Λυκων κλαγγην, χαροπων τε Λεοντων. Hymn. εις Μητερα θεων. v. 4.
As a lion was from hence styled Charops, so from another temple it was named Charon. Χαρων ὁ λεων. Hesych. Achilles is styled Αιχμητης Χαρων, Lycoph. v. 260. a martial Charonian Lion.
[601] Pausan. l. 8. p. 696.
[602] Pausan. l. 1. p. 49.
[603] Hesiod. Theogon. v. 141. Scholia Apollon. l. 1. v. 730.
Κυκλωπες τοτε Διι μεν διδοασι βροντην, και αστραπην, και κεραυνον. Apollodorus. l. 1. p. 4.
[604] See Stephanus. Ακμονια πολις Φρυγιας κτλ. He styles Acmon Ακμονα τον Μανεως. Manes was the chief Deity of Lydia, Lycia, and Persis; and the same as Menes of Egypt.
There was a city Acmonia in Thrace. Ptol. l. 5. p. 138.
[605] Εστι και αλλο Ακμονιον αλσος περι Θερμαδοντα. Steph. Byzant. Apollonius takes notice of Αλσεος Ακμονιοιο. l. 2. v. 994. Here Mars was supposed to have married Harmonia, the mother of the Amazonians.
[606] Acmonides is represented as a patronymic; but there is reason to think that it is an Amonian compound, Acmon-Ades, Acmon the God of light, the same as Cœlus, Cronus, and Osiris. Acmon and Acmonides were certainly the same person: Ακμων· Κρονυς, Ουρανος. Hesych. Ακμονιδης, ὁ Χαρων, και ὁ Ουρανος. ibid. He was the Cyclopian God, to whom different departments were given by the mythologists. Charon Cyclops is mentioned by Lycophron. v. 659. above quoted.