[1174] Pausanias. l. 10. p. 863.
[1175] Both Menelaus and Agamemnon were antient titles of the chief Deity. The latter is supposed to have been the same as Zeus, Æther, and Cœlus. He seems to have been worshipped under the symbol of a serpent with three heads. Hence Homer has given to his hero of this name a serpent for a device, both upon his breastplate, and upon his baldrick.
Της δ' εξ αργυρεος τελαμων ην, αυταρ επ' αυτῳ
Κυανεος ελελικτο δρακων· κεφαλαι δε ὁι ησαν
Τρεις αμφιστεφεες, ἑνος αυχενος εκπεφυυιαι. Iliad. Λ. v. 38.
[1176] Pausanias. l. 1. p. 40. Strabo. l. 7. p. 499.
Aornon, and an oracular temple in Thesprotia. Pausanias. l. 9. p. 768.
[1177] Και εν Αιγυπτῳ Ακανθος, Μεμφιδος απεχουσα σταδιους τριακοσιους εικοσι·—εστι δε ἡ Αθαμανιας. Steph. Byzant.
[1178] Ειτα μετα τουτον εισιν ΟΡΕΙΤΑΙ λεγομενοι. Dicæarchus. Geog. Vet. vol. 2. p. 3. v. 45.
[1179] L. 2. c. 57, 58.