[263.4] Ibid., 77.
[264.1] Father Alex. Arnoux, Anthropos, vii. 288.
[266.1] Herod., i. 199; Strabo, xvi. 1, 20. Further details are supplied by the Epistle of Jeremy appended to the apocryphal Book of Baruch.
[267.1] Justin, xviii. 5.
[267.2] Socrates, Hist. Eccl., i. 18.
[267.3] Sozomen, Hist. Eccl., v. 10.
[267.4] Ælian, Var. Hist., iv. 1. Dr Farnell (Greece and Bab., 271 note, 273 sqq.) considers that the Lydian practice was identical with that of the Armenians, referred to just below. This is possible. The lady who commemorated at Tralles her dedication for this purpose (see below, [p. 273]) seems to have been a Lydian. In either case it was a religious practice, though Ælian does not explicitly say so. His account in fact is vague.
[267.5] Herod., i. 93.
[267.6] Strabo, xi. 14, 16.
[270.1] Lucian, De Dea Syria, 6.