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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt:...the time of the autumnal equinox. He relies chiefly for his conclusion on the account given by Ammianus Marcellinus (xxii. 9, §13) of the feast of Adonis, which was being held at Antioch when the Emperor Julian entered the city. It is clear, from a letter of the Emperor's (Ep. Jul. 52), that he was in Antioch before the first of August, and his entry may therefore have taken place in July, the Tammuz of the Syrian year. This time agrees moreover with the explanation of the symbolical meaning of the ritei given by Ammianus Marcellinus (xxii. 9, §13), There was a temple at Amathus,!n Cyprus, shared Oy Adonis and Aphrodite (Paus. Ix. 41, $2); and the woribl; of A Jofiis Is said to have come from Cyprus to Athens in tne time of the Persian Wax. Said io have been founded Kinyras, the rejuttd lather or Admits. lhat they were a token of the frtnt cut down in iLe.r prime. Nov at Aleppo (Kussell, Alefipo, i. 72) the harvest is all over before the end of June, and we may fairly conclude that the same was the case at Antioch. Add to this that in Hebrew tttronomical works TIEf! nDlpH. tekuphath Tarnmi? is the ' summer solstice;" and it seems more reasonable to conclude that the Adonis feast of the Phoenicians and Syrians was celebrated rather as the summer solstice than as the autumnal equinox. At this time the sun begins to descend among the wintry signs (Kenrick, Phoenicia, 310). The identification of Tammur witli an idolatrous prophet, which has already been given in a quotation from Maimouides, who himself quotes from the Agriculture of the Nub theans, has been recently revived by Prof. Chwolson of St. Peteisburg (Ucber Tammuz, &c. 18G0). An Arab writer of the luth century, Eu-Nedim, in his book called Fikrist el-Ulum, says (quoting from Abfl Sa'...