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NOTES.OOUNote LXXXIV.Ilogmins.—Oi this deity Mr. Tolaud has given a very parUcuiardescription in a quotation from Lucian.—See p. 168.Note LXXXV.Onrana—on the authority of Mr. Toland, signifies the sea. Ihave been able to procure no other information respecting thisdeify,—See p. X37.Note LXXXVI.Adraste.—Respecting this goddess there has been some differenceof opinion. The Greeks seem to have considered her asNemesis, or the goddess of revenge. Vide Calepinum in verboJdrasiea, Still Calepine admits that on a plain near the cityAdrastea, there was a noble oracle of Actaean Apollo, andDiana. He also tells us that some supposed this city receivedits name from a 3Iountain Nymph, which appliesvery weii toDiana, The truth appears to be, that Adrastus, when he builtthis city, called both it and the goddess after his own name.The noble oracle of Jpollo and Diana, and the tradition thatthe city took its name from a mountain nymph, clearly implythat Diana was the goddess in question. There can be littledoubt that the goddess here meant is the Phceniciaii Ashtarotk,or Astarte-^i. e." the moon." Indeed there is no instance oarecord of any nation having worshipped the sun, who did notworship the moon also. It would almost fill a volume to narratethe contrary notions entertained of her by the ancients, andthe different names ascribed to her. The very first mention wehave of this goddess is in the sacred records, under the name ofAshtaroth. Sanchoniathon {see Eusebius, his Transcriber, andPIuh.Biblius, his Translator) calls this goddess Asiarte, Thishas not hindered Herodian (lib. 5.) in his History of AntoninusBasilianus, to tell us that the Phcenicians called this goddessAstroarchd, forgetting that this name is not Phoenician, but pureGreek, and sigaines the Queen of the Stars,Z Z2Pausanias (in Lum