[351] Athanasii Epist. ad solitariam vitam agentes. p. 658.
[352] Epiphanius adversus Hæres. l. 2. tom. 2. p. 719.
[353] See the learned Professor Michaelis in his Geographia Extera Hebræor. p. 134, 135.
[354] The Ionians changed this termination into e. Hence Arene, Camissene, Cyrene, Arsace, Same, Capissene, Thebe, &c.
[355] Colchis was called Aia simply, and by way of eminence: and, probably, Egypt had the same name; for the Colchians were from Egypt. Strabo mentions Ιασονος πλουν τον εις Αιαν. l. 1. p. 38. And Apollonius styles the country of Colchis Aia.
Αια γεμην ετι νυν μενει εμπεδον, ὑιωνοι τε
Των δ' ανδρων, ὁυς ὁστγε καθιστατο ναιεμεν Αιαν. l. 4. v. 277.
[356] Lib. 5. c. 14.
[357] Coronus is to be met with in Greece. He is mentioned as a king of the Lapithæ, and the son of Phoroneus; and placed near mount Olympus.
—Ὡν εβασιλευσε Κορωνος. ὁ φορωνεως. Diodorus. l. 4. p. 242.