[94] Macrobii Saturnalia. l. 1. c. 23.
[95] Adamantis fluv. Gangeticus.
Adam was sometimes found reversed, as in Amad, a Canaanitish town in the tribe of Ashur. Joshua. c. 19. v. 26. There was a town Hamad, as well as Hamon, in Galilee: also, Amida, in Mesopotamia.
[96] Polybius. l. 1. p. 31.
Atis, in Phrygia, and Lydia, was represented with a crown of rays, and a tiara spangled with stars, την καταστικτον τοις αστροις τιαραν. Julian. Orat. 5. p. 179.
[97] Podalia, Choma, præfluente Adesa. Plin. l. 5. c. 17.
It was compounded, also, Az-On. Hence Αζωνες in Sicily, near Selinus. Diodori Excerpta. l. 22.
[98] Herbert's Travels. p. 316. He renders the word Attash.
Hyde of the various names of fire among the Persians; Va, Adur, Azur, Adish, Atesh, Hyr. c. 29 p. 358. Atesh Perest is a Priest of fire. Ibid. c. 29. p. 366.
[99] Aziz, lightning; any thing superlatively bright, analogous to Adad and Rabrab. Hazazon Tamor, mentioned 2 Chron. c. 20. v. 2.