The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
o Hicron. in Isa. xvii. fol. 39. K. p So David de Pomis Lexic. fol. 18. 3. Milton in his Paradise Lost, l. 1. v. 462, 463. "Dagon his name sea monster! upward man, And downward fish." q Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 92. & Ovid Metamorph. l. 4. Fab. 1. v. 44, &c. r De Natura Deorum, l. 3. s De Abstinentia, l. 2. sect. 6. t Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 1. p. 36, 37. u Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 12.