prosagoreuousi, kai outo timosi; kai gar
kai]
[Greek: phaistos en tois Lakedaimonikois epiballon phesi,]
[Greek: Zeu Libues Ammon, keratephore, kekluthi Manti.]
Pindar. Pyth. ode 4. v. 28. Schol.
[18] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. vol. 2. p. 354. Zeus was certainly, as these
writers say, a title given to Ham; yet it will be found originally to have
belonged to his father; for titles were not uniformly appropriated.
[19] Herodotus. l. 2, c. 49. Speaking afterwards of the people at Dodona,
he says, [Greek: Chronou pollou diexelthontos, eputhonta ek tes Aiguptou
apikomena ta ounomata ta ton theon ton allon, Dionusou de husteron polloi
eputhonto.] c. 52. _It was a long time before they had names for any of the
Gods; and very late before they were acquainted with Dionusus; which Deity,
as well as all the others, they received from Egypt._ See also l. 2. c. 59.
[20] Sanchoniathon apud Eusebium prodit AEgyptiorum [Greek: Kneph] esse
Phoenicum [Greek: Agathodaimona], vel secundum Mochum, [Greek: Chousora].
See notes to Iamblichus, by Gale, p, 301.
[21] Chusistan, to the east of the Tigris, was the land of Chus: it was,
likewise, called Cutha, and Cissia, by different writers. A river and
region, styled Cutha, mentioned by Josephus, Ant. Jud. l. 9. c. 14. n. 3.
the same which by others has been called Cushan, and Chusistan.
[22] The harbour at Carthage was named Cothon. Strabo. l. 17. p. 1189.
Also, an island in that harbour. Diodorus Sic. l. 3. p. 168.
[23] [Greek: Chouson men ouden eblapsen ho kronos. Aithiopes gar, hon
erxen, eti kai nun hupo heauton te kai ton en tei Asiai panton, CHOUSAIOI
kalountai.] Josephus. Ant. Jud. l. 1. c. 6. Sec. 2.
[24] Euseb. Praep. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 39.
[25] Sanchoniathon apud eundem. Ibid.
See Michaelis Geographia Hebraeor. Extera. p. 2.
[26] [Greek: Ho protos oikesas tein Mestraian choran, etoi Aigupton,
Mestraim, ebasileusen en autei tei Mestraiai.] Euseb. Chron. p. 17.
[Greek: Mestraim] of the LXX.
Josephus calls the country of Egypt Mestra. [Greek: Ten gar Aigupton
Mestren, kai Mestraious tous Aiguptious hapantas, hoi tauten oikountes,
kaloumen.] Ant. Jud. l. 1. c. 6. Sec. 2.
[27] Apud Euseb. Praep. Evan. l. 1. c. 10. p. 36.
Hierapolis of Syria, was called Magog, or rather the city of Magog. It was
also called Bambyce. Coele (Syria) habet--Bambycen, quae alio nomine
Hierapolis vocatur, Syris vero Magog. Plin. Hist. Nat. l.
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