[103]. Ovid’s Metamorphoses, VII, 234.
[104]. The great celebrity of this fable is well illustrated by the fact that Ovid in his Metamorphoses (III, 206), has preserved the individual names of all the dogs, thirty-five in number.
[105]. “Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?”[Jupiter?”] (Acts xix, 35.) This question of the town clerk is strangely illustrated by an inscription found by Chandler near the aqueduct at Ephesus, which states that “It is notorious that not only among the Ephesians, but also everywhere among the Greek nations, temples are consecrated to her,” etc.
[106]. Anthon’s Class. Dict.
[107]. A principal seat of Ishtar’s worship.
[108]. The end of this line, and all the remaining lines of Column I, are lost, but some mutilated fragments indicate that Namtar is commanded to afflict Ishtar with dire diseases of the eyes, the feet, the heart, the head, etc.
[109]. A sign of violent grief in the East, forbidden in Deut. xiv, 1; also Lev. xix, 28.
[110]. Nabonidus says in his inscription (Col. II, 17) Oh, sun, protect this temple, together with the moon, thy father.
[111]. A genius often mentioned, who here acts the part of a judge, pronouncing the absolution of Ishtar.
[112]. Tablet K, 162, British Museum, translated by H. Fox Talbot, F.R. S. Records of the Past, Vol. I, 1st Series.