[336] Porphyr. de Abstinentiâ. l. 2.
[337] L. 1. p. 63.
[338] Το δε λυχνιον εν Πρυτανειῳ. Theoc. Idyll. 21. v. 36.
Πυρος τε φεγγος αφθιτον κεκλημενον. Æsch. Χοηφοροι. v. 268.
[339] See Hyde Relig. Vet. Persarum: and Stanley upon the Chaldaic religion.
[340] Αει δε τοι αεναον πυρ. Callimach. Hymn to Apollo. v. 84.
[341] Vol. 2. p. 84.
[342] Clima. 4. p. 213.
[343] Leviticus. c. 6. v. 13. Hence the ξυλοφορια; a custom, by which the people were obliged to carry wood, to replenish the fire when decaying.
[344] It is said in the Scriptures, that there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that. Genesis. c. 6. v. 4. The word in the original for giants is Nephelim.