[52] Carbines: short muskets, or rifles.
[53] Rhodian: pertaining to the island of Rhodes, off the southwest coast of Asia Minor.
[54] Nineveh: "an exceeding great city" (Jonah iii. 3), larger, says Strabo, than Babylon, having walls with 1500 towers 200 feet high. (Diodorus.)
[55] Cuirass: defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
[56] Sacrificed: not only to propitiate the gods, but to obtain omens or signs for their future guidance.
[57] Cubit: a measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger, or about eighteen inches.
[58] Corselet: armor covering the front of the upper part of the body.
[59] Reins: the small of the back, or the kidneys.
[60] Burial: the Greeks believed that so long as the corpse remained unburied the spirit would roam about restlessly in the dreary under-world or common abode of departed souls.
[61] Kretan: or Cretan (from Crete).