917 ([return])
[ Xen. OEconom. § 8, pp. 11-16 (Ed. Schneider).]
918 ([return])
[ Herodotus (iii. 37) says they were at the prow of the ship; but Suidas (ad voc.) and Hesychius (ad voc.) place them at the stern. Perhaps there was no fixed rule.]
919 ([return])
[ The {pataikoi} of the Greeks probably representes the Hebrew {...}, which is from {...}, “insculpere,” and is applied in Scripture to “carved work” of any kind. (See 1 Kings vi. 29; Ps. lxxiv. 6; &c.) Some, however, derive the word from the Egyptian name Phthah, or Ptah. (See Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 235.)]
920 ([return])
[ Manilius, i. 304-308.]
921 ([return])
[ Strab. Geograph. xv.]