[16.64] I have developed this in the Journal Asiatique for February 1859, p. 259, &c., and in Mission de Phenicie, 1. II. c. ii.
[16.65] Syrian code in Land, Anecdota Syriaca, i. p. 152, and different facts which I have witnessed.
[16.66] Born in Haran.
[16.67] See Forcellini, word Syrus. This word designates Orientals generally. Leblant, Inscript. Chrét. de la Gaule, i. p. 207, 328, 329.
[16.68] Juvenal, iii. 62–63.
[16.69] Such is at this day the temperament of the Syrian Christian.
[16.70] Inscriptions in Mem. de la Soc. des Antiquaires de Fr. t. xxviii. 4, &c. Leblant, Inscript. Chrét. de la Gaule, i. p. cxliv. 207, 324, &c. 353, &c. ii. 259, 459, &c.
[16.71] The Maronites colonize still in nearly all the Levant like the Jews, Armenians, and Greeks, though on a smaller scale.
[16.72] Cic. De Offic. i. 42; Dion. Hal. ii. 28; ix. 28.
[16.73] See the characters of slaves in Plautus and Terence.