The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . rothers—that in which Usoos is forced to fly from the region civilized by Samemrum. This is the etymology given by the learned of classic times: Sdp, irfVpa, ij Tvplui t6\is (, Lexicon Nominum Hebraicorum, ). The Greeks adopted the hard form of the name,Tupos, while the form Sara, Sarra, more like the original, was known in the Old Latin. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the original in the Cabinet dcs mAIailles; cf. Babelox, LesPerses AcMm^nides, pi. xxxv., Nos. 9-19. * NoNNUS, Dionysiaca, 1. xl., wliere the legend is related
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . rothers—that in which Usoos is forced to fly from the region civilized by Samemrum. This is the etymology given by the learned of classic times: Sdp, irfVpa, ij Tvplui t6\is (, Lexicon Nominum Hebraicorum, ). The Greeks adopted the hard form of the name,Tupos, while the form Sara, Sarra, more like the original, was known in the Old Latin. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the original in the Cabinet dcs mAIailles; cf. Babelox, LesPerses AcMm^nides, pi. xxxv., Nos. 9-19. * NoNNUS, Dionysiaca, 1. xl., wliere the legend is related at length. ^ SeecoinsinBABELON, XesPerses jleZifm^Hides, pi. xxvii. 5,9-11, 16,23-27,29; xxviii,],24, 25, 27. CiCEKO, De Naturii Deorum, iii. 23, 59. Philo Btblius, Fragm. 2, § 21, in MiSller-Didot, Fragm. Hitt. Griec., vol. iii. p. 569. * VleKiKopdos, 6 Kol Hpo(fAi?5 (Philo Btblius, Fragm. 2, § 22, in Muller-Didot, Fragm. , vol. iii. p. 56S); on Melkarth, cf. Movers, Die PhOnizier, pp. 48, 400, et seq. THE GODS AND CEMETERIES OF TYRE. 185. TYRE AND ITS SUBURBS ON THE MAINLAND. afterwards identified him with their Herakles. His worsliip was of asevere and exacting character: a fire burned perpetually in his sanctuary;his priests, like those of the Egyptians,had their heads shaved ; they wore gar-ments of spotless white linen, held pork inabomination, and refused permission tomarried women to approach the altars.^Festivals, similar to those of Adonis atByblos, were held in his honour twice ayear: in the summer, when the sun burntup the earth with his glowing heat, heoffered himself as an expiatory victim tothe solar orb, giving himself to the flamesin order to obtain some mitigation of theseverity of the sky ; ^ once the winter hadbrought with it a refreshing coolness, hecame back to life again, and his return wascelebrated with great joy.^ His temple stoodin a prominent place on the largest of theislands furthest away from the mainland.^ It served to remind the pe
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