em. v. 185.

[768] Justin. Martyr. Apolog. p. 54.

Amphilochus was the God of light and prophecy. Plutarch mentions [Greek: ex
Amphilochou manteia], in the treatise [Greek: peri bradeos timoroumenon].
p. 563.

[769] Cohortatio. p. 10.

[770] Lycophron. v. 1163.

[771] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 896.

[772] Hence the prophetic Sibyl in Virgil is styled Amphrysia vates.
Virgil. AEn. l. 6. v. 368.

[773] Plin. l. 4. c. 12. Strabo. l. 10. Called Mallus, by Pausanias,
[Greek: En Malloi manteion apseudestaton]. l. 1. p. 84.

[774] [Greek: Legetai de hupo ton Amphikleieon mantin te sphisi ton Theon
toutoi, kai boethon nosois kathistanai--promanteus de ho hiereus esti].
Pausanias. l. 10. p. 884. The city was also called Ophitea.

[775] Aristophanes. [Greek: Nephelai]. v. 595.

[776] See Scholia to Aristoph. v. 595.

[777] Ibidem.

[778] We meet with the like in the Orphica.

[Greek: Amphi de manteias edaen polupeironas hormous]
[Greek: Theron, Oionon te.] Argonautica. v. 33.

So in Pindar. [Greek: Keladonti moi amphi Kinuran.] Pyth. Ode 2. p. 203.

We have the same from the Tripod itself.

[Greek: Amphi de Putho, kai Klariou manteumata Phoibou.] Apollo de
defectu Oraculor. apud Eusebium. Praep. Evang. l. 5. c. 16. p. 204.

[779] Hymn to Venus of Salamis. See Homer Didymi. vol. 2. p. 528.

The names of the sacred hymns, as mentioned by Proclus in his [Greek:
Chrestomatheia], were [Greek: Paianes], [Greek: Dithurambos], [Greek:
Adonis], [Greek: Io Bakchon], [Greek: Huporchemata], [Greek: Enkomia],
[Greek: Euktika.] Photius. c. 236. p. 983.

[780] Diodorus. l. 5. p. 213.

[781] Idque a [Greek: Thriamboi] Graeco, Liberi Patris cognomento. Varro de
lingua Lat. l. 5. p. 58.

[782] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 213.

[783] Epiphanius--adversus Haeres. l. 3. p. 1093.

[784] Pindar. Olympic Ode vi. p. 53.

Iamus, supposed by Pindar to have been the son of Apollo; but he was the
same as Apollo and Osiris. He makes Apollo afford him the gift of prophecy:

[Greek: Entha hoi opase]
[Greek: Thesauron didumon mantosunas (Apollon).] Ibid. p. 53.

[785] Of the Iamidae, see Herodotus. l. v. c. 44. l. ix. c. 33.

[Greek: Kallion ton Iamideon mantin].

[786] Pindar. Ibidem. p. 51.

[787] Pi is the antient Egyptian prefix.

[788] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 62. p. 30.

[789] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 3. v. 1180.

An ox or cow from being oracular was styled Alphi as well as Omphi. Hence
Plutarc