esychius.

[Greek: Alphita meliti kai elaioi dedeumena]. Hesych.

[895] [Greek: OMPAI, thumata, kai puroi meliti dedeumenoi.] Hesychius.

[Greek: OMPIA, pantodapa trogalia]. Ibidem.

It it was expressed Amphi, the cakes were Amphitora, Amphimantora,
Amphimasta: which seem to have been all nearly of the same composition.

[Greek: AMPHASMA, psaista oinoi kai elaioi bebregmena]. Ibidem.

[896] Fine flour had the sacred name of _Ador_, from _Adorus_, the God of
day, an Amonian name.

[897] [Greek: HOMOURA, semidalis hephthe, meli echousa, kai sesamon.]
Hesych.

[Greek: AMORA, semidalis hephthe sun meliti.] Ibidem.

[Greek: HOMORITAS, artos ek puron dieiremenon gegonos.] Ibid.

Also [Greek: Amorbitai], Amorbitae. See Athenaeus. l. 14. p. 646.

[898] [Greek: PIONES, plakountes.] Hesychius.

Pi-On was the Amonian name of the Sun: as was also Pi-Or, and Pe-Or.

[899] [Greek: CHAUONAS, artous elaioi anaphurathentas krithinous.] Suidas.

[900] The latter Greeks expressed Puramoun, Puramous.

[Greek: PYRAMOUS], a cake. [Greek: En ho Puramous para tois palaiois
epinikios.] Artemidorus. l. 1. c. 74. [Greek: Kai ho diagrupnesas mechri
ten heo elambane ton puramounta.] Schol. Aristoph. [Greek: Hippeis].

See Meuisius on Lycophron. v. 593. and Hesych. [Greek: puramous, eidos
plakountos.]

[901] [Greek: OBELIAI], placentae. Athenaeus. l. 14. p. 645.

[902] [Greek: Nun thuso ta PITYRA.] Theocritus. Idyl. 2. v. 33.

[903] Athenaeus. l. 14. p. 646.

[904] Diogenes Laertius: Vita Empedoclis. l.8.

[905] Some read [Greek: ethaumase]. Cedrenus. p. 82. Some have thought,
that by [Greek: boun] was meant an Ox: but Pausanias says, that these
offerings were [Greek: pemmata]: and moreover tells us; [Greek: hoposa
echei psuchen, touton men exiosen ouden thusai]. _Cecrops sacrificed
nothing that had life._ Pausan. l. 8. p. 600.

[906] Jeremiah. c. 44. v. 18, 19.

[907] Ibid. c. 7. v. l8.

[908] Jeremiah. c. 51. v. 19. according to the Seventy.

So also c. 7. v. 18. [Greek: Chauonas te stratiai tou Ouranou]. Chau-On,
domus vel templum Solis.

[909] Herodotus mentions this custom, and styles it justly [Greek:
aischistos ton nomon]. He says that it was practised at the temple of the
Babylonish Deity Melitta. l. 1. c. 199.

[910] Strabo. l. 11. p. 805. Anais, or Anait, called Tanais, in this
passage: they are the same name.

The same account given of the Lydian women by Herodotus: [Greek: porneuein
gar hapasas]. l. 3. c