This, probably, given to islands They were to It. of him as the son of Jupiter. This term is often found compounded Macar On: from whence people were denominated Μακαρώνες, and 4 Μάκρωνες ; and places were called Maxgwv. was the original of the name which were styled Μακαρων νησοι. be found in the Pontus Euxinus, as well as in the Atlantic. The Acropolis of Thebes in Boeotia was, in like manner, called 49 Managwv vnoos. Μακαρων νησος. was certainly an Amonian sacred term. The inland city, Oasis, stood in an Egyptian province, which had the 5° same name: so that the meaning must not be sought for in Greece. This term was sometimes expressed as a feminine, Macris, and Macra and by the Grecians was interpreted longa; as if it related to extent. It was certainly an antient word, and related to their theology; but was grown so obsolete that the original 45 Οι Σαννοι, ὡς προτερον ελεγον Μακρωνας. Strabo. 1. 12. Sanni, Lavvo, means Heliade, the same as Macarones. zgwves, near Colchis, v Evo. Stephanus Byzant. Ma 49 The same as the Cadmeum. Μακαρων νησος, ή ακροπολις των εν Βοιωτια Θηβων το παλαιον, ὡς ὁ Παρμενίδης. Suidas. Diodorus Siculus. 1. 5. p. 347. Managwu vno, near Britain and Thule. Scholia in Lycophron. v. 1200. Αιδ' εισιν Μακαρων νησοι, τοθε περ τον αρίστου Of the Theban Acropolis, Tzetzes in Lycophron. v. 1194. purport could not be retrieved. I think we may be assured that it had no relation to length. Euboea was, of old, called Macris; and may be looked upon as comparatively long: but Icarus, Rhodes, and Chios, were likewise called so; and they did not project in length more than the islands in their "neighbourhood. They were, therefore, not denominated from their figure. There was a cavern in the Acropolis of Athens, which was called Macrai, according to Euripides, 5* Προσβοῤῥον αντρον, ὡς Μακρας κικλησκομεν. The same author shews, manifestly, that it was a proper name; and that the place itself was styled Macrai. This was a contraction for MacarAi, or the place of Macar: 53 Μακραι δε χώρος ες' εκει κεκλημενος. All these places were, for a religious reason, so denominated from Macar, a title of the Deity. 51 Macra, a river in Italy. Plin. l. 3. c. 5. 52 Euripides in Ione. v. 937. Erba рooCoppes weтgas Μακρας καλεσι γης ανακτές Ατθίδος. Ibid. Pausanias informs us that the children of Niobe were supposed to have been here slain in this cavern. 53 Euripides ibid. Also, in another place, he mentions Κέκροπος ες Αντρα, και Μάκρας πετρήρεψεις. MELECH. Melech, or, as it is sometimes expressed, Malech, and Moloch, betokens a king; as does Malecha a queen. It was a title, of old, given to many Deities in Greece; but, in after times, grew obsolete and misunderstood: whence it was often changed to μείλιχος, and μειλίχιος, which signified the gentle, sweet, and benign Deity. Pausanias tells us that Jupiter was styled Mos, both in 54 Attica and at " Argos: and, in another part of his work, he speaks of this Deity under the same title, in company with Artemis at Sicyon. 56 55 Εςι δε Ζευς Μειλιχιος, και Αρτεμις ονομαζομένη Πατρῴα. He mentions that they were both of great antiquity, placed in the temple before the introduction of images: for, the one was represented by a pyramid, and the other by a bare pillar: Пugaurds δὲ ὁ Μειλίχιος, ήδε κιονι εςιν εικασμένη. He also speaks of some unknown Gods at Myonia in Locris, called Θεοι Μειλιχίοι; and of an altar, with an 54 Διαβασι δε τον Κηφισσον βωμος στον αρχαιος Μειλίχια Διος. Pausanias. 1. 1. p. 9. 55 56. Pausanias. 1. 2. p. 154. Pausanias. 1. 2. p. 132. inscription of the same purport, Μειλιχίων. 57 7 βωμος Θεων 58 Rivers often had the name of Melech. There was one in Babylonia, generally expressed Nahar Malcha, or the royal stream: these too were often the Grecians changed to Max. The foregoing writer gives an instance in a river of Achaia. Malaga in Spain was properly Malacha, the royal city. I take the name of Amalek to have been Ham 59 Melech abbreviated; a title tak en by the Amalekites from the head of their family. In like manner I imagine Malchom, the God of the Sidonians, to have been a contraction of Malech-Chom, Bariλeus Haios: a title given to the Sun; but conferred also upon the chief of the Amonian family. 61 60 ANAC. Anac was a title of high antiquity, and seems 57 Pausanias. 1. 10. p. 897. 58 Pausanias. 1. 7. p. 573. 5 The country of the Amalekites is called the land of Ham. 1 Chronicles. c. 4. v. 40. 61 I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chamerims with the priests; and them that worship the host of heaven upon the house tops, and them that worship, and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham. Zephaniah. c, 1. v, 4. to have been originally appropriated to persons of great strength, and stature. Such people in the plural were styled Anakim; and one family of them were to be found at 62 Kirjath-Arba. Some of them were likewise among the Caphtorim, who settled in Palestina. Pausanias represents Asterion, whose tomb is said to have been discovered in Lydia, as a son of Anac, and of an enormous size. 63 Είναι δε Αέριον μεν Ανακτος Ανακτα δε Γης παιδα-οςα εφάνη το σχημα περιέχοντα ες πισιν, ὡς εσιν ανθρωπε επει δια μέγεθος εκ εσιν όπως αν εδοξεν. We may from hence perceive that the history of the Anakim was not totally obliterated among the Grecians. Some of their Deities were styled ανακτες" others ανακτορες, and their temples ανακτορία. Michael Psellus speaking of heresies, mentions, that some people were so debased, as to worship Satanaki : 64 AUTOV 62 Judges. c. 1. v. 10. Joshua. c. 15. v. 13. Deuteronomy. c. 2. v. 21. Joshua. c. 11. v. 22. and c. 13. v. 12. The priests at the Elusinian mysteries were called Avantoteλesai, Clement. Alex. Cohort. p. 16. 63 Pausanias. 1. 1. p. 87. It was in the island Lade before Miletus. The author adds, when the bones were discovered. Αυτίκα δε λογος ηλθεν ες τες πολλες Γηρυόνο το Χρυσαορέ είναι μεν τον νεκρον-κτλ και χειμαῤῥον τε ποταμον Ωκεανον εκάλουν. See Cicero de Nat. Deor. 1. 3. of Anaces, Avantes. κουρας Ανακας δι Αθηναίοι προσηγορευσαν. Plutarch. Numa. Michael Psellus. p. 10. 64 Τους Διος |