ATHENS. 
kineV The temple of Agrotes, according to 
Sanchoniatho, was drawn by oxen. The portable 
temple was also sometimes carried upon men's 
shoulders: and although the "bearing" or 
" taking up of Tabernacles' are expressions used 
metaphorically in Scripture for the adoration paid 
to them, yet they are borrowed from a practice, 
which was well known at the time, of carrying 
the Tabernacle upon the shoulders of men from 
one place to another. Thus the Israelites are 
said to have " borne" and to take up" the 
" Tabernacle of Moloch 6 " Such portable temples 
among the Antients were conveyed with them 
to their wars, and accompanied them upon their 
travels. This was the constant usage of the 
Arabians 1 , Egyptians*, Trojans 9 , Carthaginians' , 
and Germans". When settlements were made, 
and cities built, they were of course deposited 
in safe but conspicuous places ; in cavities 
fashioned for the purpose, within the rocks on 
(5) 1 Sam. c. vi. 3,7, &c. 
(G) Amos, c. v. Psalms, &c. 
(7) See the authors quoted by Hottinger, Comp. Theatri Orient, c.i. 
(8) Apuleius Apol. p. 506. 
(9) See Set-vita ou^En. vi. ver. 68. Din, lib. xl. Herodian. lib. iv. 
and ,4mm. Marcellinus, lib. xxii. 
(10) See Calmet's Diet. art. NicJies; and the authors referred to by 
Fabricitis, Bibliographia Ant. c. viii. 18. , 
(11) Tacit, de Mor. Germ. 
