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derivatives from Boreas, which, in the former note, has been
analyzed, it is unnecessary to add more on this head.
Note LXXI.—Page 207.
Hid it among the HypeTboreans, Sfc.—The assertion of Eratoshenes,
" that Apollo hid the arrow with which he slew the
Cyclopes, among the Hyperboreans," merits attention. I have
already noticed that Pausanias supposes Ollen (nearly the same
with the Irish name Ullin) founded the oracle of Delphi, and
was the first who gave responses in heroic verse. I have also
observed that almost all the Greek deities, and particalarly
Apollo, were borrowed from other nations. Bat whatever dif.
ference of opinion there may be on this head, it is on all bands
agreed, that Apollo deserted Delphi, and went to the Hyperboreans.
Demosthenes, who wrote about three hundred and fifty
years before our aera, says this oracle had begun, Philipjnzein—
i. e. " to return such answers as suited the views of Philip the
Macedonian. Lucian tells us,
. Non nlla secnia dono
Nostra carent majore Deum, qaam Delphica sedes
Quod siloit.
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i. c. " Our age is not deprived of a greater blessing of the gods
than the Delphic oracle, which hath become silent." Strebo,
Juvenal, Claudian, &c. bear testimony to the same effect, and
for brevity's sake, the reader is referred to 'Patterns Antiquities.
where he will find the point discussed at some length, and wil
also see that the Greeks used to apply to the Hyperboreans for
responses, after the oracle of Delphi ceased. Polter''s Antiqui'
ties, vol.
l.p. 249—250, ^c.
Note LXXII.—Page 207,
Winged temple.—In the Greek of Eratoshenes, it is Naos Tierinos,
which Mr. Toland renders a temple made qfnings, or a
winged temple. Perhaps the phrase Vterinos Naos may be best
explained by comparing it with Pteroenia epca— i. e. " winged
words," Now we know that words are neither made of wiDgs^