^{page 333 note [b]} . Suid.

^{page 333 note [c]} Juno sine dubitatione ab illis(Poenis sc.) Astarte vocatur. D. Augustin.de Civ.Dei.

^{page 333 note [d]} Vide et Is. xlvi. 1. Hìe duo videmus Babyloniorum Numina (Bel et Nebo) conjungi: at ea suisse Solem et Lunam historia omnis testatur. Comm.

^{page 334 note [e]} B. G. b. xxi.

^{page 334 note [f]} “We find some footsteps of this goddess (says Gale in his Court of the Gentiles,) and her worship among our old Britains: So Dion in Nero brings in a British Amazon, called Boadovica, with her hands listed up to heaven, praying thus, I give thee Thanks, O Adraste, and invoke thee, Thou Mother of Mothers. Now Bochart makes this Adraste the same with Astarte; and likewise adds, to Astarte, the Phoenician God alludes Aestar, or Easter, that Saxon goddess to whom they sacrificed in April, by Bede styled Easter-moneth.

That Syria was not merely a provincial title, is plain from the Syria Dea being worshiped at Eryx in Sicily; and from an inscription to her at Rome. She was worshiped under the same title in Britain, as we may infer from an inscription in Camden.

DEAE SYRIAE SVB CALPVRNIO LEG. AVG.

IOVI O. M. ET DEAE SYRIAE. Gruter.

D. M. SYRIAE SACRVM. ib.” Jac. Bryant, Diss.

^{page 334 note [g]} Ubi vocatur . Similiter Hor. Carm. Sec. 35. Side rum Regina hicornis.