[903] See Homer (Iliad, xxiii. 141, 152); Arrian (i. 12).

[904] See Herodotus (vii. 35). Xerxes means the venerable king. Cf. Herod., vi. 98. See Donaldson’s New Cratylus, sections 161, 479.

[905] Epidaurus in Argolis was celebrated as the chief seat of the worship of Aesculapius.

[906] This is an Homeric expression, meaning myself.

[907] Equal to £2,300,000. Plutarch (Alex. 72) agrees with Arrian. Diodorus (xvii. 115) and Justin (xii. 12) say 12,000 talents.

[908] Cf. Aelian (Varia Historia, vii. 8); Diodorus (xvii. 114, 115); Plutarch (Alex. 72, 75; Eumenes, 2; Pelopidas, 34).

[909] See p. 392, note [888].

[910] Cossaea was a district on the north-east of Susiana, which the Persian kings never subdued, but purchased the quiet of the inhabitants by paying them tribute. It is supposed to be the Cush of the Old Testament. Diodorus (xvii. 111) says that Alexander completed his conquest of the Cossaeans in forty days. Plutarch (Alex. 72) says he called the massacre of the Cossaeans his offering to the manes of Hephaestion.

[911] Cf. Livy, vii. 37, 38; Pliny, xxii. 4; Justin, xii. 13.

[912] The Romans called these people Etruscans.