[123] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiq. Rom. lib. i. cap. lxi.
[124] Diodorus Siculus, lib. v. cap. xlvii.
[125] Stephen of Byzantium, under the word Iconium;—Zenodotus, Prov. cent. vi. No. 10.;—and Suidas, voce Nannacus.
[126] Lucian, De Deâ Syrâ.
[127] Arnobius, Contra Gênt. lib. v. p. m. 158, even speaks of a rock in Phrygia, from which it was pretended that Deucalion and Pyrrha had taken their stones.
[128] This mutual resemblance in their institutions is carried to such an extent as to make it very natural to suppose that these nations had a common origin. It should not be forgotten, that many ancient authors thought that the Egyptian institutions came from Ethiopia; and that Syncellus, p. 151. says positively that the Ethiopians came from the banks of the Indus in the time of King Amenophtis.
[129] See Polier. Mythology of the Hindoos, vol. i. p. 89, 91.
[130] See the elaborate Memoir of Mr Wilfort, on the chronology of the kings of Magadha, and the Indian emperors, and on the epochs of Vicramaditya or Bikermadjit, and Salivahanna, in the Calcutta Memoirs, vol. ix. p. 82. 8vo. edit.
[131] See Sir William Jones on the chronology of the Hindoos, Calcutta Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 111. See also Wilfort on the same subject, Ibid. vol. v. p. 241. and the lists which he gives in his essay cited above, vol. ix. p. 116.
[132] Wilfort, Calcutta Mem. 8vo. vol. ix. p. 133.