[15] For details of the construction of these galleys, [see notes] at the end of the Volume.
[16] The common cubit is about 16 inches.
[17] Nisan; part of March and April.
[18] Chittim, the classical Citium, a Phœnician colony in Cyprus.
[19] Nectar; the sweet and perfumed wine of the Phœnicians, said by the Greeks to be the drink of the gods.
[20] Senir, in Libanus, now Djebel Sannin.
[21] The Grecian Tamith; according to the Phœnician legend, she was the inventor of sails.
[22] The Mediterranean.
[23] Baaltis, feminine of Baal, lord.
[24] Melek was the title of the Kings of Judah, as Pharaoh was that of the Kings of Egypt.