[261] Cotta’s intent here, as well as in other places, is to show how unphilosophical their civil theology was, and with what confusions it was embarrassed; which design of the Academic the reader should carefully keep in view, or he will lose the chain of argument.
[262] Anactes, Ἄνακτες, was a general name for all kings, as we find in the oldest Greek writers, and particularly in Homer.
[263] The common reading is Aleo; but we follow Lambinus and Davis, who had the authority of the best manuscript copies.
[264] Some prefer Phthas to Opas (see Dr. Davis’s edition); but Opas is the generally received reading.
[265] The Lipari Isles.
[266] A town in Arcadia.
[267] In Arcadia.
[268] A northern people.
[269] So called from the Greek word νόμος, lex, a law.
[270] He is called Ὦπις in some old Greek fragments, and Οὖπις by Callimachus in his hymn on Diana.