[544] Αιγυπτιε Ζευ, Νειλε. Athenæus. l. 5. p. 203.
Vulcanus—Nilo natus, Opas, ut Ægyptii appellant. Cicero de Naturâ Deor. l. 3. c. 22. Hence Νειλος Κυκλωψ must have been the chief Deity; and the Cyclopians his votaries and priests.
Νειλοιο τεμενος Κρονιδα. Pindar. Pyth. Ode 4. p. 239. He was no other than Ouranus, and Cœlus.
[545] Αστεριων, ὑιος Ανακτος, who was buried in the island Lade, near Miletus, is mentioned as a gigantic personage by Pausanias. l. 1. p. 87. Large bones have been found in Sicily; which were probably the bones of elephants, but have been esteemed the bones of the Cyclopians by Kircher and Fazellus. Fazellus. Dec. 1. l. 1. c. 6.
[546] Herodotus. l. 5. c. 61. He alludes to them under the name of Cadmians.
[547] Odyss. 10. v. 190.
[548] Æneid. l. 3. v. 619.
[549] Hymn in Dian. v. 51.
Μουνος δ' οφθαλμος μεσσῳ επεκειτο μετωπῳ. Hesiod. Theogon. v. 143.
Clemens Alexandrinus tells us, that Homer's account of Polyphemus is borrowed from the character of Saturnus in the Orphic poetry. Strom. l. 6. p. 751.