[494] See pp. 259, 264, 265.
[495] See pp. 385, 282, and 259.
[496] Euseb. Præpar. Evang. 1. ii. 4.
[497] Πανταχοῦ δὲ καὶ ἀνθρωπομορθον Οσιρίδος ἄγαλμαδεικνύουσιν ἐξορθιαζον τῶ’ αἰδοιω, διὰ το γόνιμον καὶ τὸ τρόφιμον.—Plut. de Isid. et Osirid.
[498] See p. 265.
[499] De facie in orbe lunæ. Slatyr, also, an English poet, in his “Pale Albeone,” calls our island Ogygia. Rhodoganus explains the propriety of the word when he says, “Ogygium appellant poetæ tanquam pervatis dixeres.”
[500] The original, in fact, of the Feodal System.
[501] An act of daring impiety (not requiring to be added) disgusted Jemsheed’s subjects, and encouraged the Syrian prince, Zohauk, to invade Persia. The unfortunate Jemsheed fled before a conqueror, who was deemed by all, the instrument of divine vengeance. The wanderings of the exiled monarch are wrought into a tale, which is among the most popular in Persian romance. His first adventure was in the neighbouring province of Seistan, where the only daughter of the ruling prince was led, by a prophecy of her nurse, to fall in love with him, and to contract a secret marriage; but the unfortunate Jemsheed was pursued through Seistan, India, and China, by the agents of the implacable Zohauk, by whom he was at last seized, and carried before his cruel enemy, like a common malefactor. Here his miseries closed; for after enduring all that proud scorn could inflict upon fallen greatness, he was placed between two boards, and sawn asunder with a bone of a fish (Sir John Malcolm).
[502] Clio, chap. 130.
[503] “Now these heathens in India, believe that an atonement has been made for their sins,” says Dr. Hurd, in his Religious Rites and Ceremonies. Had the Doctor, or whoever he was that assumed his name, known that this was their reliance upon the expiation “of the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world,” he would have spared his heathens, and spoken less irreverently.