They were called Idaei, because they inhabited about Mount Ida in Crete, and Dactyli, from [Greek: daktyloi] (the fingers), their number being five.
[252] From whom, some say, the city of that name was called.
[253] Capedunculae seem to have been bowls or cups, with handles on each side, set apart for the use of the altar .-- DAVIS.
[254] See Cicero de Divinatione, and Ovid.

Fast.
[255] In the consulship of Piso and Gabinius sacrifices to Serapis and Isis were prohibited in Rome; but the Roman people afterward placed them again in the number of their gods.

See Tertullian's Apol.

and his first book Ad Nationes, and Arnobius, lib.

2 .-- DAVIS.
[256] In some copies Circe, Pasiphae, and AEa are mentioned together; but AEa is rejected by the most judicious editors.
[257] They were three, and are said to have averted a plague by offering themselves a sacrifice.
[258] So called from the Greek word [Greek: thaumazo], to wonder.
[259] She was first called Geres, from _gero_, to bear.
[260] The word is _precatione_, which means the books or forms of prayers used by the augurs.
[261] Cotta's intent here, as well as in other places, is to show how unphilosophical their civil theology was, and with what confusions it was embarrassed; which design of the Academic the reader should carefully keep in view, or he will lose the chain of argument.
[262] Anactes, [Greek: Anaktes], was a general name for all kings, as we find in the oldest Greek writers, and particularly in Homer.
[263] The common reading is Aleo; but we follow Lambinus and Davis, who had the authority of the best manuscript copies.
[264] Some prefer Phthas to Opas (see Dr.Davis's edition); but Opas is the generally received reading.
[265] The Lipari Isles.
[266] A town in Arcadia.
[267] In Arcadia.
[268] A northern people.
[269] So called from the Greek word [Greek: nomos], _lex_, a law.
[270] He is called [Greek: Opis] in some old Greek fragments, and [Greek: Oupis] by Callimachus in his hymn on Diana.
[271] [Greek: Sabazios], Sabazius, is one of the names used for Bacchus.
[272] Here is a wide chasm in the original.