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(upon the authority of Tertullian, and Stephanus 
Byzantius) makes him to have been an Arabian deity, 
the fame as Bacchus or Sol according to the Roman 
theology. That learned man is likewife inclined to 
think, that the name DVSARES is compounded of 
two Hebrew words ; one of which fignifies joy, and 
the other, the earth , i. e. mortals, who inhabit it. 
This etymology properly expreffes the genial effects 
of the fun, which makes glad the heart of man by 
ripening the fruits of the earth, efpecially the grape : 
Whence Virgil calls wine, 
Munera latitiamque Dei. ^Tn. i. v. 64.0. 
and ftiles Bacchus the fabled inventer of it, 
Bacchus Icetitire dator. Ib. V. 738. 
I am, 
S I R, 
With the greateft refpedf, 
Your mod: obedient humble Servant, 
London, 
March 14. 1757. 
J. Nixon. 
Aretz. Quorum pri us ( gaudium ) alterum notat ( terram ) ut notet 
latitiam terra, five mortalium. Nam Liber five fol laetitia implet 
mortales, maturando fruges, et uvas, unde de vino fic Maro, 
Munera latitiamque Dei. JEn. i. 
Dufarem verb efle Arabum numen indicat locus ille Tertulliani in 
Apolog. c. 24. “ Unicuique etiam provinciae et civitati fuus deus 
“ eft. Ut Syriae Aftart»s ; ut Arabia D if ares” 
Etiam apud Stephanum five Hermolaum Byzantium — Awa'p » 
— 'Gx.birihos Jcopt/tpn uQuAorrtTM A£?/3i leu. v F./pi)T«t i J'i Au- 
Cctp». ovTos ’ 1 Aa^etpm 'oi{ 
Voftius de Idololat. L. ii. c. 8. 
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