[343] Such was the custom of the ancient kings of the East. Instead of settling pensions on persons they rewarded, they gave them cities, and sometimes even provinces, which, under the name of bread, wine, &c., were to furnish them abundantly with all things necessary for supporting, in a magnificent manner, their family and equipage.—Rollin.
[344] Civil Architecture, 617.
[345] Pococke; Chandler; Encycl. Metrop.
[346] Rollin.
[347] Rollin.
[348] Dodwell.
[349] Rollin; Dodwell; Williams.
[350] This was the same plan as Hannibal followed afterwards at the battle of Cannæ.
[351] Rollin; Wheler; Barthelemy; Clarke; Dodwell.
[352] Barthelemy; Rollin; Rees; Dodwell.