[262]. De Coulange’s Ancient City, pp. 32–35, 46 f.
[263]. Compare Friedrich Delitzsch’s Assyrisches Handwörterbuch, s. v. “Êkallu.”
[264]. Wilkinson’s Egyptians in the Times of the Pharaohs, p. 141.
[265]. Erman’s Life in Ancient Egypt, p. 279 f.
[266]. Guhl and Koner’s Life of the Greeks and Romans, p. 297.
[267]. See, for example, Odyssey, VII., 80.
[268]. Perrot and Chipiez’s Hist. of Art in Persia, pp. 240–254.
[269]. Comp. Gen. 18 : 1–9, and Exod. 26 : 1–14; 39 : 32, etc.
[270]. Douglas’s Society in China, p. 343.
[271]. See Chamberlain’s Things Japanese, pp. 37, 226 f., 378; Griffis’s Mikado’s Empire, p. 90; Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, II., 282.