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     * the head.
     # Isa 2:18,19; 27:9; Jer 10:11; 50:2; Eze 6:4-6; Da 11:8; Mic 1:7|
     * of Dagon.
       The name of this idol, Dagon, signifies a fish:  and it is
       supposed to be the Atergatis of the Syrians, corruptly called
       Derceto by the Greeks, which had the upper part like a woman,
       and the lower part like a fish; as Lucian informs us:
       [Derketous de eidos en Phoinike ethe(8273)am(826e), the(826d)a xenon;
       (826d)isen men gyn(823b) to de okoson ek m(8272)▋ es akrous podas,
       ichtlyos our(8220)apoteinetai;] "In Phoenicia I saw the image of
       Derceto; a strange sight truly!  For she had the half of a
       woman, but from the thighs downward a fish's tail."  Diodorus,
       (1. ii.) describing the same idol, as represented at Askelon,
       says, [to men pros▉on echei synaikos, to d'allo s▌a pan
       ichthyos.]  "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of
       the body a fish's."  Probably Horace alludes to this idol, in
       De Art. Poet. v. 4; {Desinat in piscem, mulier formosa
       superne:}  "The upper part a handsome woman, and the lower
       part a fish."  If such was the form of this idol, then
       everything that was human was broken off from what resembled a
       fish.

     * the stump.  or, the fishy part.