Historical Dissertation on Abaris

(which word sounds in Latin "Hyperboreans"), since these Hyperboreans were born from that highest stock, he dared to prove with great ingenuity, industry, and many examples taken from the language of the ancient Swedes that that race was so called.
$(ψ)$ Geography, Book VII, p. 294, ed. Paris 1620, fol.
$(ω)$ Proem, Book II.
$(α)$ Antiquities, Book II, p. 130, ed. Laurent. Rhodomannus. Hanover 1604, fol.
$(β)$ Atlantica, Part I, p. 366.

§. VIII.

But before I make an end of speaking about the Hyperboreans, I judge it necessary that I examine what Diodorus Siculus thought about them. Therefore, as far as he is concerned, it must be known that he deals with the Hyperboreans more accurately than all the writers I have reviewed up to this point. For not only does he make mention of their dwelling place, but he discusses their region's fertility, the inhabitants and their customs, equally with their commerce and manner of speaking more extensively in this way $(γ)$:
"Of those who have recorded ancient mythologies, Hecataeus and some others say that in the regions beyond the Celtic lands, in the Ocean, there is an island not smaller than Sicily, this being situated in the north, and inhabited by those called the Hyperboreans, from being situated further away than the North Wind. And being fertile and all-producing, and moreover excelling in mildness, it bears two harvests per year. They mythologize that Leto was born there; for which reason Apollo is honored by them more than the other gods. And they are as it were certain priests of Apollo, because this god is praised by them every day with singing and is honored preeminently. There exists also on the island a magnificent grove of Apollo, and a notable temple decorated with many offerings, spherical in shape, and a city sacred to this god exists, and most of those who inhabit it are cithara players, and constantly playing the cithara in the temple, they recite hymns to the god with singing, magnifying his deeds, and the Hyperboreans have a certain peculiar