ekasi.]
Herod. l. 3. c. 58.

[Greek: Epeita chronou pollou dielthontos, eputhonto (hoi Hellenes) ek tes
Aiguptou apikomena ta ounomata ton Theon.] Herod. l. 2. c. 52. See also l.
2. c. 4.

[Greek: Kai panta ta ounomata ton Theon ex Aiguptou eleluthe es ten
Hellada.] Herod. l. 2. c. 50. Hence it is said that the Corybantes, with
their mother Comba, came and settled at Athens: [Greek: Kombes heptatokou
meta meteros.] Nonni Dionys. l. 13. And that the priests at Athens, styled
Eumolpidae, were from Egypt. Diodorus Siculus. l. 1. p. 25. One of the
Egyptians, who brought these rites to Greece, is mentioned under the name
of Melampus: as the Egyptians are, in general, under the character of
Melampodes. [Greek: Hellesi gar de Melampous estin, ho exegesamenos tou
Dionusou onoma, kai ten Thusian, kai ten pompen tou phallou.] Herod. l. 2.
c. 49. He is likewise said to have first introduced physic: by which this
only is meant, that physic too came from Egypt.

To the same purpose may be consulted Lucian de Suria Dea. [Greek: Protoi
men anthropon Aiguptioi ktl.] Eusebius. P. Evan. lib. 10. c. 4. p. 469. and
c. 5. p. 473. Clemens Alexand. l. 1. p. 361, 381. Diodorus Siculus. l. 1.
p. 20. p. 62, 63. and p. 86, 87. Tatianus Assyrius. p. 243, 274.
Thucydides. l. 1. c. 2, 3.

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A

NEW SYSTEM

OR AN

ANALYSIS

OF

ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY.

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OF

ANTIENT WORSHIP,

AND OF

ETYMOLOGICAL TRUTHS

THENCE DEDUCIBLE:

EXEMPLIFIED IN THE NAMES OF CITIES, LAKES, AND RIVERS.

[Greek: Esti pou kai potamois time, e kat' opheleian, hosper Aiguptiois
pros ton Neilon, e kata kallos, hos Thettalois pros Peneion, e kata
megethos, hos Skuthais pros ton Istron, e kata muthon, hos Aitolois
pros ton Acheloon.]----MAX. TYRIUS. Dissert. viii. p. 81.

As the divine honours paid to the Sun, and the adoration of fire, were at
one time almost universal, there will be found in most places a similitude
in the terms of worship. And though this mode of idolatry took its rise in
one particular part of the world, yet, as it was propagated to others far
remote, the stream, however widely diffused, will still savour of the
fountain. Moreover, as people were determined in the choice of their holy
places by those preternatural phaenomena, of which I have before taken
notice; if there be any truth in my system, there will be uniformly found
some analogy b