It is called Anchia by Pliny. N. H. l. 4. c. 7. As, both the opening and the stream, which formed the lake, was called Anchoe; it signified either fons speluncæ, or spelunca fontis, according as it was adapted.
[433] 1 Corinthians, c. 15. v.47, 48.
[434] Cluverii Germaniæ Antiq. l. 1. c. 13. p. 91.
[435] Beyeri Additamenta to Selden de Diis Syris. p. 291.
Achor near Jericho. Joshua, c. 15. v. 7.
[436] Ptolem. lib. 5. c. 18. p. 164.
[437] Plato in Cratylo. p. 410.
[438] See Kircher's Prodromus Copticus. p. 180 and p. 297.
[439] Ibidem, and Jameson's Specilegia. c. 9. § 4.
[440] Pionius. Euseb. Hist. Ecclesiast. l. 4. p. 173.