[489] Steph. Byzant. Παταρα.
[490] Βη δ' επ' εραν Διας φευγων οφιωδεα Κυπρον. Parthenius. See Vossius upon Pomp. Mela. l. 1. c. 6. p. 391.
Ovid Metamorph. l. 10. v. 229. Cypri arva Ophiusia.
[491] They were particularly to be found at Paphos. Apollon. Discolus. Mirabil. c. 39. Οφις ποδας εχων δυο.
[492] Herodotus. l. 7. c. 90. Ὁι δε απο Αιθιοπιης, ὡς αυτοι Κυπριοι λεγουσι.
[493] Ὁ γαρ Μινως οφεις, και σκορπιους, και σκολοπενδρας ουρεσκεν κλ. Antonin. Liberalis. c. 41. p. 202. See notes, p. 276.
[494] Tacitus. Annal. l. 4. c. 21.
[495] In Ceiri.
[496] Strabo. l. 10. p. 746.
[497] What the Greeks rendered Σεριφος was properly Sar-Iph; and Sar-Iphis, the same as Ophis: which signified Petra Serpentis, sive Pythonis.