[57] Martianus Capella. l. 4. sub initio.
Astronomia is made to speak to the same purpose.—Per immensa spatia seculorum, ne profanâ loquacitate vulgarer, Ægyptiorum clausa adytis occulebar. Martianus Capella. l. 8.
[58] Johannes Sarisburiensis Metalogic. l. 2. p. 787. Editio Lugd. Bat. anno 1639.
He speaks of Parmenides as if he were a native of Egypt; and seems to have understood that Parmenides took up his residence in the Egyptian seminary, in order to obtain a thorough knowledge in science. Et licet Parmenides Ægyptius in rupe vitam egerit, ut rationem Logices inveniret, tot et tantos studii habuit successores, ut ei inventionis suæ totam fere præripuerint gloriam.
[59] Hermes was the same as Anubis Latrator. Jablonsky. l. 5. c. 1.
Κυνα σεβεις· τυπτω δ' εγω. Anaxandrides apud Athenæum. l. 7. p. 300.
Ἑρμην κυνα. Plutarch. Isis et Osiris.
[60] Strabo. l. 17. p. 1167. Κυνοκεφαλον δε (τιμωσιν) Ἑρμοπολιται.
[61] Ἑρμοπολιτικη φυλακη. Strabo. ibid.
[62] Analogous to this we read in Herodotus, that the Persian brigade, whose deficiencies were supplied by continual recruits, was styled αθανατος, immortalis. Herodotus. l. 7. c. 83.