eros] of the Greeks. The seventy, according to some of their best copies,
have rendered Beth Arbel [Greek: oikon Iero-Baal], which is no improper
version of Beth-Aur-Bel. In some copies we find it altered to the house of
_Jeroboam_; but this is a mistake for Jero-Baal. Arbelus is by some
represented as the first deified mortal. Cyril contra Julian. l. 1. p. 10.
and l. 3. p. 110.

There was an Arbela in Sicily. Stephanus, and Suidas. Also in Galilee;
situated upon a vast cavern. Josephus seized and fortified it. Josephi
Vita. p. 29.

[378] See Strabo. l. 11. p. 774. l. 15. p. 1006. l. 1. p. 41. p. 81.

See also Philo Biblius apud Euseb. P. E. l. 1. c. 10. p. 34 Iamblichus. Sec.
7. c. 5.

[379] Diodorus Siculus. l. 17. p. 538. He makes no mention of Gaugamela.

[380] Strabo. l. 10. p. 724.

[381] Macrobius. Saturn. l. 3. c. 8. p. 284.

[382] Servius in lib. 11. AEneid. v. 558.

[383] Plutarch in Numa. p. 61.

[384] Gruter. p. lvi. n. 11. vol 1.

[385] Gruter. vol. 1. p. lvi. 12. also p. xl. 9.

[386] Or else Beth-Arbel was another name of the same temple.

[387] Syncellus. p. 55.

[388] Eusebii Chron. p. 14.

[389] Etymologicum magnum. [Greek: Herakles].

[390] Herodotus. l. 2. c. 124.

[391] Geog. Nubiensis. p. 17.

Michaelis Geog. Hebraeorum Extera. p. 154.

[392] 2 Kings. c. 17. v. 6. and c. 18. v. 11. also 1 Chron. c. 5. v. 26.

[393] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1070.

[394] Observations upon the Antient History of Egypt. p. 175.

[395] Strabo. l. 7. p. 505. So also Herodotus and Pausanias.

[396] [Greek: Selloi, hoi Dodonaioi]. Steph. Byzantinus.

[Greek: amphi de Selloi]
[Greek: Soi naious' hupophetai]. Homer. Iliad. [Pi]. v. 234.

[397] Pausanias. l. 2. p. l66.

[398] It is called Chau-On, [Greek: Chauon], by Steph. Byzantinus, from
Ctesias. [Greek: Chauon, chora tes Medias. Ktesias en protoi Persikon].
Chau-On is [Greek: oikos heliou], the house of the Sun, which gave name to
the district.

[399] Strabo. l. 4. p. 270. and p. 282.

[400] 1 Maccab. c. 9. v. 62, 64.

[401] Judith. c. 7. v. 3.

[402] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 91.

[403] There were many places and temples of Baal, denominated Caballis,
Cabali, Cabala, Cabalia, Cabalion, Cabalissa, &c. which are mentioned by
Pliny, Strabo, Antoninus, and others. Some of them were compounded of Caba:
concerning which I shall hereafter treat.

[404] Pausanias. l. 4. p. 282.

Strabo mentions Caucones in Elea. l. 8. p. 531. The