[578] There seem to be three of the name: Palladius, the first missionary to Ireland; Sen Patrick, who studied under St. Germanus and died a.d. 458–61; and Patrick M‘Calphurn, also a pupil of St. Germanus, who missionarised about a.d. 440–42.
[579] Horus et Saint-Georges, &c. See also a kind of sentimental study æsthetically baptised ‘Saint Mark’s Rest: the Place of Dragons,’ by J. R. Anderson.
[580] From דג (dag), a fish, a Ketos, the Phœnician דגון (Dajun, Dagon); Dagan is the male, Dalas the female. Simply a fish-god. Sardanapalus was ‘he who knows Anu (the god) and Dagon.’
[581] Others found at Cannæ resemble the copper Swords of Ireland, according to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana.
[582] The ‘tariff of masses,’ from the temple of Baal at Marseille, speaks of Chaltzibah the Sufet. Other inscriptions inform us that the Carthaginians had a triad, Baal Hammon (Ammon); the Lady Tanith Pen Baal (Tanis or Neith, the πρόσωπον, or face, of Baal), and Iolaus.—Phœnician Inscriptions, by the Rev. D. I. Heath.
[583] Ezekiel (xxxii. 27). ‘And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell [Sheol = Shuala, the ghost-land of Babylon] with their weapons of war: and they have laid their Swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.’
[584] The Hebrews were probably included under the ‘miserable foreigners,’ who, at that time, numbered about one-third of the Egyptian people. It was the fashion to find ‘Hebrew’ in the ’Aper, ’Apura, ’Aperiu, and ’Apiurui of the monuments; but Brugsch has shown that these were the original ‘Erythræans,’ equestrian Arabs of the barrens extending from Heliopolis onward to modern Suez.
[585] Trattato di Scherma, &c. di Alberto Marchionni (Firenze: Bencini, 1547).
[586] This word will be noticed in chapter xi. I cannot wholly agree with Colonel Lane-Fox (Anthrop. Coll. p. 99) when he speaks of a ‘leaf-shaped Sword-blade attached to the end of the spear, like the Thracian romphea and the European partisan of mediæval times.’
[587] May not this older form of Jupiter have derived from the ‘Semitic’ root יה, Jah (Yah), carried westward by the Phœnicians? But this is ‘stirring the fire with a Sword,’ against which Pythagoras warns us.