A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

ACHOR,

otherwise call'd Myagris or Myodes, the God of Flies, to whom the Greeks and Cyre∣nians sacrific'd, to drive away the Flies which annoy'd them, and infected their Country. S. Gregory Nazianzen in his first Invective against Julian, calls him Accaron, because the Accaro∣nites, a People of Judea, made an Idol of him, whom they call'd Beelzebuth, i. e. the God of Flies. Pliny relates, that Hercules had been ve∣ry much annoy'd by these Insects at Olympia, but after he had sacrific'd to Jupiter, under the Name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or, the Fly-chasing God, they flew all away over the River Alphaeus, and ne∣ver annoy'd him more, nor any of those who sacrific'd to him in the Temples built for him after he was plac'd among the number of the Gods: For Solinus tells us, that no Flies nor Dogs could ever enter into a Chappel built to Hercules at Rome by Octavius Herennius.