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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt:... Ascalon. It is a curious circumstance that the figure of the goddess at Paphos was a stone of the shape of a sugar-loaf (taciTus, Hist. ii. 3), like the ofipabs at Delphi, a simplicity which bespeaks very high antiquity. The stone at Delphi probably belonged to the ritual of the irpwrifiavTis yaia. (esch. Eumenid. 2). 508 Toiis KaKeovtri 'Evapdas oi 2.KvQai. Here there seems to be a reference to some Scythian word, perhaps one etymologically equivalent to the Latin venereus. This to Hellenic ears might sound as if connected with the words iv api, just as the oblique cases of MaAd'eis reminded the Romans of male ventum, and induced them to change the name to Beneventum, for the sake of the omen. From this circumstance, I should infer that the story in its existing form is possibly due to Greek merchants, whose transactions both took them to Egypt, and brought them into contact with the Scythians on the shores of the Euxine. Hippocrates says that the sufferers are called avavSpieis, which seems to be an-other misapprehension, aided by the ap-parent symptoms of the disease, of the same word. He also says that they attribute their sufferings to the anger of Aphrodite--as might naturally be expected--but makes no reference to any special offence. See the citation in note on iv. 67. "» ydp. TheMSSandGaisfordhaveTrap'. 370 To tKdo-TOLcri iirif3dov, "the sum which each was rated to pay." See iv. 115, &7roAaxoVTs Twv KTrifj-drw To iiriPdwov: vii. 23, 'oaov ah-roiai inefiaWe. The MSS have iwefiaWov, which Gaisford retains. 371 xcuplfSeToOipo'pou. These words appear to Dobree to be an alternative reading to xaPs 7P (p&pwv, and to have passed from the margin into the text. He would retain Trap' in the last line and erase the words tpiraCoy....