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he mentions one of Apollo in thefe words : — "Ecfliv h Iv roi; -n-poc 



avajoXccg rou opoiis AttoXXwi/oj I'epov^ eTriKXtjiTiv nxppcc(rwv — " There is in 

 " the part of the mountain that looks eaflward a temple of 

 " Apollo, firnamed Parrbafius." And again, fpeaking of a 

 temple of Eurynome in the country of the Phlgaleafes, he thus 

 exprelTes himfelf. Arcadica, Cap. xli. page 684 : tviv Sb Evpuvoftriv 

 G y^ev Toiv (fiyaXiuv ArifAog ETTiKXriFiv eivai 7re7ri(rjevKev ApreuiSo; — " The 

 " people of the Phigalenfes believe that Eurynome is z. firname 

 " of Diana." Now that ETriJiXi/ir/f ' and ETranfilx are words per- 

 fectly fynonimous we know from the authority of Stephanus, 

 who explains the former by the latter. Perhaps alfo I may be 

 allowed to hazard another conjedure, which appears to me not 

 entirely without foundation : The appellations given to the 

 Gods by Homer and Hefiod may poflibly have been no other 

 than tranllations into the Greek language from the original 

 names received from Egypt by the Pelafgi, and may have been 

 confidered as additional or firnames, the old Egyptian appel- 

 lations being ftill efleemed the real Ovofixrx of the feveral divi- 

 nities. Moft of the names given by the Greeks to their deities 

 have certain etymological meanings, which mark either the 

 origin, or feme effential and peculiar attribute of the Gods who 

 are diftlnguiflied by them. Thus Aqipohrri, Venus, is derived 

 from A^fof, fpuma *, becaufe fhe was fuppofed to have arifen 



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* of this derivation we are informed by Hefiod, ©loyonje, page ifi, verfe 194. The 

 whole of this paflage is fo poetical, that I will endeavour to give a literal though very inade- 

 quate tranflation of it. 



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