[49] For the certain identification of the Alarodians with the inhabitants of the kingdom of Urardhu or Ararat, see Sir. H. Rawlinson’s essay in Rawlinson’s Herodotus, vol. iv. p. 245. [↑]
[50] Herodotus, iii. 94, and cp. vii. 79. [↑]
[52] Professor Rawlinson would identify the Saspeires with the Iberians of later writers (Rawlinson’s Herodotus, vol. iv. p. 233). In view of the prevailing opinion that the old Vannic language has some affinity with modern Georgian, this identification is most interesting. Ispir is situated on the threshold of the northern peripheral region, on the river Chorokh. [↑]
[53] Xenophon, Cyropædeia, bk. iii. chs. 1, 2 and 3. [↑]
[54] Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1892, p. 131; Verhandlungen der Berl. Gesell. für Anthropologie, 1892, p. 487, 1895, pp. 578 seq., 1896, p. 320; Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 1894, pp. 82 seq., and p. 358, note 1. [↑]
[55] Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, translated by C. R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, London, 1859. [↑]
[56] Xenophon, Anabasis, iv. ch. 3, v. ch. 5, vii. ch. 8. [↑]
[57] The remarks of Layard (Nineveh and its Remains, London, 1849, vol. i. p. 257) and Badger (The Nestorians and their Rituals, London, 1852, pp. 177 seq.) serve to illustrate the complexity of this question. [↑]
[58] Compare the remarks of Sir H. Rawlinson (Rawlinson’s Herodotus, iv. p. 248) and of Professor Lehmann (Verhandlungen der Berl. Gesell. für Anthropologie, 1895, p. 580). [↑]