Meen, Menes, and Manes: and his temple is taken notice of by Strabo; "9 isgov Mnuus Kaggg (not

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Kaрy) aλμvov. Close under the same mountain Καρε) καλεμενον. stood the city Magnesia; which signifies the city of Manes, but expressed with a guttural Magnes. The people of the country were called Minyæ. Some persons from this place, styled Magnetes apud Mæandrum, built at no great distance, Antiochea. Here too were some particular rites observed in honour of the same Deity, whom they distinguished by a significant epithet, and called Μην Αρκαιος 3ο. Ιερωσύνη τις Μηνος Αρκαιε, πληθος εχεσά ἱεροδέλων, και χωριων ἱερων. Here was a college dedicated to the rites of Meen Arkæus; where a great number of priests officiated; and where they had large estates endowed for that service. This Mŋv Agxaos is no other than the Deus Lunus, the same as Noah, the Arkite.. "Strabo mentions several temples of this Lunar God in different places: and one in particular, similar to that above mentioned, at the city Antioch in Pisidia. He calls it, as the present reading stands, ἱερον Μηνος Ασκαι,

29 L. 12. p. 869. Kageg Car-Our, Templum Ori. Orus was the same as Menes.

3o Strabo. 1. 12. p. 864.

Ibid. Wherever there was a city Magnesia, or people Magnetes, there will be found some history of the ark."

. In this crentle of Meen Areu a TLiette Lunar Lang. Such cut a the temple among the Albani : ene that in Finger as we temple of Meen, wiki gres more to the pace where it stands. The temple am : Men Birus in Pisica, and tact in the regios Tee" £interes rdeaz All these were dedicated to the same Arie Deity called Lotus Luna and Selene: #tyled also by different nations Meen. Man. Menes, and Manes.

the same

Sometimes instead of Arkaus the term Arkite is exhibited Archaus; which may be referred to a different idea. Thessaly was said to have been originally named Purria from the wife of Deucalion; whom the antient poet Rhianus mentions by the title of Asya arexes. Αρχεία

Παρέαν δε ποτε την γε παλαιότεροι καλεσχών
Hejjas Arxahiwais ad' asxalas ahoyoie.

Strabo. 1. 9. p. 677. See Schol. Apol. Rbod. L. S. v. 1089

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Archæa may signify antient: but in this place, as well as in many instances, which I shall hereafter produce, I imagine, that it has a more particular reference. In short, Archæa seems here to be the same as Archia, and Architis, from the ark: from which both people and places were indifferently styled Agxaio, and Agxao; Arkites, and Archites. Hyginus puts the matter in great measure out of doubt by using this term as a proper name. He styles this personage Archia, and makes her the wife of Inachus, the son of the ocean, and the same as Deucalion. He adds, that they had a son Phoroneus, the first man who reigned upon earth, whose history is attended with circumstances of great moment. 34 Inachus, Oceani filius, ex Archiâ sorore suâ procreavit Phoroneum, qui primus mortalium dicitur " regnâsse. Homines ante sæcula multa sine oppidis legibusque vitam egerunt, unâ linguâ utentes sub Jovis imperio. Idem nationes distribuit. Tum discordia inter mortales esse cœpit.

The Grecians, though they did not know the purport of the word, Arguz or Argus, have

34 C. 143. p. 250. In another place he calls this personage Argia; and makes lö her daughter. Ex Inacho et Argiâ Iö. c. 145. p. 253. Io, sive Niobe. ibid.

35 Primus Junoni sacrificâsse dicitur. Lutatius Placidus in Stat. Theb. 1. 4. v. 589.

yet religiously retained it: and have introduced it in these different shapes. And as the ark has been sometimes made a feminine, and the mother of Niobe; so at other times it is mentioned, as her son, and she is supposed to have been the mistress of Jupiter. So inconsistent is the antient theology. 36 Hanc (Nioben) Jupiter compressit; et ex câ natus est Argus, qui suo nomine Argos oppidum cognominavit. In short, wherever there is any history of the Deluge, there will be some mention introduced of Argus: and, conversely, where any account occurs concerning Argus, or Argeans; there will be some history of a ship, and allusion to the Deluge. Thus at Argos there was a temple of Poseidon Пgorλusios, the god of inundations: and it is erected upon account of a deluge, which the natives supposed to have been confined to the limits of their own country. In these parts, says 37 Pausanias, is a temple denominated from Poseidon the God of inundations: for the people

36 Hyginus. c. 145. p. 252.

37 Ενταυθα Ποσείδωνος εσιν ίερον επικλησιν Προσκλυσια της γας χώρας τον Ποσιδωνα επικλυσαν την πολλήν, ότι Ήρας είναι, και εκ αυτό, την την Ίναχος και οι συνδίκασαντες έγνωσαν. Ήρα μεν δη παρα Ποσείδωνος έυρα το απελθειν οπίσω την θάλασσαν. Αργείοι δε, όθεν το κύμα ανεχεια ζησεν, ἱερον Ποσειδωνι εποίησαν Προσκλυσις' Προελθόντι δε κ πολυ ταφος στην Αργε, Διος είναι δοκεντος, και της Φορωνέως Νιόβης. Pausan. 1. 2. p. 161.