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Eusebius Pamphilii of Caesarea
On the Theophania

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  • THE SECOND BOOK AGAINST THE PHILOSOPHERS.
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55. In the (place) also which is now called Salamis103, but formerly Coronea, was a man sacrificed in the month named among the Cypriots Aphrodisius104, to Argaula the daughter of Cecrops and daughter-in-law of Argaulis! And this custom continued to the time of Diomedes; and was (then) so changed, that they sacrificed the man to Diomedes! And in one (and the same) inclosure was the Temple of Minerva, of Argaula, and of Diomedes. He then, who was to be sacrificed, was accordingly—when his equals in age had led him three times round the altar, —stricken on the stomach with a lance by the priest. He was then wholly burnt on a fire that had been got together. This law however, Diphilus,—who was king of Cyprus in the times of Seleucus the Theologian105,—abrogated: He also changed this custom for that of sacrificing a bull.




1035 Syr. [Syriac], imitating the form of the Greek case in It is worth remarking here, that Porphyry,—from whom this passage is taken (Prep. Evang. Lib. iv. cap. xvi. pp. 155, 102.)—says, this place was formerly named Coronea, Korw&neia: which appears to me, generally to have escaped the Geographers. This was the Salamis of Cyprus, as the context shews.



1046 Our March.



10511 The Seleucus who spoke of God: a periphrasis for the Greek qeolo&goj. He was, as Viger thinks, (notes ib.) a Grammarian of Alexandria, who wrote commentaries on most of the Poets, &c. and a hundred books on the Gods; and, that on this last account he was termed the Theologian. See also Suidas sub voce. This place is also cited by Cyrill .of Alexandria, Edit. Spanh. p. 128, with considerable varieties of reading from that of Eusebius. [..]






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