[38] See Tiryns.
[39] Lib. vii.
[40] The district of Argol is first received colonies, who introduced civilisation into Greece. It has been reckoned the cradle of the Greeks, the theatre of events, which distinguished their earliest annals, and the country which produced their first heroes and artists. It was accordingly in the temple of Juno at Argos where the Doric order first rose to a marked eminence, and became the model for the magnificent edifices afterwards erected in the other cities, states, and islands.—Civil Architecture.
[41] Rollin; Rees; Clarke; La Martine.
[42] Chardin; Cartwright; Ouseley.
[43] Every nation had a great zeal for their gods. "Among us," says Cicero, "it is very common to see temples robbed, and statues carried off; but it was never known, that any person in Egypt ever abused a crocodile; for its inhabitants would have suffered the most extreme torments, rather than be guilty of such sacrilege." It was death for any person to kill one of these animals voluntarily.
[44] Herodotus; Rollin; Savary; Belzoni; Rees.
[45] Strabo; Rees; Porter
[46] For the loves of Chosroes and Shirene, see D'Herbelot, and the Oriental collections.
[47] Rees; Sir Robert Ker Porter.