5. Sec. 19. p. 266.
[28] Genesis. c. 10. v. 8, 9. Hence called [Greek: Nebrod ho kunegos, kai
Gigas, Aithiops.]--Chronicon Paschale. P. 28.
[29] [Greek: Proton genesthai Basilea Alopon en Babuloni Chaldaion.] Euseb.
Chron. p. 5. ex Apollodoro. The same from Abydenus. Euseb. Chron. p. 6.
[Greek: En tois astrois tou ouranou etaxan (ton Nebrod), kai kalousin
Oriona.] Cedrenus. p. 14.
[Greek: Egennethe de kai allos ek tes phules tou Sem (Cham), Chous
onomasti, ho Aithiops, hostis egennese ton Nebrod, Giganta, ton ten
Babulonian ktisanta, hon legousin hoi Persai apotheothenta, kai genomenon
en tois astrois tou ouranou, hontina kalousin Oriona.] Chronicon Paschale.
p. 36.
[30] Homer. Odyss. l. [Lambda] v. 571.
[31] Chronicon. Pasch. p. 36.
[32] Strabo. l. 6. p. 421.
[33] Gratii Cyneget. v. 527.
[34] Solinus de Situ Orbis. c. 11.
[35] Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 3. c. 1.
[36] Silius Italicus. l. 3. v. 393.
[37] Seneca. Oedipus. act 2. v. 436.
[38] Sylvae. l. 1. carm. 2. v. 226.
Dionysius of the Indian Camaritae:
[Greek: Zomata, kai Nebridas epi stethessi balontes,]
[Greek: Euoi Bakche legontes.] V. 703.
At the rites of Osiris, [Greek: Kai gar nebridas perikathaptontai (hoi
Aiguptioi) kai thursous phorousi ktl.] Plutarch Isis et Osir. p. 364.
[39] Arnobius. l. 5. p. 185. edit. 1661. Ceres fessa, oras ut venit
Atticas--Nebridarum familiam pellicula cohonestavit hinnulea.
[40] Nimrod built Babylon; which is said to have been the work of Belus.
[Greek: Babulon'--eiretai d' upo Belou]. Etymologicum Magnum.
Arcem (Babylonis) Rex antiquissimus condidit Belus. Ammian. Marcellinus. l.
23.
Here was a temple, styled the temple of Belus.
[41] Eusebius. Praep. Evang. l. 1. c. 9. p. 32. l. 1. c. 10. p. 36. p. 40.
[42] See also the Phaedrus of Plato: [Greek: Ekousa toinun peri Naukratin
tes Aiguptou ktl.]
[43] Anthologia. l. 1. 91. l. 1. 29.
[44] Eusebius. Praep. Evang. l. 1, c. 10. p. 36. from Sanchoniathon.
[45] Lucan. l. 1. v. 444.
[46] Selden de Diis Syrib: Prolegomena. c. 3.
[47] Lycophron. v. 459. Scholia ibidem.
It is also compounded with Cham, as in Orchamus, a common Babylonish
appellation.
Rexit Achaemenias urbes pater Orchamus; isque
Septimus a prisci numeratur origine Beli.
Ovid. Metamorph. l. 4. v. 212.
[48] Eusebii Praep. Evang. l. 1. c. 10. p. 36.
[49] Gruter. v. 1. 37. n. 4, 5, 6.
[50] Damascius apud Photium. c. 242.
[51] [Greek: A
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