s was the national title of the king; as Cottia was
of the nation: far prior to the time of Augustus.

[653] Pliny. l. 3. c. 20. Cottianae civitates duodecim.

[654] Scholia upon Apollonius. l. 2. v. 677.

[655] [Greek: Touton de esti kai he tou Ideonnou ge, kai he tou Kottiou.]
Strabo. l. 4. p. 312

[656] Tacitus de Moribus Germanorum.

[657] Gruter. vol. 1. p. 138.

[658] Fulgentius: Mytholog. l. 1. c. 25. p. 655.

[659] Lactantius de falsa Relig. vol. 1. l. 1. c. 11. p. 47.

To these instances add the worship of Seatur, and Thoth, called Thautates.
See Clunerii Germania. l. 1. c. 26. p. 188 and 189.

[660] 2 Chronicles. c. 8. v. 4.

[661] Porphyry de Antro Nympharum. p. 262. Edit. Cantab. 1655.

He speaks of Zoroaster: [Greek: Autophues spelaion en tois plesion oresi
tes Persidos antheron, kai pegas echon, anierosantos eis timen tou panton
poietou, kai patros Mithrou.] p. 254.

Clemens Alexandrinus mentions, [Greek: Barathon stomata terateias emplea.]
Cohortatio ad Gentes.

[Greek: Antra men de dikaios oi palaioi, kai spelaia, toi kosmoi
kathieroun.] Porphyry de Antro Nymph. p. 252. There was oftentimes an
olive-tree planted near these caverns, as in the Acropolis at Athens, and
in Ithaca.

[Greek: Autar epi kratos limenos tanuphullos Elaia,]
[Greek: Anchothi d' autes Antron.]
Homer de Antro Ithacensi. Odyss. l. [epsilon]. v. 346.

[662] Lycophron. v. 208. Scholia.

[663] Pausanias. l. x. p. 898. I imagine that the word caverna, a cavern,
was denominated originally Ca-Ouran, Domus Coelestis, vel Domus Dei, from
the supposed sanctity of such places.

[664] Strabo. l. 9. p. 638.

[Greek: Entha parthenou]
[Greek: Stugnon Sibulles estin oiketerion]
[Greek: Gronoi Berethroi sunkaterephes steges.]
Lycophron of the Sibyl's cavern, near the promontory
Zosterion. v. 1278.

[665] Pausanias. l. 3. p. 5. 275.

[666] Scholia upon Aristophanes: Plutus. v. 9. and Euripides in the
Orestes. v. 164.

[667] Lucan. l. 5. v. 82.

[668] [Greek: Mouson gar en Hieron entautha peri ten anapnoen tou namatos.]
Plutarch de Pyth. Oracul. vol. 1. p. 402.

[669] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 877.

[670] Pausanias. l. 5. p. 387. Sama Con, Coeli vel Coelestis Dominus.

[671] Strabo. l. 12. p. 869. l. 13. p. 934. Demeter and Kora were
worshipped at the Charonian cavern mentioned by Strabo: [Greek: Charonion
antron thaumaston te phusei]. l. 14. p. 961.