part derived. They founded a city of the same name in Eubœa, which the Greeks expressed 54 Oria: whence came the provincial title of Oritæ. Here Orion was supposed to have been " nursed, whose history we know was from Babylonia. The natives had a tradition, that he was the son of 56 Urieus, and of the gigantic race: the purport of which, I think, cannot be mistaken. They passed, as I have shewn, from Euboea to Attica, and Boeotia. Here also was a city " Ur, like that in Chaldea, and a tradition about Orion being born in these parts. They likewise pretended to shew his 8 tomb. This city Ur, or Uria, was in the district of Tanagra, and stood directly opposite to the province of Ethiopia in Euboea, being separated only by the narrow frith of the " Euripus.

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54 Εν τη Ωρια καλούμενη της Ισιαιωτιδος. Strabo. 1. 10. p. 683. Oria is literally the land of Ur.

ss Strabo. 1. 10. p. 683. He mentions a domestic quarrel among some of this family, and adds, της Ωριτας-πολεμάμενος ὑπο των EMorier, that the Orita were attacked by the Ellopians.

56 Antoninus Liberalis. c. 25. p. 130.

57 Ἡ Ὑρια δε της Ταναγρικης νυν εσι, προτερον င်း της Θηβαΐδος, όπο ὁ Ύριος μεμυθευται, και ἡ τε Ωρίωνος γενεσις. Strabo. 1. 9. p. 620. He is called Tvs by Euphorion. See Homer. E. Scholia. v. 486.

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3 Esi nai Digiwros urnμa ev Tavayça. Pausan. 1. 9. p. 749. 59 Ετι δ' ή μεν Ύρια προς τον Ευριπον. Steph. Byzant.

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They settled also at Træzen, where Orus is said to have resided: by which we are to understand his worshippers, the Oritæ. Φασι δε Ωρον γενεσθαι σφίσιν εν γη πρωτον εμοι μεν ουν Αιγυπτιον φαίνεται, και ουδαμως Ἑλληνικον ονομα Ωρος είναι. Βασιλεύσαι δ' ουν φασιν αυτόν, και Ωραιαν απ' αυτε καλεισθαι την γην. The people of Trazen, says Pausanias, give out, that one Orus was the first in their country. But the name Orus to me seems to have been of Egyptian original. They farther relate, that this Orus was a king, and that the province was from him called Oraia. Uria above, and Oraia here, however differently expressed, signify literally the land of Ur. In all these places the Cuthites went under various appellations, but particularly of Cyclopians, Ellopians, and "Europians from their worship. Agreeably to the account which has been above given, we find, that the Heroum of Cadmus at Sparta was built by Europus, and his brethren: and they likewise are represented as the sons of "Uraus. As we are acquainted with the eastern

60 Pausanias. 1. 2. p. 181.

61 Europus is the same as Oropus, and signifies Orus Pytho. Ops, Opis, Opus, Opas, all signify a serpent. Zeus was the same as Orus and Osiris; hence styled Europus, and Europas; which Homer has converted to Evgueras, and accordingly styles Jupiter Ευρύοπα Ζευς.

62 Pausanias. 1. 3. p. 245. eivas de autu, ‘Tęaiu maidas. ·

manner of speaking; and know that by the daughter of Tyre, the daughter of Jerusalem, the children of Moab, the children of Kedar, the children of Seir, the children of the east, are meant the inhabitants of those places: may we not be assured that by Europus and the sons of Urius and Uræus, are pointed out a people styled Europians of Babylonish extraction, who were ab origine from Ur in Chaldea? And is it not plain, that the history of Cadmus is founded upon terms ill understood, and greatly misapplied? Yet the truth is not totally defaced, as I hope, that I have made appear. By Moses Chorenensis Cadmus is represented as of the giant race; and he is said to have come from 4 Babylonia. Nonnus mentions his planting in Greece a colony of giants.

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ος Και ταχυς αυτολόχευτος ανηέξητο Γιγάντων.

Hence the Cadmians were styled Avaxes, and Ανακες, Ανακτες ; and the temples of their Gods, Ανακτορία,

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64 L. 2. c. 4. p. 87.

65 Nonuus. 1. 4. p. 136.

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Ο γαρ δη

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χρονος εκείνος ηνεγκεν ανθρωπες χειρων μεν έργοις, και πεδον ταχεσι, και σωμάτων ῥωμαις, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὑπερφυές, και ακαματος. tarch. in Theseo. p. 3.

foremost in the lists of antiquity, and have been admitted with too little consideration. Many of the first Fathers in the Christian church, seeing the high pretensions of the Grecians, tried to invalidate their claim, by shewing that all their antient heroes were subsequent to Moses. This was the repeated labour of Clemens of Alexandria, Theophilus, Eusebius, Tatianus, and others. It was a point urged by them continually in their recommendation of the Scriptures, as if priority of time were necessarily a mark of truth. The best chronologers likewise admit these personages in their computations; and great pains have been used to reconcile the contradictions in their histories, and to ascertain the æra when they flourished. These learned men acted upon a very laudable principle, but failed in the very beginning of their process. For, as I have before taken notice, the question should not have been about the time when these persons lived, but whether they ever existed. The fathers proceeded upon very precarious grounds, and brought their evidence to a wrong test. things very fairly, and have

They indeed state authorities for all

that they advance. But the traditions of the Greeks were not uniform. And if any Gentile writer, instead of carrying the æra of Inachus and Phoroneus, or of Dionusus and Perseus, towards the time of Moses, had extended it to

the times of the first kings in Egypt, I do not see what they could have done; for this person, in his turn, could have produced authorities. They might indeed have disputed the point, and have opposed evidence to evidence, but nothing certain could have ensued.

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