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:62 THR HISTORYtemple. Now, the critics of all nations have madea heavy pother about this same word Ogmius, andlabonriously songht for the meaning of it every"where, but just where it was to be found. Themost celebratedBochart, who, against the grainof nature, if I may so speak, wou'd needs reduceall things to Phenician; says it is an oriental word,since the Arabians'* call strangers and barbariansAgemion: as if, because the Phenicians tradedantiently to Gaule and the British ilands, for coloniesin them they planted noiie, they must havealso imported their language; and, with theirother commodities, barter'd it for something tothe natives, naming their places, their men, andtheir gods for them. Our present Britons, whoare atleast as great traders, do not find they cando so in Phenicia, nor nearer home in Greece andItaly, nor yet at their own doors in this very Gaulebesides that Lucian does positively affirm Ogmiuswas a Gallic word, a tvord of the country '\,Thishas not hinder'd a learned English physician, Dr.Edmund Dickenson, from hunting still in the eastfor a derivation of it;conjecturing Hercules to beJoshua J,who was surnamed Ogmius, for havingconquei'dOg king of Bashan:* In Geo^raphia Sacra^ sive Canaan^ part 2. cap. 42.t oinr, T» sTTt^aifiM. Ubi supra,t Josuam quoque spectassc videtur illud nomen^ quo Galli an^iiquitus Ilcrciik-ra nuncupahant, Vndc vero oyiMn;} Annon «/-»Og victo? Delph. Plioenicizant. cap. 3.