[207] The royal canal (Nahar-Malcha) might be successively restored, altered, divided, &c. (Cellarius Geograph. Antiq. tom. ii. p. 453): and these changes may serve to explain the seeming contradictions of antiquity. In the time of Julian, it must have fallen into the Euphrates, below Ctesiphon.
[208] These works were erected by Orodes, one of the Arsacidæan kings.
[209] "I suspect," says Mr. Gibbon, "that the extravagant numbers of Elmacin may be the error, not of the text, but of the version. The best translators from the Greek, for instance, I find to be very poor arithmeticians."
[210] Selman the Pure.
[211] Rollin; Gibbon; Porter; Buckingham.
[212] Williams.
[213] Dodwell.
[214] Rollin; Barthélemi; Chandler; Clarke; Dodwell; Williams.
[215] In Judith, Dejoces is called Arphaxad:—"1. In the twelfth of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineveh, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana.
2. And built in Ecbatana walls round about of stones hewn, three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the walls seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits.