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193 and Writings of HOMER. 193 Rhodes, and fome of them paffed over from thence to Crete. In both Places they are called the Inventors of Arts of every kind; as well they might appear to a People fo void of Contrivance, and deftiture of the Necef- farics of Life. They were the first of Man- kind who reared Temples, and made Images, and Statues of Gods. Some of the ancienteft Statues in Greece bore the Telchine Name, and preferved the Memory of theirs Authors: Thus the Lindians called theirs, the Telchi- nian Apollo. The old Camirus had a Tel- chinian Juno and in Ialyffus, both Juno and the Nymphs were diftinguifhed by the fame Epithet b. Now, My Lord, it is generally agreed, that thefe are all Egyptian Inventions; and the very things for which that thoughtful People valued themfelves above other Na- tions. The great Difciple of their Prieſts tells us, "That the Names of the twelve "Gods were firft fettled by the Egyptians, "them: That 'twas They who had railed "Altars, carved Statues, and beftowed Temples upon the Gods, and had firſt cut "the Figure of a living Creature in Stone." << O After > Diodor. Sicul. Lib. 5. • Δυώδεκα σε θεῶν ᾿Επωνυμίας ἔλεγον πρώτες ᾿Αηυπίες νομίσαι, καὶ Ἕλληνας παρὰ σφέων παραλαβείν, ΒΩΜΟΥΣ τε καὶ ΑΓΑΛ ΜΑΤΑ και ΝΕΟΥΣ Θεοῖσι ἀπονείμαι «φέας ΠΡΩΤΟΥΣ; καὶ τῶν ἐν altor syste Ηροδοτ. Ευτέρπη. Βιβ. 3. of
 * and from them the Greeks had received
 * Eufebius, Numb. 229.