[933] The name Athens is said to have been derived from the worship of Athena. See Euripides (Ion, 8): Πόλις τῆς χρυσολόγχου Παλλάδος κεκλημένη. Attica is ἀττική or ἀκτικὴ γῆ, the “promontory land.”
[934] Clazomenae was an Ionian city on the Gulf of Smyrna, celebrated as the birthplace of Anaxagoras. It is now called Kelisman.
[935] About £1,200,000.
[936] The Hebrew name for Arabia is Arab (wilderness). In Gen. xxv. 6 it is called the “East country,” and in Gen. xxix. 1 the “Land of the Sons of the East.”
[937] Cf. Arrian, v. 26; vii. 1 and 15 supra.
[938] Cf. Herodotus, iii. 8.
[939] Cf. Herodotus, ii. 40, 86; iii. 110-112; Strabo, xvi. 4; Pliny (Nat. Hist. xii.).
[940] About 17 miles.
[941] One of the Sporades, west of Samos, now called Nikaria. Cf. Horace (Carm., iv. 2, 2) and Ovid (Fasti, iv. 28).
[942] Called Tyrus by Strabo (xvi. 3). It is now called Bahrein, and is celebrated for pearl fisheries.