h speaks of Cadmus: [Greek: Hon phasi to alpha panton protaxai. dia
to Phoinikas houto kalein ton boun.] Sympos. Quaest. 9. 3.

[790] In insula Pharo. Pliny. l. 36. c. 12.

[791] Wheeler's Travels, p. 207.

[792] Wheeler. p. 204. Sandys's travels. p. 32.

[793] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1141.

[794] Strabo. l. 3. p. 259.

[795] Strabo. l. 2. p. 258.

[796] Strabo. Ibidem. Ou-Ob. Sol. Pytho. Onoba, regio Solis Pythonis.

[797] Strabo calls the African pillar Abyluca; which is commonly rendered
Abila.--[Greek: Enioi de stelas hupelabon ten Kalpen, kai ten
Abuluka--ktl.] Ibidem. Ab-El-Uc, and Ca-Alpe.

Calpe is now called Gibel-Tar, or Gibralter: which name relates to the hill
where of old the pillar stood.

[798] --[Greek: All' apo limenos men oudeis anagetai, me thusas tois
Thesis, kai parakalesas autous boethous.] Arrian upon Epictetus. l. 3. c.
22.

[799] Virgil. l. 3. AEneis.

[800] Callimachus. Hymn to Delos. v. 3l6.

[801] Homer. Hymn to Apollo, v. 156.

Helen is said to have been a mimic of this sort.

[802] [Greek: To hieron tou Ouriou apechei apo tou Buzantiou stadia 120;
ginontai de milia 16. kai esti stenotaton to stoma tou Pontou kaloumenon.]
Anon. Descript. Ponti Euxini.

[803] See Spon. and Wheeler's travels. p. 209.

[804] Dionysius [Greek: perieges]. v. 380.

[805] Apollonius Rhodius. l. 1. v. 601.

[806] Ibid. l. 1. v. 1114.

In another place,

[Greek: Phula te Bithunon autei kteatissato gaiei,]
[Greek: Mesph' epi Rebaiou prochoas, skopelon te Kolones.]
Apollon. Rhod. l. 2. v. 790.

[807] Orphic Argonaut. v. 375.

[808] Homer's Hymn to Apollo.

[809] Orphic Argonaut. v. 1295.

Sophocles calls the sea coast [Greek: parabomios akte], from the numbers of
altars. Oedipus Tyrannus. v. 193.

The like province was attributed to the supposed sister of Apollo, Diana:
Jupiter tells her--

[Greek: kai men aguiais]
[Greek: Essei kai limenessin episkopos.]

And, in another place:

[Greek: Tris deka toi ptoliethra kai ouk hena Purgon opasso.]
Callimachus. Hymn to Diana.

[Greek: Potnia, Mounuchie, Limenoskope, chaire, Pheraia.] Ibid. v. 259.

[810] [Greek: Prin ge oun akribothenai tas ton agalmaton scheseis, kionas
histantes hoi palaioi esebon toutous, hos aphidrumata tou Theou.] Clemens
Alexand. l. 1. p. 418.

[811] [Greek: --Ontos ouchi agalmatos sun technei, lithou de argou kata to
archaion.] Pausan. l. 9. p. 757.