338 On Scriptural and profane Accounts 
aliis que variis nominibus cultam legimus. Apuleius Miles. 
vi. Sive celse Carthaginis, que te virginem, vectura leonis 
celo commeantem, percolit.”” Rasche Lex.Num.11. 2. 1164. 
But she was also Astarte and Venus. “ Dea in numo ex- 
pressa est Carthaginis Astarte que Plutarcho in Crasso 
Juno aut Venus Dicitur a Didone in eam translaté ; ab 
aliis Venus Czlestis vocatur.” Rasche 11. 2.757. We 
have already seen that the Venus Czlestis was armed. 
Dide was said to have a sister Anna; but we learn from 
Eustathius that Ave was a name of Dido herself. Dionys. 
Perieg. 195. 
(7°) Thus Ceres was the earth; and Proserpine, who 
represented the same part of nature, was made her daughter. 
Yrepiwy an epithet of the Sun (dmepiovs neAvooo Hom. Od.1.8.) 
is made the father of Hass Apollod. 1. 2. baeSwv, an epi- 
thet of the same divinity, is also made his son. Derceto 
herself is made the daughter of Venus. Schol. Arab. Phen. 
p. 32. with the correction of Larcher, Essai sur le culte de 
Venus p. 19. 
(77) Manilius Astron, rv. p. 98. ed. Scal. 
Scilicet in piscem sese Cytherea novavit 
Quum Babyloniacas summersa profugit in undas 
Anguipedem alatis humeris Typhona furentem. 
Many other passages which show the Syrian goddess to 
have been Venus, may be seen in the memoir of Larcher 
ubi supra. Tzetzes Chil. 1x. 275. attributes this transfor- 
mation into a fish to Semiramis, a fresh proof of her iden- 
tity with Derceto and Atergatis. 
(78) Diod. Lib. 11. c. 6. Justin. 1. c, 2. 
(79) Quid nobile gessit 
Eunuchus ?—prima Semiramis asta 
Assyriis mentita virum, ne vocis acute 
Mollities, levesque genz se prodere possent 
Hos sibi conjunxit similes. Claud. Eutrop. 1.336. 
