[143] Herodotus thought he had discovered relations of figure and colour between the Colchians and Egyptians; but it is infinitely more probable that those dark-coloured Colchians of which he speaks, were an Indian colony, attracted by the commerce anciently established between India and Europe, by the Oxus, the Caspian Sea, and the Phasis. See Ritter, Vestibule of Ancient History before Herodotus, chap. i.
[144] Euterpe, chap. cxliii.
[145] Ibid. cxliv.
[146] Euterpe; cxli.
[147] Ibid. clix., and in the fourth Book of the Kings, chap. 19, or in the second of the Paral. chap. 32.
[148] Syncell. p. 40.
[149] Syncell. p. 51.
[150] Ibid. p. 91. et seq.
[151] Diod. Sic. lib. i. sect. 2.
[152] Tacit. Annal. lib. ii. cap. 60.