. Cives Remi
posuerunt.

Such is the history of this Deity; whose worship was better known in the
more early ages; and whose temple was styled Gau-Camel, by the Greeks
rendered Gaugamela. I make no doubt but that Arbela was the same place: for
places had as many names as the Deity worshipped had titles. Arbela was
probably the city, and Gaugamela the [386]temple; both sacred to the same
Deity, under different names.

It is remarkable that Syncellus, speaking of Venephres, King of Egypt,
says, that he built the pyramids of [387]Co-Chone; which are the principal
pyramids of that country. Eusebius before him had taken notice of the same
history: [388][Greek: Ouenephres, eph' hou ho limos katesche ten choran,
hos kai tas Puramidas peri Kochonen egeiren]. _Venephres was a prince, in
whose time happened a famine in the land of Egypt. He was the same, who
built the Pyramids about Cochone_. Now Co-Chone, analogous to Beth-El,
Beth-Shan, Beth-Dagon, signifies the temple of the Deity; the house of the
great king, or ruler: for such is the purport of Con, and Conah. Hercules,
the chief Deity of Tyre, and who was also highly reverenced in Egypt, was
Styled Con. [389][Greek: Ton Heraklen phesi kata ten Aiguption dialekton
Kona legesthai]. From hence we find, that it was a sacred Egyptian title.
According to some readings the place is expressed Cocome; which is of the
same purport. Co-Chome, the same as Cau-Come, signifies the house of Chom,
or the Sun; and seems to betray the purpose for which the chief pyramid was
erected: for it was undoubtedly nothing else but a monument to the Deity,
whose name it bore. According to [390] Herodotus the great pyramid was
built by Cheops; whom others called Chaops. But Chaops is a similar
compound; being made up of the terms Cha-Ops, and signifies [Greek: oikos
Puthonos], domus Opis Serpentis. It was the name of the pyramid, which was
erected to the Sun, the Ophite Deity of Egypt, worshipped under the symbol
of a serpent. Analogous to Cau-Come in Egypt was a place in Ethiopia,
called [391]Cuscha: doubtless so named