[745] Plutarch de Fluminibus—Αλφειος.
Alpheus, said to be one of the twelve principal and most antient Deities, called συμβωμοι; who are enumerated by the Scholiast upon Pindar. Βωμοι διδυμοι, πρωτος Διος και Ποσειδωνος—κτλ. Olymp. Ode. 5.
[746] Stephanus Byzant. Ομφαλιον. It was properly in Epirus, where was the oracle of Dodona, and whose people were styled Ομφαλιηεις above.
[747] Ομφαλιον, τοπος Κρητης·— Steph. Byzant. Εστι δε εν Κρητικοις ορεσι και κατ' εμε ετι Ελωρος πολις. Strabo. l. 10. p. 834. Eluros—
אל אור
.
[748] Diodorus Siculus. l. 5. p. 337.
[749] Callimachus. Hymn to Jupiter. v. 42.
[750] Quintus Curtius. l. 4. c. 7. p. 154. Varior.
[751] Hyde of the Umbilicus. Relig. vet. Persarum. Appendix 3. p. 527.