[305]. The seven days of the week are imagined to have a connexion with the sun. According to Diodorus, I. 272, the inhabitants of Rhodes at the time of Cadmus worshipped the Sun-god, who had begotten seven sons on that island.
[306]. Muir, Sanskrit Texts, V. 64.
[307]. Yâḳûṭ, Geogr. Wörterb., III. 762.
[308]. See [Excursus E].
[309]. Hartung, Religion und Mythologie der Griechen, Leipzig 1865, II. 87–94.
[310]. al-Meydânî Majmaʾ al-amthâl, II. 111. 21.
[311]. Wa-kân auwal mâ asbal al-leyl riwâḳah wa-ḳad iswadd al-ẓalâm biaġ-sâḳah, Romance of ʿAntar, V. 170. 17. Accordingly, insadal is said of night as well as of a tent, e.g. ʿAntar, VI. 60. 14, 95. 5.
[312]. I wish to mention here a suggestion received in a letter from Prof. de Goeje of Leyden, to take the name Hebhel in the appellative sense ‘herdsman,’ and compare it with the Arabic abil, the initial breathing being aspirated. The Hebrew âbhêl, ‘pasture,’ would then belong to the same group. But see also on the latter word an ingenious conjecture of Derenbourg in the Journal Asiatique, 1867, vol. I. p. 93.
[313]. Wa-leylatun ṭachyâʾu yarmaʿillu * fîhâ ʿala-l-shârî nadan muchḍallu, MS. of Univ. Leyden, Cod. Warner, No. 597, p. 345.