. c. 47.

[733] Strabo. l. 9. p. 642.

[734] Varro de Ling. Lat. l. 6. p. 68.

Pausanias gives this account of the omphalus at Delphi. [Greek: Ton de hupo
Delphon kaloumenon omphalon lithou pepoiemenon leukou, touto einai to en
mesoi ges pases autoi legousin hoi Delphoi; deiknutai te kai omphalos TIS
en toi naoi titainomenos.] Pausan. l. 10. p. 835.

It is described by Tatianus, but in a different manner. [Greek: En toi
temenei tou Letoidou kaleitai tis omphalos. Hode omphalos taphos estin
Dionusou.] p. 251. Oratio contra Graecos.

[735] Plutarch [Greek: peri leloip. Chrester].

[736] Horus Apollo. Sec. 21. p. 30. edit. 1729.

[737] Pausanias. l. 2. p. 141. It is spoken of Phliuns, far removed from
the centre of the Peloponnesus.

[738] This omphalus was near the Plutonian cavern. Diodorus. l. 5.

[Greek: Tris d' epi kallistes nesou drames omphalon Ennes.]
Callimachus: Hymn to Ceres. Cicero in Verrem, 4. c. 48.

[739] Homer. Odyss. l. [alpha]. v. 50.

[740] Stephanus Byzantinus. The natives were also styled Pyrrhidae; and the
country Chaonia from the temple Cha-On, [Greek: oikos heliou].

[741] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 7.

[742] Strabo. l. 8. p. 542.

[743] By Livy called Aliphira. l. 32. c. 5.

In Messenia was a city Amphia--[Greek: Polisma epi lophou hupselou
keimenon.] Pausan. l. 4. p. 292. The country was called Amphia.

[744] [Greek: Alpheionias Artemidos, e Alpheiouses alsos.] Strabo. l. 8. p.
528.

[745] Plutarch de Fluminibus--[Greek: Alpheios].

Alpheus, said to be one of the twelve principal and most antient Deities,
called [Greek: sumbomoi]; who are enumerated by the Scholiast upon Pindar.
[Greek: Bomoi didumoi, protos Dios kai Poseidonos--ktl.] Olymp. Ode. 5.

[746] Stephanus Byzant. [Greek: Omphalion]. It was properly in Epirus,
where was the oracle of Dodona, and whose people were styled [Greek:
Omphalieeis] above.

[747] [Greek: Omphalion, topos Kretes;--] Steph. Byzant. [Greek: Esti de en
Kretikois oresi kai kat' eme eti Eloros polis.] Strabo. l. 10. p. 834.
Eluros--[Hebrew: AL AWR].

[748] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 337.

[749] Callimachus. Hymn to Jupiter. v. 42.

[750] Quintus Curtius. l. 4. c. 7. p. 154. Varior.

[751] Hyde of the Umbilicus. Relig. vet. Persarum. Appendix 3. p. 527.

[752] That Olympus and Olympia were of Egyptian original, is manifest from
Eusebius; who tells us, that in Egypt the moon was called Olympias; and
that the Zodiac in the heavens had antient