. ic, and the reign of the first Ptolemy he travelledup the Nile as far as Thebes. (Diog. Laert. ) He was the author of several works, ofwhich the most important were :—1. A Historyof Egypt.—3. A work on the Hyperboreans.—3. A History of the Jews, frequently referredto by Josephus and other ancient writers. Thiswork was declared spurious by Origen: moderncritics are divided in their opinions. ( C. Miiller, 1848.)—3. Prince of Cardia inthe reign of Alexander the Great, an adversaryof Eumenes (Plut. Eum. 3).
. ic, and the reign of the first Ptolemy he travelledup the Nile as far as Thebes. (Diog. Laert. ) He was the author of several works, ofwhich the most important were :—1. A Historyof Egypt.—3. A work on the Hyperboreans.—3. A History of the Jews, frequently referredto by Josephus and other ancient writers. Thiswork was declared spurious by Origen: moderncritics are divided in their opinions. ( C. Miiller, 1848.)—3. Prince of Cardia inthe reign of Alexander the Great, an adversaryof Eumenes (Plut. Eum. 3). Hecate (E«:aT?j), a goddess represented inGreek literature and art as deity of the moonand of night, of childbirth, and of the under-world and magic. Her-origin, whether Hellenicor not, is not clearly traced; and, further, shehas been confused or interchanged in traditionwith other deities. She is not mentioned inHomer : in Hesiod she is daughter of the TitanPerses and Asteria (Hes. Th. 409; cf. 25; Apollod. i. 2, 4; Cic. N. D. iii. 18, 45;. Hecate. (CauBei, Museum Romanian, vol. i. tav. 21.) Ov. Met. vii. 74); but other accounts make herthe daughter of Zeus (Ap. Eh. iii. 469, 1035).As goddess of the moon Hecate was calleda>o-<p6pos (Eur. Hel. 569), was represented asbearing torches (Aristoph. Ban. 1362), and itis possible that the triple character and formbelonging to her was derived from the threephases of the new, full, and waning moon:others (Serv. ad Eel. viii. 75) assign as thecause her threefold aspect of birth-goddess(= Lueina), giver of strong life (= Diana), andgoddess of death (Hecate). A third explanationis that she was worshipped in heaven (as themoon), on the earth (as Artemis), and in theunderworld (as Hecate). Lastly, it is notimpossible that the triple form was derived fromher being placed at the fork of roads, lookingeach way [see below]. To Hecate, as to othermoon-goddesses, belongs the guardianship ofchildbirth (Hes. Th. 450; Eur. Tro
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