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A
NEW SYSTEM;
OR, AN
ANALYSIS
OF
ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY:
WHEREIN AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO DIVEST TRADITION OF FABLE;
AND TO REDUCE THE TRUTH TO ITS ORIGINAL PURITY,
BY JACOB BRYANT, ESQ.
THE THIRD EDITION.
IN SIX VOLUMES.
WITH A PORTRAIT AND
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR;
A VINDICATION OF THE APAMEAN MEDAL;
Observations and Inquiries relating to various
Parts of Antient History;
A COMPLETE INDEX,
AND FORTY-ONE PLATES, NEATLY ENGRAVED.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. WALKER; W.J. AND J. RICHARDSON; R. FAULDER AND SON; R.  LEA; J. NUNN; CUTHELL AND MARTIN; H.D. SYMONDS; VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE;  E. JEFFERY; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; J. BOOKER; BLACK, PARRY, AND  KINGSBURY; J. ASPERNE; J. MURRAY; AND J. HARRIS.
1807.

A
NEW SYSTEM
OR AN
ANALYSIS
OF
ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY.

 PHŒNIX and PHŒNICES.
As there has been much uncertainty about the purport and extent of  these terms; and they are of great consequence in the course of history;  I will endeavour to state their true meaning. Phoinic, or Poinic, was an  Egyptian and Canaanitish term of honour; from whence were formed Φοινιξ,  Φοινικες,  Φοινικοεις  of the Greeks, and Phoinic, Poinicus, Poinicius of the Romans; which were  afterwards changed to Phœnix, Punicus, and [1]Puniceus. It was originally a title,  which the Greeks made use of as a provincial name: but it was never  admitted as such by the people, to whom it was thus appropriated, till  the Greeks were in possession of the country. And even then it was but  partially received: for though mention is made of the coast of  Phœnice, yet we find the natives called Sidonians, Tyrians, and [2]Canaanites, as  late as the days of the Apostles. It was an honorary term, compounded of  Anac with the Egyptian prefix; and rendered at times both Phoinic and  Poinic. It signified a lord or prince: and was particularly assumed by  the sons of Chus and Canaan. The Mysians seem to have kept nearest to the  original pronunciation, who gave this title to the God Dionusus, and  called him Ph'anac.
[3]Ogygia me Bacchum vocat,
Osirin Ægyptus putat,
Mysi Phanacem.
It was also conferred upon many things, which were esteemed princely  and noble. Hence the red, or scarlet, a colour appropriated to great and  honourable personages, was styled Phoinic. The palm was also styled  Phoinic, Φοινιξ: and the antients  always speak of it as a stately and noble tree. It was esteemed an emblem  of honour; and made us                        
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