Pior Monachus Ægyptiacus. Socratis Hist. Eccles. p. 238.
Piammon. Sozomen. H. E. p. 259.
Piambo, or P'ambo. Socratis Eccles. H. p. 268.
It was sometimes expressed Po, as in Poemon Abbas, in Evagtius.
In Apophthegmat. Patrum. apud Cotelerii monumenta. tom. 1. p. 636.
Baal Peor was only Pi-Or, the Sun; as Priapus was a compound of Peor-Apis, contracted.
[441] Gennad. Vitæ illustrium virorum. l. 7. Pachomius, a supposed worker of many miracles.
[442] Antonius Diogenes in Photius. cod. 166.
[443] Plutarch. Isis et Osiris. v. 1. p. 355.
Paamyles is an assemblage of common titles. Am-El-Ees, with the prefix. Hence the Greeks formed Melissa, a sacred name as of Ham El-Ait, they formed Melitta, the name of a foreign Deity, more known in Ionia than in Hellas.