That men go forth to regions far remote,
And cities found: Apollo ever joys
In founding cities.
What colony, says [[848]]Cicero, did Greece ever send into Ætolia, Ionia, Asia, Sicily or Italy, without having first consulted about every circumstance relative to it, either at Delphi, or Dodona, or at the oracle of Ammon. And Lucian speaks to the same purpose. [[849]]Ουτε πολεας ῳκιζον, ουδε τειχεα περιεβαλλοντο—πριν αν δη παρα Μαντεων ακουσαι ἑκαστα. People would not venture to build cities, nor even raise the walls, till they had made proper inquiry among those, who were prophetically gifted, about the success of their operations.
PATOR AND PATRA.
I cannot help thinking that the word πατηρ, pater, when used in the religious addresses of the Greeks and Romans, meant not, as is supposed, a father, or parent; but related to the divine influence of the Deity, called, by the people of the east, Pator, as I have [[850]]shewn. From hence I should infer, that two words, originally very distinct, have been rendered one and the [[851]]same. The word pater, in the common acceptation, might be applicable to Saturn; for he was supposed to have been the father of all the Gods, and was therefore so entitled by the antient poet Sulpitius.
[[852]]Jane pater, Jane tuens, Dive biceps, biformis,
O! cate rerum sator; O! principium Deorum.
But, when it became a title, which was bestowed upon Gods of every denomination, it made Jupiter animadvert with some warmth upon the impropriety, if we may credit Lucilius: