[172] The name of the Slaavs and that of the Shelloks (Ama-zirgeh) are derived in the same manner, also the Etruscan states Ardea (noble); for from it was taken by Rome the institution which made Rome noble and great—the fecial vows and college, i.e. heraldry, or the laws of war.—See Servius on Æn. vii. v. 412.
[173] ארחס, Shara. Isaiah (xxiii. 3) applies the same epithet to Sidon, Shar-goim, “mart of nations.” This is the Sharu of the hieroglyphics.
[174] “We can discern why their good fortune ceased after this separation, under the reign of Alcinous, if the Phocians (Phæacians) renounced navigation. Was it not that the instruments (mariner’s compass), obtained from their masters were lost, and they knew not how to construct others?”—Salverte, Occult Sciences, f. ii. p. 251. See also Cook’s “Inquiry into the Patriarchal and Druidical Religion,” p. 22.
[175] See Jamblicus, Vit. Pythagor. c. xxviii.; Diod. Sic. l. iii. c. xi.; Herodot. l. iv. c. 36; Suidas Verbo Abaris.
[176] One of the recent flippant writers on ancient things says, “The most famous bowl of antiquity was that of Hercules, which served its illustrious owner in the double capacity of drinking-cup and canoe; for, when he had quenched his thirst, he could set it afloat, and, leaping into it, steer to any part of the world he pleased. Some, indeed, speak of it as a borrowed article, belonging originally to the sun, and in which the god used nightly to traverse the ocean from west to east.”—St. John’s Ancient Greece, vol. ii. p. 114.
[177] The statue of Hercules at Tarentum, enumerated by Pliny in his list of Colossi, had a key in one hand and a cup in the other. On the coins of Crotona Hercules bore a cup in his hand.
[178] Ἡράκλεια δὲ ἤ διὰ τὸν ἴσχυρὸν καὶ κρατερὸν τῆς ὁλκης, ἤ μᾶλλον δίοτι περὶ Ἡράκλειαν τὸν πρῶτον ἐφάνη.—Hesychius.
[179] Incidental suppositions are scattered through various works. See Lavinius Lemnius, De Occult. Nat. Mir., 1. i. c. iii.; Buffon; J. de Pineda, De Rege Salomone; Fortuesto, William Cook, Stukely, &c. I do not include Sir William Bethune; the grounds of his supposition are so preposterous. It is from the supposed resemblance of a vessel to the compass actually in use that Sir W. Bethune starts. See the practical exposure as given in Dennis’s Etruria, vol. ii. p. 105.
[180] Miscell. Sacra, 1. iv. c. 19.
[181] Canaan, 1. i. c. 98. See also H. Kepping, Antiq. Rom. 1. iii. c. 6.