the Hyperborean, a celebrated sage of antiquity, whose history and travels have been the subject of much learned discussion. Such a number of fabulous stories were told of him, that Herodotus himself seems to scruple to relate them. He tells us only, that this barbarian was said to have travelled with an arrow, and to have taken sustenance; but this does not acquaint us with the marvellous properties which were attributed to that arrow; nor that it had been given him by the Hyperborean Apollo. With regard to the occasion of his leaving his native country, Harpocrates tells us, that the whole earth being infested with a deadly plague, Apollo, upon being consulted, gave no other answer than that the Athenians should offer up prayers in behalf of all other nations; upon which, several countries deputed ambassadors to Athens, among whom was Abaris the Hyperborean. In this journey, he renewed the alliance between his countrymen and the inhabitants of the island of Delos. It appears that he also went to Lacedaemon; since according to some writers, he there built a temple consecrated to Proserpine the Salutary. It is asserted that he was capable of foretelling earthquakes, driving away plagues, laying storms, &c. He wrote several books, as Suidas informs us, viz., Apollo's arrival in the country of the Hyperboreans; the nuptials of the river Hebrus; Generation of the Gods; a collection of oracles, &c.—If the Account of the Hebrides, or Western islands of Scotland, (says Mr Toland) or Posthumous works of Diodorus, then the celebrated Druids, in were the Hyperboreans of Diodorus, then the celebrated Druids, in Abaris was of that country; and likewise a Druid, having been the priest of Apollo. Suidas, who knew not the distinction of the insular Hyperboreans, makes him a Scythian; as do some others, misled by the same vulgar error; though Diod. Sic. Diodorus has truly fixed his country in an island, and not on the Continent. But every thing relating to him is apocryphal, and even his era is doubtful. Some refer his appearance in Greece to the third Olympiad, others to the 21st, while some transfer him to the 52d Olympiad, or 570 years B.C., or somewhat later, about the time of Croesus of Lydia.