Olumpon, kai Iden, kai ei ti allo oros plesiazei toi
Ouranoi]. Maximus Tyrius Dissert. 8. p. 79.

[722] Appian de Bello Mithridatico. p. 215. Edit. Steph. He, by an
hyperbole, makes the pile larger than the apex on which it stood.

[723] Virgil. l. 5. v. 760.

[724] Hist. Japan. vol. 2d. book 5. c. 3. p. 417.

[725] [Greek: Pan de oros tou Dios oros onomazetai, epei ethos en tois
palaiois hupsisto onti toi Theoi en upsei thusias poieisthai]. Melanthes de
Sacrificijs. See Natalis Comes. l. 1. 10.

[726] [Greek: Omphe, theia kledon]. Hesych. It was sometimes expressed
without the aspirate, [Greek: ambe]: hence the place of the oracle was
styled Ambon, [Greek: ambon]. [Greek: Ambon, hai prosanabaseis ton oron].
Hesych.

[727] [Greek: Ton Omphin euergeten ho Hermaios phesi deloun
hermeneuomenon.] Plutarch: Isis et Osiris. vol. 1. p. 368.

[728] [Greek: Olumpoi eisin hex--kl.] Scholia upon Apollonius Rhodius. l.
1. v. 598.

[729] Many places styled Olympus and Olympian.

In Lycia: [Greek: Olumpos megale polis, kai horos homonumon.] Strabo. l.
14. p. 982.

[Greek: Olumpe polis Illurias]. Stephanus Byzantinus.

In Cyprus: [Greek: Amathos polis, kai oros mastoeides Olumpos.] Strabo. l.
14. p. 1001.

[Greek: Hede akroreia kaleitai Olumpos.] Strabo. Ibidem.

Josephus mentions the temple of Olympian Zeus at Tyre. Antiq. Jud. l. 8. c.
1.

At Megara in Greece: [Greek: Temenos Olumpeion]. Pausanias. l. 1. p. 97.

In Elis: [Greek: He Olumpia proton Kronios lophos elegeto.] Scholia upon
Lycophron. v. 42.

In Attica: [Greek: Naos Kronou, kai Rheas, kai temenos ten epiklesin
Olumpias.] Pausan. l. 1. p. 43.

In Achaia: [Greek: Dios Olumpiou naos]. Pausan. l. 2. p. 123.

At Delos: [Greek: Olumpeion, topos en Deloi]. Stephanus Byzantinus. [Greek:
Esti kai polis Pamphulias].

Libya was called Olympia. Stephanus Byzant.

The moon called Olympias: [Greek: He gar Selene par' Aiguptiois kurios
Olumpias kaleitai.] Eusebii Chron. p. 45. l. 10.

The earth itself called Olympia by Plutarch, who mentions [Greek: tes Ges
Olumpias hieron] in Theseus, by which is meant the temple of the Prophetic
Earth.

Many other instances might be produced.

[730] Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus. v. 487.

[Greek: Omphalon eribromou Chthonos]. Pind. Pyth. Ode 6. v. 3.

[Greek: Orthodikan Gas omphalon keladete]. Pind. Pyth. Ode 11. antist.

[731] Euripides in Ione. v. 233.

[Greek: Mesomphalos Estia]. v. 461.

[732] Titus Livius. l. 38