A New System, Or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology: Wherein an Attempt is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity ...T. Payne ..., P. Elmsly ... B. White ... and J. Walter, 1774 - History, Ancient |
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alfo alluded alſo Amonians ancient Apollo apud Arrian Babylonians Boeotia Cadmians Cadmus called Chaldea Chron circumſtances confequence Cronus Deity Deluge denominated deſcribed Deucalion Diodorus Sicul Dionufus Egypt Egyptians emblem eſteemed Eufeb expreffed facred faid fame fays feems fent ferpent fhew fignified firft firſt fome fpeaks ftiled fuch fuppofed fymbolical Grecians Greece Greeks Hence Herodotus hiſtory Hivites Ibid Ifis Inachus laſt likewife Lycophron mentioned moſt muſt myſteries Noah Nonnus obferved Ofiris Oropus Orpheus Orphic Orus Ovid Paufan Paufanias Peleiades Perfians perfon perfonage Phoroneus Phrygia Plutarch preſerved prieſts purpoſe reaſon repreſented rites ſaid ſame ſays Schol Scholia ſeems Sefoftris Semiramis ſhe ſhip ſhould ſome ſpeaks ſpoken ſtate ſtiled Strabo Suidas ſuppoſed Syria takes notice temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Thrace uſed whoſe worſhip Zoroafter γαρ δε εις εκ εν επι Θεων και κατα μεν περι τε ὡς