58 THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS 



Le Clerc followed Selden and Marsham, taking Phurnutus or Cornutus 

 and other mythologists as his authorities, and omitting Ovid from the 

 number. He says that Cinnyr or Cinyras, grandfather of Adonis, 

 having one day drunk to excess, was exposed after the manner of Noah, 

 and that his daughter-in-law, Mor or Myrrha, wife of his son Ammon, 

 with her son Adonis, having seen him in this state, were, on his awak- 

 ing, cursed by him, and fled to Arabia. Some time afterwards Adonis, 

 with Ammon his father, and his mother Myrrha, went to Egypt. There 

 Ammon died, and Adonis became king. Astarte or Isis was his wife, 

 whom he loved with great tenderness. Having gone to Syria, he was 

 wounded by a wild boar near Mount Lebanon, and Astarte, believing 

 him dead, inaugurated great lamentations in his honour. He recovered 

 from the wound, but the annual festival was retained. Banier cites 

 Lucian and Plutarch as authorities for making the rites of Adonis and 

 those of Osiris the same, giving many reasons why they should be so 

 regarded.^'"''' One thing at least must appear very probable from this 

 account, viz., the Egyptian connection of Adonis. According to Apol- 

 lodorus, the most ancient authority, Cinyras, the father of Adonis, 

 descended from Hermes and the daughter of Cecrops through Cephalus, 

 whom Aurora carried to Syria, Tithonus, Phaethon, Astinous and San- 

 dochus,^^*^ who went from Syria to Cilicia and became the father of 

 Cinyras, king of the Assyrians, by Thanacea or Pharnace, daughter of 

 Megessareus. Cinyras went to Cyprus, and. having married Metharme, 

 daughter of Pygmalion, king of the Cyprians, had two sons, Oxiporus and 

 Adonis, and three daughters, Orsedice, Laogore and Bresia. These 

 daughters married strangers, and died in Egypt. Adonis was early killed 

 by a wild boar. He states that some writers make the mother of Adonis 

 Alphesiboea, daughter of Phoenix, and that Panyasis derives him from 

 Thoas, king of the Assyrians, and his daughter Myrrha, sometimes 

 called Smyrna.^^" Ovid, with Hyginus, following the more common 

 tradition, call Adonis the son of Cinyras and his daughter Myrrha. ^'^ 



155 Banier, i, 549-5Q. 



15G The name Sandoolms is made by Bochart the same as Sadoe or Sydyk, in accordance 

 with a rule of etymology that appears in the changes of the Semitic Hud or Hoddu into the 

 Indo-European Hindoo, and even in the n, which is inserted in the present and other tenses of 

 the indicative and other moods of Latin verbs (e. g. frangere) not being part of the root. Vide 

 Bochart Geographia Sacra, Lib. i, c. 5. Sydyk is Soutech, which, in its form of Sethos or Seti, 

 forms part of the name of the father of the great Rameses, Seti Meneplithah I. Vide Osburn, 

 ii, 385-6, &c. Lenormant and Chevalier, i, 241. Kenrick, ii, 214. 



15T Apollodorus, iii, xiv, 3, &c. 



158 Ovid Met. x, 290, &c. Hyg. Fab. 58. 



