[337] LXX., ἡγούμενοι. Perhaps the Persian endarzgar, or "counsellor."
[338] LXX., διοικηταί. Comp. Ezra vii. 21; but Grätz thinks there is a mere scribe's mistake for the gadbarî of vv. 24 and 27.
[339] This word is perhaps the old Persian dàtabard.
[340] The word is found here alone. Perhaps "advisers." On these words see Bevan, p. 79; Speaker's Commentary, pp. 278, 279; Sayce, Assyr. Gr., p. 110.
[341] Ewald, Prophets, v. 209; Hist., v. 294.
[342] The word has often been compared with the Greek κήρυξ, but the root is freely found in Assyrian inscriptions (Karaz, "an edict").
[343] Comp. Rev. xviii. 2, ἔκραξεν ἐν ἰσχύϊ.
[344] See supra, p. 22. The qar'na (horn, κέρας) and sab'ka (σαμβύκη) are in root both Greek and Aramean. The "pipe" (mash'rôkîtha) is Semitic. Brandig tries to prove that even in Nebuchadrezzar's time these three Greek names (even the symphonia) had been borrowed by the Babylonians from the Greeks; but the combined weight of philological authority is against him.
[345] See Hibbert Lectures, chap. lxxxix., etc.
[346] Comp. vi. 13, 14.