A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Vol. 2 of 6: Wherein an Attempt Is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable, and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity

by Jacob Bryant

Excerpt from A New System, or an Analysis of Antient Mythology

In all antient accounts of the Romans the term was expressed Poini, and Poinicus. Poinei stipendia pendunt. Poinei sunt solitei sacrificare puellos. Ennius. Annal. M. Afterwards it was changed to Perms, and Punicus. Simon the Canaanite. Matth. C. 10. V. 4. Also the woman of Canaan. Matthew. C. 15. V. 22.

499 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2011

About the author

Jacob Bryant (1715 – 1804) was a British scholar and mythographer, who has been described as "the outstanding figure among the mythagogoues who flourished in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries".